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Seneca
Handbook of North American Indians. Northeast • 15 • Published In 1978 • Pages: 505-517 [dc]
By: Abler, Thomas S., Tooker, Elisabeth.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an historical survey of the Seneca Iroquois from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The article deals with the traditional and modern (i.e., twentieth century) territory of the Seneca, their role in the American Revolution, the establishment of reservations, christian missions, and schools, Handsome Lake and his religious doctrines, loss of native lands, the Seneca Nation Revolution of 1848, land leases to non-Iroquois, the Longhouse Religion in the twentieth century, and Seneca relocations as the result of the building of the Kinzua Dam by the United State government.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Settlement patterns
- Acquisition and relinquishment of property
- Ingroup antagonisms
- External relations
- Warfare
- Missions
- 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)
- Seneca, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Thomas S. Abler 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
- Seneca/Iroquois Indians