Oneida Indian Journey: From New York to Wisconsin, 1784–1860

Provides important insights by a number of well-respected scholars and members of the Oneida community on a critical and much-neglected period of Oneida history. This book is highly recommended. -Ronald N. Satz, author of Chippewa Treaty Rights and American Indian Policy in the Jacksonian Era For the first time, the traumatic removal of the Oneida Indians from New York to Wisconsin is examined in a groundbreaking collection of essays, The Oneida Indian Journey from New York to Wisconsin, 1784-1860. To shed light on this vital period of Oneida history, editors Laurence Hauptman and L. Gordon McLester, III, present a unique collaboration between an American Indian nation and the academic community. Two professional historians, a geographer, anthropologist, archivist and attorney join in with eighteen voices from the Oneida community-local historians, folklorists, genealogists, linguists, and tribal elders-discuss tribal dispossession and community; Oneida community perspectives of Oneida history; and the means of studying Oneida history. Contributors include: Debra Anderson Eileen Antone Jim Antone Abrahms Archiquette Oscar Archiquette Jack Campisi Richard Chrisjohn Amelia Cornelius Judy Cornelius Katie Cornelius Melissa Cornelius Jonas Elm James Folts Reginald Horsman Elizabeth Huff Francis Jennings Arlinda Locklear Jo Margaret Mano Loretta Metoxen Liz Obomsawin Jessie Peters Sarah Summers Rachel Swamp Unique in its origins in the cooperation of the Native American historians and academic historians, this collection focuses on the crucial era of 1784 to 1860, a much-neglected-for being so critical-period of Oneida history, when most Oneidas left New York and journeyed to Wisconsin and to Ontario.