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Since 1945, The Conference on Iroquois Research, as it is more formally known by its founders and supporters, has provided a unique collaborative forum for anthropologists, archaeologists, artists, ethnohistorians, historians, linguists, and Native scholars and Elders whose research focuses on the Haudenosaunee. This academic retreat fosters a holistic approach where native and non-native researchers from all disciplines share the same podium with only one session in progress. Although the venues have changed over the last half century, from its informal encounters at the Allegany State Park administrative building in Red House, the focus, the spirit and the integrity of the conference continues to burn brightly. Come join us at the “Wood’s Edge.” 2011 FINAL Program Thursday, September 29th at 7 p.m. More Funding and More Scholarships The 2011 Organizing Committee of the Conference on Iroquois Research is happy to announce that, once again, scholarships will be made available to its participants. A total of 10 scholarships worth up to $200.00 each have been set aside to assist those who require financial assistance. It is thanks to donations and events like the Silent Auction that these scholarships are available. The scholarships are open to all, but preference is given to student attendees, particularly those who are presenting, and to those who do not have institutional support for attending the conference. Download Application Form Recent Publications The Tonawanda Senecas' Heroic Battle Against Removal  Book Description: The remarkable story of the Tonawanda Senecas in the face of overwhelming odds is the centerpiece of this landmark community study. In the six decades prior to the Civil War, they wrestled with pressures from land companies; the local, state, and federal officials’ policies to acquire tribal lands and remove the Indians; misguided Quakers who believed they knew what was best for the Indians; and divisions among Seneca communities about what strategies of resistance to employ. As deftly and convincingly revealed by Laurence M. Hauptman, the Tonawanda Senecas were able strategists who overcame disastrous treaties to regain 7,549 acres of their western New York territory, lands that they still possess today. The chiefs and clan mothers pursued a number of well thought-out strategies: petitioning officials and lobbying in Washington, challenging the legality of the treaties; preventing surveyors from entering onto tribal lands; disrupting land auctions; taking out advertisements; and networking with influential whites. They also hired a first-rate attorney who eventually won a landmark victory in the U.S. Supreme Court and who successfully negotiated the United States–Tonawanda Treaty of 1857, which provided a formula to repurchase a part of the reservation. In recounting this heroic story, Hauptman throws new light on Red Jacket and Ely S. Parker, women’s roles within Tonawanda society, and the development of the Gaiwiio, the Longhouse religion. “The little known saga of the traditionalist Seneca community at Tonawanda is told here in admirable style and with impeccable scholarship.” — Anthony F. C. Wallace Mohawks on the Nile: Natives Among the Canadian Voyageurs in Egypt, 1884-1885  Book Description: Mohawks on the Nile explores the absorbing history of sixty Aboriginal men who left their occupations in the Ottawa River timber industry to participate in a military expedition on the Nile River in 1884-1885. Chosen because of their outstanding skills as boatmen and river pilots, they formed part of the Canadian Voyageur Contingent, which transported British troops on a fleet of whaleboats through the Nile's treacherous cataracts in the hard campaigning of the Sudan War. Their objective was to reach Khartoum, capital of the Egyptian province of Sudan. Their mission was to save its governor general, Major-General Charles Gordon, besieged by Muslim forces inspired by the call to liberate Sudan from foreign control by Muhammad Ahmad, better known to his followers as the "the Mahdi." In addition to Carl Benn's historical exploration of this remarkable subject, this book includes the memoirs of two Mohawk veterans of the campaign, Louis Jackson and James Deer, who recorded the details of their adventures upon returning to Canada in 1885. It also presents readers with additional period documents, maps, historical images, and other materials to enhance appreciation of this unusual story, including an annotated roll of the Mohawks who won praise for the exceptional quality of their work in this legendary campaign in the chronicle of Britain's expansion into Africa. The People of the Standing Stone: The Oneida Nation from the Revolution through the Era of Removal  Book Description:Between 1765 and 1845, the Oneida Indian Nation weathered a trio of traumas: war, dispossession, and division. During the American War of Independence, the Oneidas became the revolutionaries’ most important Indian allies. They undertook a difficult balancing act, helping the patriots while trying to avoid harming their Iroquois brethren. Despite the Oneidas’ wartime service, they were dispossessed of nearly all their lands through treaties with the state of New York. In eighty years the Oneidas had gone from being an autonomous, powerful people in their ancestral homeland to being residents of disparate, politically exclusive reservation communities separated by up to nine hundred miles and completely surrounded by non-Indians. The Oneidas’ physical, political, and emotional division persists to this day. Even for those who stayed put, their world changed more in cultural, ecological, and demographic terms than at any time before or since. Oneidas of the post-Revolutionary decades were reluctant pioneers, undertaking more of the adaptations to colonized life than any other generation. Amid such wrenching change, maintaining continuity was itself a creative challenge. The