According to the best
evidence that can be obtained, the formation of the Iroquois confederacy
dates from about the middle of the fifteenth century. There is reason to
believe that prior to that time the five tribes, who are dignified with
the title of nations, had held the region south of Lake Ontario,
extending from the Hudson to the Genesee river, for many generations,
and probably for many centuries. Tradition makes their earlier seat to
have been north of the St. Lawrence river, which is probable enough. It
also represents the Mohawks as the original tribe, of which the others
are offshoots; and this tradition is confirmed by the evidence of
language. That the Iroquois tribes were originally one people, and that
their separation into five communities, speaking distinct dialects,
dates many centuries back, are both conclusions as certain as any facts
in physical science. Three hundred and fifty years ago they were
isolated tribes, at war occasionally with one another, and almost
constantly with the fierce Algonquins who surrounded them. Not
unfrequently, also, they had to withstand and to avenge the incursions
of warriors belonging to more distant tribes of various stocks, Hurons,
Cherokees and Dakotas. Yet they were not peculiarly a warlike people.
They were a race of housebuilders, farmers, and fishermen. They had
large and strongly palisaded towns, well-cultivated fields, and
substantial houses, sometimes a hundred feet long, in which many kindred
families dwelt together.
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Economics of the Iroquois
By Sara Henry Stites
Era of the Formation of the
Historic League of the Iroquois
By J. N. B. Hewitt
History of Sullivan's Campaign
against the Iroquois
By A. Tiffany Norton
League of the HO-DE- NO-SAU- NEE or
Iroquois
By Lewis H. Morgan
The Iroquois Trail or Footprints of the Six
Nations
In Customs, Traditions and History by W. M. Beauchamp
The Iroquois or the Bright Side of Indian
Character
By Minnie Myrtle
Iroquois
By Samuel P. Moulthrop
The Iroquois Confederacy
Its Political System, Military System, Marriages, Divorces, Property
Rights, etc. by Rufus Blanchard
Iroquois Folk-Lore
By Rev. Wm. M. Beauchamp
Iroquois Past and Present
By Edward Half Brush
Iroquois Uses of Maize and
Other Food Plants
By Authur C. Parker
League of Iroquois
By B. Hathaway
The Legends of the Iroquois
"Told by Cornplanter" by William W. Canfield
Legends, Traditions and Laws of
the Iroquois or Six Nations and History of the Tuscarora Indians
By Elias Johnson, A Native Tuscarora Chief
The Life of General Ely S.
Parker
Last Grand Sachem of the Iroquois and General Grant's Military Secretary
by Arthur C. Parker
Myths of the Iroquois
By Erminnie A. Smith
Notes on the Iroquois
Or contributions to American History, Antiquities, and General Ethnology
by Henry R. Schoolcraft
Our Life Among the Iroquois
Indians
By Mrs Harriet S. Caswell
On the Paganism of the Civilised Iroquois of
Ontario
By David Boyle
Symposium on Cherokee and Iroquois
Culture
Edited by William N. Fenton and John Gulick
Huron and Wyandot Mythology
By C. M. Barbeau
David Cusick's Sketches of Ancient
History of the Six Nations
The Trail of
the Iroquois
By M. Bourchier Sanford (pdf)
Books in Text Format
Hochelagans and
Mohawks
By W. D. Lighthall, from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada
Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the
Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians
By Elias Johnson
The Iroquois Book of Rites
By Horatio Hale
Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children
By Mabel Powers
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