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Native Memoirs from the War of 1812

Native Memoirs from the War of 1812

Benn, Carl

Paperback

Series: Johns Hopkins Books on the War of 1812

Native American History19th Century United States HistoryWar of 1812

ISBN10: 1421412195
ISBN13: 9781421412191
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Dec 27 2013
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.34 Depth: 8.92
Language: English

Rare firsthand accounts from Native Americans who fought in the War of 1812.

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.

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