Title Page : p. 127 IROQUOIAN COSMOLOGY FIRST PART BY J. N. B. HEWITT From The Twenty-First Annual Report Of The Bureau Of American Ethnology, 1899-1900 Washington D.C., Government Printing Office [1903] Scanned , June 2004. John Bruno Hare, Redactor. This Text Is In The Public Domain. These Files May Be Used...
An Onondaga Version : p. 141 AN ONONDAGA VERSION THE MANNER IN WHICH IT ESTABLISHED ITSELF, IN WHICH IT FORMED ITSELF, IN WHICH, IN ANCIENT TIME, IT CAME ABOUT THAT THE EARTH BECAME EXTANT He who was my grandfather was wont to relate that, verily, he had heard the legend as it was customarily told by five generations...
A Mohawk Version : p. 255 A MOHAWK VERSION In the regions above there dwelt man-beings who knew not what it is to see one weep, nor what it is for one to die; sorrow and death were thus unknown to them. And the lodges belonging to them, to each of the ohwachiras a [families], were large, and very long, because each...
A Seneca Version : p. 221 A SENECA VERSION There were, it seems, so it is said, man-beings dwelling on the other side of the sky. So, just in the center of their village the lodge of the chief stood, wherein lived his family, consisting of his spouse and one child, a girl, that they two had. He was surprised th...
Introduction : p. 133 IROQUOIAN COSMOLOGY FIRST PART BY J. N. B. HEWITT INTRODUCTION The term Iroquoian is derived from the name Iroquois, which, adapted from the Algonquian Indian language by the early French explorers, was applied originally to a group of five tribes then united in a permanent confederacy...
