Download or read book Joseph Brant 1743 1807 written by Isabel Thompson Kelsay and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1984-03-01 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a major historical biography of the great Indian figure from the Revolutionary War period. Kelsay calls Joseph Brant the "most famous American Indian who ever lived"—a claim which she supports with her book. The result of some thirty years of research and writing, Joseph Brant provides a total picture of Indian life in northeast and mid-America at the end of the 18th century. Kelsay presents the reader with a wealth of characters and recreates in rich detail the historical period, its mood, and atmosphere. Educated into European culture, Brant belonged everywhere—and nowhere. Born in a bark hut, he died in a mansion. A "common Indian" among an aristocracy-ridden people, he married power (his wife was the head woman of the Mohawks) and came to be resented as "too great a man." He built churches, befriended missionaries, translated a prayer book into Mohawk—and voiced scandalous doubts about the Christian religion. Though he was called the "Monster Brant," he was merciful in warfare. He worked all his life for the good of his people. His position and prominence brought him into contact with most of the major figures of the period, including George Washington, George Ill, Aaron Burr, Sir William Johnson, even a traveling James Boswell. His best friend was an English duke. His enemies were legion. Washington tried to bribe him, his own son tried to kill him, and many of the Indians hated him. It was his tragedy to preach an unattainable unity to tribes torn by jealousies and ancient feuds.
Download or read book Life of Joseph Brant Thayendanegea written by William Leete Stone and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The War Chief of the Six Nations A Chronicle of Joseph Brant written by Louis Aubrey Wood and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Eternal Maiden" is a novel by T. Everett Harré, set in the lands of the far North. The story follows an ancient Eskimo legend about eh beginning of life on the Earth and the first people who had a gift to love and kill. This novel offers romance developed in the complex conditions of the lands of eternal snow and frost and the charm of the Eskimo attitude to life, where the mystic closely borders the real.
Download or read book Manituana written by Wu Ming and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1775-The conflict between the British Empire and the American colonies erupts in all-out war. Rebels and loyalists to the British Crown compete for an alliance with the Six Nations of the Iroquois, the most powerful Indian confederation, boasting a constitution hundreds of years old. In the Mohawk River Valley, Native Americans and colonists have co-existed for generations. But as the thunder of war approaches and the United States struggles violently into existence, old bonds are broken, friends and families are split by betrayal, and this mixed community is riven by hatred and resentment. To save his threatened world, the Mohawk war chief Joseph Brant sets off in a restless journey that will take him from New York to the salons of Georgian London at the heart of the British Empire.
Download or read book Border Wars of the American Revolution written by William Leete Stone and published by New York : Harper. This book was released on 1854 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Joseph Brant and His World written by James Paxton and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Brant was a promising but undistinguished Mohawk warrior living in upper New York State. He became an innovative, influential leader and spokesperson for First Nations, whose support for Britain during the American Revolution led to their resettlement in Upper Canada along the Grand River. Their descendants live today on the large Six Nations Reserve alongside the Grand, south of Brantford in southwestern Ontario. This new, illustrated biography of Brant reflects recent research into the political, social and cultural background of his life. Author James Paxton rejects the interpretation of earlier biographers, who depicted Brant as a man who belonged neither to the "Indian" or the "white" world. Paxton shows that Brant was fully Mohawk, with Iroquoian values that stressed the interdependence of people. He stands as the product of a unique, multicultural 18th-century community in the Mohawk Valley, New York. Using skill and diplomacy and his dense network of relationships and alliances, Brant attempted to ensure the ongoing social, economic and political autonomy of the Six Nations in their new Canadian territory. The events of Brant's day impinge directly on our own. It would be hard to imagine the standoff at Caledonia had Brant not led the Six Nations to the Grand River area and then invited Loyalists to settle among them. Yet, in 1784, Mohawks and Loyalists envisioned a different sort of community, one bound by history, common interest and shared practices. At a time when First Nations' claims against the government promise to become more numerous and confrontational, this book encourages us to consider the inclusive and multicultural legacy of Joseph Brant.
Download or read book Life of Joseph Brant written by William Leete Stone and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Life of Joseph Brant Thayendanegea written by William Leete Stone and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Life of Joseph Brant Thayendenegea written by William Leete Stone and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life of Joseph Brant Thayendanegea written by William Leete Stone and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life of Joseph Brant Thayendanegea Including the Border Wars of the American Revolution and Sketches of the Indian Campaigns of Generals Harmar St Clair and Wayne written by William Leete Stone and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Mohawk Valley Gateway to the West 1614 1925 written by Nelson Greene and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christians Courageous written by Anne E. Schraff and published by Accelerated Christian Education. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief biographies of five individuals who contributed to the development of the United States through the practice of their Christian faith. Includes Jedediah Smith, Elijah Lovejoy, Sojourner Truth, Joseph Brant Thayendanegea, and Clara Barton.
Download or read book James Monroe written by Tim McGrath and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary life of James Monroe: soldier, senator, diplomat, and the last Founding Father to hold the presidency, a man who helped transform thirteen colonies into a vibrant and mighty republic. “A first-rate account of a remarkable life.” —Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America Monroe lived a life defined by revolutions. From the battlefields of the War for Independence, to his ambassadorship in Paris in the days of the guillotine, to his own role in the creation of Congress's partisan divide, he was a man who embodied the restless spirit of the age. He was never one to back down from a fight, whether it be with Alexander Hamilton, with whom he nearly engaged in a duel (prevented, ironically, by Aaron Burr), or George Washington, his hero turned political opponent. This magnificent new biography vividly recreates the epic sweep of Monroe’s life: his near-death wounding at Trenton and a brutal winter at Valley Forge; his pivotal negotiations with France over the Louisiana Purchase; his deep, complex friendships with Thomas Jefferson and James Madison; his valiant leadership when the British ransacked the nation’s capital and burned down the Executive Mansion; and Monroe’s lifelong struggle to reckon with his own complicity in slavery. Elected the fifth president of the United States in 1816, this fiercest of partisans sought to bridge divisions and sow unity, calming turbulent political seas and inheriting Washington's mantle of placing country above party. Over his two terms, Monroe transformed the nation, strengthening American power both at home and abroad. Critically acclaimed author Tim McGrath has consulted an extensive array of primary sources, many rarely seen since Monroe's own time, to conjure up this fascinating portrait of an essential American statesman and president.
