Journal article
Sagoyewatha and Metonymic Being
Abstract
Framed by the Haudenosaunee legal traditions of the Great Law of Peace and the Two Row-Covenant Chain Wampum, this article performs a close reading of Sagoyewatha’s (Redjacket’s) early diplomatic speeches at the Council of Tioga Point (1790) to Timothy Pickering over the murder of two Seneca citizens. I argue that American misinterpretation of the Two Row-Covenant Chain and Great Law of Peace as metaphors led them to miss opportunities for …
Authors
Debicki K
Journal
Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 249–266
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Publication Date
December 1, 2020
DOI
10.3138/ecf.33.2.249
ISSN
0840-6286