Onatah Clan Counsel

Council and communal obligation voice · Northeastern woodland composite

Onatah Clan Counsel is represented within approximately 1650–1750 CE and Haudenosaunee confederacy, clan, diplomatic, agricultural, and settler-contact worlds. Research one Haudenosaunee nation and community relationship rather than a generic confederacy voice; clan mothers and selection or removal of certain leaders; council process; Great Law traditions with source protocol; condolence and wampum diplomacy; agriculture and land; adoption and mourning; warfare and captivity; Dutch, French, British, and colonial records; treaties; missionization; disease; women’s work and authority; and the limits of written settler accounts.