Friday, August 31, 2012

Mohican News Features the Latest Pow-Wow

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The Mohican News has a new reporter.  Mark Shaw was the grandson of Virgil Murphy, a former tribal chairman.  Mark told me that he took abo...
Friday, August 24, 2012

ACH Centennial Edition: The War of 1812 - Part I

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This engraving, taken from Encyclopedia Brittanica Online depicts the Battle of the Thames, a decisive victory for the United States over t...
Thursday, August 2, 2012

Racial Identity Among the New York Indians - Chris Geherin Looks at "New Guinea"

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T he issue of African American blood running through the veins of the Stockbridge and Brothertown Indians has been a controversial one and I...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

What was Captain Hendrick's Role in the Western Expansion of the United States?

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I n researching the life of Captain Hendrick Aupaumut, chief of the Stockbridge Mohicans and also an official of the United States governm...
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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