and trans., with Reg Henry and Harry Webster, Concerning the League: The
Iroquois League Tradition as Dictated in Onondaga, ed.
The
Iroquois league always remained friendly to the English and hostile to the French, mainly because the latter often aided Indian tribes who were enemies of the Iroquois.
Anderson dwells on the Six Nations
Iroquois League, and, to a lesser degree, their semisubordinates, the Delawares.
An Indian treaty signed with the
Iroquois League at Lancaster, Pa., ceded to England the territory of the Ohio R.
Saratoga, N.Y., was attacked and burned by French and Indian forces after the English had succeeded in persuading the
Iroquois league to enter the war against the French.
In the League cycle, Deganawida, who is the Peacemaker; Jigonsaseh, who is the head Clan Mother; and Hiawatha, who is the inventor of wampum writing, establish the great
Iroquois League. To found the League, the triumvirate must first bring an end to a violent, all-consuming war between the Cultivators, or women-led agriculturalists, and the fearsome Cannibal Cult, led by Atotarho.
1992 Concerning the League, the
Iroquois League tradition as dictated in Onondaga by John Arthur Gibson.
Jennings next reviews early warfare in the Northeast and alliances between the
Iroquois League and the English.
observers, and later anthropologists and historians, were unable to distinguish between the
Iroquois League and the Iroquois Confederacy.(10) When Johnson moved the focus of British Indian policy westward, he maintained the Six Nations pre-eminent position in British Indian policy by playing on colonial misconceptions about the Iroquois political structure.(11) This invention allowed him to maintain that the Iroquois controlled the Ohio Country.(12) He could also continue giving the Mohawks a pre-eminent place in Anglo-Indian relations.
Richter's discussions of gender, clan, and community patterns of obligation and authority, based on analyses of the Iroquois origin story and the Deganawidah myth about the formation of the
Iroquois League, is especially interesting for showing how ethnohistorians could make better use of Indian oral traditions.
