Thursday, June 21, 2012

The Gods of Prophetstown - with Comments from the Author

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I n a recent post, I told about the Delaware witch purge of 1806 .  This witch hunt/purge is the topic of one chapter of a new book by Uni...
Tuesday, June 5, 2012

A Map of Statesburg (now Kaukauna, WI) in 1826

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 Maps can tell us a lot about history. This one of Statesburg , the Stockbridge Mohican's first settlement in what is now Wisconsin, i...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

The Shawnee Prophet Predicts an Eclipse

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When William Henry Harrison, the governor of Indiana Territory, heard of the Delaware witch purge of 1806 he sent the tribe a letter dem...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

The Delaware Witch Purge of 1806

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Above:  An artist's conception of the Purge of 1806.  The Shawnee Prophet, later known as Tenskwatawa,is depicted second from right (t...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Beata: The Munsee Prophet

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The parents of John Henry Kluge were Moravian missionaries at White River.  John Henry appears to have been born during Beata's caree...
Monday, May 14, 2012

The Delaware Indians on Indiana's White River

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This graphic was "borrowed" from Wikipedia' s entry on Delaware County, Indiana. T he scene of my next few posts was...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

Alfred Cave Describes Handsome Lake's 2nd Vision

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Alfred Cave's Prophets of the Great Spirit: Native American Revitalization Movements in Eastern North America is a remarkable book. I a...
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Monday, March 12, 2012

The Dawes Act: Was it Good for Indians?

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Blogger's note: March 19/2012 - I can understand that some peopole are too busy to read a whole blogpost - especially if they think th...
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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Ohio 1818: "The most interesting day in this place"

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T hanks to the Google Books digitization project, a lot of old material is available to people like me who don't live near the librari...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

The Dawes Act: A Guest Post

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The following is a guest post by Scott Seaborne , a reader of the blog. The views exppressed are his and I may chime in on this topic in a ...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Brothertown Drum Returns to Annual Fond du Lac Event

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I haven't kept in touch with any of my Brothertown contacts. The last I'd heard was that they were denied recognition by the United...
Friday, February 10, 2012

Commuck's Indian Melodies

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I n routine searches for data about the Brothertown Indians an item known as Indian Melodies by Thomas Commuck (himself a Brothertown), ha...