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Professional Indian - The American Odyssey of Eleazer Williams (Hardcover)
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Professional Indian - The American Odyssey of Eleazer Williams (Hardcover)
Series: Early American Studies
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Born in 1788, Eleazer Williams was raised in the Catholic Iroquois
settlement of Kahnawake along the St. Lawrence River. According to
some sources, he was the descendant of a Puritan minister whose
daughter was taken by French and Mohawk raiders; in other tales he
was the Lost Dauphin, second son to Louis XVI of France. Williams
achieved regional renown as a missionary to the Oneida Indians in
central New York; he was also instrumental in their removal,
allying with white federal officials and the Ogden Land Company to
persuade Oneidas to relocate to Wisconsin. Williams accompanied
them himself, making plans to minister to the transplanted Oneidas,
but he left the community and his young family for long stretches
of time. A fabulist and sometime confidence man, Eleazer Williams
is notoriously difficult to comprehend: his own record is
complicated with stories he created for different audiences. But
for author Michael Leroy Oberg, he is an icon of the
self-fashioning and protean identity practiced by native peoples
who lived or worked close to the centers of Anglo-American power.
Professional Indian follows Eleazer Williams on this odyssey across
the early American republic and through the shifting spheres of the
Iroquois in an era of dispossession. Oberg describes Williams as a
"professional Indian," who cultivated many political interests and
personas in order to survive during a time of shrinking options for
native peoples. He was not alone: as Oberg shows, many Indians
became missionaries and settlers and played a vital role in
westward expansion. Through the larger-than-life biography of
Eleazer Williams, Professional Indian uncovers how Indians fought
for place and agency in a world that was rapidly trying to erase
them.
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