Author: Eleazer Williams
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Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Life of Te-ho-ra-gwa-ne-gen, alias Thomas Williams, a chief of the Caughnawaga tribe of Indians in Canada
Author: Eleazer Williams
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Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Pages : 100
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Professional Indian
Author: Michael Leroy Oberg
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812246764
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Born in 1788, Eleazer Williams was raised in the Catholic Iroquois settlement of Kahnawake along the St. Lawrence River. According to some sources, he was the descendent of a Puritan minister whose daughter was taken by French and Mohawk raiders; in other tales he was the Lost Dauphin, second son to Louis XVI of France. Williams achieved regional renown as a missionary to the Oneida Indians in central New York; he was also instrumental in their removal, allying with white federal officials and the Ogden Land Company to persuade Oneidas to relocate to Wisconsin. Williams accompanied them himself, making plans to minister to the transplanted Oneidas, but he left the community and his young family for long stretches of time. A fabulist and sometime confidence man, Eleazer Williams is notoriously difficult to comprehend: his own record is complicated with stories he created for different audiences. But for author Michael Leroy Oberg, he is an icon of the self-fashioning and protean identity practiced by native peoples who lived or worked close to the centers of Anglo-American power. Professional Indian follows Eleazer Williams on this odyssey across the early American republic and through the shifting spheres of the Iroquois in an era of dispossession. Oberg describes Williams as a "professional Indian," who cultivated many political interests and personas in order to survive during a time of shrinking options for native peoples. He was not alone: as Oberg shows, many Indians became missionaries and settlers and played a vital role in westward expansion. As a larger-than-life biography of Eleazer Williams, Professional Indian uncovers how Indians fought for place and agency in a world that was rapidly trying to erase them.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812246764
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Born in 1788, Eleazer Williams was raised in the Catholic Iroquois settlement of Kahnawake along the St. Lawrence River. According to some sources, he was the descendent of a Puritan minister whose daughter was taken by French and Mohawk raiders; in other tales he was the Lost Dauphin, second son to Louis XVI of France. Williams achieved regional renown as a missionary to the Oneida Indians in central New York; he was also instrumental in their removal, allying with white federal officials and the Ogden Land Company to persuade Oneidas to relocate to Wisconsin. Williams accompanied them himself, making plans to minister to the transplanted Oneidas, but he left the community and his young family for long stretches of time. A fabulist and sometime confidence man, Eleazer Williams is notoriously difficult to comprehend: his own record is complicated with stories he created for different audiences. But for author Michael Leroy Oberg, he is an icon of the self-fashioning and protean identity practiced by native peoples who lived or worked close to the centers of Anglo-American power. Professional Indian follows Eleazer Williams on this odyssey across the early American republic and through the shifting spheres of the Iroquois in an era of dispossession. Oberg describes Williams as a "professional Indian," who cultivated many political interests and personas in order to survive during a time of shrinking options for native peoples. He was not alone: as Oberg shows, many Indians became missionaries and settlers and played a vital role in westward expansion. As a larger-than-life biography of Eleazer Williams, Professional Indian uncovers how Indians fought for place and agency in a world that was rapidly trying to erase them.
Life of Te-Ho-Ra-Gwa-Ne-Gen.
Author: Eleazer Williams
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331814378
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Excerpt from Life of Te-Ho-Ra-Gwa-Ne-Gen.: Alias Thomas Williams, a Chief of the Caughnawaga Tribe of Indians in Canada In the summer of 1802, the undersigned, while preparing for publication a History of St. Lawrence and Franklin counties, N. Y., applied to the Rev. Eleazer Williams, who was residing upon the Indian Reservation of St. Regis, for such facts as he might be able to furnish concerning the history of these people and of his own family, who were known to be descendants of a, captive daughter of the Rev. John Williams of Deerfield. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331814378
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Excerpt from Life of Te-Ho-Ra-Gwa-Ne-Gen.: Alias Thomas Williams, a Chief of the Caughnawaga Tribe of Indians in Canada In the summer of 1802, the undersigned, while preparing for publication a History of St. Lawrence and Franklin counties, N. Y., applied to the Rev. Eleazer Williams, who was residing upon the Indian Reservation of St. Regis, for such facts as he might be able to furnish concerning the history of these people and of his own family, who were known to be descendants of a, captive daughter of the Rev. John Williams of Deerfield. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Catalogue of the Public Library of the City of Fall River
Author: Fall River Public Library
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 964
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 964
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Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr. George Brinley
Author: George Brinley
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Catalogue of the American library of ... George Brinley [by J.H. Trumbull]. (Special ed.).
Author: James Hammond Trumbull
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Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts and Engravings Belonging to William Menzies of New York
Author: William Menzies
Publisher: New York : [s.n.], 1875 (Albany, N.Y. : J. Munsell)
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Publisher: New York : [s.n.], 1875 (Albany, N.Y. : J. Munsell)
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts and Engravings Belonging to W. Menzies of New York
Author: Joseph SABIN
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Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Catalogue of the books, manuscripts and engravings belonging to William Menzies
Author: William Menzies (of New York.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada. 1759-1791
Author: Public Archives of Canada
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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