Hale presents the ancient ritual chanted when the Iroquois League mourned a dead chief and raised up his successor, with the Mohawk and Onondaga texts and his English translation. His long introduction describes the Huron-Iroquois nations, the founding of the League by Hiawatha and Dekanawidah, its clans and laws, and the languages themselves.
A foundational record of Haudenosaunee tradition and a landmark of nineteenth-century ethnology. Download the free EPUB.