The Iroquois in the Civil War: From Battlefield to Reservation

by HAUPTMAN LAURENCE M.

• ISBN13: 9780815605560
• ISBN10: 0815605560
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr

Summary

Kan (anthropology, Dartmouth College) portrays the meeting between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and analyzes the indigenous Orthodoxy that developed over the next 200 years. Examinations of Russian Orthodox theology, ritual practice, and missionary methods, as well as descriptions of Tlingit culture enhance this story of the synthesis of two cultures. Kan concludes that the Tlingit and Russians tended to act in mutually beneficial ways, but for completely different reasons. He goes on to explore the ways the Tlingit used the Orthodox tradition to resist Americanization with the arrival of Presbyterian missionaries in the 1880s.

Author Biography

Laurence M. Hauptman is professor of history at the State University of New York at New Paltz.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	ix
Preface	xi
Introduction	3	(6)
PART ONE THE IROQUOIS GO TO WAR
The Call to Arms: Iroquois Warriors/Volunteers	9	(16)
The Tuscarora Company: Through the Eyes of Isaac Newton Parker	25	(14)
``War Eagle'': Lieutenant Cornelius C. Cusick	39	(8)
``Grant's Indian'': Ely S. Parker at the Battle of Chattanooga	47	(12)
Ordinary Seaman William Jones in War and Peace	59	(8)
The Oneidas of the 14th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry	67	(18)
The Iroquois in Indian Territory	85	(18)
PART TWO THE OTHER WAR: THE HOME FRONT
Chief Samuel George, Iroquois Confederacy Spokesman	103	(14)
Railroading	117	(12)
Women at War	129	(8)
Children at War	137	(8)
Two Wars	145	(10)
Notes	155	(24)
Bibliography	179	(22)
Index	201