Here is a wonderful book written by a Native American for the general public who have a genuine interest in the true story of the Indian. Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians was written by Elias Johnson a native Tuscarora Chief. Johnson has written this book in the hope of establishing a better relationship between his race and the white man. Elias Johnson says he is able to understand the people he writes about because as he says in his preface. ¿I was born and brought up by Tuscarora Indian parents on their Reservation in the Town of Lewiston, N.Y. From my childhood up was naturally inquisitive and delighted in thrilling stories, which led me to frequent the old people of my childhood's days, and solicited them to relate the old Legends and their Traditions, which they always delighted to do. I have sat by their fireside and heard them, and thus they were instilled upon my young mind.¿ Johnson describes characteristics, traits, customs and life in the Indian tribes.

The present Tuscarora Indians, the once powerful and gifted nation, after their expulsion from the South, came North, and were initiated in the confederacy of the Iroquois. People who formerly held under their jurisdiction the largest portion of the Eastern States, now dwell as dependent nations, subject to the guardianship and supervision of a people who displaced their forefathers. Our numbers, the circumstances of our past history and present condition, and more especially the relation in which we stand to the people of the United States, suggest many important questions concerning our future destiny.

Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois is a comprehensive book on the Iroquois and Tuscarora culture that was written by Elias Johnson in 1881.

Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians By Elias Johnson,