Collected from tradition and attributed to the Seneca chief Cornplanter, these legends tell how the Iroquois Confederacy was formed, how the arbutus was born, how corn came to the people and how the first winter fell. Speeches, councils and animal tales show the oral world of the Six Nations.
An approachable collection of Haudenosaunee lore, written with sympathy if in the idiom of 1902. Download the free EPUB.