Year of the Hangman: George Washington's Campaign Against the Iroquois, tells the story of the destruction of the Haudenosaunee people, principally the Cayuga and Seneca tribes of upstate New York in1779. Unlike many versions of this story, this book shows how complex the situation between the Six Nations, the British, and the United States during the Revolutionary War.
This books also sharply draws the contours of the political position of that the Six Nations before and during the war, proving they were not helpless victims of European and American powers. They exercised agency, and pursued their own interests as they saw them.
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