iroquois indians

"After devoting most of his adult life to revitalizing the culture and language of his people, Tom finally records here, the teachings of a generation of elders who have been gone for more than twenty years. Beginning with an introduction about why he is only now beginning to write all this down, he works his way chronologically through the major events embedded in Iroquois oral history and ceremony, from the story of creation, to the beginnings of the clan system, to the four most sacred rituals, to the beginnings of democracy, brought to his people by the prophet and statesman his people refer to as the Peacemaker. Interspersed with these teachings, Tom tells us in sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic detail, the effect of colonization on his commitment to those teachings"--Amazon.com.

Surveys the history and culture of the Iroquois, a Native American confederacy based mainly in the area of New York state, discusses their influence in the creation of the United States, and looks at their modern-day status.

"This book introduces young readers to the Iroquois people, their traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing and more, their contact with Europeans, and how the Iroquois are keeping their culture alive today"--OCLC.

Presents the story of Hiawatha and the Peacemaker, members of the Iroquois nations who helped unite the five tribes in the land that became New York state.

Explores more than 5,000 years of Iroquois visual art, discussing the precontact, colonial, neocolonial, and contemporary eras.

"Shows the contemporary cultural and religious crises that face the Longhouse Iroquois at the Six Nations Reserve, Ontario. Shimony presents a lucid and eloquent account of the survival of the Native American tradition, which is struggling to maintain political and cultural autonomy in an ever-changing modern world"--Amazon.

Young Native-American boy Jake is a strong lacrosse player on the reservation, but when he and his mother move to Washington D.C., lacrosse players at his new school do not understand the Iroquois.

"The League of the Iroquois was a true representational democracy--so much so that the United States Constitution is said to have been modeled on some of its tenets. But how, perhaps a thousand years before the time of Columbus, did the Five Iroquois Nations (the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca) come to end the bitter eye-for-eye warfare among them? What brought them together in an alliance based on the Great Law of Peace? And how was it that a system of Clan Mothers was instituted in which women are seen as the center of the nation and still today choose the 50 royaners, or peace chiefs, who speak for their respective communities in meetings of the League? In [this book], . . . author Joseph Bruchac draws from the teachings of both contemporary and past Iroquois tradition bearers in telling the . . . story of how 'the Peacemaker,' a divine messenger sent by the Creator, helped to bring reconciliation to warring nations"--Provided by publisher.

A retelling of an Iroquois legend explaining how the robin got its red breast while helping a young hunter survive a time of cold and hunger.