Tuesday, February 26, 2013

A Different Perspective on St. Joseph's Industrial School from Elaine Doxtator Raddatz

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It is now taught in K-12 scoial studies classes that Native American boarding schools were " tools of enforced assimilation ."  An...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

The Many Trails Symbol and a pdf about the "Folk Art" of Wisconsin Indians

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Richard March of the Wisconsin Arts Board (now retired) developed an apprenticeship progran in the mid-1980's that facitated the process...
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Appenoose Declines Mission Opportunity

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It may come as a surprise to many, but the Stockbridge Mohicans were such devout Christians that they initiated a mission trip to thei...
Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians - Anton Treuer's New Book

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Wow!  I really would be afraid to ask a lot of the questions that make up the headings of Anton Treuer's new book.  Here's a sampl...
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Friday, September 28, 2012

Oneida Language Resource from UW Digital Collections

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The Wisconsin Oneida Language Preservation Project is part of the University of Wisconsin's Digital Collections. Contents include ...
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...