Statesmen and Governmental-Interpersonal Relations: Warriors, Farmers and "False Faces": Haudenosaunee/Iroquois of the Eastern Woodlands

Dates: (optional, given extra time)

• Readings:

  • Oswalt 2006: 359-395

  • Gill: 14-16, 50-51(review)

• Lecture Handouts:

  • Iroquois False Faces

  • Iroquois Terms and Concepts

• Video:

  • Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Dance and Song) Intro., Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (Stick Dance) (YouTube clips)

  • Oren Lyons (Faith Keeper of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation and member of the Council of Chiefs; faculty member of the State University of New York - Buffalo), on importance of keeping the ceremonies and language, on the meaning of the "Seventh Generation" and Native American Prophecy , and on global warming and actions neededl (YouTube clips)

• Supplemental:

  • Iroquois Traditional Lands

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