Syracuse, N.Y.: The Dehler press, 1922. — 268 p. "At the request of this Association, now sixty years old, I select for my last publication some things from my large collection of Iroquois folk lore which may interest some, and which comes from many sources."
Chelsea House Publishing, 2004. — 120 p. — (Indians of North America). The Mohawk , part of the Indians of North America series, presents a fascinating portrayal of the history and culture of these native people. The largest tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy, the Mohawk's true name is Kanienkehaka or "People of the Flint." Nancy Bonvillain is a professor of anthropology and...
University of Nebraska Press, 2003. — 160 p. "Nation Iroquoise" presents an intriguing mystery. Found in the Bibliotheque Mazarine in Paris and in the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa, the unsigned and undated manuscript "Nation Iroquoise" is an absorbing and informative eyewitness account of the daily life and societal structure of the Oneida Iroquois in the seventeenth...
University of Nebraska Press, 2007. — 224 p. — (The Iroquoians and Their World). Iroquois Journey is the warm and illuminating memoir of William N. Fenton (1908–2005), a leading scholar who shaped Iroquois studies and modern anthropology in America. The memoir reveals the ambitions and struggles of the man and the many accomplishments of the anthropologist, the complex and...
Syracuse University Press, 2013. — 130 p. In 1634, the Dutch West India Company was anxious to know why the fur trade from New Netherland had been declining, so the company sent three employees far into Iroquois country to investigate. Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert led the expedition from Fort Orange (present-day Albany, NY). His is the earliest known description of the...
Praeger, 2006. — 153 p. — (Native America: Yesterday and Today). In their homelands in what is now New York state, Iroquois and their issues have come to dominate public debate as the residents of the region seek ways to resolve the multibillion dollar land claims against the state. This initial dispute over territorial title has grown to encompass gambling, treaties, taxation,...
Lockport, N.Y.: Union Printing and Publishing Co., 1881. — 234 p. "In all the early histories of the American Colonies, in the stories of Indian life and the delineations of Indian character, these children of nature are represented as savages and barbarians, and in the mind of a large portion of the community the sentiment still prevails that they were blood-thirsty,...
Syracuse University Press, 2014. — 200 p. Since the fourteenth century, Eastern Woodlands tribes have used delicate purple and white shells called "wampum" to form intricately woven belts. These wampum belts depict significant moments in the lives of the people who make up the tribes, portraying everything from weddings to treaties. Wampum belts can be used as a form of...
Foreword by Gerald L. Hill — University of Nebraska Press, 2005. — 428 p. — (The Iroquoians and Their World). In this intimate volume the long-lost voices of Wisconsin Oneida men and women speak of all aspects of life: growing up, work and economic struggles, family relations, belief and religious practice, boarding-school life, love, sex, sports, and politics. These voices are...
Toronto: The Hunter, Rose company, Ltd, 1896. — 194 p. "Frequent and extended visits to their principal Reservation, on the border of the Grand River, in the Counties of Brant and Haldimand (the only one, in fact, where representatives of the once severed peoples are indiscriminately massed together) coupled with a residence of nearly twelve years in the immediate neighborhood...
Bear & Company, 2011. — 209 p. — ISBN: 1591431271 (ISBN13: 9781591431275). Language - English. Brings the paranormal beings and places of the Iroquois folklore tradition to life through historic and contemporary accounts of otherworldly encounters - Recounts stories of shapeshifting witches, giant flying heads, enchanted masks, ethereal lights, talking animals, Little People,...
University of Nebraska Press, 2004. — 235 p. — (The Iroquoians and Their World). Today Kahnawà:ke ("at the rapids") is a community of approximately seventy-two hundred Mohawks, located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River near Montreal. One of the largest Mohawk communities, it is known in the modern era for its activism - a traditionalist, energetic impulse with a...
University of Manitoba Press, 2018. — 472 p. Several centuries ago, the five nations that would become the Haudenosaunee — Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca — were locked in generations-long cycles of bloodshed. When they established Kayanerenkó:wa, the Great Law of Peace, they not only resolved intractable coinflicts, but also shaped a system of law and government...
Edited and with an afterword by Debra Roberts ; foreword by Christopher Vecsey. — Syracuse University Press, 2007. — xix, 343 p. : ill. — (The Iroquois and Their Neighbors Series). Big Medicine from Six Nations is a series of reminiscences and essays by the late Ted Williams, on the themes of 'Medicine' (physical/spiritual/psychic healing). Williams intertwines the lore and...
Syracuse University Press, 2009. — 226 p. The folktales and myths of the Iroquois and their Algonquian neighbors rank among the most imaginatively rich and narratively coherent traditions in North America. Mostly recorded around 1900, these oral narratives preserve the voice and something of the outlook of autochthonous Americans from a bygone age, when storytelling was an...
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