ISBN:
0-8061-1575-0
,
978-0-8061-1575-7
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 292 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
The _Civilization of the American Indian Series volume 110
Keywords:
USA Indianer, USA
;
Führer, politischer
;
Geschichte
;
Oralität
;
Biographie
;
Geschichte, politische
;
Politischer Wandel
Abstract:
This collection of notable speeches by early-day leaders of twenty-two Indian tribes adds a new dimension to our knowledge of the original Americans and their own view of the tide of history engulfing them.Little written record of their oratory exists, although Indians made much use of publics address. Around the council fires tribal affairs were settled without benefit of the written word, and young men attended to hear the speeches, observe their delivery, and consider the weight of reasoned argument.Some of the early white men who traveled and lived among the Indians left transcriptions of tribal council meetings and speeches, and other orations were translated at treaty council meetings with delegates of the United States government. From these scattered reports and the few other existing sources this book presents a reconstruction of contemporary thought of the leading men of many tribes.Chronologically, the selections range from the days of early contact with the whites in the 1750`s to a speech by Quanah Parker in 1910. Several of the orations were delivered at the famous Medicine Lodge Council in 1867.A short biography of each orator states the conditions under which the speeches were made, locates the place of the council or meeting, and includes a photograph or copy of a painting of the speaker.Speakers chosen to represent the tribes at treaty council were all orators of great natural ability, well trained in the Indian oral traditions. Acutely conscious that they were the selected representatives of their people, these men delivered eloquent, moving speeches, often using wit and sarcasm to good effect. They were well aware of all the issues involved, and they bargained with great statesmanship for survival of their traditional way of life. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- "I gave the Halloo" (1758) ; All their warriors have made themselves as one man" (1760) / Teedyuscung (Delaware) -- "You must lift the hatchet against them" (1763) ; "Father, be strong and take pity on us, your children, as our former father did" (1765) / Pontiac (Ottawa) -- "Listen to me, fathers of the thirteen fires" (1790) / Cornplanter (Seneca) -- "Brother, the great spirit has made us all" (1792) / Red Jacket (Seneca) -- "We have borne everything patiently for this long time" (1794) / Joseph Brant (Mohawk) -- "Brothers, these people never told us they wished to purchase our lands from us" (1795) / Little Turtle (Miami) -- "Sleep not longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws" (1811) ; "Father, listen! The Americans have not yet defeated us by land" (1813) / Tecumseh (Shawnee) -- "We do not take up the warpath without a just cause and honest purpose" (1811) / Pushmataha (Choctaw) -- "It is too soon, my great father, to send those good men among us" (1822) / Petalesharo (Pawnee) -- "For more than a hundred winters our nation was a powerful, happy, and united people" (1832) ; "Farewell to Black Hawk" (1832) / Black Hawk (Sauk (Sac)) -- "Let the Siouz keep from our lands, and there will be peace" (1837) / Keokuk (Sauk (Sac)) -- A gift of "talking leaves" (1839) / Sequoyah (Cherokee) -- "By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life" (1843) ; "The Cherokee people stand upon new ground" (1861) / John Ross (Cherokee) -- "The Indians' night promises to be dark" (1853) / Seattle (Suquamish) -- "They have not got forked tongues" (1855) / Washakie (Shoshone) -- "I want to tell you my heart" (1859) / Chief Joseph (Nez Perce) -- "We want the privilege of crossing the Arkansas to kill buffalo" (1865) / Black Kettle (Cheyenne) -- "It is our great desire and wish to make a good, permanent peace" (1865) ; "My people are waiting on the hills to greet me when I return" (1871) / Little Raven (Arapaho) -- "I am the man that makes it rain" (1866) / Lone Wolf (Kiowa) -- "You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight to our hearts" (1866) / Cochise (Apache) -- "You sent for us; we came here" (1867) / Tall Bull, (Cheyenne) -- "Do not ask us to give up the baffalo for the sheep" (1867) / Ten Bears (Comanche) -- "Teach us the road to travel, and we will not depart from it forever" (1867) / Satanta (Kiowa) -- "My heart is very strong" (1967) ; "I love the land and the buffalo and will not part with it" (1867) / Satanta (Kiowa) -- "If we make peace, you will not hold it" (1868) / Gall (Sioux) -- "I represent the whole Sioux nation, and they will be bound by what I say" (1870) / Red Cloud (Sioux) -- "May the white man and the Indian speak truth to each other today" (1873) ; "The whites think we don't know about the mines, but we do" (1873) / Blackfoot (Crow) -- "This country south of the Arkansas is our country" (1867) ; "I have worked hard to bring my people on the white man's road" (1873) / Kicking Bird (Kiowa) -- "I have said yes, and thrown away my country" (1873) / Captain Jack (Modoc) -- "We preferred our own way of living" (1877) / Crazy Horse (Sioux) -- "I see that my friends before me are men of age and dignity" (1877) / Spotted Tail (Sioux) -- "Osages have talked like blackbirds in spring : nothing has come from their hearts" (1880) / Governor Joe (Osage) -- "I feel that my country has gotten a bad name" (1883) ; You are living in a new path" (1888) / Sitting Bull (Sioux) -- "I was living peaceably and satisfied when people began to speak bad of me" (1886) / Geronimo (Apache) -- "I bring you word from your fathers the ghosts" (1890) / Kicking Bear (Sioux) -- "The Tonkawa killed him -- it makes my heart hot" (1890) ; "I want my people follow after white way" (1910) ; "Some white people do that, too" (1910) / Quanah Parker (Comanche) -- Appendix: "An Indiean's views of Indian affairs" / Chief Joseph (Nez Percé, 1879 -- Bibliography
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 285-292
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