Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Clarence Chicks at 91

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An old photo of Clarence Chicks, taken while on vacation in Massachusetts. C larence Chicks will turn 92 years-old next month. Instead of be...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

The Stockbridge Bible and the John Sergeant Memorial Church

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The image below illustrates how thoroughly complex the various splits and reconciliations within the Presbyterian church have been. The poin...
Saturday, May 23, 2009

Jamison Quinney and the Stockbridge Bible

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W hat happened to the Stockbridge Bible? The short answer is that after Calvin Colton's (1830) observations on the two-volume Bible , we...
Friday, May 22, 2009

The Directive of Hoke Smith

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A s the Citizen vs. Indian conflict raged on, more federal agents came to the conclusion that all the treaties and acts of Congress - despit...
Monday, May 18, 2009

The Stockbridge Mohicans' Casino and Their Economy

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T here may be some exceptions, but today's Stockbridge Mohicans are middle class Americans. The older ones remember having to choose bet...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

Partisanship, Even Within the Quinney Family

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A side from the fact that they died when he was a small child, what we know about Jeremiah Slingerland's parents is minimal. Little Jere...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

NPR Asks "Who is an Indian?"

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National Public Radio (NPR) recently reported on the big controversy in Indian Country these days: Who is an Indian? To read or listen...
Monday, May 11, 2009

Schafer's Wisconsin Domesday Book, Part 2

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"Stockbridge history, from the year 1843, tends more and more toward the ruin of that interesting tribe. In fact, so sharply did the ci...
Friday, May 8, 2009

Schafer's Wisconsin Domesday Book, Part 1

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F rom 1920, until his death in 1941, Joseph Schafer was the Director of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. He believed that detailed...
Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Gerald McDermott Looks at Jonathan Edwards Career as a Missionary

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L ots of professors of religion and history consider Jonathan Edwards to be a hot topic right now. Mostly they are studying either his abstr...
Sunday, May 3, 2009

Calvin Colton Reports on the Stockbridge Bible

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An artist's conception of the ancient Israelites' ark of the covenant ----> N ot everything ever written about the Stockbridge Bi...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

The Underground Railroad in Eastern Wisconsin

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M uch detail is lost in the forms of history that usually play to a nationwide audience. I'm sure many people that have seen the map bel...