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Lafayette Letters (Paperback)
Edward Everett Dale; Contributions by Marie Joseph Paul Du Motier Lafayette
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R600
Discovery Miles 6 000
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Lafayette Letters (Hardcover)
Edward Everett Dale; Contributions by Marie Joseph Paul Du Motier Lafayette
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R935
Discovery Miles 9 350
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
With the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 the
United States became responsible for the administration of some
125,000 Indians in addition to those already within the national
boundaries. The new tribes included many peoples known only to
traders and trappers who had ventured into the trackless stretches
of the West. This book considers the hundred-year record of federal
relations with these Indians.
The first two decades of United States control are seen as a period
of large-scale humanitarian purpose, flawed in many cases by racial
prejudice, official corruption, or outright cruelty and abuse. New
policies, under Ulysses S. Grant, and an awakening of public
conscience in the 1870s and 1880s brought a second major period,
characterized by the system of reservations.
Later chapters of the book deal with twentieth-century changes,
particularly with agents, schools, and medical services, all
carefully analyzed by the author, who was a member of the Meriam
Commission in 1926-27. The record reveals in realistic detail the
problems of the government and the tenacity of the tribes in
resisting white settlement and retaining their own culture and way
of life.
The two hundred letters which from the colorful mosaic of this
story of the Cherokee tell for the first time, in the Indian's own
words, of more than forty years in the history of the old Cherokee
Nation. These letters, found in three great trunks in Oklahoma by
Edward Everett Dale, and here brought together, in collaboration
with Gaston Litton, in sequence and with the necessary annotation
to make a connected story, are the correspondence of the
Ridge-Watie-Boudinot family, the minority leaders in the
Nation.
The Cherokees, by the first decade of the nineteenth century,
had made great progress in civilization. They had a constitutional
form of government under which they were to live for three-quarters
of a century in a tiny independent republic within the confines of
the United States. Not a few were well educated. They had their own
written language as evolved by Sequoyah and many had large
plantations, cultivated by numerous slaves, and lived in beautiful
homes as Southern planters, in the full tradition of the Southern
cavalier.
From the time of President Jefferson, however, they had been
under urgent pressure to leave their traditional homes in the deep
south and seek new ones in the great unoccupied lands of the
Louisiana Purchase. In 1835 the minority group, headed by the
Ridge-Watie-Boudinot family, signed at New Echota, Georgia, a
treaty which provided that the entire tribe should remove to lands
in Indian Territory already occupied by the Cherokees West. This
group was henceforth known as the "Treaty Party."
The treaty and the enforced removal three years later divided
the Cherokee into two hostile factions and paved the way for thirty
years of political turmoil and bloody strife within the Nation. In
these letters, which center around the figure of the last
Confederate General to surrender his sword--brigadier General Stand
Watie--is told the story of the removal, the establishment of a new
nation in the West, the divided loyalties of the tribe during the
Civil War, and the tragic difficulties of the reconstruction. The
picture is not alone that of life within the Nation. E. C.
Boudinot, the Cherokee delegate to the Confederate congress, writes
of war-torn Richmond during the Civil War. John Rollin Ridge, the
poet and journalist, and several others who followed the Gold Rush
to California tell of the mining camps during the days of
forty-nine. General Albert Pike's official correspondence with
General Watie is revealed.
As only personal letters can reveal, here in intimacy are the
lives and thoughts, the loves and hates, the philosophies and
ambitions of these proud cavaliers of Cherokee blood. This book
will be a revelation to those who have thought of this branch of
Indian race as barbarous or semi-civilized.
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Tales of the Tepee (Paperback)
Edward Everett Dale; Introduction by Clyde Ellis
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R268
R223
Discovery Miles 2 230
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"Tales of the Tepee" grew out of Edward Everett Dale's close
association with Indian tribes living in Oklahoma. During
territorial days young Dale rode, hunted, and visited with the
Kiowas, Comanches, and Wichitas. Later he taught many Cherokees,
Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, Sac and Fox, and Delawares at the
state university. Near the beginning of his long and distinguished
career as a historian, he gathered and recorded these stories.
Originally published in 1920, "Tales of the Tepee" takes the
reader to the lodge bonfires of the Cherokees, Wichitas, and
Pawnees, where children stayed awake to hear about giant cannibals,
magical transformations, mortal unions with celestial bodies, and
journeys to the Spirit Land. Dale preserved these popular tales of
danger and revenge, renewal and romance, and family life. They are
populated with an ogress named Spearfinger, the monster Flint, the
tragic Wynema, and the cyclic heroes Wild Boy, Stone Man, and
Found-in-the-Grass. Here are animal people like the courageous
Rabbit and the great bird Tlan-u-wa. And here are lovely
explanations for matters mundane and cosmic: how strawberries came
to be, and how the moon got its spots.
The activities of a young boy on a small farm in the Texas Cross
Timbers during the 1880s seem especially distant today. No one can
remember the adventure of a sixteen-and-a-half-mile journey, which
consumed the greater part of a day; or hurried predawn dressing in
a frosty cold loft while the fragrance of a hearty breakfast wafted
upward through the floor cracks; or a two-room schoolhouse, where
the last half of Friday afternoon was given over to "speaking
pieces" or to spelling and ciphering matches. Through the
recollections of Edward Everett Dale we are able to view a pattern
of life in rural America now gone forever. For The Cross Timbers is
a story which, with but a few minor variations, could have been
told about a vast number of small boys on farms cleared from the
virgin forests in the timbered regions of many states. After
presenting a brief introduction to the members of the Dale family
and the plant, animal, and bird life of the Lower Cross Timbers
countryside, the author describes his boyhood of a past century. He
tells of his home, its furnishings, and the food served there, as
well as the neighbors and relatives who come to visit. We learn of
the superstitions, the humorous homespun expressions, the mores of
early rural Texans. We hunt and fish with young Master Dale in the
thick woods and along the clear creeks. Pioneer life demanded much
hard work, but not to the exclusion of a diverting social life-both
of which included the youngsters, as the author so graphically
relates. Dale tells us also of the religious and secular education
of the era, showing the significance of the home in supplementing
these two influences. Anyone reading this volume must be impressed
by the great differences in the lifeways of rural children today
and of those of the end of the nineteenth century.
Edward Everett Dale gives a first-hand account of the way
pioneer families and cowboys of the frontier lived. Dr. Dale has
lived in a sod house, and he once rode the range as cook to a group
of cowboys. In this book he draws on his varied experiences to
describe all aspects of frontier life--the building of a home, the
problems of finding wood and water, the procuring and cooking of
food, medical practices, and the cultural, social, and religious
life of pioneer families.
This edition is a digital facsimile of the 1959 edition.
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