 Doxstader, a surname common in some of the rural areas of south-western Germany is also a common Iroquois surname.Preston wrote that the popular stereotype of United States frontier relations between white settler colonists and Native Americans as being from two racial worlds that hardly interacted did not apply to the Palatine-Iroquois relationship, writing that the Palatines lived between Iroquois settlements in Kanienkeh, and the two peoples "...communicated, drank, worked, worshipped and traded together, negotiated over land use and borders, and conducted their diplomacy separate from the colonial governments".Some Palatines learned to perform the Haudenosaunee Condolence Ceremony, where condolences were offered to those whose friends and family had died, which was the most important of all Iroquois rituals.