A translation of the speech made by Jimmy Johnson at the Grand Council of the Confederacy of Iroquois held at the Indian village of Tonawanda ... : this speech is an abridgement of his annual speech or a repetition in brief of their religious precepts pretended to have been communicated from heaven,

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A translation of the speech made by Jimmy Johnson at the Grand Council of the Confederacy of Iroquois held at the Indian village of Tonawanda ... : this speech is an abridgement of his annual speech or a repetition in brief of their religious precepts pretended to have been communicated from heaven, 1845 Oct. / translated by Ely S. Parker.

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October, 1845, speech by Jimmy Johnson, translated and abridged by Ely S. Parker (later U.S. commissioner of Indian affairs) which reiterates the religious and moral teachings of the Seneca prophet, Handsome Lake.

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Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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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...

Handsome Lake, 1735-1815

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Johnson, Jimmy, 1774-1854.

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