OLAC Record oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:11028

Metadata
Title:		Haudenosaunee materials, Ely Samuel Parker Papers
Contributor:		Parker, Ely Samuel, 1828-1895
		Edwards, Howard, 1833-1925?
		Wilson, Peter
		Parker, Caroline, -1892
		Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
		Parker, Arthur Caswell, 1881-1955
		Iroquois chiefs
		Johnson, Anna C. (Anna Cummings), 1818-1892
		Cornwall, William
		Mix, Charles E.
		New York Indians in Kansas Territory
		Wright, Asher, 1803-1875
		Ehlers, Edward M. L.
		Porter, Charles T. (Charles Talbot), 1826-1910
		Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881
		Samson, William Holland, 1860-1917
		Street, Alfred Billings, 1811?-1881
Date:		1815-1945
Description:		Various materials relating to Haudenosaunee people, culture, history, and language. Correspondence includes a typed copy of a 1815 letter from Haudenosaunee chiefs to the Secretary of War listing losses in the War of 1812; Daniel Webster thanking Parker for a gift copy of Morgan's "League of the Iroquois"; letters pertaining to Parker's assistance to both fiction and non-fiction writers such as Lewis Henry Morgan, Anna C. Campbell, Alfred B. Street, Charles Talbot Porter, etc.; William Cornwall's suggestion that the Haudenosaunee still own the Thousand Islands on the Canadian side of the border; letters pertaining to the New York Indians in Kansas Territory prosecuting claims under treaties of 1838 and 1842; Parker to B.F. Hall regarding "traditional history" of Chief Logan [see also #557]; and Parker to the President of the United States requesting that Peter Wilson be continued as interpreter for the New York Indian agency. Other items include a fragment of Ely Parker's "History of the government, manners, customs...(of the Iroquois Confederacy)"; his mutilated manuscript describing "a Grand Council of the Six Nations of New York, held at Tonawanda for the purpose of hearing again their religious code, from Jimmy Johnson, the Grand High Priest of the Iroquois Confederacy"; his "Initiation of the Wolf tribe of the Cayuga nation, one of the confederate nations of the Grand Confederacy of Iroquois"; other notes, extracts, and short essays by Ely Parker on Haudenosaunee-related topics; Caroline Parker's school essay on Handsome Lake; three chapters of Arther Caswell Parker's unpublished manuscript, "Red Embers of the Longhouse"; Asher Wright's memo book on the Council of the Six Nations held at Cattaraugus (December 1, 1862); Edward Ehlers' address suggesting similarities between Iroquois Longhouse and Masonic Lodge symbolism; and Peter Wilson's talk on Haudenosaunee history before the New York Historical Society.
Extent:		25 items
Identifier:		https://indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org/entry/11028
Language:		English
Language (ISO639):		eng
Subject:		Haudenosaunee
		Land tenure
		Politics and government
		Religion
		Rites and ceremonies
		Government relations
		Anthropology
		Ethnography
		Land claims
		Treaties
		New York (State)--History
Type:		Essays
		Correspondence
		Drafts
Type (DCMI):		Text
Type (OLAC):		primary_text
OLAC Info
Archive:		Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:11028
DateStamp:		2020-03-02
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
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Citation:		Parker, Ely Samuel, 1828-1895; Edwards, Howard, 1833-1925?; Wilson, Peter; Parker, Caroline, -1892; Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852; Parker, Arthur Caswell, 1881-1955; Iroquois chiefs; Johnson, Anna C. (Anna Cummings), 1818-1892; Cornwall, William; Mix, Charles E.; New York Indians in Kansas Territory; Wright, Asher, 1803-1875; Ehlers, Edward M. L.; Porter, Charles T. (Charles Talbot), 1826-1910; Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881; Samson, William Holland, 1860-1917; Street, Alfred Billings, 1811?-1881. 1815-1945. Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society.
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