Richter examines a wide range of primary documents to survey the
responses of the peoples of the Iroquois League--the Mohawks, Oneidas,
Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras--to the challenges of the
European colonialization of North America. He demonstrates that by the
early eighteenth century a series of creative adaptations in politics
and diplomacy allowed the peoples of the Longhouse to preserve their
cultural autonomy in a land now dominated by foreign powers.