Abstract

While subsistence activities dominated Native peoples' day to day lives to varying degrees throughout their annual cycle of hunting, gathering and/or horticulture, another health-related issue rernained an insidious constant. Throughout the Northeast, the fear of witchcraft has been a pervasive influence at both a personal and community level. Among no group has this been more true than the Iroquois. The issue of identifying evidence of witchcraft in the archaeological record will be explored using ethnographic, ethnohistoric and archaeological data.