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Oneida Lives: Long-Lost Voices of the Wisconsin Oneidas (The Iroquoians and Their World) (Paperback)

by Herbert S. Lewis (Editor), Gerald L. Hill (Foreword), L. Gordon McLester (Collaborator) "There is a vast difference in the Oneida community in the periods between 1888-1896 and 1927-1942..." (more)
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"Oral histories of men, women provide a vivid look at Indian life in Wisconsin."--"Capital Times"

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In this intimate volume the long-lost voices of Wisconsin Oneida men and women speak of all aspects of life: growing up, work and economic struggles, family relations, belief and religious practice, boarding-school life, love, sex, sports, and politics. These voices are drawn from a collection of handwritten accounts recently rediscovered after more than fifty years, the result of a WPA Federal Writers’ Project undertaking called the Oneida Ethnological Study (1940–42) in which a dozen Oneida men and women were hired to interview their families and friends and record their own experiences and observations.

Selected from more than five hundred biographical narratives, these sixty-five chronicles, told by fifty-eight women and men, present a picture of Oneida Indian life from the 1880s, before the Dawes Allotment Act, through World War I and the Great Depression, to the beginning of World War II. Despite the narrators' struggles against harsh economic conditions, the theft of their land, and neglect, their firsthand histories are rendered with frankness and wit and present a remarkable picture of an era and a people.

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Paperback: 428 pages
Publisher: Bison Books (November 1, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0803280432
ISBN-13: 978-0803280434
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
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This book cites 34 books:

The Oneida Indian Experience: Two Perspectives (An Iroquois Book) by Jack Campisi in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
Iroquois Land Claims (Iroquois Book.) by William A. Starna in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
The False Faces of the Iroquois (Civilization of the American Indian Series) by William N. Fenton in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Chief Daniel Bread and the Oneida Nation of Indians of Wisconsin (Civilization of the American Indian Series) by Laurence M. Hauptman in Back Matter
Iroquois Medical Botany by James W. Herrick in Back Matter

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The Oneida Indians in the Age of Allotment, 1860-1920 (Civilization of the American Indian Series) by Laurence M. Hauptman in Back Matter

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