...Over time, Natives and settlers not only came to appreciate the political implications of treaties but also learned to manipulate each other’s legal concepts. Craig Yirush shows the Iroquois’ skill at sequentially deploying indigenous and English concepts during negotiations with delegates from...

...Gallman and Taylor take up murder at the boundary zones between the Iroquois and British settlers and between Spanish Florida and the Lower Creeks and Seminoles. Despite contrasts between the legal systems of the empires—civil law and inquisitorial procedure on the Spanish side, common law...

...This chapter traces the life of Rebecca Kellogg in the eighteenth-century Iroquois heartlands after she was captured by Iroquois soldiers in the famous 1704 raid on the colonial New England settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts. Rebecca Kellogg married into the Mohawk culture, raised children...