Native memoirs from the War of 1812 : Black Hawk and William Apess
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Native memoirs from the War of 1812 : Black Hawk and William Apess
(Johns Hopkins books on the War of 1812)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014
- : hardcover
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 165-173
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Native peoples played major roles in the War of 1812 as allies of both the United States and Great Britain, but few wrote about their conflict experiences. Two famously wrote down their stories: Black Hawk, the British-allied chief of the still-independent Sauks from the upper Mississippi, and American soldier William Apess, a Christian convert from the Pequots who lived on a reservation in Connecticut. Carl Benn explores the wartime passages of their autobiographies, in which they detail their decisions to take up arms, their experiences in the fighting, their broader lives within the context of native-newcomer relations, and their views on such critical issues as aboriginal independence. Scholars, students, and general readers interested in indigenous and military history in the early American republic will appreciate these important memoirs, along with Benn's helpful introductions and annotations.
Table of Contents
Preface
Maps
Chronological Overview
Black Hawk (Sauk)
Introduction to Black Hawk
1. Crisis on the Upper Mississippi Frontier, 1803?-12
2. Joining the British on the Detroit Front, 1812-13
3. Return Home, Keokuk's Rise, and Private War, 1814-15
4. Campaigning on the Mississippi River, 1814
5. An End to Fighting, 1815-16
6. Black Hawk's Speeches, 1815-17
William Apess (Pequot)
Introduction to William Apess
1. An Indentured Servant's Struggles, 1809-13
2. A Runaway Joins the Army, 1812-13
3. Campaigning on the Canadian Border, 1813-15
4. A Wandering Life, 1815-16
5. Another Version of William Apess's Autobiography, c. 1813-c. 1820
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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