Midwinter Rites of the Cayuga Longhouse - IRC Teacher Resource Collected over a ten-year period

Collected over a ten-year period

birthing and child rearing - are presented against the contrasting experiences of three successive generations

going home

and the 1995 Aazhoodena Stoney Point (Ipperwash) resistance

This Ojibwe dialect is classified as Manitoulin Central and is part of Eastern Ojibway language as defined by linguists

Midwinter Rites of the Cayuga Longhouse - IRC Teacher Resource Collected over a ten-year periodMidwinter Rites of the Cayuga Long House is a reprint of the 1949 classic of ethnohistory by anthropologist Frank G. Speck (1881 1950). In the original text, the author acknowledges his collaboration with Cayuga Chief Alexander Jack General who held the title, Deskaheh. Speck's research into the ceremonies at the Sour Springs Long House, Six Nations of the Grand River, began in 1932 and lasted until 1947 when the author reviewed the manuscript with