Writing against readers who would ask who cares about Indians, Johnson sets out to show the Iroquois sympathetically: their national traits, the Long House government of the League, family life, religion and customs. Her defence is sincere but framed by the racial assumptions of the 1850s, including talk of Anglo-Saxon superiority.
An early sympathetic portrait of the Six Nations, valuable as a record of mid-century attitudes. Download the free EPUB.