Corey Village and the Cayuga World

Implications from Archaeology and Beyond

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Pub Date Sep 15 2015 | Archive Date Jul 14 2015

Description

The Cayuga are one of the original five nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, a powerful alliance of Native American tribes in the Northeast, inhabiting much of the land in what is now central New York State. When their nation was destroyed in the Sullivan–Clinton campaign of 1779, the Cayuga endured 200 years of displacement. As a result, relatively little is known about the location, organization, or ambience of their ancestral villages. Perched on a triangular finger of land against steep cliffs, the sixteenth-century village of Corey represents a rare source of knowledge about the Cayuga past, transforming our understanding of how this nation lived.

The Cayuga are one of the original five nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, a powerful alliance of Native American tribes in the Northeast, inhabiting much of the land in what is now central...


A Note From the Publisher

Jack Rossen is professor in the Department of Anthropology at Ithaca College.

Jack Rossen is professor in the Department of Anthropology at Ithaca College.


Advance Praise

"A richly informative historical account of the thriving Cayuga world through the perspective of the Corey site, a dynamic sixteenth- century village on the eve of European contact. This study fills a void as it is the first book published on Cayuga archaeology."—Jordan E. Kerber, professor of anthropology and Native American studies, Colgate University

"Rossen well situates the political impact of archaeological research on contemporary indigenous communities and realizes a model for changing the relations between scholars and the descendants of the people who lived in the sites they dig."—Kurt Jordan, associate professor of anthropology and American Indian studies, Cornell University

"A richly informative historical account of the thriving Cayuga world through the perspective of the Corey site, a dynamic sixteenth- century village on the eve of European contact. This study fills...


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