Seneca Possessed

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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812207084
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Book Synopsis Seneca Possessed by : Matthew Dennis

Download or read book Seneca Possessed written by Matthew Dennis and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seneca Possessed examines the ordeal of a Native people in the wake of the American Revolution. As part of the once-formidable Iroquois Six Nations in western New York, Senecas occupied a significant if ambivalent place within the newly established United States. They found themselves the object of missionaries' conversion efforts while also confronting land speculators, poachers, squatters, timber-cutters, and officials from state and federal governments. In response, Seneca communities sought to preserve their territories and culture amid a maelstrom of economic, social, religious, and political change. They succeeded through a remarkable course of cultural innovation and conservation, skillful calculation and luck, and the guidance of both a Native prophet and unusual Quakers. Through the prophecies of Handsome Lake and the message of Quaker missionaries, this process advanced fitfully, incorporating elements of Christianity and white society and economy, along with older Seneca ideas and practices. But cultural reinvention did not come easily. Episodes of Seneca witch-hunting reflected the wider crises the Senecas were experiencing. Ironically, as with so much of their experience in this period, such episodes also allowed for the preservation of Seneca sovereignty, as in the case of Tommy Jemmy, a Seneca chief tried by New York in 1821 for executing a Seneca "witch." Here Senecas improbably but successfully defended their right to self-government. Through the stories of Tommy Jemmy, Handsome Lake, and others, Seneca Possessed explores how the Seneca people and their homeland were "possessed"—culturally, spiritually, materially, and legally—in the era of early American independence.

The Seneca and Tuscarora Indians

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Publisher : Native American Bibliography Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Seneca and Tuscarora Indians by : Marilyn L. Haas

Download or read book The Seneca and Tuscarora Indians written by Marilyn L. Haas and published by Native American Bibliography Series. This book was released on 1994 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seneca and Tuscarora Indians, most of whom live today in New York State, are the westernmost members of the Six Nations or Iroquois Confederacy. Haas's annotated bibliography on both tribes includes citations to journal articles, books, theses, and government documents published up to 1992. She covers, among other topics, arts and crafts, food and agriculture, games, legislation, history, government, health practices, land problems, linguistics, missions and missionaries, music, dance, religion, social customs, treaties, wars, and women. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Skunny Wundy and Other Indian Tales

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Skunny Wundy and Other Indian Tales written by Arthur Caswell Parker and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Little Water Medicine Society of the Senecas

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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806134475
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Book Synopsis The Little Water Medicine Society of the Senecas by : William Nelson Fenton

Download or read book The Little Water Medicine Society of the Senecas written by William Nelson Fenton and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Seneca Iroquois Indians, song is a crucial means of renewing both medicine and heritage. Two or three times a year, the Little Water Medicine Society of western New York meets to renew the potency of its medicine bundles through singing. These bundles have been inherited from eighteenth century Iroquois war parties, handed down from generation to generation. In this long-awaited book, William N. Fenton describes the remarkable ceremonies of one of the least recorded but most significant medicine societies of the Iroquois Indians. Most of the Senecas who were members of the Little Water Society, or Society of Shamans, have passed away, and their knowledge of ceremonial healing and spiritual renewal is fading. Fenton has written this book to preserve knowledge of the ceremonies and songs for the Iroquois people and as a contribution to anthropology, folklore, ethnomusicology, and American Indian studies. In The Little Water Medicine Society of the Senecas, he presents his original 1933 fieldwork, along with details from the published and unpublished works of other researchers, to describe rituals, poetry, and songs drawn from his more than six decades of research among the Six Nations.

Death and Rebirth of Seneca

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307760561
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis Death and Rebirth of Seneca by : Anthony Wallace

Download or read book Death and Rebirth of Seneca written by Anthony Wallace and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of the late colonial and early reservation history of the Seneca Indians, and of the prophet Handsome Lake, his visions, and the moral and religious revitalization of an American Indian society that he and his followers achieved in the years around 1800.

Living with the Senecas

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Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 0822587785
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)

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Book Synopsis Living with the Senecas by : Susan Bivin Aller

Download or read book Living with the Senecas written by Susan Bivin Aller and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Jemison was born in 1743 as her parents emigrated from Ireland to Pennsylvania. When she was fifteen years old, a group of raiding Shawnee Indians and French soldiers captured her and her family. She was the only one to survive. For seventy-five years, she lived among the Seneca Indians who adopted her. She outlived two husbands and bore eight children. She witnessed two wars and a revolution. Even though she could have returned to the white world, she chose to remain with the Senecas and became a loyal and respected member of her tribe.

Red Jacket, Seneca Chief

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803287556
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (875 download)

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Book Synopsis Red Jacket, Seneca Chief by : Arthur Caswell Parker

Download or read book Red Jacket, Seneca Chief written by Arthur Caswell Parker and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of controversial Seneca chief and orator Red Jacket (ca. 1750-1830), whose passionate, articulate defense of the old ways won the admiration of many but also earned enmity from other tribal leaders. Red Jacket received a medal from George Washington as a token of friendship. This biography follows Red Jacket from boyhood through the Revolutionary War.

Seneca Indian Myths

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Seneca Indian Myths by : Jeremiah Curtin

Download or read book Seneca Indian Myths written by Jeremiah Curtin and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1883 a Smithsonian Institution ethnologist traveled to western New York State to record the traditional tales of the Iroquois tribe known as the Seneca. These myths -- picturesque, archaic, even grotesque -- appear here in their original form, exactly as spoken. Many focus on seasons or weather; others creation myths and animals.

