Encyclopedia of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) - download pdf or read online

By Bruce E. Johansen Ph.D.,Barbara Alice Mann

ISBN-10: 0313308802

ISBN-13: 9780313308802

A complete reference paintings at the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy), containing over two hundred entries masking Haudenosaunee historical past, present-day matters, and contributions to normal North American tradition. Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse) is the identify the Iroquois use for his or her confederacy (Iroquois is the identify given them by means of the French). This encyclopedia surveys the histories of the six constituent countries of the confederacy (Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscarora, followed approximately 1725). a number of entries additionally hint ways that the practices of the Iroquois have filtered into common North American society.

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