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A vividly drawn portrait of the powerful Iroquois region during colonial America
Within the fourth title in The Penguin Collection of North american Indian Background, Timothy J. Shannon says the story of the most influential Native American confederacy of the colonial era. The Iroquois occupied a strategic region between Canada and New York and involved in productive trade and diplomacy using their colonial Dutch, French, and Uk neighbors. While they were famous as brutal warriors, it was actually their intercultural diplomacy that accounted for the course and endurance of the power in early America.
By carefully maintaining their neutrality in the Anglo-French imperial wars in North America, they were able to state an unrivaled effect in colonial America at the same time when other Indian countries experienced dispossession and dispersal. Europeans who wanted to remain in the good graces of the Iroquois was required to learn the ceremonies and the use of sacred objects that their diplomacy entailed. Shannon?s portrayal contradicts the notion of the ?noble savage,? showing just how politically savvy?and at times treacherous?the Iroquois Region was in the face of colonialism.
