Thursday, January 5, 2012: 3:00 PM
Ruggles Hall (The Newberry Library (60 W. Walton Street))
Breaking the Covenant Chain: Iroquoia in 1812
Description: In this presentation I will discuss how the conflict between Britain and the U.S. yet once more brought the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) into another European and settler conflict. The leader of the pro-British alliance among the Mohawks of the Grand River was John Norton, an adopted Cherokee/Scots figure living among the Mohawk. I examine the tensions between traditional concepts of covenant alliances and the new reality of Iroquois diaspora in the post-Revolutionary period
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