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Author : Tehanetorens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1570670978
Chronicles the origin and ideals of the Iroquois Confederacy and their impact on history.
Author : Paul A. W. Wallace
Publisher : Santa Fe, N.M. : Clear Light Publishers
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89058283292
A faithful retelling of the orally transmitted epic of Deganawidah, the Peacemaker, this book introduces the reader to an enlightened spiritual master on a par with Christ or the Buddha who at the same time possessed a unique gift for politics. Those who value Native American spirituality will appreciate the teachings of this charismatic leader, whose unbroken spiritual and temporal lineage has united the Iroquois peoples since the 15th century. 35 illustrations.
Author : Paul A. W. Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Iroquois Indians
ISBN : UOM:39015001688509
Author : Michael Bastine,Mason Winfield
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781591439448
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, spirit-choirs, potent curses, and haunted hills, roads, and battlefields • Includes accounts of miraculous healings by shamans and medicine people such as Mad Bear and Ted Williams • Shows how these traditions can help one see the richness of the world and help those who have lost the chants of their own ancestors With a rich history reaching back more than one thousand years, the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy--the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Onondaga, the Cayuga, the Seneca, and the Tuscarora--are considered to be the most avid storytellers on earth with a collection of tales so vast it would dwarf those of any other society. Covering nearly the whole of New York State from the Hudson and Mohawk River Valleys westward across the Finger Lakes region to Niagara Falls and Salamanca, this mystical culture’s supernatural tradition is the psychic bedrock of the Northeast, yet their treasury of tales and beliefs is largely unknown and their most powerful sacred sites unrecognized. Assembling the lore and beliefs of this guarded spiritual legacy, Michael Bastine and Mason Winfield share the stories they have collected of both historic and contemporary encounters with beings and places of Iroquois legend: shapeshifting witches, strange forest creatures, ethereal lights, vampire zombies, cursed areas, dark magicians, talking animals, enchanted masks, and haunted hills, roads, and battlefields as well as accounts of miraculous healings by medicine people such as Mad Bear and Ted Williams. Grounding their tales with a history of the Haundenosaunee, the People of the Long House, the authors show how the supernatural beings, places, and customs of the Iroquois live on in contemporary paranormal experience, still surfacing as startling and sometimes inspiring reports of otherworldly creatures, haunted sites, after-death messages, and mystical visions. Providing a link with America’s oldest spiritual roots, these stories help us more deeply know the nature and super-nature around us as well as offer spiritual insights for those who can no longer hear the chants of their own ancestors.
Author : Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015004778695
A popular account, based upon material collected for the author's Report ... to the secretary of state [of New York] transmitting the census returns in relation to the Indians ... 1845. [Albany, 1846].
Author : Silas Conrad Kimm
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019374500
An authoritative and well-researched history of the Iroquois Confederacy, one of the most powerful and influential indigenous nations in North America. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Brian Seitz,Thomas Thorp
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739179239
Political communities are constituted through the representation of their own origin. The Iroquois and the Athenians is a philosophical exploration of the material traces left by that constitutional act in the political practices of the classical Iroquois and Athenians. Tempering Kant with Nietzsche this work offers an account of political action that locates the roots of justice in its radical impossibility, an aporia in place of a foundation. Instead of mythical references to a state of nature or an act of the founding fathers, the Iroquois and the Athenians recognized that political legitimacy can never be established, in principle, but must be continually enacted, repeated, a repetition that stimulates the withdrawal of natural foundations and holds open the site of any possible democracy. For philosophers and political theorists, this is a unique, hybrid deployment of Kant (the transcendental move) and Nietzsche (the use of history), offering a new view of the origins of Democracy. Scholars in Native American Studies will find much of value in its unprecedented use of traditional Iroquois political discourse and practice as a resource for mainstream political philosophy. Finally, scholars of ancient Greece and Classics will appreciated its novel presentation of ancient Greek political discourse and political practice.
