The Iroquois in 1800 -- Governor Blacksnake and the Seneca Indian struggle to save the Oil Spring Reservation -- Samuel George (1795-1873): a study of Onondaga Indian conservatism -- The two worlds of Aunt Dinah John (1774?-1883), Onondaga Indian -- Alice Lee Jemison, Seneca journalist as activist -- The gardener: Chief Daniel Bread and the planting of the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin -- "War Eagle": Lieutenant Cornelius C. Cusick -- The idealist and the realist: Chief Deskaheh, Attorney George Decker, and the Six Nations' struggle to get to the world court, 1921-1925 -- Designing woman: Minnie Kellogg -- Where the Partridge Drums: Ernest Benedict, Mohawk Intellectual as Activist -- Women's leadership and the rebuilding of the Seneca Nation in the Wake of Kinzua, 1966-1990.