Book
Sovereignty and symbol: Indian-White conflict at Ganienkeh
University of New Mexico Press • Albuquerque, N.mex. • Published In 1988 • Pages:
By: Landsman, Gail H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In May 1974 a group of Mohawk Indians seized a 612 acre site in the Moss Lake region of upper New York State, which they named Ganienkeh, claiming it as a sovereign territory under a treaty agreement with the United States government made in the late eighteenth century. This document describes in great detail the events leading up to the seizure of the land and its aftermath (i.e., relationships with the white residents of the small hamlets surrounding the site and with the state and federal governments). After a lengthy period of negotiations with the New York State government, a precedent-setting agreement was made which provided for the resettlement of the Mohawks to another section of the state, near the town of Altona in Clinton County (p. ix), although here too they were met with hostility by the white residents.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Public opinion
- Real property
- Form and rules of government
- Public welfare
- Political movements
- 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
- Book
- 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.
- 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
- Dec. 1979 - Nov. 1980
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1974-1980
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mohawk ; Ganienkeh, Altona, and the Moss Lake region, New York State, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Gail H. Landsman
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-233) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87027365
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Iroquois Indians