Wilderness Messiah: The Story of Hiawatha and the Iroquois

Foreword; Introduction; THE IROQUOIS BEFORE THE COMING OF THE WHITE MAN: THE FIVE NATIONS: Men of the New World; People of the Long House; SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT: Wilderness Messiahs: Degandawida; Wilderness Messiahs: The Real Hiawatha; Political and Social Units; The First Republic: Extended Firesides; The Fifty Immortals; Iroquois Women; Women and the Home; PEACE BY WARFARE: War in the Wilderness; Of Dying at the Stake; Strings of Scalps; THE DAILY LIFE OF THE IROQUOIS: The House, the Village, and the Fields; Iroquois Medicine; Archives in Wampum; Smoke of Communion; IROQUOIS RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND OBSERVANCES: Beginnings and the Afterlife; Ghosts and Souls; Goblins and Witches; Washing with Fire; Iroquois Religious Survivals; THE RISE OF THE IROQUOIS CONFEDERATION; THE IROQUOIS AND THE WHITE MAN: THE TERRIBLE AND VAST WILDERNESS; THE FIVE NATIONS AND FRANCE: Gentlemen of Old France; A Declining Star; The Martyrs; The Lily of the Mohawks; THE FIVE NATIONS AND ENGLAND: His Majesty's Ambassador; Two Indian Allies; 285 pp. The Second Republic; From Hiawatha to Stalin; The Iroquois Today; APPENDIX I: Creation Myths of the Iroquois; APPENDIX II: The Iroquois Constitution; Bibliography; Index.