The Tonawanda Senecas' Heroic Battle Against Removal
Excelsior Editions (Verlag)
978-1-4384-3577-0 (ISBN)
The remarkable story of the Tonawanda Senecas in the face of overwhelming odds is the centerpiece of this landmark community study. In the six decades prior to the Civil War, they wrestled with pressures from land companies; the local, state, and federal officials' policies to acquire tribal lands and remove the Indians; misguided Quakers who believed they knew what was best for the Indians; and divisions among Seneca communities about what strategies of resistance to employ. As deftly and convincingly revealed by Laurence M. Hauptman, the Tonawanda Senecas were able strategists who overcame disastrous treaties to regain 7,549 acres of their western New York territory, lands that they still possess today.
The chiefs and clan mothers pursued a number of well thought-out strategies: petitioning officials and lobbying in Washington, challenging the legality of the treaties; preventing surveyors from entering onto tribal lands; disrupting land auctions; taking out advertisements; and networking with influential whites. They also hired a first-rate attorney who eventually won a landmark victory in the U.S. Supreme Court and who successfully negotiated the United States–Tonawanda Treaty of 1857, which provided a formula to repurchase a part of the reservation. In recounting this heroic story, Hauptman throws new light on Red Jacket and Ely S. Parker, women's roles within Tonawanda society, and the development of the Gaiwiio, the Longhouse religion.
Laurence M. Hauptman is SUNY Distinguished Professor of History at SUNY New Paltz. His many books include Seven Generations of Iroquois Leadership: The Six Nations since 1800; A Nation within a Nation: Voices of the Oneidas in Wisconsin; and Formulating American Indian Policy in New York State, 1970–1986, also published by SUNY Press.
List of Charts
List of Maps
Abbreviations
Preface
1. The Tonawanda Community: Early History
2. The Awakener
3. He Carries a Heavy Weight on His Shoulders
4. The Compromised Treaty
5. The Activist Sachem
photo gallery following page 74
6. The Runner
7. The Whig Mouthpiece
8. The Tonawanda Treaty
9. Buying Back the Reservation
10. Conclusion
Appendices
Appendix I. Tonawanda Seneca Clan Mothers’ Support of Chiefs’ Efforts to Protest Treaty of Buffalo Creek of 1838, March 14, 1841
Appendix II. “TO THE PUBLIC”—Tonawanda Chiefs’ Advertisement Asking the Non-Indians of Western New York Not to Purcase Reservation Lands from the Ogden Land Company. Spirit of the Times [Batavia, New York newspaper], June 19, 1844
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.7.2011 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Excelsior Editions |
| Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 22 |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 445 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4384-3577-0 / 1438435770 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4384-3577-0 / 9781438435770 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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