Richter examines a wide range of primary documents to survey the responses of the peoples of the Iroquois League-the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras-to the challenges of the European colonialization of North America. He demonstrates that by the early eighteenth century a series of creative adaptations in politics and diplomacy allowed the peoples of the Longhouse to preserve their cultural autonomy in a land now dominated by foreign powers. | The Ordeal of the Longhouse by Daniel K. Richter, Paperback | Indigo Chapters