The History of the Five Indian Nations Depending on the Province of New-York in America"How should we approach The History of the Five Indian Nations today? The book's informationrich as it isshould be critically interrogated and placed in social, political, and cultural context. The book reflects the outlook of a colonial British agent and, in a more general sense, of early modern European and Euro American culture. Its claims of empirical objectivity should be historicized."John M. Dixon, "Imperial Politics, Enlightenment Philosophy,