num_pages: 454
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization
titlecomplete: The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization
genres: History, American History, Native Americans, Nonfiction, Americana, Native American History
ratings_count: 130
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Frederick Jackson Turner Award, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Ray Allen Billington Prize
publisher: Omohundro Institute and UNC Press