Francis Jennings

The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire

Winner of the Distinguished Book Award of the Society of Colonial Wars

"A learned and lively new history of the Iroquois to 1744 . . . [that] stands by itself as a very important book. . . . [It] surely must now be the definitely history of the Iroquois in their era of triumph and the first stages of decline." —Ronald Sanders, author of Lost Tribes and Promised Lands

"[The] joint effort [of historians and anthropologists] to reconstruct the Indian past has produced not only a new definition of "frontier" but a major reinterpretation of early American history. The scholar who has done most to advance and popularize the "Indianization" of American history is Francis Jennings. . . . [He] has demonstrated once again that the American frontier was not a clear line between 'savagism' and 'civilization' but rather a wide zone of intercultural conflict, penetration, and cooperation." —James Axtell, author of The European and the Indian