Abler, Thomas S.. Seneca

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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records Abler, Thomas S. Tooker, Elisabeth

Title: Seneca

Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph Handbook of North American Indians. Northeast. Vol. 15, edited by Bruce G. Trigger

Published By: Original publisher Handbook of North American Indians. Northeast. Vol. 15, edited by Bruce G. Trigger Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. 1978. 505-517 p. [dc] maps

By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication Thomas S. Abler and Elisabeth Tooker

HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.: Human Relations Area Files, 1996. Computer File

Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis. Iroquois (NM09)

Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF Settlement patterns (361); Acquisition and relinquishment of property (425); Ingroup antagonisms (578); External relations (648); Warfare (726); Missions (797);

Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document This is an historical survey of the Seneca Iroquois from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The article deals with the traditional and modern (i.e., twentieth century) territory of the Seneca, their role in the American Revolution, the establishment of reservations, christian missions, and schools, Handsome Lake and his religious doctrines, loss of native lands, the Seneca Nation Revolution of 1848, land leases to non-Iroquois, the Longhouse Religion in the twentieth century, and Seneca relocations as the result of the building of the Kinzua Dam by the United State government.

Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents 49

Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits. nm09-049

Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs. Essay

Language: Language that the document is written in English

Note: GPO Stock no.: 047-000-00351-2 Bibliography included as document no. 54

Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document no date

Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is a ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data Ethnologist-4,5

Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection. John Beierle ; 1994

Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date). variable

Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site) Seneca, United States

LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings Seneca/Iroquois Indians