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Archivesthe name Izora
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Where did you find this information? Please provide a reference; I would be very interested to see it.
I would have to say that it doesn't seem likely to me. The earliest examples of women named Izora I can find in US census records lived in Tennessee and Georgia, not upstate New York, where the Seneca nation lived. And the only reference I can find on short notice to "Izora of the Silver Rose" is where that title has been rejected as a name by the Society of Creative Anachronism, which inmplies that someone thought it was medieval European, not Native American.
You have to be really careful about names which are said to be those of "Indian princesses." The concept of "princess" was rare in Native American culture, and there were many legends of "Indian princesses" created in the 18th and 19th centuries where the names were created by Anglo-American authors and have no real relationship to a Native American language. But if you do have good evidence for this, I'd love to know about it. :)
I would have to say that it doesn't seem likely to me. The earliest examples of women named Izora I can find in US census records lived in Tennessee and Georgia, not upstate New York, where the Seneca nation lived. And the only reference I can find on short notice to "Izora of the Silver Rose" is where that title has been rejected as a name by the Society of Creative Anachronism, which inmplies that someone thought it was medieval European, not Native American.
You have to be really careful about names which are said to be those of "Indian princesses." The concept of "princess" was rare in Native American culture, and there were many legends of "Indian princesses" created in the 18th and 19th centuries where the names were created by Anglo-American authors and have no real relationship to a Native American language. But if you do have good evidence for this, I'd love to know about it. :)
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