Richter examines a wide range of primary documents to survey the responses of the Peoples of the Iroquois League--the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras--to the challenges of the European colonialization of North America.
He demonstrates that by the early eighteenth century a series of creative adaptations in politics and diplomacy allowed the Peoples of the Longhouse to preserve their cultural autonomy in a land now dominated by foreign powers..
Richter examines a wide range of primary documents to survey the responses of the Peoples of the Iroquois League--the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras--to the challenges of the European colonialization of North America