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Stevens, Scott Manning. “From ‘Iroquois Cruelty’ to the Mohawk Warrior Society: Stereotyping and the Strategic Uses of a Reputation for Violence.” In Violence and Indigenous Communities: Confronting the Past, Engaging the Present, edited by Jeff Ostler, Joshua L. Reid, and Susan Sleeper-Smith, 86-105. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2021.
This chapter interrogates French representations of the Haudenosaunee in the 17th and 18th centuries. The essay examines the enduring stereotype of “savagery” created to demonize Indigenous peoples in the Americas. Stevens traces the stereotype from the legacy of Haudenosaunee ferocity from written and visual representations created by the French during their colonial project in North America.
