OF THE HO-DE'-NO-SAU-NEE OR IROQUOIS BY LEWIS H. MORGAN NESCIT VOX MISSA REVERTI HORACE De Art. Poet., v. 390 A NEW EDITION, WITH ADDITIONAL MATTER. EDITED AND ANNOTATED BY HERBERT M. LLOYD VOLUME I NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY ΤΟ HÄ-SA-NO-AN'-DA (ELY S. PARKER) A SENECA INDIAN, This Work, THE MATERIALS OF WHICH ARE THE FRUIT OF OUR JOINT RESEARCHES, Is Inscribed: IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE OBLIGATIONS, AND IN TESTIMONY OF THE FRIENDSHIP OF THE AUTHOR T Preface O encourage a kinder feeling towards the Indian,(3) founded upon a truer knowledge of his civil and domestic institutions, and of his capabilities for future elevation, is the motive in which this work originated. The present Iroquois, the descendants of that gifted race which formerly held under their jurisdiction the fairest portions of our Republic, now dwell within our limits as dependent nations, subject to the tutelage and supervision of the people who displaced their fathers. Their numbers, the circumstances of their past history and present condition, and more especially the relation in which they stand to the people of the State, suggest many important questions concerning their future destiny. Born to an unpropitious fate, the inheritors of many wrongs, they have been unable, of themselves, to escape from the complicated difficulties which accelerate their decline. To aggravate these adverse influences, |