Reconstructing Ontario Iroquoian Village Organization — Ontario Iroquois Tradition Longhouses
Reconstructing Ontario Iroquoian Village Organization — Ontario Iroquois Tradition Longhouses

Author: Gary A. Warrick

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1984-01-01

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 1772821187

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The first study presents a model of Ontario Iroquoian village organization, based on fourteen Late Iroquoian (ca. A.D. 1450-1650) village plans, historic documents and comparative data on contemporary communities. It is argued that socio-political factors (village demography, socio-economics and government) were the major determinants of Iroquoian village arrangement. In light of the socio-political model suggested in part one of this book, the second study interprets changes in longhouse village planning, throughout the Ontario Iroquois sequence (A.D. 700 – 1650), as responses to evolutionary trends in Iroquoian warfare patterns and political organization.

Boys Site and the Early Ontario Iroquois Tradition
Boys Site and the Early Ontario Iroquois Tradition

Author: C. S. Reid

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1975-01-01

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 1772820407

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The tenth century Boys site (AiGs-Lo), a Pickering branch village of the early Ontario Iroquois tradition, provides data on settlement, trade, subsistence, and artifact patterns. Detailed comparisons with the earlier Pickering Miller site and the later Pickering Bennett site are presented and new data for chronological ordering and a number of unique features of this village are discussed.

Iroquoia
Iroquoia

Author: William Engelbrecht

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2005-09-23

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780815630609

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In a book that spans the Iroquoian culture from its ancient roots to its survival in the modern world, William Engelbrecht maintains that two themes pervade this development: warfare and spirituality. An investigation of oral tradition, archaeology, and historical records provides new insight into this now largely vanished world known as Iroquoia. Engelbrecht covers a wide geographic range, exploring regional and temporal differences in material culture and subsistence patterns. He finds change over time in the distribution and size of communities and in response to environmental demographic, and social factors. In addition, he furthers the controversial debate that "arrow sacrifice" and other beliefs spread from Mesoamerica with the dispersal of maize and horticulture. Although scholars have suggested that palisaded hilltop Iroquoian villages were constructed with an eye for defense, this book is unique in showing that the longhouse—known mainly as a community forum and spiritual place—may also have served as a defense structure. Throughout this work, which will become the new standard text to which scholars will refer, Engelbrecht reminds us that the the study of the Iroquoian people continues to enrich and inform the modern world.

The Rotinonshonni
The Rotinonshonni

Author: Brian Rice

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0815652275

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"In this book, Rice offers a comprehensive history based on the oral traditions of the Rotinonshonni Longhouse People, also known as the Iroquois. Drawing upon J.N.B. Hewitt's translation and the oral presentations of Cayuga Elder Jacob Thomas, Rice records the Iroquois creation story, the origin of Iroquois clans, the Great Law of Peace, the European invasion, and the life of Handsome Lake. As a participant in a 700-mile walk following the story of the Peacemaker who confederated the original five warring nations that became the Rotinonshonni, Rice traces the historic sites located in what are now known as the Mississippi River Valley, Upstate New York, southern Quebec, and Ontario. The Rotinonshonni creates from oral traditions a history that informs the reader about events that happened in the past and how those events have shaped and are still shaping Rotinonshonni society today."--Publisher's website.

Archaeology of the Iroquois
Archaeology of the Iroquois

Author: Jordan E. Kerber

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2007-07-19

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13: 9780815631392

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This timely volume offers a compilation of twenty-four articles covering a wide spectrum of topics in Iroquoian archaeology. Culled from leading publications, the pieces collectively represent the current state of knowledge and research in the field. A comprehensive research bibliography with more than 500 entries will be a key resource for specialists and non-specialists alike. Both text and bibliography are structured in five sections: Origins; Precolumbian Dynamics; Postcolumbian Dynamics; Material Culture Studies; and Contemporary Iroquois Perspectives, Repatriation, and Collaborative Archaeology. Along with seminal essays by major figures in regional archaeology, the book includes responses by Haudenosaunee writers to the political context of contemporary archaeological work. This collection will prove indispensable to scholars in all areas of Iroquois studies, students and teachers of Iroquoian archaeology, and professional and avocational archaeologists in the United States and Canada.

Bringing Back the Past
Bringing Back the Past

Author: Pamela Jane Smith

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1772821527

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Over the past century and a half, Canadian archaeology rehabilitated large portions of a history once thought to be lost beyond recovery. This book is among the first to document and analyze the growth of archaeology in Canada.

Petun to Wyandot
Petun to Wyandot

Author: Charles Garrad

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 2014-05-15

Total Pages: 638

ISBN-13: 0776621505

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In Petun to Wyandot, Charles Garrad draws upon five decades of research to tell the turbulent history of the Wyandot tribe, the First Nation once known as the Petun. Combining and reconciling primary historical sources, archaeological data and anthropological evidence, Garrad has produced the most comprehensive study of the Petun Confederacy. Beginning with their first encounters with French explorer Samuel de Champlain in 1616 and extending to their decline and eventual dispersal, this book offers an account of this people from their own perspective and through the voices of the nations, tribes and individuals that surrounded them. Through a cross-reference of views, including historical testimony from Jesuits, European explorers and fur traders, as well as neighbouring tribes and nations, Petun to Wyandot uncovers the Petun way of life by examining their culture, politics, trading arrangements and legends. Perhaps most valuable of all, it provides detailed archaeological evidence from the years of research undertaken by Garrad and his colleagues in the Petun Country, located in the Blue Mountains of Central Ontario. Along the way, the author meticulously chronicles the work of other historians and examines their theories regarding the Petun's enigmatic life story.

Painting the Past with a Broad Brush
Painting the Past with a Broad Brush

Author: David L. Keenlyside

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 766

ISBN-13: 1772821624

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For over 50 years, J. V. Wright was a ground-breaking leader and inspiring mentor for the Canadian archaeological profession. This publication brings together 23 scholarly articles on various aspects of Canada’s ancient past that pay tribute to and reflect J. V. Wright’s diverse geographic and cultural interests in relation to Canadian archaeology and pre-history. This exceptional festschrift includes an annotated bibliography of J. V. Wright’s works.