Seneca Possessed: Indians, Witchcraft, and Power in the Early American Republic

Seneca Possessed examines the ordeal of a Native people in the wake of the American Revolution. As part of the once—formidable Iroquois Six Nations in western New York, Senecas occupied a significant if ambivalent place within the newly established United States. They found themselves the object of missionaries' conversion efforts while also confronting land speculators, poachers, squatters, timber—cutters, and officials from state and federal governments.

In response, Seneca communities sou...