Brian Joseph Gilley's A Longhouse Fragmented is a study of the Iroquois movements from their ancestral home, called the "Six Nations" in New York State, to Ohio where they became the Seneca of Sandusky, through migration to their eventual home in Oklahoma where they became the Seneca-Cayuga of Oklahoma. A Longhouse Fragmented: Ohio Iroquois Autonomy in the Nineteenth Century (Albany: State University of New York Press 2014). SIMON Lehigh University Brian Joseph Gilley. It is not just that they were all planners the Sellers family industrialists and Ed Bacon all believed in Philadelphia and believed it could take charge of its future.
In undertaking this review I was skeptical that the two books had much in common, but in fact they complement each other in surprising ways. Gregory Heller's treatment of Bacon is even-handed, offering perspective and analysis on both Bacon's achievement and flaws. Gilley wants to evidence the values and practices that held together the group of people under his focus, even while they were experiencing historical change.A Longhouse Fragmented: Ohio Iroquois Autonomy in the Nineteenth Century by Brian Joseph Gilley (review) A Longhouse Fragmented: Ohio Iroquois Autonomy in the Nineteenth Century by Brian Joseph Gilley.īook reviews of historians of technology and of regional economic development as well. The case of this people also offers an opportunity to study the continuities and adaptation of a community through time and space, against the pressures of colonizers and the challenge of distance. 1 As the title and cover suggest, the author's main argument is the continuing importance of the Longhouse, as a building and an institution, among the Sandusky Senecas, a signature feature of Iroquois culture.
There is a stake in this proposition because the Iroquois are an emblematic native group in the Eastern United States: the "Six Nations" being sometimes described as an influence on the federal institutions of the United States. This group, the author argues strongly, is part of the Iroquois culture, something that according to him has been denied to them by ehtnohistory until now. Gilley deals with a group of Native Americans of Ohio, the Sandusky Senecas, around the time of their removal to Indian Territory in 1831.
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