Risultati di ricerca
5 apr 2024 · The Oneida Nation in the American Revolution. An Oneida living historian in traditional clothing gives a talk to visitors near the fort walls. National Park Service/M. Hutchko. Compiled by Park Ranger William Sawyer. The Oneida were one of the individual Nations of the powerful Six Nations Confederacy.
10 apr 2024 · In this address to Jonathan Trumbull, the Governor of the Colony of Connecticut who sided with the Revolutionary cause, the chief of the Oneida Indians declares his tribe's intention to remain neutral in the impending conflict. The Oneidas express their dismay at the prospect of war between the "two brothers of one blood," and ...
22 mar 2024 · Founded on principles of the communal ownership of property and free love, the Oneida community was a Christian sect organized by John Humphrey Noyes, a radical preacher and socialist. It was the most successful of many Utopian communities that sprang up in America in the 19th century. The son of a wealthy New England businessman, Noyes was ...
2 giorni fa · Ponca chief Standing Bear (c. 1829–1908) is best remembered as the first Indian to win a civil rights victory in U.S. federal court. In 1877 the Ponca were removed from their homelands in Nebraska to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). Inadequate preparations had been made for them, and they arrived too late to plant a crop. By the end of the winter nearly a third of them had died from ...
22 mar 2024 · -- An Oneida Indian Nation ancestor who participated in a relief mission organized by Chief Shenendoah in 1777 to assist the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War is being honored. Oneida ancestor Polly Cooper was acknowledged by the U.S. Senate as part of Women's History Month.
2 giorni fa · The Slaveholders’ Rebellion. FELLOW CITIZENS: Eighty-six years ago the fourth of July was consecrated and distinguished among all the days of the year as the birthday, of American liberty and Independence. The fathers of the Republic recommended that this day be celebrated with joy and gladness by the whole American people, to their latest ...
5 apr 2024 · primary sources on the American Revolution (1775–1783) primary sources online related to a variety of aspects of the war
