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Peer reviewedFenton, William N. – American Indian Quarterly, 1986
Discusses leadership and political structure among the five Iroquois Nations--Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca--in the northeastern United States during the eighteenth century. Uses myth, ritual, historical sources, American ethnology, and British social anthropology to describe and analyze political entities and to classify leaders.…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian History, American Indians, Ethnology
Peer reviewedFenton, William N. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1981
Walter D. Edmunds created convincing characters of the Iroquois without pretending to know them. Carl Carmer was less interested in digging for the truth about Indians than in writing a story. Edmund Wilson perceived the Iroquois world view intuitively in his writing, overcoming any obstacle to get at the truth. (Author/LC)
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indians, Authors, Beliefs
