ISBN: 9780803287556 - red jacket: seneca chief (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

1952/1998. North America, Native Americans. University of Nebraska Press. very good - fine paperback. 228p.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Bison Book Edition. Paperback. Red Jacket. Slight foxing to edge. Introduction to the Bison Books Edition by Thomas S. Abler. This is the story of the famous and controversial Seneca chief and orator Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha, ca 1750-1830), whose passionate and articulate defense of the old ways won the admiration of many but also earned him the enmity of Chiefs Joseph Brant and Cornplanter. Red Jacket received a medal from Geroge Washington as a toekn of friendship. He is remembered as a vocal and persistent opponent of foreign encroachment on the Iroquois, protesting bitterly against the sale of tribal lands and involvement in European-American disoutes, missionary activities, and various efforts to 'civilize' the Iroquois. The authorm, a renoqed scholar of the Iroguois and a member of the distinguished Seneca family, offers an engaging and highly readable account of Red Jacket's life. The biography follows Red Jacket from his early years along the Genesee River, through the invasion of Seneca lands during the Revolutionary War, the Big Tree Treaty of 1797, and the rise of the prophet Handsome Lake Parker (1881-1955) has authored several books on the Iroquois. 228 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Jack Moment (illustrator).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the story of the famous and controversial Seneca chief and orator Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha, ca. 1750-1830), whose passionate and articulate defense of the old ways won the admiration of many but also earned him the enmity of Chiefs Joseph Brant and Cornplanter. Red Jacket received a medal from George Washington as a token of friendship. He is remembered as a vocal and persistent opponent of foreign encroachment on the Iroquois, protesting bitterly against the sale of tribal lands and involvement in European-American disputes, missionary activities, and various efforts to 'civilize' the Iroquois. Arthur C. Parker, a renowned scholar of the Iroquois and a member of a distinguished Seneca family, offers an engaging and highly readable account of Red Jacket's life. The biography follows Red Jacket from his early years along the Genesee River through the invasion of Seneca lands during the Revolutionary War, the Big Tree Treaty of 1797, and the rise of the prophet Handsome Lake. Parker (1881-1955) has authored several books on the Iroquois, including Seneca Myths and Folk Tales (Nebraska 1989).…

Zustand: New. A biography of the famous and controversial Seneca chief and orator Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha, ca. 1750-1830), whose passionate and articulate defense of the old ways won the admiration of many but also earned him the enmity of Chiefs Joseph Brant and Cornpla.