Apologies to the Iroquois

"Provocatively suggests that the great American ideal of liberty, followed by western Christian culture, forgot itself when it came to grips with the Indian and his differentness. It hasn't remembered itself yet."--Christian Science Monitor

Onondaga Iroquois Prehistory: A Study in Settlement Archaeology  

Chisholm, in these 18 essays, combines an internal approach to knowledge with an international approach to metaphysics, presupposing that the self is best known, and that knowledge of the self can serve as a key for further understanding. Among his topics are the whole and parts, freedom and the self, and substance and attribution. A reprint of Tuck's monograph published first in 1971 in the series A New York State study.  Booknews. 

Iroquois Medical Botany

This is the first book to provide a guide to understanding the use of herbal medicines in traditional Iroquois culture. The world view of the Iroquois League or Confederacy - the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora nations - is based on a strong cosmological belief system. This is evident, especially in their medical practices, which connect man to nature and the powerful forces in the supernatural realm. This book relates Iroquois cosmology to cultural themes by showing the inherent spiritual power of plants and how the Iroquois traditionally have used and continue to use plants as remedies.

Iroquois Land Claims

Although the authors have focused their attention on one group of New York Indians, each has addressed significant issues for all regions of the US involved in land litigation. . . . The volume is dominated by the interests of white scholars. Only one essay is written from the perspective of a white property owner, . . . and only one comes from an Iroquois. . . . Nor is there balance between the major litigants. Only one essay sympathizes with white property owners; the rest are, at least implicitly, on the Iroquois' side. Nevertheless, the editors have provided readers with a wealth of information for understanding a subject of such immediate importance. R.L. Haan - Choice  

Hiawatha: Founder of the Iroquois Confederacy

Not the Hiawatha of Longfellow, this is the equally legendary but real fifteenth-century Onondaga chief, whose fame is based on his success in bringing peace among warring tribes. Bonvillain traces the history of the Iroquois as well. Fascinating reading, illustrated with a variety of black-and-white drawings, paintings, and photographs. Horn Book, Inc.  

The Iroquois Indians: The Junior Library of American Indians

Examines the history, culture, and future prospects of the Iroquois people.

"Your Fyre Shall Burn No More": Iroquois Policy toward New France and Its Native Allies to 1701

Why were the Iroquois unrelentingly hostile toward the French colonists and their native allies? The longstanding "Beaver War" interpretation of seventeenth-century Iroquois-French hostilities holds that the Iroquois' motives were primarily economic, aimed at controlling the profitable fur trade. Jose Antonio Brandao argues persuasively against this view. Examining the original French and English sources, Brandao has compiled a vast, unparalleled array of quantitative data about Iroquois raids and mortality rates. He offers a penetrating examination of seventeenth-century Iroquoian attitudes toward foreign policy and warfare, contending that the Iroquois fought New France not primarily to secure their position in a new market economy but for reasons that traditionally fueled native warfare: to replenish their populations, safeguard hunting territories, protect their homes, gain honor, and seek revenge.

Cultivating a Landscape of Peace: Iroquois-European Encounters in Seventeenth-Century America

Dennis seeks to replace the stereotype of the 'bloodthirsty, aggressive' Iroquois with the portrait of a people who sculpted an ecological and political 'landscape' of peace. . . . Dennis asserts that the Iroquois League creation myth . . . patterned their motives to spread peacefully the branches of 'theGreat Tree of Peace' to all nations, primarily by adopting them as kinsmen. .. . Most intriguing is Dennis's suggestion that French-Iroquois hostilities stemmed from the French failure to understand that Iroquois overtures of peace were predicated on the sincere desire to adopt, literally, the French as relatives. . . . Dennis's provocative argument is weakened by two serious flaws. First, he recreates 15th- , 16th- , and 17th-century Iroquois motives from 19th- and 20th-century sources. Secondly, Dennis's examples of Iroquois intentions for peace are carefully selected to fit his thesis.  R.L. Haan - Choice  

Iroquois Corn in a Culture-Based Curriculum: A Framework for Respectfully Teaching about Cultures

Carol Cornelius offers a new culture-based framework that provides a way to research and develop curricula based on respect of the diverse cultures of this nation. Using the Haudenosaunee culture as an example, Cornelius examines the source and reasons for the prevailing stereotypes about American Indians and explains how those stereotypes became the standard curriculum taught in America. She uses the components of world view and how it structures a way of life - the interaction of corn and culture, the dynamic aspect of Haudenosaunee culture, and the contemporary role of corn - to weave the interdependent, holistic, interdisciplinary framework for culture-based curriculum. Using this conceptual model, teachers can develop a culturally sensitive curriculum on any culture. The book therefore fills a void for teachers who want to utilize a multicultural approach in their classroom, but don't know how to begin the process.

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