Ebenezer Meriam correspondence, 1850-1855 1850-1855

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Ebenezer Meriam correspondence, 1850-1855 1850-1855

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Letters from two young Christian Onondaga Indians, Thomas La Fort and Jameson L. Thomas, about their efforts to get an education so they might help their tribe; from Chief David Hill, leader of the Christian Onondagas, asking for financial and political aid when the New York state legislature refused money for a school on the Onondaga reservation, and when the Christian and pagan Indians sought to divide the reservation between them.

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La Fort, Thomas

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Hill, L. A. (Leslie Alexander)

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Thomas, Jameson L.

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Meriam, Ebenezer, 1794-1864.

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Ebenezer Meriam was a New York Indian agent. From the description of Correspondence, 1850-1855. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122488810 From the guide to the Ebenezer Meriam correspondence, 1850-1855, 1850-1855, (American Philosophical Society) Ebenezer Meriam (1794-1864) was a New York meteorologist, pamphleteer and philanthropist who contributed regularly to the schools for Oneida and Onondaga Indian children on the res...

Hill, David,

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Edwards, J. L.

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