The People of the Standing Stone: The Oneida Nation from Revolution through the Era of Removal

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197 Chapter 1. A Place and a People in a Time of Change 1. William A. Starna, “The Oneida Homeland in the Seventeenth Century,” in The Oneida Indian Experience: Two Perspectives, ed. Jack Campisi and Laurence M. Hauptman (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1988), 16–18; Anthony Wonderley , “An Oneida Community in 1780: Study of an Inventory of Iroquois Property Losses during the Revolutionary War,” Northeast Anthropology 56 (1998): 19–41; Margaret C. Rodman, “Empowering Place: Multilocality and Multivocality,” American Anthropologist 94 (1992): 640–57; Keith Basso, Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996); Anthony Wonderley, Oneida Iroquois Folklore, Myth, and History (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2004), 78, 80. 2. Charles A. Huguenin, “The Sacred Stone of the Oneidas,” New York Folklore Quarterly 8 (1957): 16–22; Wonderley, Oneida Iroquois Folklore, 1–14, 24–31; quotation by Shickellamy from James H. Merrell, Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998), 147. 3. J. N. B. Hewitt, Iroquoian Cosmology (1899–1900; 1925–26; repr., New York: AMS Press, 1974); John Mohawk, Iroquois Creation Story (Buffalo, N.Y.: Mohawk Books, 2005), 1; Barbara A. Mann, Iroquoian Women: The Gantowisas (New York: Peter Lang, 2000), 89–94; William Beauchamp, Aboriginal Place-Names in New York State (Albany: New York State Education Department, 1907), 44; David Cusick’s Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations (Lewiston, N.Y., 1828), 18; Wonderley, Oneida Iroquois Folklore, 67 (quotation), 70, 74, 94–101, 104–6. 4. Kurt Jordan, The Seneca Restoration, 1715–1754 (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008), 34–42; Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Notes on the Iroquois; or, Contributions to American History, Antiquities, and General Ethnology (Albany, N.Y.: Erastus H. Pease, 1847), 174–77; French visitors quoted in Alan S. Taylor, The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution (New York: Notes 198 Notes to Pages 4–8 Knopf, 2006), 35–36; Nathan Burchard, “Tioniunt; or, The Oneida Stone and the Remains of Indian Antiquities in Its Vicinity” (paper presented to the New-York Historical Society, Apr. 3, 1849), New-York Historical Society, 20, 26, 28 (“remains”), 30 (“admirably piled”), 31, 33 (“cellars”), 34, 37 (“astonished ploughman”); Richard Smith, A Tour of Four Great Rivers: The Hudson, Mohawk, Susquehanna, and Delaware in 1769, ed. Francis W. Halsey (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1906), liv. 5. William A. Starna, “Oneida Homeland,” 9–22; Starna, “Aboriginal Title and Traditional Iroquois Land Use: An Anthropological Perspective,” in Iroquois Land Claims, ed. Christopher Vecsey and Starna (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1988), 31–48; Lewis H. Morgan, League of the Ho-De-No Sau-Nee or Iroquois (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1901), 1:40–43; Franklin B. Hough, Proceedings of the Commissioners of Indian Affairs of the State of New York (Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell, 1861), 1:41; Beauchamp, Aboriginal Place-Names, 142, 168; “Journal of Warren Johnson,” in In Mohawk Country: Early Narratives about a Native People, ed. Dean R. Snow, Charles T. Gehring, and Starna (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1996), 261; Proceedings at a treaty held by Sir William Johnson with the Six Nations, Nov. 6, 1768, NYCD, 8:127. 6. George S. Snyderman, “Concepts of Land Ownership among the Iroquois and Their Neighbors,” in Symposium on Local Diversity in Iroquois Culture, ed. William N. Fenton (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1951), 13–34; William N. Fenton, “This Island, the World on the Turtle’s Back,” Journal of American Folklore 75 (1962): 298 (“whose faces”); Jeffrey J. Gordon, “Onondaga Iroquois Place-Names: An Approach to Historical and Contemporary Indian Landscape Perception,” Names 32 (1984): 231n1; Starna, “Aboriginal Title,” 34–37. 7. Schoolcraft, Notes, 71; Gordon, “Onondaga Iroquois,” 221; Burchard, “Tioniunt ,” 35. 8. Michael Recht, “The Role of Fishing in the Iroquois Economy, 1600–1792,” New York History 76 (1995): 5–30; Francis Adrian Vanderkemp, “Extracts from the Vanderkemp Letters from the Hudson to Lake Ontario in 1792,” Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society 2 (1880): 67. 9. James Smith, “An Account of the Remarkable Occurrences in the Life and Travels of Colonel James Smith . . . ,” in Indian Captivities; or, Life in the Wigwam, ed. Samuel G. Drake (Auburn, N.Y.: Derby and Miller, 1851; repr., New York: AMS Press, 1975), 198; Pickering, “Account of Losses Sustained by Oneida Indians,” TPP, 62:157–66A; Wonderley, “Oneida Community,” 25; Thomas...