Seven generations : a history of the Kanienkehaka

Type
Book
Authors
David Blanchard ( Blanchard, David )
 
Category
General Library Collection  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
1980 
Publisher
Pages
548 
Abstract
"History of the Mohawk people, including traditional creation legends. Suitable grades 7 and up."--WorldCat.org. 
Description
xxii, 548 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. 
Biblio Notes
Contents:
1. The Creation : the creation story ; traditional Mohawk world view
2. Symbolism
3. Origin theories [i.e. Bering Srait theory ; native feelings towards origins]
4. Migrations [Cahokia, mound cities as class societies, etc.]
5. The Founding of the Confederacy : blood feud ; the Tekanawita Story ; the organizationof the Confederacy
6. Hochelaga and the First Alongquin War
7. The Onkwehonwe discover Columbus
8. The Two Row Wampum Treaty and the Principle of Sovereignty
9. The Kanienkehaka in the Four Iroquois Wars [Fur trade]
10. The Kanienkehaka and the Peace of 1667 [Kentake, Kahnawake]. 11. Treacheries Against the Kanienkehaka [The defeat of De La Barre ; Denonville ; Covenant Chain ; Peace of 1701]
The Daily Life of the Eighteenth Century Kanienkehaka [Kanienkeh ; Thaonwentsawakon]
13. The French and English Wars
14. Mohawk mMigration and Expansion : Kahnawake and Kanesatake ; Kanienkehaka in the Ohio Valley ; the Bear Clan migration from Kahnawake to Akwesasne
15. The Kaninekehakah in the Seven Years' War [land frauds]
16. The Kanienkehaka in the American War of Independence
17. The Lands of the Kanienkehaka [sales and thefts]
18. The Mohawk Voyageurs [fur trade]
19. The Kanienkehaka in the War o 1812 [Mohawk land, Akwesasne]
20. The K. and Les Patriotes [demand for the return of rented land]
21. The Birth of Two New Occupations [ironworkers, entertainers]
22. Plans to Assimilate Native People [Aboriginal peoples, First Nations ; Canada, USA]. 23. The K. at the Turn of the Twentieth Century [1883 Kahnawake Agricultural Exposition ; Quebec Bridge Disaster, Brooklyn New York]
24. 1920-1930 : Time of Challenge, Crisis and Change [American Citizenship for Akwesasne ; R.C.M.P. seisure of wampum at Six Naations ; Paul K. Diabo case ; Grand Council of Kanienkeh]
World Depression and the K : 1929-1930 [Great Depression, Traditional and Band Council ; separate schools and the return of the Jesuits : Kanesatake and the Sulpicians]
26. K. and the Indian Act Review of 1946-1947 [demand traditional Government ; New Indian Act, etc.]
27. K. and the Seaway (St. Lawrence) : [losing the river of the Iroquois ; struggle for fair compensation
28. The Kanienkehaka Strike Back [Akwesasne, Kahnawake, Ganienkeh, Kanesatake : a new school and defense of Mohawk land ; Kahnawake Survival School]
29. Two Prophesies : hopes and fears for the future [seventh generation ; serpents, etc.].

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.  
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