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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.1 | The History Cooperative

Apocalypse of Chiokoyhikoy. By Robert Griffin and Donald A. Grinde Jr. (Quebec: Presses de L'Université Laval, 1997. 271 pp. Paper, $26.00, isbn 2-7637-7449-0.) In French and English.

According to its editors, this minor, enigmatic document gives further support to those would-be academics who believe that the Iroquois Indians had an influence on the thought of, as well as the institutions created by, the Founding Fathers. Containing 222 verses and 79 pages of commentary, this work was originally published anonymously in 1777. The editors make a series of guesses about the work's authorship, place of publication, overall meaning, impact, and symbolism. Instead of a work based upon the canons of historical analysis, this new edition is a poor excuse for scholarship. Only the excellent illustrations in this reprint done by the eminent artist of Iroquois ancestry, John Kahionhes Fadden, add to our understanding of Indian lifeways. 1

Robert Griffin of the Department of Literatures and Languages at the University of California, Riverside, translated the work and provided a literary analysis of the text; however, this review will focus on the lengthy essay by editor Donald A. Grinde Jr., of the University of Vermont. . . .

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