Deconstructing Jesuit Historiography and Reclaiming Haudenosaunee Internationalism

Jemilla D.

This fact sheet unpacks the use of colonial historical records by colonial authorities to legitimize imperial expansion and demonize the Haudenosaunee nations. It considers the history of Haudenosaunee governance and diplomacy, and how those systems continue into present Haudenosaunee sovereignty and anti-colonial resistance efforts.

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References

Stevens, Scott Manning. "The Historiography of New France and the Legacy of Iroquois Internationalism." Comparative American Studies: An International Journal 11, no. 2 (June 2013): 148–165. https://doi.org/10.1179/1477570013Z.00000000037

Source Authors

Scott Manning Stevens

Events

Keywords

Anti-colonial Resistance, Anti-Indigenous Propaganda, Collective Rights, Colonial Historiography, Colonial History, Council fires, Demonization, Erasure, Freedom of Mobility, Haudenosaunee, Haudenosaunee Identity, Haudenosaunee Internationalism, Haudenosaunee Sovereignty, Historiography, Imperial Expansion, Imperial Jurisdiction, Indigenous Resistance, Indigenous Sovereignty, International Diplomacy, International Law, Interrupting Colonial Narratives, Invention of "Iroqouoia", National Myth, Propaganda, Reapproprion of Colonial Narratives, Resistant Knowledge, Settler-state Borders, Sovereignty, The Covenant Chain, Wampum Diplomacy

Key Figures

Chief Deskaheh, David Cusick, Ely Parker, Jesuit order

Locations

Kahnawá:ke

Themes

Anti-Indigenous Racism, Colonialism, Historiography, History, Theory