Download or read book Seneca Chief Army General written by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ely Parker grew up on the Tonawanda Reservation in New York in the 1830s. There he learned the ways of his people, the Seneca Indians. Ely worked many years to save his reservation from a land company, and as a result, he was made a sachem, or chief, by his people. At the same time, he was working as a translator and ambassador to bridge the gap that divided his people from the white Americans. After serving in the Civil War, Ely went on to become a United States general and lead the agency in charge of Indian affairs. Author Elizabeth Van Steenwyk tells this inspiring, and surprising, story of a man who achieved amazing success in two very different worlds.
Download or read book Seneca Chief Army General written by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. Biography of the Seneca Indian who helped save his people s land, was elected a sachem, served in the Union Army, became a general, and was named commissioner of Indian affairs.
Download or read book The Life of General Ely S Parker written by Arthur Caswell Parker and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography and a history of Ely Samuel Parker or Ha-sa-no-an-da, a Seneca Indian of pure lineage, born in 1828 near Indian Falls, town of Pembroke, Genesee County, New York. His father was Jo-no-es-sto-wa, Dragon Fly, otherwise known as William Parker, a Tonawanda Seneca Chief, and Elizabeth. Ely married 17 Dec 1867 Minnie Sackett in Washington, D.C. He died in 1895. Includes a history of his ancestors.
Download or read book Warrior in Two Camps written by William Howard Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ely Samuel Parker and Stand Watie written by Charles River and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the best known of the six nations is the Seneca, and arguably the most famous Seneca chief was Ely Samuel Parker. Over the course of his life, he was a Seneca chief, a civil engineer, a close friend and adjutant to General Ulysses S. Grant, an advocate for the Indian peoples, and the first Native American Commissioner of the Department of Indian Affairs. His marriage to a much younger socialite scandalized Washington, and he made a fortune on Wall Street and lost it all. He ended his life in genteel poverty, working for nearly 20 years in an obscure position for the New York City Police Department. Parker was a largely self-taught engineer, who worked on various canal projects, and was hired by the Department of the Treasury to supervise the construction of several buildings in Galena, Illinois, where he met a shy salesclerk named Ulysses S. Grant. At the age of 18, he dined with President Polk, later talked with President Lincoln, and had the commanding general of the U.S. Army as the best man at his wedding. He was the principal source for the first serious ethnological work by one of the first American ethnologists, who dedicated the book to Parker. He was a plaintiff before the U.S. Supreme Court when he was in his teens and was so important in the Seneca's struggle to retain their Tonawanda reservation that he was made grand sachem-principal chief-in his early 20s. He tried twice to join the Union forces but was rejected, being told it was a "white man's war." He was only able to join the Army through the influence of Grant and another general. His most famous moment came during the surrender of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox. He transcribed and copied the surrender documents which were signed by Lee and Grant, and he shook hands with Lee, who said to Parker, "It is good to see an original American here." To that, Parker responded "We are all Americans." The total population of Indian Territory in 1861 was about 100,000. There was a small population of non-Indians that included tradespeople, missionaries, blacksmiths and so on, the largest of which were about 8,000 slaves. An unknown number of free blacks lived in the territory, and some of the Indian groups were racially mixed. Most of the population was settled, meaning that subsistence farming, ranching, and even plantation agriculture were all to be found. The far western region of the territory was nearly empty, but sometimes frequented by Plains Tribes. In general, the pre-War Indian inhabitants were probably the most prosperous and safest of all the country's Indians. About 10,000 Native Americans are thought to have died in Indian Territory as a result of the Civil War, including soldiers, but also as a consequence of a total breakdown of law and order and chronic guerilla war. That estimate could be low, because the Cherokee population alone dropped from 21,000 before the Civil War to 15,000 after it. Stand Watie's life connects the traditional Cherokee homeland in Tennessee and Georgia, the fight within the tribe over leaving for the West or staying on their homeland and trying to resist, and the Trail of Tears. At the same time, his life also includes the ongoing split between mixed-blood and full-blood Cherokee in the Cherokee Nation, and the chaos of Indian Territory during the Civil War. Like the country as a whole, the Cherokee Nation was split over the question of slavery, and with an estimated 100 slaves owned, Watie was the biggest native slaveholder in the region. At the start of the war, Watie was commissioned as a colonel in Confederate service and later as a brigadier general. His 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles Regiment fought more engagements than any other Confederate unit west of the Mississippi River. As a result, Watie is perhaps the most famous figure of a widely overlooked aspect of the Civil War.
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Download or read book Expedition Against the Ohio Indians written by William Smith and published by Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms. This book was released on 1966 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fun with the Family Upstate New York written by Mary Lynn Blanks and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a parent, for parents, this opinionated, personal, and easy-to-use guide has hundreds of ideas to keep the kids entertained for an hour, a day, or a weekend! Fun with the Family Upstate New York leads the way to amusement parks, historical attractions, children’s museums, wildlife habitats, festivals, parks, and many other exciting places to go. The whole family will enjoy . . . Flume zooming at the Catskills’ largest water park, fly-fishing on the Willowemoc, or hiking to Huckleberry Point Immersing themselves in the wonderful world of America’s pastime at the National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum in Cooperstown Exploring Ithaca’s nationally acclaimed Sciencenter, or traveling through a huge heart and brain at the Rubenstein Museum in Syracuse Standing in awe before Taughannock Falls or Niagara Falls
Download or read book Native North Americans in Literature for Youth written by Alice Crosetto and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native North Americans have rich and diverse cultures and traditions. However, many misconceptions, prejudices, and stereotypes exist due to the lack of understanding and ignorance of these cultures. It is important that children and adolescents learn about and appreciate the invaluable contributions that North American Native groups have made to American society. Equally important is the availability of resources that accurately and objectively portray the historical events that occurred when European settlers displaced thousands of Native North Americans from their ancestral homelands. In Native North Americans in Literature for Youth, Alice Crosetto and Rajinder Garcha identify hundreds of appropriate and quality resources, including books, Internet sites, and media titles for K-12 students and educators. Entries are subdivided into chapters covering geographic regions, history, religions, social life, customs and traditions, nations, oral tradition, biographies, and fiction. Additionally, there are chapters for general reference resources, curricular resources for educators, media, and Internet sites. Annotations provide complete bibliographical descriptions of the entries, and each entry is identified with the grade level for which it is best suited. Reviews, awards, series, and URLs for supplemental online resources are also included. Anyone—especially students, teachers, librarians, and parents—interested in locating useful and accurate resources regarding Native North Americans will find this reference book a helpful and essential tool.
Download or read book Solo Soldier s Stories written by Kathy Warnes and published by Kathy Warnes. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of individual soldiers throughout history.
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Download or read book A World of Knowing written by Andy Russell Bowen and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the founder of the first school for the deaf in the United States who, among other accomplishments, evolved a new sign language and wrote children's books.
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remove Restrictions on Indian Property written by United States. U.S. Congress. Senate. Commttee on Indian affairs and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sale of Coal and Asphalt Deposits Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations Oklahoma written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remove Restrictions on Indian Property written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs. Subcommittee on Senate Resolution 79 and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearing war held in Muskogee, Okla.
Download or read book The Play s the Thing written by Ruth Turk and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year was 1569 and the place was Stratford-on-Avon. A little boy watched a company of traveling actors perform on a makeshift stage. No one could have known that the child, whose name was William Shakespeare, would one day become the most famous playwright in history. This is the story of the man who wrote Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and many other plays that have been performed and enjoyed again and again for more than four hundred years.
