Monday, May 16, 2011

The Brothertown Nation of Indians - A Highly Recommended Book

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B rad Jarvis' recent (2010, University of Nebraska Press) book The Brothertown Nation of Indians: Land Ownership and Nationalism in Earl...
Monday, April 18, 2011

The Unintended Consequences of Education at Wheelock's School

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T he University of North Carolina Press recently (2010) published a collection of scholarly writings by various authors under the title Nati...
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...