Evolution of the Onondaga Iroquois : accommodating change, 1500-1655 / James W. Bradley ; with an afterword by the author.
- Title
- Evolution of the Onondaga Iroquois : accommodating change, 1500-1655 / James W. Bradley ; with an afterword by the author.
- Published by
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2005.
- Author
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- Description
- xv, 260 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.
- Summary
- "The early history of the Onondaga Iroquois and their cultural responses to the European invasion are illuminated in this valuable study, Evolution of the Onondaga Iroquois. Drawing on a wealth of archaeological evidence and historical documents, James W. Bradley traces the origins of the Onondaga, beginning around a.d. 1200. Much attention is devoted to the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, which were marked by the introduction and growing popularity of European trade goods. Bradley shows how the Onondaga creatively used and viewed these exotic objects; such items as axes and kettles were adapted to meet traditional Native needs.
- During the period shortly after the first encounters with Europeans, the Onondaga successfully adjusted to changes in their world rather than being overwhelmed by them. Their accommodation resulted in such celebrated cross-cultural creations as wampum and the League of the Five Nations."--Pub. desc.
- Subject
- Contents
- Chapter 1: The Indigenous Onondaga ; Environmental Setting-Owasco Antecedents ; The Castle Creek Phase: Convergence ; The Oak Hill Phase: Coalescence ; The Chance Phase: Consolidation ; The Garoga Phase: Crystallization -- Chapter 2: The Protohistoric Onondaga 1500-1600 ; Settlement and Subsistence Patterns ; Material Culture: Native Materials ; Material Culture: European Materials -- Chapter 3: Processing the Protohistoric ; Whatever Happened to the St. Lawrence Iroquois? ; Networks of Exchange/Patterns of Trade ; Inside and Outside the Confederacy -- Chapter 4: The Historic Onondaga 1600-1655 ; Settlement and Subsistence Patterns ; Material Culture: Native Materials ; Material Culture: European Materials -- Chapter 5: Accommodating Change ; European Material/Native Culture: The Dynamics of Acculturative Change ; Re-Forming the Confederacy: The View from Onondaga -- A Native Materials: Descriptions and Definitions -- B European Materials: Descriptions and Definitions -- C Historic Onondaga Sites from 1655 to 1779.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Note
- Orginally published: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1987.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-253) and index.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain