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Can a Myth Be Astronomically Dated?

David Henige · American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 23(4), 127–157 · 1999

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Article
Author
David Henige
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DOI 10.17953/aicr.23.4.f7l127282718051x

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DisputedThe date of the Confederacy's founding is uncertain: tradition places it in time immemorial, Mann and Fields proposed 31 August 1142, and archaeological work points to peaceful Mohawk–Seneca contact by about 1590–1605.