From the PREFACE:

The chief value of the Book of Rites, is ethnological, and is
found in the light which it casts on the political and social life, as
well as on the character and capacity of the people to whom it
belongs. We see in them many of the traits which Tacitus discerned in ur ancestors of the German forests, along with some qualities of a
higher cast than any that he has delineated. The love of peace, the
sentiment of human brotherhood, the strong social and domestic
affections, the respect for law, and the reverence for ancestral
greatness, which are apparent in this Indian record and in the
historical events which illustrate it, will strike most readers as new
and unexpected developments.

CONTENTS:

CHAPTER I. THE HURON-IROQUOIS NATIONS
CHAPTER II. THE LEAGUE AND ITS FOUNDERS
CHAPTER III. THE BOOK OF RITES
CHAPTER IV. THE CONDOLING COUNCIL.—CLANS AND CLASSES
CHAPTER V. THE CONDOLENCE AND THE INSTALLATION
CHAPTER VI. THE LAWS OF THE LEAGUE
CHAPTER VII. HISTORICAL TRADITIONS
CHAPTER VIII. THE IROQUOIS CHARACTER
CHAPTER IX. THE IROQUOIS POLICY
CHAPTER X. THE IROQUOIS LANGUAGE
NOTES ON THE CANIENGA BOOK
NOTES ON THE ONONDAGA BOOK
APPENDIX
NOTE A.—Names of the Huron-Iroquois Nations
NOTE B.—Meaning of Ohio, Ontario, Onontio, Rawennito
NOTE C.—The Era of the Confederacy
NOTE D.—The Hiawatha Myths
NOTE E.—The Iroquois Towns
NOTE F.—The Pre-Aryan Race in Europe and America
GLOSSARY
INDEX