Edge of the Woods reconstructs Iroquoia’s late precolonial settlement landscape and the movement that shaped it. Drawing on archival material in several languages, archaeological evidence and Iroquois oral traditions, the work treats mobility as a deliberate geographic expression of social, political and economic priorities.

The study argues that Iroquois identities adapted and at times strengthened as homelands shifted across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It situates Iroquois responses to European expansion within broader debates about colonialism, showing Indigenous people as active agents in reshaping polities and economies.

Useful for scholars and students of Indigenous history, archaeology and early North American colonial encounters, the book offers a measured reassessment of peoplehood, movement and place.

• Integrates archaeology, oral tradition and European accounts
• Chronology: 1534–1701
• Focuses on mobility, settlement patterns and identity

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