Author : William Engelbrecht
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0815630603
In a book that spans the Iroquoian culture from its ancient roots to its survival in the modern world, William Engelbrecht maintains that two themes pervade this development: warfare and spirituality. An investigation of oral tradition, archaeology, and historical records provides new insight into this now largely vanished world known as Iroquoia. Engelbrecht covers a wide geographic range, exploring regional and temporal differences in material culture and subsistence patterns. He finds change over time in the distribution and size of communities and in response to environmental demographic, and social factors. In addition, he furthers the controversial debate that "arrow sacrifice" and other beliefs spread from Mesoamerica with the dispersal of maize and horticulture. Although scholars have suggested that palisaded hilltop Iroquoian villages were constructed with an eye for defense, this book is unique in showing that the longhouse—known mainly as a community forum and spiritual place—may also have served as a defense structure. Throughout this work, which will become the new standard text to which scholars will refer, Engelbrecht reminds us that the the study of the Iroquoian people continues to enrich and inform the modern world.
Author : Douglas M. George-Kanentiio
Publisher : Santa Fe, NM : Clear Light Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050770505
This book offers fascinating perspectives on the life, traditions, and current affairs of the peoples of the Iroquois Confederacy. Author Doug George-Kanentiio is a Mohawk now living in Oneida Territory who is actively involved in issues affecting the Confederacy and has been writing about developments in 'Indian Country' for the past decade. In his book he offers a portrait of the Iroquois that touches on a multitude of topics, beginning with iroquois traditions concerning their origins as a people and their spiritual, communal, and family traditions.
Author : Donald N. Yates
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786491254
Most histories of the Cherokee nation focus on its encounters with Europeans, its conflicts with the U. S. government, and its expulsion from its lands during the Trail of Tears. This work, however, traces the origins of the Cherokee people to the third century B.C.E. and follows their migrations through the Americas to their homeland in the lower Appalachian Mountains. Using a combination of DNA analysis, historical research, and classical philology, it uncovers the Jewish and Eastern Mediterranean ancestry of the Cherokee and reveals that they originally spoke Greek before adopting the Iroquoian language of their Haudenosaunee allies while the two nations dwelt together in the Ohio Valley.
Author : José Barreiro
Publisher : Akwe Kon Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015029573816
"When Europeans arrived on the continent, the Native people of the northeast, the Haudenosaunee or Iroquois, helped them find their way in the new land, taught them to raise food, and introduced them to the Iroquois rule of law, the Great Law of Peace. This rule, which united five nations and provided a rational basis to both war and diplomacy, differed in significant ways from the system of government familiar to the colonists. Benjamin Franklin and others admired the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and incorporated its symbols and principles into their thinking. Indian Roots of American Democracy examines Iroquois influences on the formation of American government in the 1700s as well as on the development of the women's rights movements in the 1800s."-- Back cover.
Author : Paul A. W. Wallace,Wm. Guy Spittal,Wilfred Chew
Publisher : Ohsweken, Ont. : Iroqrafts
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Iroquois Indians
ISBN : 0919645259
Author : William Engelbrecht
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0815629583
In a book that spans the Iroquoian culture from its ancient roots to its survival in the modern world, William Engelbrecht maintains that two themes pervade this development: warfare and spirituality. An investigation of oral tradition, archaeology, and historical records provides new insight into this now largely vanished world known as Iroquoia. Engelbrecht covers a wide geographic range, exploring regional and temporal differences in material culture and subsistence patterns. He finds change over time in the distribution and size of communities and in response to environmental demographic, and social factors. In addition, he furthers the controversial debate that "arrow sacrifice" and other beliefs spread from Mesoamerica with the dispersal of maize and horticulture. Although scholars have suggested that palisaded hilltop Iroquoian villages were constructed with an eye for defense, this book is unique in showing that the longhouse—known mainly as a community forum and spiritual place—may also have served as a defense structure. Throughout this work, which will become the new standard text to which scholars will refer, Engelbrecht reminds us that the the study of the Iroquoian people continues to enrich and inform the modern world.
Author : William Martin Beauchamp
Publisher : New York : AMS Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Iroquois Indians
ISBN : IND:39000003642662
Author : Anthony Wonderley,Martha L. Sempowski
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815654926
The League of the Iroquois, the most famous native government in North America, dominated intertribal diplomacy in the Northeast and influenced the course of American colonial history for nearly two centuries. The age and early development of the League, however, have long been in dispute. In this highly original book, two anthropological archaeologists with differing approaches and distinct regional interests synthesize their research to explore the underpinnings of the confederacy. Wonderley and Sempowski endeavor to address such issues as when tribes coalesced, when intertribal alliances presaging the League were forged, when the five-nation confederation came to fruition, and what light oral tradition may shine on these developments. This groundbreaking work develops a new conversation in the field of Indigenous studies, one that deepens our understanding of the Iroquois League’s origins.