"Anderson’s fascinating work examines the shifts in the New York landscape through the 1840s as the area was used, shaped, and understood by the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and then the Americans. . . . This volume will work well in college courses as it bridges Iroquois and American histories and explores how written history is often based on cultural assumptions, memories, and oral traditions."—D. R. Mandell, Choice
“Chad Anderson challenges us to move beyond easy generalizations about how settler colonists simply erased indigenous peoples from the North American landscape. His sensitive, deeply researched meditation on the lives and afterlives of the spiritualized geography of Haudenosaunee country is not to be missed.”—Daniel K. Richter, director, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania
“A remarkable book about Iroquoia’s built environment—real, imagined, reimagined. From Big Bone Lick to the Book of Mormon, Chad Anderson shows how ancient landmarks haunted Americans—Native and non-Native—in the period of U.S. conquest. With subtle readings of Haudenosaunee sources, Anderson shows the rich possibilities of topographical history.”—Jared Farmer, author of On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape