Jennings Francis. The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire: The Covenant Chain Confederation of Indian Tribes with English Colonies

W.W. Norton & Company, 1990. — 464 p.This book, like its predecessor "The Invasion of America", is part of a history of how Euramericans and Amerindians shared in the creation of the society that became the United States of America. In that long process, different strategies were adopted by varied Indian tribes and European colonies in order to cope with the presence of all the others. The strategy of Puritan New England was armed conquest.
Francis Jennings, former director of the Newberry Library Center for the History of the American Indian, is the author of "The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest, " a highly acclaimed account of the first relationships between Europeans and Americans, and "Empire of Fortune: Crowns, Colonies and Tribes in the Seven Years War in America."