The Oneida Indians in the age of allotment, 1860-1920

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The Oneida Indians in the age of allotment, 1860-1920 / Laurence M. Hauptman, L. Gordon McLester III.

Hauptman, Laurence M. (Author). McLester, L. Gordon. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0806137525 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780806137520
Physical Description: xx, 333 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:: INCLUDES BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES (p. (295)-311) AND INDEX.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-311) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: One hundred years in Wisconsin -- The Civil War. General aspects -- Cornelius Doxtator : an Oneida veteran of the Civil War / Laurence M. Hauptman and L. Gordon McLester III -- Three Oneida WPA stories ; They had been to school / Lavinia Elm ; The Civil War / Thomas Elm ; Oneida soldiers / Thomas Elm -- Boarding school days in the age of allotment. Captain Pratt and his legacy -- Oneidas at Carlisle Indian School, 1884-1918 / Barbara Landis -- Oneidas at Hampton Institute / Thelma Cornelius McLester -- The Oneida Indian Boarding School / Judy Cornelius -- The origins of residential schooling among the Onyote'a:Ka of the Thames, 1840-1920 / Eileen Antone -- Three Oneida WPA stories ; Carlyle students with bicycles / Oscar Archiquette ; Football / Moses Elm ; The Oneida Boarding School / John A. Skenandore -- Contemporary Oneida elders reflect on their boarding school experiences ; My school days / Prudence Bennett Doxtator ; My school days / Marie Hinton ; My school days / Mary Schuyler Metoxen ; My school days / Purcell Powless -- Oneida voices in the age of allotment. Some Oneida families ; The autobiography of Chief Cornelius Hill, September 9, 1899 -- Three Oneida WPA stories about Chief Cornelius Hill ; Two stories about Chief Cornelius Hill / Chauncey Baird ; Chief Cornelius Hill / Albert Hill -- Lacework / Josephine Hill Webster -- From Carlisle to Carnegie Hall : the musical career of Dennison Wheelock / Laurence M. Hauptman -- Three Oneida WPA stories about reservation bands, musicians, and performances ; Oneida National Band / Chauncey Baird ; The Oneida Band / Thomas Elm ; Oneida Bands / Mark Powless -- Opportunities at home : Laura Cornelius Kellogg and village industrialization / Patricia Stovey -- Land loss in the age of allotment. Pressures and legislation -- The Dawes Act and the Oneida Indian Reservation of Wisconsin / James W. Oberly -- The Wisconsin Oneidas and the Federal Competency Commission of 1917 / Laurence M. Hauptman -- The railroad and Wisconsin Oneida lands : a case study in Oneida tribal sovereignty / Carol Cornelius -- The railroad and Wisconsin Oneida tribal lands : a legal memoir / Loretta R. Webster -- Four Oneida WPA stories about land loss ; [Dawes] General Allotment Act / Filmore Cooper ; Before they started to pay taxes / Rachel Swamp ; In deceit / Levi Baird ; Property and loss of land / Guy Elm -- Fighting back : in federal courts, 1876-1920. United States v. Elm -- United States v. Boylan et al.