 The alliance or confederacy of the Five Nations was established, as near as can be conjectured, one age (or the length of a man's life) before the white people (the Dutch) came into the country. Thannawage was the name of the aged Indian, a Mohawk, who...  Bulletin of the New York State Museum - Page 1481905Full view - About this book
 | American Philosophical Society. Historical & Literary Committee - Delaware Indians - 1819 - 534 pages
...manuscript book, page 234, say»: " The alliance or confederacy of the Five Nations was establish. " ed, as near as can be conjectured, one age (or the length...the white people (the Dutch) came into the country. .' Thannatvage was the name of the aged Indian, a Mohawk, who first "proposed sucb an alliance." He... | |
 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - Indians of North America - 1847 - 590 pages
...conjectures he could form, from information derived from the Mohawks, that the alliance took place " one age, or the length of a man's life, before the white people came into the country."* He gives the following as the names of the sachems of the Five Nations, who... | |
 | Alfred Billings Street - American poetry - 1849 - 350 pages
...conjectures he could form, from information derived from the Mohawks, that the Alliance took place ' one age ' or the length of a man's life, before the White people came into the country. Taking 1609, the era of the Dutch discovery, and estimating ' a man's life '... | |
 | John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder - Algonquians - 1876 - 482 pages
...considered as cowards if . - • 1 The Rev. C. Pyrlieus, in, his manuscript book, page 234, says : " The alliance or confederacy of the Five Nations was...established, as near as can be conjectured, one age (ir the length of a man's life) before the white people (the Dutch) came into the country. Thannawage... | |
 | John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder - Social Science - 1876 - 478 pages
...afraid of being considered as cowards if 1 The Rev. C. Pyrlaeus, in his manuscript book, page 234, says: "The alliance or confederacy of the Five Nations was established, as near as can he conjectured, one age (nr the length of a man's life) before the white people (the Dutch) came into... | |
 | Bibliography - 1881 - 462 pages
...of being considered as cowards if 1 The Rev. C. Pyrbeus, in his manuscript book, page 234, says : " The alliance or confederacy of the Five Nations was...the white people (the Dutch) came into the country. Thannawage was the name of the aged Indian, a Mohawk, who first proposed such an alliance." He then... | |
 | Folklore - 1891 - 206 pages
...confederacy, which was proposed by Thannawage, an old Mohawk chief. He learned that it was formed " one age, or the length of a man's life, before the white people came into the country," which 1 Miner's History of Wyoming, p. 24. * Konoshioni, or Canassione, the... | |
 | William Martin Beauchamp - Indians - 1891 - 182 pages
...According to Pyrlseus, the confederacy was first proposed by Thannawage, an old Mohawk chief, and formed "one age, or the length of a man's life, before the white people came into the country," which seems too early. His other statement, that the alliance was made about... | |
 | Iroquois Indians - 1905 - 388 pages
...said of what Champlain, Charlevoix, Perrot, the Jesuits and others wrote, nor were Albert Gallatiu's sober conclusions mentioned. Tradition and the varying...whether he was right. Shakspere gives seven ages to one man's life. Did the age of Pyrlaeus mean one man's life, or the generation of about 30 years? What... | |
 | Peter René Lavoy, Scott Douglas Sagan, James J. Wirtz - History - 2000 - 592 pages
...associate Hiawatha. Pyrlaeus's successor, John Heckewelder, quoted from Pyrlaeus's manuscript in 1819: "The alliance or confederacy of the Five Nations was...the white people (the Dutch) came into the country. Thannawage [Hiawatha?] was the name of the aged Indian, a Mohawk, who first proposed such an alliance."13... | |
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