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1.

Seneca Myths and Folk Tales » Read Now
by Arthur C. Parker. 468 pgs.

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...0-8032-8723-2 alk. paper 1. Seneca Indians--Legends. 2. Indiana of North...ENLIGHTENMENT, AND WHOSE INTEREST IN THE SENECA INDIANS AND THEIR HISTORY HAS NEVER WANED...the...
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Seneca Thanksgiving Rituals » Read Now
by Wallace L. Chafe. 302 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...strong, where those of us who are called Indians dwell. 483 And it is so: the Sky Dwellers...children and old people. 687 But where we Indians are living 688 the wind...
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American Indian Population Recovery in the Twentieth Century (Chap. 2 "The Population Histories of Five Tribes") » Read Now
by Nancy Shoemaker. 164 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Although the general public is not widely aware of this trend, American Indian population has grown phenomenally since 1900, their demographic nadir. No longer a vanishing race, Indians have rebounded to 1492 population estimates in nine decades. Until now, most research has focused on catastrophic...
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Although the general public is not widely aware of this trend, American Indian population has grown phenomenally since 1900, their demographic nadir. No longer a vanishing race, Indians have rebounded to 1492 population estimates in nine decades. Until now, most research has focused on catastrophic population decline, but Nancy Shoemaker studies how and why American Indians have recovered. Her analysis of the social, cultural, and economic implications of the family and demographic patterns fuelling the recovery compares five different Indian groups: the Seneca Nation in New York State, Cherokees in Oklahoma, Red Lake Ojibways in Minnesota, Yakamas in Washington State, and Navajos in the Southwest. Marshalling individual-level census data, Shoemaker places American Indians in a broad social and cultural context and compares their demographic patterns to those of Euroamericans and African Americans in the United States.
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The Wars of the Iroquois: A Study in Intertribal Trade Relations (Chap. VII "The Great Dispersion") » Read Now
by George T. Hunt. 209 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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From Longhouse to Loghouse: Household Structure Among the Senecas in 1900, in American Indian Quarterly » Read Now
by Nancy Shoemaker. 10 pgs.

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...interpretation of how the Seneca Indians responded to European...is that almost all Indians lived with relatives. Among the Senecas, Yakimas, and Ojibways...1034. Other...
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The Iroquois Eagle Dance: An Offshoot of the Calumet Dance with an Analysis of the Iroquois Eagle Dance and Songs » Read Now
by William N. Fenton, Gertrude Prokosch Kurath. 324 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...come against the Seneca in 1779; the Whites had cheated the Indians of their lands at...and invites the Indians philosophy of procrastination...with the Coldspring Seneca...
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Native Cemeteries and Forms of Burial East of the Mississippi ("Seneca Ceremony, 1731" begins on p. 83) » Read Now
by David I. Bushnell Jr. 180 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Pilgrims at Corn Hill were those of Indians and had evidently been made within a year...terminated in the disas trous defeat of the Indians and the death of their leader...
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On the Road to Canandaigua: The Treaty of 1794, in American Indian Quarterly » Read Now
by Jack Campisi, William A. Starna. 24 pgs.

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...of the Ohio Valley Indians. 15 And the Senecas were infuriated over...campaign against the western Indians was necessary, the Senecas were then warned "to...hostilities of...
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The Allegany Senecas and Kinzua Dam: Forced Relocation through Two Generations » Read Now
by Joy A. Bilharz. 196 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

In the late 1950s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced its intention to construct a dam along the Allegheny River in Warren, Pennsylvania. The building of the Kinzua Dam was highly controversial because it flooded one-third of the Allegany Reservation of the Seneca Nation of Indians. Nearly...
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In the late 1950s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced its intention to construct a dam along the Allegheny River in Warren, Pennsylvania. The building of the Kinzua Dam was highly controversial because it flooded one-third of the Allegany Reservation of the Seneca Nation of Indians. Nearly six hundred Senecas were forced to abandon their homes and relocate, despite a 1794 treaty that had guaranteed them those lands in perpetuity.
In this revealing study, Joy A. Bilharz examines the short- and long-term consequences of the relocation of the Senecas. Granted unparalleled access to members of the Seneca Nation and reservation records, Bilharz traces the psychological, economic, cultural, and social effects over two generations. The loss of homes and tribal lands was heartwrenching and initially threatened to undermine the foundations of social life and subsistence economy for the Senecas. Over time, however, many Senecas have managed to adapt successfully to relocation, creating new socialnetworks, invigorating their educational system, and becoming more politically involved on local, tribal, and national levels.
Today the Kinzua Dam is, according to Bilharz, a "potent symbol" for the Senecas. For the younger generation, faced with a reservation land shortage, it represents powerlessness, providing them with ample reasons to blame their parents and to continue to mistrust the federal and state governments. For the older generation, the risen riverbanks have acquired an almost spiritual significance. In the evenings many continue to wander down to the reservoir banks "to be near where the 'old places' used to be".
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Protestant Missionaries and Native Culture: Parallel Careers of Asher Wright and Silas T. Rand, in American Indian Quarterly » Read Now
by Thomas S. Abler. 13 pgs.

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...Elisabeth Tooker 1978 Seneca. Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 15 (Northeast...Proceedings 100: 567-581. 1957 "Seneca Indians by Asher Wright (1859...Friends 1840...
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The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians (The Indians of New York State begins on p. 309) » Read Now
by Francis Paul Prucha. 436 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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David Zeisberger: A Life among the Indians Chap. 12 "Westward to the Delaware Country, 1767" and Chap. 13 "Frustration on the Allegheny, 1768-1770") » Read Now
by Earl P. Olmstead, David Zeisberger. 444 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

David Zeisberger: A life among the Indians offers the unique perspective of a Moravian missionary who lived and worked for sixty-three years among the Iroquois and Delaware nations in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Upper Canada. Earl P. Olmstead's narrative draws on thousands of pages...
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David Zeisberger: A life among the Indians offers the unique perspective of a Moravian missionary who lived and worked for sixty-three years among the Iroquois and Delaware nations in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Upper Canada. Earl P. Olmstead's narrative draws on thousands of pages of Zeisberger's own diaries, some of which are translated here for the first time. The diaries offer insights into the role of wampum in tribal government, problems resulting from the mass Euro-American western migration, and incidents of duplicity on the parts of both the American government and Native American nations. Of particular interest are Zeisberger's descriptions of Native American life in the years surrounding the French and Indian War and the American Revolution and the effects of these conflicts on the nations that lived in Ohio Country.
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