In
addition to the wampum belts that form our archives, the People of the
Longhouse have also recorded our history and culture in written
documents. This Rotinonhsón:ni literary tradition reached
its zenith in the 19th century, with the works of men like Joseph
Brant, Major John Norton, David Cusick, J. N. B. Hewitt, Seth Newhouse,
and John Arthur Gibson, to name just a few. They have preserved
for us not only our creation story and epic of confederation, but the
story of our own evolution.
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