Beyond the covenant chain : the Iroquois and their neighbors in Indian North America, 1600-1800 / edited with a new preface by Daniel K. Richter and James H. Merrell ; foreword by Wilcomb E. Washburn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richter, Daniel K., author.

Contributor:

Richter, Daniel K., editor.

Merrell, James Hart, 1953- editor.

Washburn, Wilcomb E., writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Government relations.

Indians of North America.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 211 pages) : maps

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"For centuries the Western view of the Iroquois was clouded by the myth that they were the supermen of the frontier - "the Romans of this Western World," as De Witt Clinton called them in 1811. Only in recent years have scholars come to realize the extent to which Europeans had exaggerated the power of the Iroquois. Beyond the Covenant Chain was one of the first studies to acknowledge fully that the Iroquois never had an empire. It remains the best study of diplomatic and military relations among Native American groups in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century North America. Published in paperback for the first time, it features a new preface by Daniel K. Richter and James H. Merrell."--Jacket.

Contents:

Maps : The Iroquois and their neighbors in the early 1670s ; the Iroquois and their neighbors in the early 1760s

Introduction / Daniel K. Richter and James H. Merrell

Ordeals of the longhouse : the Five Nations in early American history / Daniel K. Richter

Linking arms : the structure of Iroquois intertribal diplomacy / Mary Druke Becker

Covenance and consensus : Iroquois and English, 1676-1760 / Richard L. Haan

Toward the Covenant Chain : Iroquois and Southern New England Algonquians, 1637-1684 / Neal Salisbury

"Pennsylvania Indians" and the Iroquois / Francis Jennings

Peoples "inbetween" : the Iroquois and the Ohio Indians, 1720-1768 / Michael N. McConnell

"Their very bones shall fight" : The Catawba-Iroquois Wars / James H. Merrell

Cherokee relations with the Iroquois in the Eighteenth Century / Theda Perdue

"As the wind scatters the smoke" : The Tascaroras in the Eighteenth Century / Douglas W. Boyce.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Syracuse University Press, 1987.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-202) and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 07 2025)

ISBN:

0-271-10125-3

OCLC:

1528965796