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NOTES ON THE IROQUOIS:
OR, CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE
STATISTICS, ABORIGINAL HISTORY, ANTIQUITIES AND GENERAL ETHNOLOGY
OF
WESTERN NEW-YORK.
By HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT,
Hon. Mem. of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries, Copenhagen; Hon. Mem.of the Royal Geographical Society of London; Vice-President of the AmericanEthnological Society at New-York; Member of the American Philosophical,of the American Antiquarian, and of the American Geological Societies;Hon. Mem. of the New-York Historical, of the Georgia Historical,and of the Rhode-Island Historical Societies,&c., &c., &c.
NEW-YORK:
BARTLETT & WELFORD,
ASTOR HOUSE.
1846.
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SENATE DOCUMENT, TWENTY-FOUR.
In giving a more permanent form to the original edition of this document, amore convenient reference title has been prefixed to it.
The aboriginal nation, whose statistics and history, past and present, arebrought into discussion in the following report, stand out prominently in the foregroundof our own history. They have sustained themselves, for more thanthree centuries and a half, against the intruding and progressive races of Europe.During the period of the planting of the colonies, their military exploits gavethem a name and a reputation which are coeval with Europe. These events areintermingled, more or less, with the history of each of the colonies, and impartto them much of their interest. But while we have made an extraordinary progressin population and resources, and gone far to build up a nationality, andcommenced a national literature, very little, if any, progress has been made inclearing up and narrowing the boundaries of historical mystery, which shroudthe Indian period prior to 1492. This forms, indeed, the true period ofAmerican Ethnology.
It was a desideratum in American statistics, that a complete census of one ofthese primary stocks, who had lived in our neighborhood all this time, and stillpreserved their nationality, should be taken. This task New-York executed in1845. It appeared desirable to the agent appointed to carry the act of the legislature,embracing this feature, into effect, that the opportunity should not be lostof making some notes of the kind here indicated; and it is in this feature,indeed, if any thing, in the report now presented, that it aspires to the characterof research, though it be intended only to shadow forth outlines to be filled uphereafter.
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MEMORANDUM OF PAPERS.
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