Appendix to last grand sachem of the Iroquois : typescript

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Appendix to last grand sachem of the Iroquois : typescript

1919

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Material apparently gathered (but not used) by Parker for his The Life of General Ely S. Parker, published as v. 23 of Buffalo Historical Society Publications, 1919. Includes one of Ely Parker's school essays, "National faith", written 25 Nov. 1847 at Cayuga Academy; diary entries from a trip to Washington, 1-14 Jan. 1847; military dispatches, 4 Aug. 1864-2 Feb. 1865; letters to his brother Nicholson Parker, 5 Sept. 1863-25 Mar. 1868; a view of Indian affairs, from his 1869 annual report as Commissioner of Indian Affairs; and Capt. Samuel H. Beckwith's address at the marking of Parker's grave on 30 May 1905.

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Beckwith, Samuel H.

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Parker, Ely Samuel, 1828-1895

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Seneca sachem born at Indian Falls, Genesee County, N.Y. in 1828; raised on the Tonawanda Reservation. Studied law and civil engineering; appointed superintendant of government works at Galena, Ill. in 1857, where he became a friend of Ulysses S. Grant. Served during the Civil War as Gen. Grant's secretary. Appointed U. S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs by President Grant. Died at Fairfield, Conn. in 1895. From the description of Ely S. Parker correspondence and paper on the Iroquois...

Wanneh, Gawaso, 1881-1955

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Arthur C. Parker was born in 1881 on the Cattaraugus Reservation of the Seneca Nation of New York in western New York. He was the son of Frederick Ely Parker, who was one-half Seneca, and his wife Geneva Hortenese Griswold, of Scots-English-American descent, who taught school on the reservation. As the Seneca are a matrilineal nation, the young Parker did not have membership status at birth, as his mother was not part of the tribe, but he was descended from prominent Seneca, including the prophe...