The Haudenosaunee have been one of the most widely written about Indigenous groups in the United States and Canada. But seldom have the voices emerging from this community been drawn on in order to understand its enduring intellectual traditions. This book offers the first comprehensive portrait of how the Haudenosaunee of the Grand River region have expressed their long struggle for sovereignty in Canada. Through careful readings of more than two centuries of letters, speeches, ethnography, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and film, Monture argues Haudenosaunee core beliefs have remained remarkably consistent and continue to inspire ways to address current social and political realities.

Introduction -- "Soverigns of the soil": Joseph Brant and the Grand River Settlement -- The challenege to Haudenosaunee nationhood: Performing politics, translating culture -- "An enemy's foot is on our country": Conflict, diplomacy, and land rights -- Displacement, identity, and resistance: Grand River in the era of "Red Power" -- "Linking arms together": Six nations of the Grand River from Oka to the twenty-first century -- Conclusion.