From World War II onward, the Iroquois, one of the largest groups
of Native Americans in North America, have confronted a series of
crises threatening their continued existence. From the New
York-Pennsylvania border, where the Army Corps of Engineers
engulfed a vast tract of Seneca homeland with the Kinzua Dam, from
the ambition of Robert Moses and the New York State Power Authority
to develop the hydroelectric power of the Niagara Frontier (which
eroded the land base of the Tuscaroras), from the construction of
the Saint Lawrence Seaway (which took land from the Mohawks and
still affects their fishing industry), to the present-day battles
over the Oneida land claims in New York State and the Onondaga
efforts to repatriate their wampum-Laurence Hauptman documents the
bitter struggles of proud people to maintain their independence and
strength in the modern world. Out of these battles came a renewed
sense of Iroquois nationalism and nationwide Iroquois leadership in
American Indian politics. Hauptman examines events leading to the
emergence of the contemporary Iroquois, concluding with the
takeover at Wounded Knee in the winter-spring of 1973 and the
Supreme Court's Oneida decision in 1974. His research is based on
historical documents, published materials, and interviews and
fieldwork in every Iroquois community in the United States and
several in Canada.
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