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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The Two Row Wampum : historic fiction, modern reality

Muller, Kathryn V. 11 April 2018 (has links)
Contemporary Iroquois hail the Two Row Wampum as the grandfather of all treaties between Amerindians and Europeans, asserting the everlasting autonomy of each nation regarding their own beliefs, traditions and laws. However, early colonial written sources do not refer to any such agreement resembling the Two Row, despite their descriptive detail of Iroquois-European political proceedings. This thesis examines the contradiction between Iroquois oral tradition and European written documentation, illustrating how the Two Row appears to be a nineteenth century invention. Despite dubious historical origins, the Two Row nevertheless provides the guiding principles of peace and autonomy innately assumed by the Iroquois at contact. Today, as a mythic discourse of heroic proportions, the Two Row asserts the nationhood of the Iroquois who, threatened with extinction, struggle to maintain their cultural and political autonomy. / Les Iroquois contemporains considèrent le wampum à deux voies comme le plus ancien traité amérindien-européen, qui affirme l'autonomie politique de chaque nation. Les sources écrites de la période coloniale cependant, malgré leurs détails descriptifs des négociations politiques, ne mentionnent aucune entente de ce type. Ce mémoire démontre la contradiction entre la tradition orale iroquoise et les sources écrites européennes, et soutient l'hypothèse de l'invention du wampum à deux voies au cours du dix-neuvième siècle. Malgré ses origines historiques douteuses, le wampum à deux voies exprime les principes inhérents au contact : la paix et l'indépendance. Aujourd'hui, le mythe du wampum à deux voies sert à réclamer la préservation de l'identité nationale des Iroquois qui, menacés par l'extinction, luttent pour conserver leur autonomie culturelle et politique. / Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2014

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