Title An Oneida Indian in foreign waters : the life of Chief Chapman Scanandoah, 1870-1953 / Laurence M. Hauptman

Edition First edition Published Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2016] ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 207 pages) : illustrations, maps Series The Iroquois and their neighbors Iroquois and their neighbors. Contents The Oneida world in New York in the century after the American Revolution -- Growing up Oneida : Windfall in the 1870s and 1880s -- An Oneida in an African American world: Hampton Institute -- A global education: naval service in war and peace -- Saving the thirty-two acres in the white man's courts -- A Native American inventor in the age of Edison -- An outsider at Onondaga -- The wise tribal elder tends his garden -- Conclusion Summary "Chief Chapman Scanandoah (1870-1953) was a decorated Navy veteran who served in the Spanish-American War, a skilled mechanic, and a prizewinning agronomist who helped develop the Iroquois Village at the New York State Fair. He was also a historian, linguist, philosopher, and early leader of the Oneida land claims movement. However, his fame among the Oneida people and among many of his Hodinöhsö:ni' contemporaries today rests with his career as an inventor. In the era of Thomas Edison, Scanandoah challenged the stereotypes of the day that too often portrayed Native Americans as primitive, pre-technological, and removed from modernity. In An Oneida Indian in Foreign Waters, Hauptman draws from Scanandoah's own letters; his court, legislative, and congressional testimony; military records; and forty years of fieldwork experience to chronicle his remarkable life and understand the vital influence Scanandoah had on the fate of his people. Despite being away from his homeland for much of his life, Scanandoah fought tirelessly in federal courts to prevent the loss of the last remaining Oneida lands in New York State. Without Scanandoah and his extended Hanyoust family, Oneida existence in New York might have been permanently extinguished. Hauptman's biography not only illuminates the extraordinary life of Scanandoah but also sheds new light on the struggle to maintain tribal identity in the face of an increasingly diminished homeland."--Publisher's website Analysis Hanyoust family Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 11, 2016) Subject Scanandoah, Chapman, 1870-1953. United States. Navy -- Machinist's mates -- Biography SUBJECT United States. Navy fast Subject Oneida Indians -- Kings and rulers -- Biography Oneida Indians -- History Oneida Indians -- Land tenure Inventors -- New York (State) -- Biography Mechanics -- New York (State) -- Biography Indians, Treatment of -- New York (State) HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) Armed Forces -- Machinist's mates Indians, Treatment of Inventors Mechanics Oneida Indians Oneida Indians -- Land tenure SUBJECT Onondaga Indian Reservation (N.Y.) -- Biography Lenox (N.Y.) -- History, Local Subject New York (State) New York (State) -- Lenox New York (State) -- Onondaga Indian Reservation Genre/Form Biographies History Local history Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 2016032697 ISBN 9780815653875 0815653875

Other Titles Life of Chief Chapman Scanandoah, 1870-1953

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