Iroquois Book of Rites and Hale on the Iroquois

From the PREFACE: The chief value of the Book of Rites, is ethnological, and isfound in the light which it casts on the political and social life, aswell as on the character and capacity of the people to whom itbelongs. We see in them many of the traits which Tacitus discerned in ur ancestors of the German forests, along with some qualities of ahigher cast than any that he has delineated. The love of peace, thesentiment of human brotherhood, the strong social and domesticaffections, the respect for law, and the reverence for ancestralgreatness, which are apparent in this Indian record and in thehistorical events which illustrate it, will strike most readers as newand unexpected developments. CONTENTS: CHAPTER I. THE HURON-IROQUOIS NATIONSCHAPTER II. THE LEAGUE AND ITS FOUNDERSCHAPTER III. THE BOOK OF RITESCHAPTER IV. THE CONDOLING COUNCIL.—CLANS AND CLASSESCHAPTER V. THE CONDOLENCE AND THE INSTALLATIONCHAPTER VI. THE LAWS OF THE LEAGUECHAPTER VII. HISTORICAL TRADITIONSCHAPTER VIII. THE IROQUOIS CHARACTERCHAPTER IX. THE IROQUOIS POLICYCHAPTER X. THE IROQUOIS LANGUAGENOTES ON THE CANIENGA BOOKNOTES ON THE ONONDAGA BOOKAPPENDIXNOTE A.—Names of the Huron-Iroquois NationsNOTE B.—Meaning of Ohio, Ontario, Onontio, RawennitoNOTE C.—The Era of the ConfederacyNOTE D.—The Hiawatha MythsNOTE E.—The Iroquois TownsNOTE F.—The Pre-Aryan Race in Europe and AmericaGLOSSARYINDEX