The Iroquois Book Of Rites
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781419167706
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Sociology; Social Science; Ethnic Issues; North America; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies
First sentence: At the outset of the sixteenth century, when the five tribes or "nations" of the Iroquois confederacy first became known to European explorers, they were found occupying the valleys and uplands of northern New York, in that picturesque and fruitful region which stretches westward from the head-waters of the Hudson to the Genesee.