Designed especially for classroom use, this book brings together the best-known works of the nineteenth-century Indian writer William Apess, including the first extended autobiography by a Native American. The text is drawn from On Our Own Ground, which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book. Barry O'Connell has written a new introduction for this abbreviated edition.
Designed especially for classroom use, this book brings together the best-known works of the nineteenth-century Indian writer William Apess, includ...
This is an account of political trouble involving the Mashpee written by a lawyer who was adopted by the tribe, and it details their struggle in Massachusetts. From the intro: "For a long time the Indians had been disaffected, but no one was energetic enough among them to combine them in taking measures for their rights. Every time they had petitioned the Legislature, the laws, by the management of the interested whites, had been made more severe against them. DANIEL AMOS, I believe, was the first one among them, who conceived the plan of freeing his tribe from slavery. WILLIAM APES, an...
This is an account of political trouble involving the Mashpee written by a lawyer who was adopted by the tribe, and it details their struggle in Massa...
