The old New York frontier : its wars with Indians and Tories, its missionary schools, pioneers, and land titles, 1614-1800 . r villages were essentially impregnable. Anoverwhelming force alone could enter them ; artil-lery alone could destroy them. It was virtually anempire that they reared, and this empire of thesword, like the Empire of Rome, meant peace with-in its borders. Before the Europeans came, therehad, unquestionably, for some generations, beenpeace among them. It was an ideal and an idyllicstate of aboriginal life, all of which was to be over-thrown by the white man when he arrived
The old New York frontier : its wars with Indians and Tories, its missionary schools, pioneers, and land titles, 1614-1800 . r villages were essentially impregnable. Anoverwhelming force alone could enter them ; artil-lery alone could destroy them. It was virtually anempire that they reared, and this empire of thesword, like the Empire of Rome, meant peace with-in its borders. Before the Europeans came, therehad, unquestionably, for some generations, beenpeace among them. It was an ideal and an idyllicstate of aboriginal life, all of which was to be over-thrown by the white man when he arrived, bearingin one hand fire-arms, and in the other fire-water. The period for which the province of New Yorkhad been occupied by the Iroquois,:!: or Five Na-tions, at the time of the Dutch discovery, is notknown. Morgan -f cites circumstances which show * The origin of this word has been long discussed. Horatio Hale re-fers it to a native Huron word, ierokwa, indicating those who smoke. t Lewis H. Morgan, author of The League of the Iroquois, thebest of all books relating to the institutions and customs of that people,12. AN IROQUOIS FORT (Believed to have stood on the shore of Onondaga Lake. Besieged by Champlain in 1615.) IROQUOIS AND SUSQUEHANNA that the Iroquois League had existed for about acentury when the Dutch landed, thus carrying itsformation back almost to the coming of tradition pointed to a much older date, butIndian tradition is a very uncertain guide for know that before the League was formed, theIroquois had long been in possession of these NewYork lands. They came originally from the Valley and had lived near the site ofMontreal, at which point some of their descendantsnow reside. But when their first migration intoCentral New York took place, we do not nations originally composed the League, theMohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, andSenecas; but the Tuscaroras, who had long livedin North Carolina, early in the eig
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