Wars of the Iroquois
A Study in Intertribal Trade Relations
George T. Hunt
University of Wisconsin Press, 1960
Back in print.
George T. Hunt’s classic 1940 study of the Iroquois during the middle and late seventeenth century presents warfare as a result of depletion of natural resources in the Iroquois homeland and tribal efforts to assume the role of middlemen in the fur trade between the Indians to the west and the Europeans.
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