From the earliest colonial contacts, the Iroquois were a force that could not be ignored by any white government, Dutch, French, or English. By the early Eighteenth Century, the Iroquois had strengthened themselves by bringing in the Tuscarora from the Carolinas. Moreover, their strategic geographic location on important water routes northward and westward further strengthened their military position. A History of the Lumbee Indians by Adolph L. Dial and David K. Eliades, 1975. Writing the history of a people is complex, even frustrating, but a satisfying process just the same.
History is, after all, the drama of life itself.
The people, their problems, and their achievements in the face of great adversary are real, not products of one's imagination. In reliving the past, one cannot help but better understand and appreciate the present. The 1940s by George A. Boyce, 1974. The Spaniards made great changes in western Indian life, both good and bad. Of all the indigenous folk, only the Navajos took to sheepherding as a basic economic cornerstone.