Haudenosaunee Territory
Historic and current Haudenosaunee territory. Accessed from native-land.ca
Books
The Rotinonshonni: a traditional Iroquoian history through the eyes of Teharonhia:wako and Sawiskera by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9780815610212Publication Date: 2013The book offers tellings of the Iroquois creation story, the origin of Iroquois clans, the law of peace, the European invasion, and the life of Handsome Lake.- The clay we are made of : Haudenosaunee land tenure on the Grand River byCall Number: CG H55 C53 2017Publication Date: 2017"If one seeks to understand Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) history, one must consider the history of Haudenosaunee land. For countless generations prior to European contact, land and territory informed Haudenosaunee thought and philosophy, and was a primary determinant of Haudenosaunee identity."
The Great Law and the Longhouse: a political history of the Iroquois Confederacy by Call Number: CG F46 G74 1998ISBN: 0806130032Publication Date: 1998- Reading the wampum : essays on Hodinöhsö:ni' visual code and epistemological recovery byCall Number: CG K45 R43 2014Publication Date: 2014
Kayanerenkó:wa: The Great Law of Peace by Call Number: H W55 K39 2018ISBN: 9780887558214Publication Date: 2018Several centuries ago, the five nations that would become the Haudenosaunee -- Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca -- were locked in generations-long cycles of bloodshed. When they established Kayanerenkó:wa, the Great Law of Peace, they not only resolved intractable coinflicts, but also shaped a system of law and government that would maintain peace for generations to come.- And Grandma said--Iroquois teachings: as passed down through the oral tradition byCall Number: CGB P67 A53 2008Publication Date: 2008
Mohawk interruptus: political life across the borders of settler states by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9780822376781Publication Date: 2014Like many Iroquois peoples, the Mohawk insist on the integrity of Haudenosaunee governance and refuse American or Canadian citizenship. Audra Simpson thinks through this politics of refusal, which stands in stark contrast to the politics of cultural recognition.
We share our matters = Teionkwakhashion tsi niionkwariho:ten : two centuries of writing and resistance at Six Nations of the Grand River by Call Number: CG M65 W4 2014ISBN: 9780887557675Publication Date: 2014-11-28Rick Monture's We Share Our Matters offers the first comprehensive portrait of how the Haudenosaunee of the Grand River region have expressed their long struggle for sovereignty in Canada.
Journal Articles
- "Fertile with Fine Talk": Ungoverned Tongues among Haudenosaunee Women and Their Neighbors byPublication Date: 2010This article discusses the outspoken, active voices that Haudenosaunee women had in governance during the fur trade.
- We are an independent nation': a history of Iroquois sovereignty byPublication Date: 1988
- Self-Destituent Power in Iroquois Diplomacy: Interpreting the 2020 Talks on the Tyendinaga Tracks byPublication Date: 2023Drawing on the transcripts of negotiations between Canadian officials and Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) warriors in Tyendinaga, this article examines how the Two Row Wampum's notion of alliance through separation played out in the 2020 rail blockade movement in support of the Wet'suwet'en people's fight against the Coastal GasLink pipelines. Central to the text is Kanien'kehá:ka warriors’ suggestion that, beyond relations with settlers, the Two Row Wampum applies to relations between and among Indigenous nations, clans, genders, and even nonhumans.
- Iroquois Use of Customary Haudenosaunee and United States Law in Opposing Removal byPublication Date: 2012The Iroquois drew on two systems of law, United States and indigenous, in order to make protests and claims for autonomy. They focused on whatever perception of the law they deemed best suited to the problems they faced, and they attempted to make the United States respect their laws
Video resources
Other resources
- A short introduction to the Two Row Wampum - Briarpatch Magazine"The Two Row Wampum is one of the oldest treaty relationships between the Onkwehonweh (original people) of Turtle Island (North America) and European immigrants. The treaty was made in 1613 between the Dutch and the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) as Dutch traders and settlers moved up the Hudson River into Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) territory."
- Haudenosaunee Country in MohawkMap of Haudenosaunee country, place and nation names in Mohawk (Kanien’kéha)
- Ukwehuwe / Haudenosaunee Languages U of T LibguideResources for learning Haudenosaunee languages and culture.