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William W. Warren

The Life, Letters, and Times of an Ojibwe Leader

By: Theresa M. Schenck

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William W. Warren

The Life, Letters, and Times of an Ojibwe Leader

By: Theresa M. Schenck

This is the first full-length biography of William W. Warren (1825-53), an Ojibwe interpreter, historian, and legislator in the Minnesota Territory. Devoted to the interests of the Ojibwe at a time of government attempts at removal, Warren lives on in his influential book History of the Ojibway , still the most widely read and cited source on the Ojibwe people. The son of a Yankee fur trader and an Ojibwe-French mother, Warren grew up in a frontier community of mixed cultures. Warren's loyalty to government Indian policies was challenged, but never his loyalty to the Ojibwe people. In his short life the issues with which he was concerned included land rights, treaties, Indian removal, mixed-blood politics, and state and federal Indian policy. Theresa M. Schenck has assembled a remarkable collection of newly discovered documents. Dozens of letters and other writings illuminate not only Warren's heart and mind but also a time of radical change in American Indian history. These documents, combined with Schenck's commentary, provide historical and contextual perspective on Warren's life, on the breadth of his activities, and on the complexity of the man himself; as such they offer a useful and long-awaited companion to Warren's History of the Ojibway .

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803206232

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9780803206236

The Voice of the Crane Echoes Afar

The Sociopolitical Organization of the Lake Superior Ojibwa, 1640-1855

By: Theresa M. Schenck

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The Voice of the Crane Echoes Afar

The Sociopolitical Organization of the Lake Superior Ojibwa, 1640-1855

By: Theresa M. Schenck

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Taylor & Francis

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0815329830

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9780815329831

The Founding Mothers of Mackinac Island

The Agatha Biddle Band of 1870

By: Theresa L. Weller

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The Founding Mothers of Mackinac Island

The Agatha Biddle Band of 1870

By: Theresa L. Weller

Drawing on a wide array of historical sources, Theresa L. Weller provides a comprehensive history of the lineage of the seventy-four members of the Agatha Biddle band in 1870. A highly unusual Native and Métis community, the band included just eight men but sixty-six women. Agatha Biddle was a member of the band from its first enumeration in 1837 and became its chief in the early 1860s. Also, unlike most other bands, which were typically made up of family members, this one began as a small handful of unrelated Indian women joined by the fact that the US government owed them payments in the form of annuities in exchange for land given up in the 1836 Treaty of Washington, DC. In this volume, the author unveils the genealogies for all the families who belonged to the band under Agatha Biddle’s leadership, and in doing so, offers the reader fascinating insights into Mackinac Island life in the nineteenth century.

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MSU Press

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1628954280

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9781628954289

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William W. Warren

William W. Warren

The Voice of the Crane Echoes Afar

The Voice of the Crane Echoes Afar

The Founding Mothers of Mackinac Island

The Founding Mothers of Mackinac Island

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