﻿University 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  

  

  New 
  York 
  State 
  Museum 
  

  

  Bulletin 
  78 
  

   ARCHEOLOGY 
  9 
  

  

  A 
  HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  IROQUOIS 
  

  

  NOW 
  COMMONLY 
  CALLED 
  THE 
  SIX 
  NATIONS 
  

  

  NOTE 
  

  

  The 
  interest 
  displayed 
  by 
  the 
  citizens 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  in 
  the 
  

   bulletins 
  prepared 
  by 
  Dr 
  Beauchamp 
  on 
  the 
  various 
  implements 
  

   and 
  ornaments 
  used 
  by 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  Indians 
  and 
  his 
  bulletin 
  

   on 
  their 
  tribal 
  distribution, 
  has 
  led 
  me 
  to 
  suggest 
  to 
  him 
  the 
  

   preparation 
  of 
  a 
  history 
  of 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations. 
  This 
  has 
  accord- 
  

   ingly 
  been 
  written 
  and 
  is 
  now 
  at 
  the 
  service 
  of 
  all 
  those 
  inter- 
  

   ested 
  in 
  these 
  early 
  inhabitants 
  of 
  the 
  State, 
  who, 
  while 
  at 
  

   times 
  they 
  were 
  much 
  to 
  be 
  dreaded 
  as 
  enemies, 
  have 
  probably 
  

   in 
  one 
  way 
  or 
  another, 
  greatly 
  aided 
  the 
  white 
  man 
  in 
  his 
  early 
  

   attempts 
  at 
  settlement. 
  Unable 
  to 
  assimilate 
  civilization, 
  they 
  

   have 
  gradually 
  passed 
  away 
  and 
  left 
  to 
  their 
  successors, 
  pre- 
  

   dominantly 
  Anglo-Saxon, 
  the 
  task 
  of 
  recording 
  for 
  posterity 
  

   what 
  is 
  known 
  of 
  their 
  history, 
  distribution 
  and 
  customs. 
  

  

  Frederick 
  J. 
  H. 
  Merrill 
  

  

  