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The Oneida Resurgence
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 468
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This dissertation examines several decades of tribal revitalization efforts prior to the advent of casino gaming, as well as the gradual expansion of tribal authority on the Oneida Reservation. Through the examination of several key developments and community debates, it traces the extraordinary renascence of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin following the devastating federal policies of allotment and assimilation during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While the 1920s represented a historic low point for the Oneidas--characterized by insufficient access to healthcare, education, and employment--by the 1990s, the Oneidas not only had achieved cultural and economic security, they had also become one of the largest employers in the Green Bay area. Despite the existence of analogous movements for tribal rehabilitation throughout North America--and around the globe--the social uplift of modern American Indian communities remains under-studied. Popular misconceptions often attribute the success of Native communities like Oneida to casino gaming operations since the 1980s, but this dissertation argues that the Oneida Nation's dramatic reversal of fortune originated in 1920s tribal activism both within and across tribes. This dissertation highlights the numerous strategies that one tribe has pursued to facilitate indigenous community empowerment. Rather than simply tracing the pendulum of federal Indian policy as it swings back and forth between forced assimilation and sovereign self-determination, this dissertation devotes significant attention to the internal tribal discourse of "progress" and the actions of the Oneida Nation's leadership. The Oneida Resurgence moves beyond dichotomies such as progressives vs. traditionalists and bridges the historiographical divide between reservation and urban communities by focusing upon mobility. This study demonstrates that indigenous nation rebuilding has not been a straight, mutually agreed-upon path, but rather a strategic process of accommodation, resistance, renewal, and change. Moreover, the contemporary emergence of an anti-sovereignty movement among the Oneidas' non-Indian neighbors on the reservation reveals that indigenous resurgence and resentful opposition go hand in hand.
Oneida History and Culture
Author: Amy M. Stone
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Published: 2012-08-01
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 1433974282
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Filled with colorful photographs, this thoroughly researched volume portrays the history and culture of the Oneidas for readers. The account of Oneida history covers such topics as the Iroquois Confederacy, the impact of European colonists on Oneida life, the struggles of Oneidas during the 19th and early 20th centuries, and the new prosperity of Oneidas in the 21st century. In its examination of Oneida culture, the book explores the nation’s traditional way of life, the role of clans, the important place of women in Oneida society, and Oneida beliefs. A timeline gives readers a brief history of the Oneidas at a glance, and additional resources and suggested activities offer readers more ways to learn about the Oneidas' fascinating culture.
The Oneida Indian Journey
Author: Laurence M. Hauptman
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780299161446
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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, and Rachel Swamp
The Oneida Land Claims
Author: George C. Shattuck
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 1991-08-01
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780815625254
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Part of the Iroquois Confederacy, the Oneida Indians once controlled large areas of what is now upstate New York. Over the years they have lost their vast holdings to the state of New York, despite their protests concerning what they felt to be unjust seizures and sales of tribal lands. The Oneida Land Claims offers a forceful account of the long and ardent fight by George Shattuck, a partner in the law firm representing the Oneida Indian Nation from 1965 to 1977, to get the Oneidas their day in court. He describes his specific, legal strategy in winning a landmark judgment from the U.S. Supreme Court in 1974 that the Oneidas still owned land taken illegally by New York State in 1795. Because negotiations are still taking place, the Oneidas have yet to receive compensation; but Shattuck's legal battle has helped to create a new body of American Indian law that has affected subsequent Native American land claims cases throughout the eastern United States.
Oneida
Author: Ellen Wayland-Smith
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2016-05-03
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1250043107
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fascinating and unusual chapter in American history about a religious community that held radical notions of equality, sex, and religion---only to transform itself, at the beginning of the twentieth century, into a successful silverware company and a model of buttoned-down corporate propriety. In the early nineteenth century, many Americans were looking for an alternative to the Puritanism that had been the foundation of the new country. Amid the fervor of the religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening, John Humphrey Noyes, a spirited but socially awkward young man, attracted a group of devoted followers with his fiery sermons about creating Jesus’ millennial kingdom here on Earth. Noyes established a revolutionary community in rural New York centered around achieving a life free of sin through God’s grace, while also espousing equality of the sexes and “complex marriage,” a system of free love where sexual relations with multiple partners was encouraged. Noyes’s belief in the perfectibility of human nature eventually inspired him to institute a program of eugenics, known as stirpiculture, that resulted in a new generation of Oneidans who, when the Community disbanded in 1880, sought to exorcise the ghost of their fathers’ disreputable sexual theories. Converted into a joint-stock company, Oneida Community, Limited, would go on to become one of the nation’s leading manufacturers of silverware, and their brand a coveted mark of middle-class respectability in pre- and post-WWII America. Told by a descendant of one of the Community’s original families, Ellen Wayland-Smith's Oneida is a captivating story that straddles two centuries to reveal how a radical, free-love sect, turning its back on its own ideals, transformed into a purveyor of the white-picket-fence American dream.
Oneida Utopia
Author: Anthony Wonderley
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2017-12-15
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 1501712446
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Oneida Utopia is a fresh and holistic treatment of a long-standing social experiment born of revival fervor and communitarian enthusiasm. The Oneida Community of upstate New York was dedicated to living as one family and to the sharing of all property, work, and love. Anthony Wonderley is a sensitive guide to the things and settings of Oneida life from its basis in John H. Noyes’s complicated theology, through experiments in free love and gender equality, to the moment when the commune transformed itself into an industrial enterprise based on the production of silverware. Rather than drawing a sharp boundary between spiritual concerns and worldly matters, Wonderley argues that commune and company together comprise a century-long narrative of economic success, innovative thinking, and abiding concern for the welfare of others. Oneida Utopia seamlessly combines the evidence of social life and intellectual endeavor with the testimony of built environment and material culture. Wonderley shares with readers his intimate knowledge of evidence from the Oneida Community: maps and photographs, quilts and furniture, domestic objects and industrial products, and the biggest artifact of all, their communal home. Wonderley also takes a novel approach to the thought of the commune’s founder, examining individually and in context Noyes’s reactions to interests and passions of the day, including revivalism, millennialism, utopianism, and spiritualism.
Without Sin
Author: Spencer Klaw
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 370
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Before it was finally crushed by an army of self-appointed "guardians of public morals", the Oneida Community in western New York represented 19th century America's most successful experiment in utopian communism--an idyllic-yet-doomed new world of absolute equality. photos.
A Narrative of the Revival of Religion, in the County of Oneida
Author: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Oneida
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Published: 1826
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Oneida Indians in the Age of Allotment, 1860-1920
Author: Laurence M. Hauptman
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 380
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Oneida Indians, already weakened by their participation in the Civil War, faced the possibility of losing their reservation-their community's greatest crisis since its resettlement in Wisconsin after the War of 1812. The Oneida Indians in the Age of Allotment, 1860-1920 is the first comprehensive study of how the Oneida Indians of Wisconsin were affected by the Dawes General Allotment Act of 1887, the Burke Act of 1906, and the Federal Competency Commission, created in 1917. Editors Laurence M. Hauptman and L. Gordon McLester III draw on the expertise of historians, anthropologists, and archivists, as well as tribal attorneys, educators, and elders to clarify the little-understood transformation of the Oneida reservation during this era. Sixteen WPA narratives included in this volume tell of Oneida struggles during the Civil War and in boarding schools; of reservation leaders; and of land loss and other hardships under allotment. This book represents a unique collaborative effort between one Native American community and academics to present a detailed picture of the Oneida Indian past.
