Legends, Traditions and Laws of the Iroquois & History of the Tuscarora Indians
Haudenosaunee Oral Traditions, Indigenous Law, and Tuscarora HistoryBy Elias Johnson
Length8h 34m
About this audiobook
Elias Johnson's Legends, Traditions and Laws of the Iroquois & History of the Tuscarora Indians is a significant nineteenth-century account of Haudenosaunee cultural memory, political organization, and historical experience. Combining origin narratives, ceremonial traditions, ethical teachings, constitutional principles, and a documentary history of the Tuscarora, the work moves between oral tradition, communal historiography, and explanatory ethnography. Its plain yet dignified prose reflects both the authority of inherited storytelling and the conventions of contemporaneous historical writing. Particularly valuable is its presentation of Iroquois law not as an abstract system but as a living framework governing kinship, diplomacy, leadership, responsibility, and collective identity, while also preserving traditions often filtered through non-Indigenous observers. Johnson was a Tuscarora leader and an informed cultural intermediary writing at a moment when Native nations faced territorial dispossession, missionary pressure, and widespread misrepresentation. His book can therefore be read as an act of intellectual self-representation: it records Tuscarora and Iroquois knowledge from within the community while addressing readers who might otherwise encounter Indigenous history only through colonial accounts. His attention to ancestry, law, and memory reveals a determination to preserve the intellectual foundations of his people for future generations. This volume is recommended to readers of Indigenous history, anthropology, legal traditions, and American religious and literary studies. It offers an essential primary perspective on Haudenosaunee thought and remains especially rewarding for anyone interested in the relationship between oral tradition, sovereignty, historical memory, and cultural survival.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.8 (69)
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GenreHistory
Length8 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 15, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1History of the Iroquois & Tuscarora Indians (Annotated)
2Introduction
3Preface
4The Iroquois
5Captive's Life Among Indians
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6Customs and Individual Traits of Character
7Creation
8Tuscarora
9Tuscaroras at North Carolina
10Treaties of New York Indians
11Missionary Work
12School Operations
13Temperance Society
14Friendship of the Tuscaroras to the United States
15Antique Rock Citadel of Kienuka
16The New Religion
17Sketches of an Iroquois Council, or Condolence
18Atotarho
19Legendary
20Civilization
21Domestic
22Osteological Remains
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