Friday, April 30, 2010

Black Elk: The Controversy Continues

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M ichael Steltenkamp's second book recently received a bad review in the American Library Association's Choice Magazine. Nicholas B...
Friday, April 9, 2010

Roger Williams and the Naragansetts

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The American Indian Studies Program at Cal State University has done us the service of creating " Indians of North America - The Native...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

An Indian Land Case in the Colony of New York, part 3 of 3

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*Read part 1 of this series* *Read part 2 of this series* Henry Moore (below) was the Royal Governor of the Colony of New York from 1765 to ...
Friday, March 19, 2010

Stockbridge Indians Appeal to the King

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The Hudson Valley Land Case as told by Patrick Frazier, Part 2 T he 13th chapter of Patrick Frazier's The Mohicans of Stockbridge (page...

The Hudson Valley Land Case as told by Patrick Frazier, Part 1

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Land conflicts (as well as military conflicts) were discussed at the Albany Congress of 1754. In this particular artist's conception, Be...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

An Indian Land Case in Colonial New York

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A remarkable document was reprinted in the Summer, 1964 issue of Ethnohistory (volume 11, Number 3). This document, having been preserved ...
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Thursday, March 4, 2010

1900 Census: Menominee and Shawano Counties (Wisconsin)

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The German Lutheran Church, Rev. Nickel's (inset) congregation before his ministry to the Stockbridge Indians. This photo and others can...
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Black Elk's Vision and the Two Roads Map

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P ossibly the most memorable part of John Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks is Black Elk's description of the vision that he experienced ...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Drum of the Brothertown Nation

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The February 21st, 2010 issue of The Fond du Lac [Wisconsin] Reporter featured the photo you see above (taken by Justin Connaher). In case ...
Monday, February 22, 2010

John Neihardt's Black Elk

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The cover of a book that I haven't read seems like a perfect visual for this post. T his series of posts about Black Elk is designed to ...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Lucy Looks Twice

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I first mentioned Michael Steltenkamp in a recent post . While Steltenkamp lived on the Pine Ridge Reservation he ran into an old woman in ...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Bill Miller and Janice-Marie Johnson: The Stockbridge Mohicans' Grammy Winners

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M y thanks to Wenona Gardner for posting a Shawano Leader article to her Mohican 7 e-mail list. The article, Bill Miller Wins Third Grammy ...
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