The Iroquois Book of Rites: An Anthropological Document

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The Iroquois Book of Rites is an important work on the rites of a Native American Tribe from the late 19th Century American Ethnologist who made many valuable contributions to the science of ethnology, particularly by his theory of the origin of the diversities of human languages and dialects. THE HURON-IROQUOIS NATIONS THE LEAGUE AND ITS FOUNDERS THE BOOK OF RITES THE CONDOLING COUNCIL.–CLANS AND CLASSES THE CONDOLENCE AND THE INSTALLATION THE LAWS OF THE LEAGUE HISTORICAL TRADITIONS THE IROQUOIS CHARACTER THE IROQUOIS POLICY THE IROQUOIS LANGUAGE THE BOOK OF RITES THE CANIENGA BOOK THE ONONDAGA BOOK NOTES ON THE CANIENGA BOOK NOTES ON THE ONONDAGA BOOK APPENDIX NOTE A.–Names of the Huron-Iroquois Nations NOTE B.–Meaning of _Ohio, Ontario, Onontio, Rawennito_ NOTE C.–The Era of the Confederacy NOTE D.–The Hiawatha Myths NOTE E.–The Iroquois Towns NOTE F.–The Pre-Aryan Race in Europe and America GLOSSARY