Book Description
Baughman searches his past for the meaning of his forebears' sacred traditions in today's world.
Author : Mike Baughman
Publisher : Lyons Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,4 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Baughman searches his past for the meaning of his forebears' sacred traditions in today's world.
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Page : 106 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Mohawk Indians
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Author : Richard J. Berleth
Publisher : Black Dome Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Mohawk River Valley (N.Y.)
ISBN : 9781883789664
This sweeping historical narrative chronicles events instrumental in the painful birth of a new nationfrom the Bloody Morning Scout and the massacre at Fort William Henry to the disastrous siege of Quebec, the heroic but lopsided Battle of Valcour Island, the horrors of Oriskany, and the tragedies of Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley massacre and the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition's destruction of the Iroquois homeland in western New York State. Caught in the middle of it all was the Mohawk River Valley. Berleth explores the relationship of early settlers on the Mohawk frontier to the Iroquoian people who made their homes beside the great river. He introduces colonists and native leaders in all their diversity of culture and belief. Dramatic profiles of key participants provide perspectives through which contemporaries struggled to understand events. Sir William Johnson is here first as a shopkeeper, then as a brother Mohawk and militia leader, and lastly as a crown official charged with supervising North American Indian affairs. We meet the frontier ambassador Conrad Weiser, survivor of the Palatine immigration, who agreed not at all with Johnson or his party. And we encounter the young missionary, Samuel Kirkland, as he leaves Johnson's household for a fateful sojourn among the Senecas. Johnson's heirs did much to precipitate the outbreak of violent hostilities along the Mohawk in the first months of the War of Independence. Berleth shows how the Johnson family sought to save their patrimony in the valley just as patriot forces maneuvered to win Native American support. When Joseph Brant rushed Native Americans to war behind the British, it fell to General Philip Schuyler, wealthy scion of an old Albany family, to find a way to protect the Mohawk region from British incursion. His invasion of Canada fails; his tattered army fights at Valcour Island, Ticonderoga, Hubbardton, retreating steadily. Not until on the line of the Mohawk was the enemy stopped.
Author : David Weitzman
Publisher : Flash Point
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 32,95 MB
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 146686981X
Skyscrapers define the American city. Through a narrative text and gorgeous historical photographs, Skywalkers by David Weitzman explores Native American history and the evolution of structural engineering and architecture, illuminating the Mohawk ironworkers who risked their lives to build our cities and their lasting impact on our urban landscape.
Author : Audra Simpson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822376784
Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and anthropology. Combining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnawà:ke, a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec, Audra Simpson examines their struggles to articulate and maintain political sovereignty through centuries of settler colonialism. The Kahnawà:ke Mohawks are part of the Haudenosaunee or Iroquois Confederacy. Like many Iroquois peoples, they insist on the integrity of Haudenosaunee governance and refuse American or Canadian citizenship. Audra Simpson thinks through this politics of refusal, which stands in stark contrast to the politics of cultural recognition. Tracing the implications of refusal, Simpson argues that one sovereign political order can exist nested within a sovereign state, albeit with enormous tension around issues of jurisdiction and legitimacy. Finally, Simpson critiques anthropologists and political scientists, whom, she argues, have too readily accepted the assumption that the colonial project is complete. Belying that notion, Mohawk Interruptus calls for and demonstrates more robust and evenhanded forms of inquiry into indigenous politics in the teeth of settler governance.
Author : Earl N. Plato
Publisher :
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 9780986845116
Author : Bonita Lawrence
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803280373
Mixed-blood urban Native peoples in Canada are profoundly affected by federal legislation that divides Aboriginal peoples into different legal categories. In this pathfinding book, Bonita Lawrence reveals the ways in which mixed-blood urban Natives understand their identities and struggle to survive in a world that, more often than not, fails to recognize them. In ?Real? Indians and Others Lawrence draws on the first-person accounts of thirty Toronto residents of Native heritage, as well as archival materials, sociological research, and her own urban Native heritage and experiences. She sheds light on the Canadian government?s efforts to define Native identity through the years by means of the Indian Act and shows how residential schooling, the loss of official Indian status, and adoption have affected Native identity. Lawrence looks at how Natives with ?Indian status? react and respond to ?nonstatus? Natives and how federally recognized Native peoples attempt to impose an identity on urban Natives. Drawing on her interviews with urban Natives, she describes the devastating loss of community that has resulted from identity legislation and how urban Native peoples have wrestled with their past and current identities. Lawrence also addresses the future and explores the forms of nation building that can reconcile the differences in experiences and distinct agendas of urban and reserve-based Native communities.
Author : Mohawk Chief
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 17,18 MB
Release : 1857
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Author : Beth Brant
Publisher : Ithaca, New York : Firebrand Books
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 35,71 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Fiction
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"Beth Brant, a gifted Native American writer, explores her several families -- families connected by blood, by gayness, and by their urban working-class lives."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Nancy Bonvillain
Publisher : New York : Chelsea House
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,89 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Indians of North America
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Examines the history, culture, and traditions of the Mohawk Indians.