A Thanksgiving Address, an ancient message of peace and appreciation of Mother Earth and all her inhabitants. Spoken at ceremonies of the Iroquois Indians.
The author describes the greatness of an illiterate Iroquois Indian woman she came to know during summers at a small French-Canadian resort village in the Laurentians.
Follows the life of the Iroquois leader who contributed to the formation of a league of Indian nations and discusses the actions and effects of this league as it interacted with the white colonists up through the eighteenth century.