The Little Water Medicine Society of the Senecas (Civilization of the American Indian Series)
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: February 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780806134475
Subjects: History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Indigenous peoples; Seneca Indians; Medicine; Manners And Customs; Native Americans - Northeast; Archaeology / Anthropology; Rites and ceremonies; History: American; North America; Native American; Anthropology - Cultural; United States - State & Local - General; History; Little Water Medicine Society; Religion
First sentence: The Little Water Society assumed a preeminent place among a dozen medicine societies that the Senecas of western New York celebrated in the 1930s and 1940s, followed by the closely associated Eagle Dance; both were originally associated with warfare.