Ebook The Modal Personality Structure of the Tuscarora Indians

The Bureau scientists and the Boas students have suggested answers to this question. Ethnologists agree that the affiliations of Iroquoian culture are southeastern, with the exception of some traits (such as shamanistic practices) which bear a northern stamp. For a time it was felt that the northern Iroquoians ha'd migrated from the south east, carrying their culture with them, into their historic location In very recent times, displacing an earlier population of horticultural, pottery-making Algonkians in New York State. More recently, how ever, both archeologists and ethnologists have been coming round to the opinion that as a population the northern Iroquois have been in their present area for a very long time, and that some of their cul tural traits (e. G., pottery style) were developed by them, or were diffused to them, in situ.