Origins of the Iroquois League

Wonderley, Anthony; Sempowski, Martha L.

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“…Only scientific communities seem to have the objective knowledge to do so. A cultural-historical archaeology approach dismisses ancestral knowledge and oral traditions as having no scientific value and favors material cultural remains (Meloche et al 2020;Nicholas 2008Nicholas , 2010Nicholas , 2021Wonderley and Sempowski 2019). A Western archaeological approach relying on "scientific objectivity" does not help understand the past and has mostly served to divide past and present populations by claiming that current populations are not biologically related to those of the past-as in the case of the Ancient One (also known as Kennewick Man; Kakaliouras 2019), or of the Iroquoians of the St. Lawrence Valley (Wonderley and Sempowski 2019).…”

Section: Scientific Objectivity Versus Indigenous Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

And Still, Ancestors Remain Out of Their Graves: Reflections on Past, Present, and Future Bioarchaeological Practices while Building an Indigenous Cultural Heritage Database in Quebec

Martin-Moya,

Zachary-Deom,

Nolet

et al. 2023

Am. Antiq.

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This article addresses past and present bioarchaeological practices and human remains management in Quebec; it focuses on the challenges of creating a bioarchaeological database during a two-phase project initiated in 2018–2019 by the Kahnawake Mohawk Council. Its goal was to help Indigenous communities engaged in repatriation and rematriation procedures. Key information regarding human remains’ current location from the 2018 database served as the basis for a second phase in 2021. Of a total of 345 archaeological sites, storage location could only be confirmed for 35% of 228 Indigenous sites compared to 70% of 77 Euro-Canadian sites. Because Ancestors are the legal property of the finder, the landowner, or both, this missing information poses additional challenges to those wishing to initiate repatriation and rematriation claims. Years of non-Indigenous legal and scientific control created layers of colonial assessments. Current populations must rely on archaeological finds to assess whether they are Ancestors’ “legitimate next-of-kin.” In the meantime, Ancestors remain stored. We show how these problems stem from Quebec's colonial archaeological practices and legal frameworks. We then draw on reciprocity-based archaeology to suggest new ways of taking care of Ancestors that respect Indigenous communities’ beliefs and that involve Indigenous communities in caring for their Ancestors.

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Section: Scientific Objectivity Versus Indigenous Knowledgementioning

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And Still, Ancestors Remain Out of Their Graves: Reflections on Past, Present, and Future Bioarchaeological Practices while Building an Indigenous Cultural Heritage Database in Quebec

Martin-Moya,

Zachary-Deom,

Nolet

et al. 2023

Am. Antiq.

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“…The Haudenosaunee confederacy emerged in the context of endemic warfare among its members. The founding mythology for the confederacy describes the circumstances of the League's founding whereby the culture hero Deganawidah (the Peacemaker) travelled to each Nation bringing the message of peace and the mechanisms for ensuring it (Wonderley and Sempowski, 2019). Non-aggression pacts included protocols for ceremony and reparations if violence broke out amongst members.…”

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Premodern Confederacies: Balancing Strategic Collective Action and Local Autonomy

Birch

2022

Front. Polit. Sci.

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A confederacy is generally understood to be a formal, institutionalized alliance of peoples who act in mutual support to achieve common ends. While the emergence and maintenance of early and pre-modern states have received tremendous scholarly attention in the social sciences, the same cannot be said for confederations. This paper examines common features of premodern confederacies as an initial effort towards developing a body of theory aimed at exploring and explaining confederacies, leagues, and other modes of collective and regional governance. The central thesis posed is that confederation was an ongoing political process that provided a means for a diverse range of political formations to achieve collective strategic goals at a distance without sacrificing autonomy. Selected case studies ranging from Pre-Columbian North America to Medieval Europe are explored to evaluate this position. The case studies show that confederacies were capable of integrating a diverse range of political formations, from tribes to kingdoms. The question of whether or not confederacies constitute ‘good government’ is considered and since the objective of a confederacy is generally not to govern, the answer depends on the political organization of its constituent parts.

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Lacrosse in the Economic and Social Life of the Kanien’kehá:ka Community of Kahnawà:ke in the Late Nineteenth Century

Reid

2024

Ethnohistory

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During the second half of the nineteenth century, the Kanien’kehá:ka community of Kahnawà:ke was strained by several intersecting economic, social, and political tensions. Drawing on recent scholarship and a variety of primary source materials, this article examines these tensions and considers lacrosse as a source of economic opportunity and social capital that enabled Kahnawa’kehró:non to cope with these strains and maintain the economic and social fabric of their community.

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Origins of the Iroquois League

Cited by 5 publications

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And Still, Ancestors Remain Out of Their Graves: Reflections on Past, Present, and Future Bioarchaeological Practices while Building an Indigenous Cultural Heritage Database in Quebec

And Still, Ancestors Remain Out of Their Graves: Reflections on Past, Present, and Future Bioarchaeological Practices while Building an Indigenous Cultural Heritage Database in Quebec

Premodern Confederacies: Balancing Strategic Collective Action and Local Autonomy

Lacrosse in the Economic and Social Life of the Kanien’kehá:ka Community of Kahnawà:ke in the Late Nineteenth Century

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