story of that extraordinary endurance lies at the heart of this book. A Nation within a Nation: Voices of the Oneidas in Wisconsin  Book Description: "A Nation within a Nation" gathers first-person accounts, biographical essays, and scholars' investigations focusing on the period of 1900-1969. In the wake of removal from their native New York, the Oneida people settled near what is now Green Bay, on 65,000 acres of commonly held land. But in 1887, the Dawes Act paved the way for a devastating break-up of the reservation, and within a lifetime the Oneidas saw their land holdings plummet to less than 200 acres. Throughout struggles with poverty, oppression, and government interference and assimilationism, Wisconsin Oneidas remained connected as a community and true to their Iroquois roots. They also refused to relinquish their dream of reclaiming their land, and in recent years have not only stopped the land-loss, but have begun to reverse it. Editors L. Gordon McLester III and Laurence M. Hauptman show how Wisconsin Oneida leadership has helped to shape history, for Native Americans, Wisconsin and the United States. A story of survival and of the Native American quest for recognition of sovereignty, "A Nation within a Nation" is community history at its best. The Edge of the Woods: Iroquoia, 1534-1701  Book Description:Drawing on archival and published documents in several languages, archaeological data, and Iroquois oral traditions, "The Edge of the Woods" explores the ways in which spatial mobility represented the geographic expression of Iroquois social, political, and economic priorities. By reconstructing the late precolonial Iroquois settlement landscape and the paths of human mobility that constructed and sustained it, Jon Parmenter challenges the persistent association between Iroquois locality and Iroquois culture, and more fully maps the extended terrain of physical presence and social activity that Iroquois people inhabited. Studying patterns of movement through and between the multiple localities in Iroquois space, the book offers a new understanding of Iroquois peoplehood during this period. According to Parmenter, Iroquois identities adapted, and even strengthened, as the very shape of Iroquois homelands changed dramatically during the seventeenth century. B/W illustrations, 7x10, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Painting the Past with a Broad Brush: Papers in Honour of James Valliere Wright 
From the Inside Flap:For over 50 years, J. V. Wright was a ground-breaking leader and inspiring mentor for the Canadian archaeological profession. Painting the Past with a Broad Brush brings together 23 scholarly articles on various aspects of Canada's ancient past that pay tribute to and reflect J. V. Wright's diverse geographic and cultural interests in relation to Canadian archeology and prehistory. This exceptional volume includes an annotated bibliography of J. V. Wright's works. From the Back Cover: The archaeological career of James Valliere Wright spanned more than five decades. His contributions to archaeological knowledge are legion - as a field investigator, an archaeological synthesizer, and significantly, as a key player in the development of archaeology in Canada. He is best known for his regional overviews and analytical models, notably the Laurel Tradition, the Shield Archaic and the Ontario Iroquois Tradition. His last major project, A History of the Native People of Canada (Volume 3; Part 2, unfinished at the time of his death)was aimed at a general audience, but is also widely consulted and cited by archaeologists across the country. The Seneca Restoration, 1715-1754: An Iroquois Local Political Economy  Book Description:By combining archaeological data grounded in the material culture of the Seneca Townley-Read site with historical documents, Jordan answers larger questions about the Seneca's cultural sustainability and durability in an era of intense colonial pressures. He offers a detailed reconstruction of daily life in the Seneca community and demonstrates that they were extremely selective about which aspects of European material culture, plant and animal species, and lifeways they allowed into their territory. "Elegantly demolishes the prevailing scholarly view that Seneca culture suffered a gradual cultural decline during the eighteenth century. Jordan has combined archaeology and history to provide us with a new and compelling picture of the Seneca."--William Engelbrecht, Buffalo State College "Jordan's archaeological approach to the eighteenth-century Native American settlement patterns is original and creative. It sets a promising new standard for interdisciplinary investigations of the potential complexity underlying domestic and settlement choices."--Martha L. Sempowski, Rochester Museum and Science Center and Seneca Archaeology Research Project The Iroquois confederacy, one of the most influential Native American groups encountered by early European settlers, is commonly perceived as having plunged into a steep decline in the late seventeenth century due to colonial encroachment into the Great Lakes region. Kurt Jordan challenges long-standing interpretations that depict the Iroquois as defeated, colonized peoples by demonstrating that an important nation of that confederacy, the Senecas, maintained an impressive political and economic autonomy and resisted colonialism with a high degree of success. By combining archaeological data grounded in the material culture of the Seneca Townley-Read site with historical documents, Jordan answers larger questions about the Seneca's cultural sustainability and durability in an era of intense colonial pressures. He offers a detailed reconstruction of daily life in the Seneca community and demonstrates that they were extremely selective about which aspects of European material culture, plant and animal species, and lifeways they allowed into their territory.
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