A Voice from the Eastern Door
A Voice from the Eastern Door
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9: An important deputation of Sachems visited England for the purpose of presenting to Queen Anne in person the views of the Five Nations, on questions regarding the international relations between the English and French colonies, and other important matters of public policy. 1715: The Tuscaroras, driven from North Carolina, sought the protection of the Five Nations as being of a common origin and were admitted into the confederacy, which then became the “Six Nations”. 1749: Abbe Picquet established a small settlement of Christianized Iro...
Unlike most Indian Nations, whose history is generally little more than vague tradition, interesting to few but ethnologists and other scientists, the People of the Longhouse, Iroquois, or Six Nations (formerly Five Nations), as they are variously termed, possess a reliable history of respectable antiquity and of great interest, the main incidents of which have fortunately been preserved, partly by the traditions and historical wampum belts of the Nations, and partly by writers, especially the Hon. Cadwallader Colden, David Cusick, a Tuscarora...
