Identifier: ridpathsuniversa08ridp (find matches)
Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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IROQUOTS CHIEF NOT-A-WAT—TYPE. ers was carried to the extreme of mi-nuteness and localism. The early missionaries made their wayamong the Iroquois and found them-selves in the presence of _ x Efforts to con- these Superstitions. It Was vert the Iroquois.-, ., to Christianity, found almost impossible todisplace the Indian beliefs and to sub-stitute orthodox concepts therefor. Incourse of time many of the people of theSix Nations were converted, especially by
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NOR THERN ABORIGINES.—IROQ UOIS. 509 the French Jesuits; but the conversionextended only to an expedient substitu-tion of Christian phraseology for that ofthe natives. Heathenism thus gave placein part to the Christian embassy. At the present time the Six Nationshave fallen off to fewer than half theirPresent condi- original numbers. At theSSS, period of our Revolution pects of the Six ir Nations. they numbered eighteen thousand. At the present time the Mo-hawks number fewer than eight hun-dred ; the Oneidas, over six hundred;the Senecas, Onondagas, Cayugas, andTuscaroras, fewer than fifteen hundred.The Iroquois, in their settlements onGrand river, aggregate nearly threethousand, and this is their largest col-lection of tribes. Those of the race whosurvive have, in a large measure, adopt-ed the manners and institutions of theWhites. Their language has been re-duced to literary form; schools havebeen instituted, and the Protestant andCatholic forms of worship adopted bynearly all the

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