People of the Longhouse (36 page)
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Authors: W. Michael Gear
Tags: #Fiction, #Historical, #Native American & Aboriginal
T
he next four books are going to be a little different than what you’re used to in the People series.
People of the Longhouse
and
The Dawn Country
will be a duology focusing on the early lives of two of the most important, and least known, heroes in world history: Dekanawida and Hiyawento.
he next four books are going to be a little different than what you’re used to in the People series.
People of the Longhouse
and
The Dawn Country
will be a duology focusing on the early lives of two of the most important, and least known, heroes in world history: Dekanawida and Hiyawento.
The second duology,
The Broken Land
and
The Black Sun
, will chronicle their later lives, along with telling the story of Jigonsaseh, who can justifiably be called “The Mother of American Democracy.”
The Broken Land
and
The Black Sun
, will chronicle their later lives, along with telling the story of Jigonsaseh, who can justifiably be called “The Mother of American Democracy.”
Without these three people and their struggle for peace in fifteenth-century North America, it’s doubtful that any of the ideals we cherish as free people would exist today.
Bruchac, Joseph.
Iroquois Stories: Heroes and Heroines, Monsters and Magic.
Freedom, Calif.: The Crossing Press, 1985.
Freedom, Calif.: The Crossing Press, 1985.
Calloway, Colin G.
The Western Abenakis of Vermont, 1600–1800.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.
Custer, Jay F.
Delaware Prehistoric Archaeology: An Ecological Approach
. Cranberry, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1984.
. Cranberry, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1984.
Dye, David H.
War Paths, Peace Paths: An Archaeology of Cooperation and Conflict in Native Eastern North America.
Lanham, Md.: AltaMira Press, 2009.
Lanham, Md.: AltaMira Press, 2009.
Ellis, Chris J., and Neal Ferris, eds.
The Archaeology of Southern Ontario to A.D. 1650.
London, Ontario, Canada: Occasional Papers of the London Chapter, OAS Number 5, 1990.
London, Ontario, Canada: Occasional Papers of the London Chapter, OAS Number 5, 1990.
Elm, Demus, and Harvey Antone.
The Oneida Creation Story.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2000.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2000.
Englebrecht, William.
Iroquoia: The Development of a Native World.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2003.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2003.
Fagan, Brian M.
Ancient North America. The Archaeology of a Continent.
4th ed. London: Thames and Hudson Press, 2005.
4th ed. London: Thames and Hudson Press, 2005.
Fenton, William N.
The False Faces of the Iroquois.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987.
———.
The Iroquois Eagle Dance. An Offshoot of the Calumet Dance.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, l991.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, l991.
Foster, Steven, and James A. Duke.
Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants.
The Peterson Guides Series. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990.
The Peterson Guides Series. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990.
Hart, John P., and Christina B. Rieth.
Northeast Subsistence-Settlement Change: A.D. 700–1300.
Bulletin 496. Albany: New York State Museum, 2002.
Bulletin 496. Albany: New York State Museum, 2002.
Herrick, James W.
Iroquois Medical Botany.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995.
Jennings, Francis.
The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire.
New York: W.W. Norton, 1984.
New York: W.W. Norton, 1984.
Jennings, Francis, ed.
The History and Culture of Iroquois Diplomacy.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, l995.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, l995.
Kurath, Gertrude P.
Iroquois Music and Dance: Ceremonial Arts of Two Seneca Longhouses.
Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 187. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964.
Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 187. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964.
Levine, Mary Ann, Kenneth E. Sassaman, and Michael S. Nassaney, eds.
The Archaeological Northeast.
Westport, Conn.: Bergin and Garvey, 1999.
Westport, Conn.: Bergin and Garvey, 1999.
Mann, Barbara A., and Jerry L. Fields.
“A Sign in the Sky: Dating the League of the Haudenosaunee.”
http://www.wampumchronicles.com/signinthesky.html
.
http://www.wampumchronicles.com/signinthesky.html
.
Martin, Calvin.
Keepers of the Game. Indian-Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.
Miroff, Laurie E., and Timothy D. Knapp.
Iroquoian Archaeology and Analytic Scale.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2009.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2009.
Morgan, Lewis Henry.
League of the Iroquois.
New York: Corinth Books, 1962.
New York: Corinth Books, 1962.
Mullen, Grant J., and Robert D. Hoppa.
“Rogers Ossuary (AgHb-131): An Early Ontario Iroquois Burial Feature from Brantford Township.”
The Canadian Journal of Archaeology /Journal Canadien d’Archeologie
16 (1992).
The Canadian Journal of Archaeology /Journal Canadien d’Archeologie
16 (1992).
Parker, A. C.
Iroquois Uses of Maize and Other Food Plants.
Bulletin 144. Albany: New York State Museum, 1910.
Bulletin 144. Albany: New York State Museum, 1910.
Parker, Arthur C.
Seneca Myths and Folk Tales.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1989.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1989.
Richter, Daniel.
The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The People of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
Snow, Dean.
The Archaeology of New England.
New York: Academic Press, 1980.
New York: Academic Press, 1980.
———.
The Iroquois
. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
Spittal, W. G.
Iroquois Women: An Anthology.
Ontario, Canada: Iroqrafts, 1990.
Ontario, Canada: Iroqrafts, 1990.
Talbot, Francis Xavier.
Saint Among the Hurons: The Life of Jean De Brébeuf.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949.
Trigger, Bruce.
The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660.
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1987.
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1987.
Trigger, Bruce, ed.
Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 15: Northeast.
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978.
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978.
Tuck, James A.
Onondaga Iroquois Prehistory: A Study in Settlement Archaeology.
New York: Syracuse University Press, 1971.
New York: Syracuse University Press, 1971.
Wallace, Anthony F. C.
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca.
New York : Vintage Books, 1972.
New York : Vintage Books, 1972.
Walthall, John A., and Thomas E. Emerson, eds.
Calumet and Fleur-de-Lys: Archaeology of the Indian and French Contact in the Midcontinent.
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.
Whitehead, Ruth Holmes.
Stories from the Six Worlds: Micmac Legends.
Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 1988.
Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 1988.
Williamson, Ronald F., and Susan Pfeiffer.
Bones of the Ancestors: The Archaeology and Osteobiography of the Moatfield Ossuary.
Gatineau, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2003.
Gatineau, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2003.
For those interested in a good general overview of Iroquoian prehistory, we recommend chapter 21 of Brian Fagan’s excellent book
Ancient North America.
This book is often updated, so you’ll want to make certain you get the latest edition.
Ancient North America.
This book is often updated, so you’ll want to make certain you get the latest edition.
Also, those who want to know more about how American democracy came from the League of the Iroquois, please read the foreword and afterword in
People of the Masks.
There are references in the bibliography that will help, as well, particularly Bruce Johansen’s book
Forgotten Founders.
People of the Masks.
There are references in the bibliography that will help, as well, particularly Bruce Johansen’s book
Forgotten Founders.
Thanks for caring about our nation’s rich past.
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F
irelight fills the room. I hear murmuring echoes that seem to come from great distances, voices I almost recognize. One voice is velvet soft: “Thyra, you must let them go. You’ll hurt them.”
I don’t know where I am. England maybe. But I think I’m two or three. Mother’s beautiful face swims out of the night, smiling down at me. She appears annoyed, as though I’ve failed some test of humanity. Behind her, firelight dances over the log walls, and I remember that all morning I’ve been crawling around, gathering the fluttering orange wings on the floor and trying to scoop them up. They’ve been talking to me, scolding me for trying to catch them. I don’t understand why I can’t grasp the half-transparent butterflies in my hands.
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