Welcome to the home page for the book titled

A Friend Among the Senecas

The Quaker Mission to Cornplanter's People

Book and Page by

Dave Swatzler

Image of book cover, 75%

Dedication

Synopsis -- in only 300 words

Author's Plug

Outline of Chapters -- Short Version

Outline of Chapters -- Long Version

Protagonists/ Antagonists

Links to Related (and unrelated) Pages

Buy This Book

Please leave comments in Guest Book


Published by Stackpole Books

Acquisition Editor: Kyle Weaver

Production Editor: Amy Cooper

Copyright © 2000 by David G. Swatzler









Keywords:

Allegany Senecas, Seneca Indians, Seneca nation, Allegany Reservation, Seneca land loss,

Cornplanter's reasons for seeking out the Quakers,

Cornplanter, Cornplanter x, Handsome Lake 1, Handsome Lake, Handsome Lake x, Henry Simmons, Henry Simmons x, Halliday Jackson, Joel Swayne, Joseph Brant, Red Jacket, Timothy Pickering, Sir William Johnson, Robert Morris

Quaker mission 1, Quaker mission 2, Quaker mission to the Allegany Senecas, Quaker missionaries' journals and correspondence 1, Quaker missionaries' journals and correspondence 2,

Religious Society of Friends 1, Religious Society of Friends 2, history and sectarian milieu of the Religious Society of Friends, Quaker milieu and motivation, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Indian Committee, inner light, immediate revelation, peace testimony, abolition, temperance, benevolence, Quaker marriage, Quaker family and school, discipline

Iroquois games 1, Iroquois games 2, lacrosse 1, bowl game, snow snake, little brother of war, lineage, clan, moiety

American Revolution 1,

Treaties 1, Treaty of Fort Stanwix, Treaty of Fort Harmar, Treaty of Canadaigua, Treaty of Big Tree

Cornplanter's Village, Erie Triangle,

Subsistence activities 1, subsistence activities 2, subsistence activities 3, Seneca subsistence cycle,

Seneca spiritual beliefs 1, Seneca religious observances, calendar of religious celebrations, religious festivals, Iroquois religious observances, Seneca Midwinter, Iroquois Midwinter, Thanks to the Maple, Corn Planting Ceremonial, Strawberry Festival, Green Corn, Harvest Feast, cult of dreams 1,

Indians and alcohol, alcohol 1, Indian temperance initiative 1, Indian temperance intiative 2,

Dances, sacred dances 1, feather dance, drum dance, war or brag dance 1, war dance, brag dance, feast for the dead

Medicine and healing, witchcraft, witchcraft fear 1,

Iroquois women, matron, clan mother, Iroquois constitution, role of women in the political structure and process, women's role,

Longhouse Religion, Handsome Lake's visions 1, Handsome Lake's visions 2, visions and themes of the prophet Handsome Lake, Code of Handsome Lake, sky journey, white dog sacrifice

Seneca history and culture, Seneca culture 1,

Seneca cultural values, conflicting cultural values 1, conflicting cultural values 2, Seneca struggle for cultural survival, cultural self-determination, American Indian cultural resistance

Simmons Journal 1, Simmons Journal 2, Simmons Journal 3, Simmons Journal 4, Simmons 1799 Journal 1, Simmons 1799 Journal 2,

Seneca factions, factionalism,

Quaker and Seneca agendas for the Allegany mission 1, Quaker and Seneca agendas for the Allegany mission 2,