 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - Indians of North America - 1847 - 590 pages
...one of equal interest and obscurity, and would justify a more extended inquiry than is here given. Chronology finds its most difficult tasks in establishing...the Five Nations, who met and formed the alliance: Toganawita, for the Mohawks; Otatschechta, for the Oneidas; Tatotarho, for the Onondagas; Togahayon,... | |
 | Alfred Billings Street - American poetry - 1849 - 350 pages
...Fort Hunter, writing between 1742 and 1748, states," says Schoolcraft in his Notes on the Iroquois, " as the result of the best conjectures he could form,...life, before the White people came into the country. Taking 1609, the era of the Dutch discovery, and estimating ' a man's life ' by the patriarchal and... | |
 | Edward Manning Ruttenber - Social Science - 1872 - 436 pages
...be ascertained. Pyrlaus, a missionary among the Mohawks, states as the result of his investigations, that the alliance took place " one age, or the length...life, before the white people came into the country." Another writer fixes the date at 1414 ; while a third confirms the statement of Pyrlaus.2 Whatever... | |
 | Bibliography - 1881 - 462 pages
...: " The alliance or confederacy of the Five Nations was established, as near as can be conjectured, one age (or the length of a man's life) before the white people (the Dutch) came into the country. Thannawage was the name of the aged Indian, a Mohawk, who first... | |
 | William Martin Beauchamp - Indians - 1891 - 182 pages
...According to Pyrlseus, the confederacy was first proposed by Thannawage, an old Mohawk chief, and formed "one age, or the length of a man's life, before the white people came into the country," which seems too early. His other statement, that the alliance was made about one hundred years before... | |
 | Folklore - 1891 - 206 pages
...confederacy, which was proposed by Thannawage, an old Mohawk chief. He learned that it was formed " one age, or the length of a man's life, before the white people came into the country," which 1 Miner's History of Wyoming, p. 24. * Konoshioni, or Canassione, the Long House or Five Nations.... | |
 | 1905 - 388 pages
...: " The alliance or confederacy of the Five Nations was established, as near as can be conjectured, one age (or the length of a man's life) before the white people (the Dutch) came into the country." The words in parentheses are Heckewelder's, and the question may... | |
 | Iroquois Indians - 1905 - 388 pages
...: " The alliance or confederacy of the Five Nations was established, as near as can be conjectured, one age (or the length of a man's life) before the white people (the Dutch) came into the country." The words in parentheses are Heckewelder's, and the question may... | |
 | Peter René Lavoy, Scott Douglas Sagan, James J. Wirtz - History - 2000 - 592 pages
...1819: "The alliance or confederacy of the Five Nations was established, as near as can be conjectured, one age (or the length of a man's life) before the white people (the Dutch) came into the country. Thannawage [Hiawatha?] was the name of the aged Indian, a Mohawk,... | |
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The alliance or confederacy of the Five Nations was established, as near as can be conjectured, one age (or the length of a man's life) before the white people (the Dutch) came into the country. 
