DCHP-3

longhouse religion

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the ancient pagan religious beliefs of the Iroquois people.

Quotations

1959
Until 1923 the Canadian government left them pretty much to run their own affairs. They were ruled by their hereditary chiefs, had their own police, administered their own laws, and practised the "Long House Religion" of their ancestors.
1963
. . . she taught me the Longhouse religion, which is really the practice of a way of living, with emphasis on symbols from nature, animals and plants and so on.