Longhouse

Each family occupied a longhouse positioned to take advantage of the limited arable land available in the valleys between mountains and sea.

These remarkable structures served as the center of all domestic life, housing not only the family, but often their most valuable livestock during the harsh winter months.

The Longhouse earned its name honestly, stretching anywhere from 40 to nearly 100 feet in length, though remaining relatively narrow, perhaps 15 to 20 feet wide.

Constructing such a building required considerable skill and cooperation.

The frame consisted of massive wooden posts sunk into the ground or set on stone foundations, supporting walls made from split logs placed vertically or horizontal planks.

So, you know, I just kind of made a judgment call.

I went to the Longhouse where they have their their their travel center.

One of the travel centers.

Anyway, I tried to find somebody who could tell me how to pronounce the name and nobody I thought knew how.

I've always had, well, I've always been involved in community.

My parents, you know, they really brought myself and all my siblings into the community, volunteering, being involved with the Longhouse, with the Pow Wow, with different community events.

And even then, like I was really shy in my youth.

And my dad said, I knew since I was eight years old, I wanted to be a teacher.

But the...

the knowledge keepers that they had brought to that event, the way that they're sharing their understandings of these roles was a trigger to someone in the audience.

And then they actually brought me on the project for a little bit, just to kind of have a conversation of how do we talk about Two-Spirit queer identities in the Longhouse with these gender divisions? And that's what I said.

It's not even gender.

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All these books are 400 pages in length, well footnoted.

They...

so they're, they're very much anti-regulation, which also makes them very anti-bureaucracy, which makes them very anti-Longhouse, which makes them a relatively easy constituency to, uh, to, to, uh, bring on, bring on board some sort of a, uh, let's say a hierarchical governance structure that optimizes getting the trains on, making the trains run on time.

Like they're very naturally sympathetic to that.

Even if you do have to have to like chip through some layers of accumulated shit lib.

This was accompanied by the burning of charms, turtle-shell rattles, and other badges used by the medicine men.

Similar ceremonies took place about the same time among the Onondagas and in other parts of the Long House of the Five Nations.

Paganism had fallen, Erascoia was disowned, and his name is not even known in our days among the Iroquois.

The next step of the missionaries was to implant Christian truth and Christian feeling in their hearts.

That same year in June, the great Onondaga chief, Garacontier, was solemnly baptized at Quebec.

It was hoped that other chiefs of the Iroquois would soon follow his example.

Father Bruyere, who on first coming among the people of the Long House had been lodged three days in the cabin of Tekakwitha's uncle, came back from the Oneida country in 1671.

He was made superior of the Mohawk mission in place of Piron.

This was the type of settlement seen at Quebec and Hochelaga, and, later on, among the Five Nations.

Indeed, the Five Nations gave to themselves the picturesque name of the Long House, for their confederation resembled, as it were, the long wooden houses that held the families together.

All this shows that the superiority of the Iroquois over their enemies lay in organization.

In this they were superior even to their kinsmen, the Hurons.

Mm-hmm.

And everything else, we're even thinking, even with the Long, something like the Longhouse book, how could we write a book and put together a resource that would equip our people to live well right now and to figure this thing out called feminism and how to relate to it, how to think about it historically and practically and politically and economically and ecclesiastically and socially and all these things? And so you'll, you'll note that in a lot of our resources, that they have the stamp of just- We want our people to, to thrive.

Mm-hmm.

And so we think that because of that, they'll help a lot of other people to thrive as well, but they're very much working outward from that center for us.

Right.

Yeah.

So that's what we're doing, a three-part series with Brian and Eric on The Longhouse, which also happens to be the title of a brand-new book that at the time of this episode's release, uh, you guys will already be in pre-orders.

Yeah.

They were planted like an island in the midst of the great Algonquin Sea.

There were five principal tribes in this family, Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas, and these formed a confederacy which bears the name in English history of Five Nations, although they called themselves the Long House.

These five tribes sometimes were at war with one another, but usually they acted as a confederacy, and being the craftiest, most daring, and most intelligent Indians known to us, were the terror of every tribe east of the Mississippi.

They greatly disliked the French, and all tribes who befriended the French.

These various missions were: that to the Abenakis of Acadia, the name given by the French to northeastern Maine, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, and of Cape Breton Island; that to the Montagnais Indians, as the tribes of the lower St. Lawrence and the Saguenay were called, Tadoussac being the central station.

The several missions at Quebec, Montreal, Three Rivers, and in that region were united under common control.

The mission to the Hurons between Lake Simcoe and Georgian Bay was, during much of its thirty-five years of existence, the most dangerous of all because of the stolid barbarism of these cousins of the Iroquois, and later because the Hurons were frequently raided, and at last almost annihilated, by the Long House, a troublous period in which seven of the missionaries lost their lives in the work.

The Iroquois mission, which had a severe experience, its principal martyr being Father Jogues.