essay
Mohawk
Handbook of North American Indians. Northeast • 15 • Published In 1978 • Pages: 466-480 [dc]
By: Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), Tooker, Elisabeth.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document presents a history of the Mohawk Iroquois from the seventeenth to the late twentieth century (ca. 1970s). It deals with the location of various settlements within the United States and Canada, Mohawk relations with the French, English, and American governments, warfare, the fur trade, missionization, and the establishment of Iroquois reserves. The article concludes with a synonmy of names for the Mohawk, as well as a listing of Iroquois place names.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Settlement patterns
- External trade
- External relations
- Warfare
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Iroquois
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1994
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- variable
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mohawk ; United States and Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- William N. Fenton and Elisabeth Tooker
- GPO Stock no.: 047-000-00351-2
- Bibliography included as document no. 54
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77017162
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mohawk/Iroquois Indians