The wars of the Iroquois : a study in intertribal trade relations / George T. Hunt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunt, George T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Commerce.

Indians of North America.

Iroquois Indians--Wars.

Iroquois Indians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages) : map

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Intertribal trade relations, A study in.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1978, c1968.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Back in print.George T. Hunt's classic 1940 study of the Iroquois during the middle and late seventeenth century presents warfare as a result of depletion of natural resources in the Iroquois homeland and tribal efforts to assume the role of middlemen in the fur trade between the Indians to the west and the Europeans.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

I. The Problem of the Iroquois

II. Before the Conquest

III. The Iroquois, 1609-1640

IV. The Hurons and Their Neighbors

V. The Huron Trading Empire

VI. Iroquois and Hurons

VII. The Great Dispersion

VIII. The Upper Canada and Michigan Tribes

IX. The Wisconsin Tribes

X. The Susquehannah War

XI. The War in the Illinois Country

Appendix A: The Dutch Trade in Firearms with the Iroquois

Appendix B: The French Trade in Firearms

Appendix C: The Peace of 1653

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Map on lining-papers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-15950-3

9786613159502

0-299-00163-6

OCLC:

632175424