Tuesday, June 30, 2009

The Doris Duke Collection: Primary Data on the Delawares, Shawnee, and Other Tribes

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T he Internet Scout Project reviews websites and one of the sites that recently passed muster is the Doris Duke Collection of American India...
Monday, June 29, 2009

The Grave of John Sergeant Jr.

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A few weeks ago I received an e-mail from a woman from Arizona who asked where she could read more about her ancestor, John Sergeant, Jr. ...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

The Westfall - Choate Correspondence

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The woman on the left is Mabel Choate, the heiress who restored John Sergeant Sr.'s home in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and purchased the...
Monday, June 22, 2009

The JSM Presbyterian Church, Fred Westfall, the Safe, and my Research

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The safe you see below was prominently displayed at the Arvid E. Miller Memorial Library Museum [that is what the Stockbridge Mohicans call ...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

The Chicks Family Goes Methodist

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A lthough it appears that the unified church of the Stockbridge Mohicans reached its peak during the early 1830's, that same church bega...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Puritan Ideals and the Stockbridge Mohicans in the 1830's

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I'm not certain, but my guess is that by the 1830's, a dance among the young New York Indians in Wisconsin Territory, would look as ...
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Sunday, June 14, 2009

The High Point of Stockbridge Calvinism

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Calvinism has long embodied many denominations. But, together, those denominations continue to share this common symbol. A photo of the Rev....
Thursday, June 11, 2009

American Creation

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A merican Creation is a history blog that I occasionally look at. It is about the role of religion in the founding of our country (the Unit...
Monday, June 8, 2009

Court Ruling on Stockbridge Reservation Boundary Issue is Apparently Final

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This is a map covering (approximately) the two townships of Red Springs and Bartelme that made up the historic (1856) Stockbridge Indian res...
Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Atlas of the North American Indian

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C arl Waldman's Atlas of the North American Indian is what it sounds like: a very general reference book. I think it would be a very go...
Tuesday, June 2, 2009

New Jersey's Forgotten People: The Piney-Lenape

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For every Indian migration or removal, there are almost always a few who stay behind. Although you might expect that after 200-plus years th...
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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...