Daniel K. Richter's The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1992, is a standard scholarly history examining Iroquois political and spiritual life through the upheavals of European contact and colonization. Its strength is that it is a peer-reviewed university press monograph that draws on Iroquois sources alongside colonial records and remains widely cited in early American and Native American history. Its limit is that its period of focus is the era of European colonization specifically, so a claim about earlier, pre-contact Iroquois religious practice needs a source addressing that earlier period.
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Daniel Richter's University of North Carolina Press scholarly history of the peoples of the Iroquois League during the era of European colonization. NotesScholarly history of the peoples of the Iroquois League during the era of European colonization.
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AuthorDaniel K. Richter
PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press
Publication Year1992
Source TypeBook (scholarly)
Claims Backed By This Source (43 claims)
This source backs 43 claims across the atlas. As facts: 20 well-attested. As cited relationships: 19 holds. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Cultures, 20 claims: 1 well-attested, 18 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Religions, 5 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Culture Groups, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
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