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Iroquoia: Haudenosaunee Life and Culture, 1630-1783

Iroquoia: Haudenosaunee Life and Culture, 1630-1783

Hardcover

Native American HistoryColonial Period (1600-1775)Regional: Middle Atlantic

ISBN10: 1501781189
ISBN13: 9781501781186
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: May 15 2025
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Iroquoia highlights the innovation of the Haudenosaunee peoples in retaining sovereignty over their homelands through seven generations of social and environmental change following European contact and the settler invasion. Kelly Y. Hopkins argues that Haudenosaunee men and women incorporated articles of European manufacture into their daily lives to fulfill conventional social and cultural needs. They used new trade items and alliances to enhance their lives and to pursue goals specific to their communities. In Iroquoia, Hopkins explores how engagement in the global market economy irreversibly transformed the local environment, severed Indigenous relationships and responsibilities to human and other-than human kin, and challenged longstanding social and economic relationships within Haudenosaunee communities. While settler expansion, violence, and imperial terraforming threatened Indigenous communities, food sovereignty, and water management, The People of the Longhouse produced distinctive new material cultures and new land use practices that incorporated features of the colonial settlement template into longstanding subsistence and settlement patterns. Haudenosaunee peoples employed these survivance strategies to control the scale and scope of European intrusion into their homelands.

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Colonial Period (1600-1775)