Indian Captive

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453227520
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Book Synopsis Indian Captive by : Lois Lenski

Download or read book Indian Captive written by Lois Lenski and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Newbery Honor book inspired by the true story of a girl captured by a Shawnee war party in Colonial America and traded to a Seneca tribe. When twelve-year-old Mary Jemison and her family are captured by Shawnee raiders, she’s sure they’ll all be killed. Instead, Mary is separated from her siblings and traded to two Seneca sisters, who adopt her and make her one of their own. Mary misses her home, but the tribe is kind to her. She learns to plant crops, make clay pots, and sew moccasins, just as the other members do. Slowly, Mary realizes that the Indians are not the monsters she believed them to be. When Mary is given the chance to return to her world, will she want to leave the tribe that has become her family? This Newbery Honor book is based on the true story of Mary Jemison, the pioneer known as the “White Woman of the Genesee.” This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lois Lenski including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

Handbook of the Seneca Language

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1897367139
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (973 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of the Seneca Language by : Wallace Chafe

Download or read book Handbook of the Seneca Language written by Wallace Chafe and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seneca language is a member of the Iroquoian language family. Seneca is a seriously endangered language spoken in upper New York State and Southern Ontario. This book consists of 3 parts. Section I, on orthography, describes a way of writing Seneca words consistently and without omitting features that are significant. Various spelling systems have been used, and are being used, for the writing of Seneca by missionaries, anthropologists, and the speakers of the language themselves. Section II, on grammar, is concerned with the structure of Seneca words. Section III is a brief glossary of the Seneca language.

White Indian

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Publisher : Domain
ISBN 13 : 9780553246506
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (465 download)

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Book Synopsis White Indian by : Donald Clayton Porter

Download or read book White Indian written by Donald Clayton Porter and published by Domain. This book was released on 1984-04-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Code of Handsome Lake, the Seneca Prophet

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
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Download or read book The Code of Handsome Lake, the Seneca Prophet written by Handsome Lake and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Warrior in Two Camps

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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815624950
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (249 download)

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Book Synopsis Warrior in Two Camps by : William H. Armstrong

Download or read book Warrior in Two Camps written by William H. Armstrong and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1978-06-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warrior in Two Camps is the biography of Ely S. Parker, the first native American to serve as commissioner of Indian Affairs. The name Ely Samuel Parker is seldom found among famous Indian chiefs. Indeed, the name seems somehow out of place in the company of men called Black Hawk or Crazy Horse or Geronimo. But the prosaic name is part of the story of an American Indian who chose to live his life in the white man’s world. It is a story in which a frock coat replaces the traditional deerskin, and a surveyor’s level and a soldier’s orderly book take the place of the wampum belt and the war club.

Mary Jemison

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Publisher : Clear Light Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780940666580
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (665 download)

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Book Synopsis Mary Jemison by : Rayna M. Gangi

Download or read book Mary Jemison written by Rayna M. Gangi and published by Clear Light Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Mary Jemison, a fifteen-year-old girl who was kidnapped by the Seneca Indians and adopted into their tribe, becoming the wife of a warrior chief, and experiencing the tragedies and triumphs of life in the eighteenth-century Seneca nation.

We Are Not a Vanishing People

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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816542260
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis We Are Not a Vanishing People by : Thomas Constantine Maroukis

Download or read book We Are Not a Vanishing People written by Thomas Constantine Maroukis and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early twentieth-century roots of modern American Indian protest and activism are examined in We Are Not a Vanishing People. It tells the history of Native intellectuals and activists joining together to establish the Society of American Indians, a group of Indigenous men and women united in the struggle for Indian self-determination.

Seneca Myths and Folk Tales

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Publisher : Buffalo, N.Y. : Buffalo Historical Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
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Book Synopsis Seneca Myths and Folk Tales by : Arthur Caswell Parker

Download or read book Seneca Myths and Folk Tales written by Arthur Caswell Parker and published by Buffalo, N.Y. : Buffalo Historical Society. This book was released on 1923 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Coming Full Circle

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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806163682
Total Pages : 327 pages
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Book Synopsis Coming Full Circle by : Laurence M. Hauptman

Download or read book Coming Full Circle written by Laurence M. Hauptman and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disastrous Buffalo Creek Treaty of 1838 called for the Senecas’ removal to Kansas (then part of the Indian Territory). From this low point, the Seneca Nation of Indians, which today occupies three reservations in western New York, sought to rebound. Beginning with events leading to the Seneca Revolution in 1848, which transformed the nation’s government from a council of chiefs to an elected system, Laurence M. Hauptman traces Seneca history through the New Deal. Based on the author’s nearly fifty years of archival research, interviews, and applied work, Coming Full Circle shows that Seneca leaders in these years learned valuable lessons and adapted to change, thereby preparing the nation to meet the challenges it would face in the post–World War II era, including major land loss and threats of termination. Instead of emphasizing American Indian decline, Hauptman stresses that the Senecas were actors in their own history and demonstrated cultural and political resilience. Both Native belief, in the form of the Good Message of Handsome Lake, and Christianity were major forces in Seneca life; women continued to play important social and economic roles despite the demise of clan matrons’ right to nominate the chiefs; and Senecas became involved in national and international competition in long-distance running and in lacrosse. The Seneca Nation also achieved noteworthy political successes in this period. The Senecas resisted allotment, and thus saved their reservations from breakup and sale. They recruited powerful allies, including attorneys, congressmen, journalists, and religious leaders. They saved their Oil Spring Reservation, winning a U.S. Supreme Court case against New York State on the issue of taxation and won remuneration in their Kansas Claims case. These efforts laid the groundwork for the Senecas’ postwar endeavor to seek compensation before the Indian Claims Commission and pursuit of a series of land claims and tax lawsuits against New York State.