Oneida Lives-Long Lost Voices of the Wisconsin Oneidas
View the Table of Contents and read an excerpt Oneida Lives: Long-Lost Voices of the Wisconsin Oneidas is full of valuable history. . . . Selected from more than 500 biographical narratives, these 65 chronicles told by 58 men and women present a picture of Oneida Indian life from the 1880s, before the Dawes Allotment Act, through World War I and the Great Depression, to the beginning of World War II. They present a remarkable picture of the people and the times. --Jean Peerenboom, Green Bay Press-Gazette. Oral histories of men, women provide a vivid look at Indian life in Wisconsin. -- Capital Times In this intimate volume the long-lost voices of Wisconsin Oneida men and women speak of all aspects of life: growing up, work and economic struggles, family relations, belief and religious practice, boarding-school life, love, sex, sports, and politics. These voices are drawn from a collection of handwritten accounts recently rediscovered after more than fifty years, the result of a wpa Federal Writers' Project undertaking called the Oneida Ethnological Study (1940-42) in which a dozen Oneida men and women were hired to interview their families and friends and record their own experiences and observations. Selected from more than five hundred biographical narratives, these sixty-five chronicles, told by fifty-eight women and men, present a picture of Oneida Indian life from the 1880s, before the Dawes Allotment Act, through World War I and the Great Depression, to the beginning of World War II. Despite the narrators' struggles against harsh economic conditions, the theft of their land, and neglect, their firsthand histories are rendered with frankness and wit andpresent a remarkable picture of an era and a people. Herbert S. Lewis is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of After the Eagles Landed: The Yemenites of Israel and Jimma Abba Jifar, an Oromo Monarchy: Ethiopia, 1830-1932. L.
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