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By Herbert S. Lewis
ISBN-10: 0803229437
ISBN-13: 9780803229433
ISBN-10: 0803280432
ISBN-13: 9780803280434
During this intimate quantity the long-lost voices of Wisconsin Oneida women and men converse of all elements of existence: transforming into up, paintings and fiscal struggles, relations family members, trust and non secular perform, boarding-school lifestyles, love, intercourse, activities, and politics. those voices are drawn from a suite of handwritten money owed lately rediscovered after greater than fifty years, the results of a WPA Federal Writers’ venture venture referred to as the Oneida Ethnological learn (1940–42) during which a dozen Oneida women and men have been employed to interview their households and buddies and list their very own reports and observations. Selected from greater than biographical narratives, those sixty-five chronicles, advised by means of fifty-eight men and women, current an image of Oneida Indian existence from the Eighteen Eighties, prior to the Dawes Allotment Act, via global warfare I and the nice melancholy, to the start of global struggle II. regardless of the narrators' struggles opposed to harsh financial stipulations, the robbery in their land, and overlook, their firsthand histories are rendered with frankness and wit and current a striking photo of an period and a humans.
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When my father came back my baby sister was about two years old, and I was about six. My little baby sister was afraid of him. I was a little shy of him myself. That was the only time that he was away from home during my childhood. I don’t think he ever went to the woods again after that. He made some money that time. He made about $150, but he had to buy some things from the store at Wittenberg. He brought boots for himself, and that used to cost about fifteen or sixteen dollars. I always remember what a nice pair of shoes I got that time.
The writers do not mention drums or powwows, but they do speak of pianos, organs, cornets, and brass bands. A few of the older men speak of playing or watching lacrosse, but football and baseball were much more popular. 25 Despite all of the obvious acculturation, the individuals who speak in these texts never—not for a moment—forget that they are Oneidas, Iroquois, and Indians. The evidence of these continuing identities is in every narrative. These writings bear out Jack Campisi’s contention that “to a casual observer many Oneidas are indistinguishable in White society.
0pt P ——— Normal P PgEnds: T [9], (9) 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 the narratives laws of Wisconsin could not enforce them. Some people listened to him and did not make any effort to pay real estate or personal property tax from one year to another and the result of that was they were evicted from their home. I know two such cases, where they were forced to get out of their homes. I think there were some that were cheated by not being able to read, and they thought they were mortgaging only a small portion of their land, but they would find out too late that they had mortgaged the whole place.
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