The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early ... and the University of North Carolina Press)

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Richter examines a wide range of primary documents to survey the responses of the peoples of the Iroquois League the Mohawks Oneidas Onondagas Cayugas Senecas and Tuscaroras to the challenges of the European colonialization of North America. He demonstrates that by the early eighteenth century a series of creative adaptations in politics and diplomacy allowed the peoples of the Longhouse to preserve their cultural autonomy in a land now dominated by foreign powers.