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An Oneida Indian in Foreign Waters : The Life of Chief Chapman Scanandoah, 1870-1953 /

"Chief Chapman Scanandoah (1870-1953) was a decorated Navy veteran who served in the Spanish-American War, a skilled mechanic, and a prizewinning agronomist who helped develop the Iroquois Village at the New York State Fair. He was also a historian, linguist, philosopher, and early leader of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hauptman, Laurence M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Oneida world in New York in the century after the American Revolution
  • Growing up Oneida : Windfall in the 1870s and 1880s
  • An Oneida in an African American world: Hampton Institute
  • A global education: naval service in war and peace
  • Saving the thirty-two acres in the white man's courts
  • A Native American inventor in the age of Edison
  • An outsider at Onondaga
  • The wise tribal elder tends his garden
  • Conclusion.