Seneca Possessed: Indians, Witchcraft, and Power in the Early American Republic

by Matthew Dennis

Book Overview

Seneca Possessed examines the ordeal of a Native people in the wake of the American Revolution. As part of the once-formidable Iroquois Six Nations in western New York, Senecas occupied a significant if ambivalent place within the newly established United States. They found themselves the object of missionaries' conversion efforts while also confronting land speculators, poachers, squatters, timber-cutters, and officials from state and federal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812221990
• ISBN13: 9780812221992
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"