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Acculturation, a New Approach to the Iroquoian Problem*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Bertram S. Kraus
Bertram S. Kraus*
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University of Chicago
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This paper is a plea for the complete reworking of the Iroquoian material, archaeological and historical, from the point of view of acculturation. The writer is not the first to make this plea. Both Fenton and Hunt have pointed out the necessity of reworking the source material for Iroquoian history; Fenton regards the 400 years of contact between Iroquois and white and between Iroquois and Algonkian as an excellent source “for an acculturation study showing the effects of the interaction of Indian and White culture, the interaction of Indian and Indian… and the adjustment of culture to environment.”

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American Antiquity , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , January 1944 , pp. 302 - 318
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1944

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Footnotes

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The writer gratefully acknowledges his indebtedness to Dr. James B. Griffin, Douglas S. Byers, Dr. William N. Fenton, and Dr. Fred Eggan, for many helpful suggestions and stimulating expressions of opinion.

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