The Oneida Indian Journey: From New York to Wisconsin, 1784-1860
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Book Description
"Provides important insights by a number of well-respected scholars and members of the Oneida community on a critical and much-neglected period of Oneida history. This book is highly recommended."-Ronald N. Satz, author of Chippewa Treaty Rights and American Indian Policy in the Jacksonian Era
For the first time, the traumatic removal of the Oneida Indians from New York to Wisconsin is examined in a groundbreaking collection of essays, The Oneida Indian Journey from New York to Wisconsin, 1784-1860. To shed light on this vital period of Oneida history, editors Laurence Hauptman and L. Gordon McLester, III, present a unique collaboration between an American Indian nation and the academic community. Two professional historians, a geographer, anthropologist, archivist and attorney join in with eighteen voices from the Oneida community-local historians, folklorists, genealogists, linguists, and tribal elders-discuss tribal dispossession and community; Oneida community perspectives of Oneida history; and the means of studying Oneida history.
Contributors include:
Debra Anderson Eileen Antone Jim Antone Abrahms Archiquette Oscar Archiquette Jack Campisi Richard Chrisjohn Amelia Cornelius Judy Cornelius Katie Cornelius Melissa Cornelius Jonas Elm James Folts Reginald Horsman Elizabeth Huff Francis Jennings Arlinda Locklear Jo Margaret Mano Loretta Metoxen Liz Obomsawin Jessie Peters Sarah Summers Rachel Swamp Unique in its origins in the cooperation of the Native American historians and academic historians, this collection focuses on the crucial era of 1784 to 1860, a much-neglected-for being so critical-period of Oneida history, when most Oneidas left New York and journeyed to Wisconsin and to Ontario.
About the Author
Laurence M. Hauptman, author of ten books on Native Americans, is professor of history at the State University of New York at New Paltz and has served as a historical consultant to the Oneida, Seneca, and Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation.
L. Gordon McLester, III, an Oneida, is the coordinator of the Oneida History Conferences and founder of the Oneida Historical Society.
The Oneida Indian Journey: From New York to Wisconsin, 1784-1860,Oneida History Conference Committee,L. Gordon McLester,Laurence M. Hauptman,University of Wisconsin Press,0299161447,Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies,Government policy,History,History - General History,Native American,Oneida Indians,Relocation,Social Science,Sociology,Sources,United States - 19th Century,United States - Revolutionary War,Wisconsin,American history: c 1800 to c 1900,Ethnic studies,History of specific racial & ethnic groups,USA,c 1700 to c 1800,c 1800 to c 1900
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