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Origins of the Iroquois League : Narratives, Symbols, and Archaeology /

"This is a scholarly work of anthropological archaeology in which Wonderley and Sempowski use their combined scholarship to shine a spotlight on what are perhaps the most significant yet neglected issues in the Iroquois past: When and how did historically known tribes begin to coalesce, what fa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Wonderley, Anthony, 1949- (Autor), Sempowski, Martha L., 1942- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2019.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The League story over time
  • 2. An interaction sphere of pipes in eastern Iroquoia, late 1400s to early 1500s
  • 3. Smoking pipes and alliance-building in western Iroquoia
  • 4. War along the St. Lawrence, early to mid-1500s
  • 5. Wampum, seashells, and peace
  • 6. The longhouse metaphor : its role in the growth of the League of the Iroquois
  • 7. Summary and conclusions.