Monday, March 14, 2011

The Mohicans of Pachgatgoch: As told by Moravian Missionaries

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T he diaries of thirteen Moravian missionaries were recently translated (from German) into English. These translated diaries, along with a 7...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

King Philip's War: One of the Bloodiest in American History

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Above: An artist's conception of King Philip's War A ccording to Daniel Mandell's new book (page 134), King Philip's War wa...
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Monday, February 14, 2011

King Philip's War by Daniel Mandell

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A map of New England in the "Praying Indians" era. A s one of its reviews on Amazon.com states, if you read one book about King ...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

The Munsees in Wisconsin: We'll Keep Trying Until We Get it Right

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I have already written a few posts in which I have focused on the Munsee element in the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians now resi...
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Friday, January 14, 2011

The Mohican Language: Is it Worth it?

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I see that Lion Miles' Mohican Dictionary is posted on Debra Winchell's History's Faces blog (look for it in the upper right-h...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011

The "York Tribe" in Indiana

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Yorktown, Indiana today. A ndy Olson, a reader from Indiana, contacted me a few months ago to tell me about his research of the New York Ind...
Wednesday, December 1, 2010

New York Land Claim Finally Settled

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T he State of New York finally came to an agreement with the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians. The dispute was over 23,000 acres ...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

New Book on the Delaware is "Highly Recommended"

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B efore you go out and purchase Delaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation , I should point out that its intended audience is not the general publi...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Treaty with the Delawares of 1818

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W hile I have had quite a few things to say about treaties (see U.S. Indian Policy ), I may have neglected to point out that a lawyer, Charl...
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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...