Technologies of resistance : Handsome Lake and Seneca responses to land alienation and Quaker missions, 2012
This thesis explores the connections between land alienation, colonialism and religious renewal in the life and teachings of Seneca religious leader Handsome Lake. In 1799, shortly after the arrival of three Quaker Missionaries at the Allegheny settlement of the Seneca Nation, Handsome Lake began to receive visions from the Great Spirit which reaffirmed traditional Seneca cosmology while integrating certain Christian elements. These visions also outlined a new way in which the Seneca ought to live, embodied in the Gaiwiio or “Good Word,” which is still recited on Seneca Reservations every y...
Tell the Truth! Here It Is!! Maria B. Halpin’s Statement!!! by Maria Halpin
A rare broadside relating to President Grover Cleveland’s infamous smear campaign against Maria Halpin, a Buffalo woman he raped and impregnated; this publication vindicates the side of Halpin.
Linguistic notes, lists of words; etymology of the name of the League "The people of the longhouse." Iroquois loan words in Algonquin; place names; personal names- Susquehanna; Onondaga adverbs and particles; notes- Mrs Jones, 1925- Onondaga; classification of Iroquoian languages; Seneca vocabulary. Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution