Author: Calvin Colton
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Category : Cherokee Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Author: Calvin Colton
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Category : Cherokee Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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Author: Calvin Colton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734061067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Reproduction of the original: Tour of the American Lakes, and Among the Indians of the North-West Territory by Calvin Colton

Author: Michael Leroy Oberg
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812246764
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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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.

Author: Robert E. Bieder
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299145239
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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The first comprehensive history of Native American tribes in Wisconsin, this thorough and thoroughly readable account follows Wisconsin’s Indian communities—Ojibwa, Potawatomie, Menominee, Winnebago, Oneida, Stockbridge-Munsee, and Ottawa—from the 1600s through 1960. Written for students and general readers, it covers in detail the ways that native communities have striven to shape and maintain their traditions in the face of enormous external pressures. The author, Robert E. Bieder, begins by describing the Wisconsin region in the 1600s—both the natural environment, with its profound significance for Native American peoples, and the territories of the many tribal cultures throughout the region—and then surveys experiences with French, British, and, finally, American contact. Using native legends and historical and ethnological sources, Bieder describes how the Wisconsin communities adapted first to the influx of Indian groups fleeing the expanding Iroquois Confederacy in eastern America and then to the arrival of fur traders, lumber men, and farmers. Economic shifts and general social forces, he shows, brought about massive adjustments in diet, settlement patterns, politics, and religion, leading to a redefinition of native tradition. Historical photographs and maps illustrate the text, and an extensive bibliography has many suggestions for further reading.

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1662

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Languages : en
Pages : 550

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Author: Thomas N. Ingersoll
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826332875
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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The Native Americans of mixed ancestry in 1830 and why Andrew Jackson implemented a law to remove them.

Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). Library
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 854

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Author: Calvin Colton
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Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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