Voices at the Edge of the Woods:An immersive soundscape of Haudenosaunee diplomatic speech and song

This unique collection of seven Soundscapes, co-produced with the Mohawk and Cayuga Indigenous Nations (Canada, United States), is the first to use high-definition sound to transform understanding of speech-driven historical diplomacy between the nations of the Haudenosaunee and British imperial officials and diplomats. They are a new creative form of research expression and a model for the collaborative recovery of complex inter-cultural histories, the first such collaboration permitted by the Nations concerned and therefore an ongoing primary point of reference for understanding diplomacy between the Haudenosaunee, Great Britain, Canada and the United States. They engage with the complex problem of how to generate new thinking and practices that set aside settler narratives and instead foreground Indigenous oral epistemologies and interpretation of intercultural diplomatic experience. They do so by radically expanding the range and depth of available material, creating innovative oral source data that recovers endangered Mohawk language forms via new translations of under-researched English historic records, and creating new co-produced interpretation of Indigenous metaphor, song and wampum. They are a novel expansion of understanding that reveals Indigenous diplomatic practices, previously understood as locked in history, to be active, dynamic, and pivotal to present-day reconciliation. They significantly advance prior methods (Sterne, 2003, Culkpatrick 2023, Bocquillon, 2025) and are permanently exhibited at American Museum and Gardens, UK; Iroquois Museum, New York; NONAM, Switzerland, and worldwide via Bloomberg Connects. They influenced a) The Great Lakes Research Alliance and other North American research groups b) scholars and sound artists working on acoustic cultural heritage (Yildirim, Bursa, Turkey; Barclay, Sunshine Coast, Australia) and c) the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum, who requested their own Soundscape. Co-produced at Johnson Hall Historic Site, New York, as part of ‘Brightening the Covenant Chain: Revealing Cultures of Diplomacy between the Crown, the Iroquois and their Neighbours’, AHRC Standard Research Grant (AH/T006099/2).

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