Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Foreword by Wilcomb E. Washburn
Preface to the paperback edition by Daniel K. Richter and James H. Merrell
Maps
The Iroquois and Their Neighbors in the Early 1670s
The Iroquois and Their Neighbors in the Early 1760s
Introduction
Daniel K. Richter and James H. Merrell
Part I Perspectives from Iroquoia
1. Ordeals of the Longhouse: The Five Nations in Early American History
Daniel K. Richter
2. Linking Arms: The Structure of Iroquois Intertribal Diplomacy
Mary Druke Becker
3. Covenant and Consensus: Iroquois and English, 1676–1760
Richard L. Haan
part II Near Neighbors
4. Toward the Covenant Chain: Iroquois and Southern New England Algonquins, 1637–1684
Neal Salisbury
5. "Pennsylvania Indians" and the Iroquois
Francis Jennings
6. Peoples "In Between": The Iroquois and the Ohio Indians, 1720–1768
Michael N. McConnell
Part III Distant Friends and Foes
7. "Their Very Bones Shall Fight": The Catawba-Iroquois Wars
James H. Merrell
8. Cherokee Relations with the Iroquois in the Eighteenth Century
Theda Perdue
9. "As the Wind Scatters the Smoke": The Tuscaroras in the Eighteenth Century
Douglas W. Boyce
Notes
Index
Daniel K. Richter is Professor of History and Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (2002), won the 2001–2002 Louis Gottschalk Prize in Eighteenth-Century History and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History.
James H. Merrell is Professor of History at Vassar College. His book, The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact Through the Era of Removal (1989), won the Bancroft Prize, the Merle Curti Award, and the Frederick Jackson Turner Award. His most recent book is Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier (1999).
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