The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire - The Covenant Chain Confederation of Indian Tribes with English Colonies (Paperback)

Winner of the Distinguished Book Award of the Society of Colonial Wars

"A learned and lively new history of the Iroquois to 1744 . . . [that] stands by itself as a very important book. . . . [It] surely must now be the definitely history of the Iroquois in their era of triumph and the first stages of decline." —Ronald Sanders, author of Lost Tribes and Promised Lands

"[The] joint effort [of historians and anthropologists] to reconstruct the Indian past has produced not only a new definition of "frontier" but a major reinterpretation of early American history. The scholar who has done most to advance and popularize the "Indianization" of American history is Francis Jennings. . . . [He] has demonstrated once again that the American frontier was not a clear line between 'savagism' and 'civilization' but rather a wide zone of intercultural conflict, penetration, and cooperation." —James Axtell, author of The European and the Indian