Friday, September 10, 2010

The Conversion of Fish Hawk

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B onnie Sue Lewis uses the conversion story of Fish Hawk, a Cayuse Indian, to illustrate the complexity involved in deciding to become a Ch...
Thursday, September 2, 2010

Creating Christian Indians

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I f there is one ongoing theme to this blog, it lies in the idea that in many cases, American Indian converts to Christianity weren't fa...
Monday, August 16, 2010

Still There! The Lenape and Nanticoke Indians of New Jersey

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A lthough I have emphasized the role of the Christian church as a uniting factor in the history of the Stockbridge Mohicans, I also document...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Stereotypes and Realities

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M any of us are concerned about various stereotypes. Fortunately, Devon A. Mihesuah, a Professor of History and an enrolled member of the C...
Monday, June 7, 2010

Poygan Paygrounds: Scene of a Sad Chapter in Menominee History

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B y the time the Menominee Indians gave up large pieces of land, they had already lost most of their members to warfare and diseases. In 183...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Eloquence is Power: Book Acknowledges Hendrick Aupaumut's Role

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N ot having written communication opened the way for tribes to develop oral communication into what might be called a powerful art form. The...
Friday, May 7, 2010

People of Nama'o

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Y ou already know that the Menominees are 'the people of the wild rice' ( although there are some Wisconsin Indians who disagree ). ...
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...