Beyond the Covenant Chain: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors in Indian North America, 1600-1800

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Daniel K. Richter, James H. Merrell
Penn State Press, 1 nov. 2010
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Peoples In Betweeb The Iroquois and the Ohio Indians 17201768
93
DISTANT FRIENDS AND FOE
113
Their Very Bones Shall Fight The CatawbaIroquois Wars
115
Cherokee Relations with the Iroquois in the Eighteenth Century
135
As the Wind Scatters the Smoke The Tuscaroras in the Eighteenth Century
151
NOTES
165
INDEX
203
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Page 29 - is the knot that binds us inseparably; nothing can part us." This collar was extraordinarily beautiful. "Even if the lightning were to fall upon us, it could not separate us; for, if it cuts off the arm that holds you to us, we will at once seize each other by the other arm.
Page 16 - Everywhere there was peril and everywhere mourning. Men were ragged with sacrifice and the women scarred with the flints, so everywhere there was misery. Feuds with outer nations, feuds with brother nations, feuds of sister towns and feuds of families and of clans made every warrior a stealthy man who liked to kill.
Page 64 - Mohawks are the two great bodies of Indians in this country, and they are confederates, and long have been, and they both yet are friendly and peaceabJe to the English. I do humbly conceive, that if ever God calls us to a just war with either of them, he calls us to make sure of the one to a friend. It is true some distaste was lately here amongst them, but they...
Page 201 - TREATY held with the Indians of the Six Nations at Philadelphia, in July, 1742, to which is prefix'd an account of the first Confederacy of the Six Nations, their present tributaries, dependents, and allies, 8vo.
Page 123 - Catawbas refused to come, and sent us word, That we were but Women, that they were Men, and double Men, for they had two P s; that they could make Women of us, and would be always at War with us.
Page 118 - We loose our dear friends and are afflicted, and this is chiefly owing to your young men. Surely you cannot propose to get either Riches or Possessions by going thus out to War; For when you kill a Deer you have the Flesh to eat and the skin to sell, but when you return from War you bring nothing home but the Scalps of a dead man who perhaps was Husband to a kind wife, And Father to tender children who never wronged you, tho...
Page 29 - He took hold of a Frenchman, placed his arm within his, and with his other arm he clasped that of an Alguonquin. Having thus joined himself to them, " Here," he said, " is the knot that binds us inseparably; nothing can part us.
Page 18 - Their Policy in this is very wise, and has nothing Barbarous in it. For, since their preservation depends [81] upon their union, and since it is hardly possible that among peoples where license reigns with all impunity — and, above all, among young people — there should not happen some event capable of causing a rupture, and disuniting their minds, — for these reasons, they hold every year a general assembly in Onnontaé.

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