Books in the The Iroquoians and Their World series

A study of Iroquois and European communities and coexistence in eastern North America before the American Revolution. It describes everyday encounters between Europeans and Indians along the frontiers of the Iroquois Confederacy in the St Lawrence, Mohawk, Susquehanna, and Ohio valleys.

Provides the first complete and accurate English-language translation of an essential first-hand account of the lives and world of Dutch colonists and northeastern Native communities in the seventeenth century.

Examines 17th-century Iroquoian attitudes toward foreign policy and warfare, contending that the Iroquois fought New France not to secure their position in a market economy but for reasons that traditionally fuelled Native warfare: to replenish their populations, safeguard hunting territories, protect their homes, gain honour, and seek revenge.

Kahnawa:ke is a community of approximately seventy-two hundred Mohawks, located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River near Montreal. This title examines the development of traditionalism and nationalism in this Kanien'keka:ka (Mohawk) community from 1870 to 1940.

Presents the story of an American Indian community in the Housatonic Valley of northwestern Connecticut. It is based on three decades of nearly uninterrupted German-language diaries and allied records kept by the Moravian missionaries who had joined the Indians. It is supplemented by colonial records and regional political, social, and religious histories and ethnographies.

Presents the warm and illuminating memoir of William N. Fenton, a leading scholar who shaped Iroquois studies and modern anthropology in America. It reveals the ambitions and struggles of the man and the accomplishments of the anthropologist, the complex and volatile milieu of Native-white relations in upstate New York, and key theoretical and methodological developments in American anthropology.

William N. Fenton's contributions to the understanding of the cultures and histories of the Iroquois are formidable. William Fenton: Selected Writings brings together for the first time Fenton's most influential writings on the Iroquois and anthropology, written across nearly six decades.

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 drawn from a collection of handwritten accounts recently rediscovered.

Offers important information about the famed Iroquois Confederacy during the 1600s. Drawing on multiple strands of evidence and following a trail of clues within the Nation Iroquoise manuscript and elsewhere, this title presents the results of a piece of detective work.

An outstanding examination of the historical record that will become the definitive work on the Mahican people from the colonial period to the Removal Era