The Iroquois Creation Story in Lewis Henry Morgan’s League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee
- Date of account
- 1851; traditions recorded before publication
- Location
- Haudenosaunee communities in New York and Ontario
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Lewis Henry Morgan’s League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee presents Haudenosaunee origin materials, including sky-world, celestial, and fire-related motifs, within an influential nineteenth-century ethnography. The book is valuable for tracing how an Indigenous cosmological tradition entered comparative folklore and anthropology. Its descriptions are not neutral recordings: Morgan selected, translated, organized, and interpreted material through Victorian scholarly assumptions. A researcher should compare the book with Haudenosaunee-authored sources and later oral-history work before generalizing about Iroquois beliefs.
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