The people of the standing stone : the Oneida nation from the Revolution through the Era of Removal / Karim M. Tiro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tiro, Karim M., author.

Series:

Native Americans of the Northeast.

Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History, and the Contemporary

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oneida Indians--History.

Oneida Indians.

Oneida Indians--Government relations.

Oneida Indians--Relocation.

Indians of North America--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

Indians of North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Between 1765 and 1845, the Oneida Indian Nation weathered a trio of traumas: war, dispossession, and division. During the American War of Independence, the Oneidas became the revolutionaries' most important Indian allies. They undertook a difficult balancing act, helping the patriots while trying to avoid harming their Iroquois brethren. Despite the Oneidas' wartime service, they were dispossessed of nearly all their lands through treaties with the state of New York. In eighty years the Oneidas had gone from being an autonomous, powerful people in their ancestral homeland to being residents of disparate, politically exclusive reservation communities separated by up to nine hundred miles and completely surrounded by non-Indians. The Oneidas' physical, political, and emotional division persists to this day. Even for those who stayed put, their world changed more in cultural, ecological, and demographic terms than at any time before or since. Oneidas of the post-Revolutionary decades were reluctant pioneers, undertaking more of the adaptations to colonized life than any other generation. Amid such wrenching change, maintaining continuity was itself a creative challenge. The story of that extraordinary endurance lies at the heart of this book.

Contents:

A place and a people in a time of change: The Oneida Homeland in the 1760's

Narrowing paths: Oneida foreign relations, 1763-1775

The dilemmas of alliance: the Oneidas' American Revolution, 1775-1784

Misplaced faith: A decade of dispossession, 1785-1794

In a drowned land: state treaties and tribal division, 1795-1814

The nation in fragments: Oneida removal, 1815-1836

Diaspora and survival, 1836-1850

Conclusion

Appendix. Selected Oneida population counts, 1763-1856.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61376-000-0

OCLC:

794700512