During his last years ethnohistorian Frank G. Speck turned to the study of Iroquois ceremonialism. This 1950 book investigates the religious rites of the Cayuga tribe; one of six in the Iroquois confederation that occupied upstate New York until the American Revolution. In the 1930s and the 1940s Frank Speck observed the Midwinter Ceremony; the Cayuga thanksgiving for the blessings of life and health; performed in long houses on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario.
#444143 in Books University of Nebraska Press 2007-10-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.02 x 1.01 x 5.98l; 1.48 #File Name: 0803278314503 pages
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