The Author: Barbara Alice Mann is a Lecturer of English at the University of Toledo, as well as a noted author and speaker on the culture and history of Native Americans of the eastern woodlands. She authored Iroquoian Women: The Gantowisas (2000), edited Native American Speakers of the Eastern Woodlands (2001), and co-edited The Encyclopedia of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) (2000), in addition to writing major articles on various aspects of the Iroquois League and its culture.