Contents
Illustrations 000
Acknowledgements 000
Timeline 000
Introduction 000
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Chapter One: Literature of the Menominee Nation
1. Oneida Thanksgiving/Opening 000
2. Creation Story¿Verna Fowler, Menominee 000
3. The People Who Live With the Seasons¿Verna Fowler, Menominee 000
4. From Native Copper to the Fur Trade¿Waioskasit, Menominee 000
5. Manabozho and the Wolves¿Louis Pigeon, Menominee 000
6. Trickster Tales¿John V. Satterlee, Menominee 000
7. Manabozho Plays Lacrosse¿John V. Satterlee, Menominee 000
8. Me'napus and the Buzzard¿Jerome Lawe, Menominee 000
9. Menominee Medicine Bundle¿Anonymous, Menominee 000
10. Struggle for Land and Timber¿Verna Fowler, Menominee 000
11. You Do Not Seem to Know Us¿Kaushkannaniew or Grizzly Bear, Menominee 000
12. Resistance to the Timber Barons¿Neopit, Menominee 000
13. Termination and Restoration¿Verna Fowler, Menominee 000
14. The Power Came from the People¿Ada Deer, Menominee 000
15. Menominee Termination¿DRUMS Committee, Menominee 000
16. Current Resource Extraction¿John Teller, Menominee 000
17. The Power Comes From Within¿Ingrid Washinawatok, Menominee 000
Chapter Two: Literature of the Ho-Chunk Nation
1. Sovereignty in a Spiritual Landscape¿Lyle Greendeer, Ho-Chunk 000
2. Not an Ordinary Place¿Tom Hopinkah, Ho-Chunk 000
3. Gottschall Rockshelter and the Epic of Red Horn¿Sam Blowsnake, Ho-Chunk 000
4. Origin Story of Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin¿Waukon G. Smith, Ho-Chunk 000
5. Frenchmen Arrive¿Anonymous, Ho-Chunk 000
6. It Was Not a Sale; It Was a Loan¿Four Legs, Ho-Chunk 000
7. Theft of the Lead Mining District¿Nawkaw Caramani, Ho-Chunk 000
8. Red Bird Surrenders¿Red Bird, Ho-Chunk 000
9. The Treaty of 1829¿Waukon Decora, Ho-Chunk 000
10. Do You Want Our Wigwams? You Live in Palaces!¿Little Elk Caramani, Ho-Chunk 000
11. Where in the Name of God Shall We Live?¿Little Elk Caramani, Ho-Chunk 000
12. The Black Hawk War¿Little Elk Caramani, Ho-Chunk 000
13. If They Did Not Sign, He Would Kill Them¿Dandy, Ho-Chunk 000
14. Forced Removals: The Ho-Chunk Trail of Tears¿Winneshiek, Shaking Earth Caramani, Big Hawk, Black Hawk, Ho-Chunk 000
15. Mountain Wolf Woman: The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian¿Mountain Wolf Woman, Ho-Chunk 000
16. A Ho-Chunk Autobiography¿Sam Blowsnake a.k.a. Crashing Thunder, Ho-Chunk 000
17. Trickster Tales¿Waukon G. Smith, Ho-Chunk 000
18. Wak'djunk'aga and the Car¿Dawn Makes Strong Move, Ho-Chunk 000
19. How It Is Today¿Jim Funmaker, Ho-Chunk 000
Chapter Three: Literature of the Ojibwe Nation
1. The Anishinabe¿Patty Loew, Bad River Band Ojibwe 000
2. Anishinabe Migration and a Woman's Dream¿Edward Benton-Banai, Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe 000
3. Where Food Grows on Water¿Patty Loew, Bad River Band Ojibwe 000
4. The Indian Always Talks to the Spirit 000¿Archie Mosay or Niibaa-giizhig, St. Croix Ojibwe 000
5. Creation Story¿Edward Benton-Banai, Lac Courte Oreille Ojibwe 000
6. Spearfishing¿Walt Bresette, Red Cliff Ojibwe 000
7. It Gives Me a Strong Feeling¿Nick Hockings, Lac Du Flambeau Ojibwe 000
8. The Flooding of Pahquaywong¿William Wolf, Lac Courte Oreille Ojibwe 000
9. Abrogating the Treaty¿Pimosegejig, Lac Courte Oreille Ojibwe 000
10. Cultural Genocide¿Patty Loew, Bad River Band Ojibwe 000
11. Elders Refuse to Move¿Eddie Benton-Banai, Lac Courte Oreille Ojibwe 000
12. Dealing with Mooskadoojiigan [The Place That Was Flooded]¿gaiashkibos, Lac Courte Oreille Ojibwe 000
13. Drum of the People¿gaiashkibos, Lac Courte Oreille Ojibwe 000
14. Mole Lake Sokaogon Chippewa¿Fred Ackly, Sokaogon Chippewa 000
15. From Aboard the Night Train¿Kimberly Blaeser, White Earth Ojibwe 000
16. Avian Messiah and Mistress Media¿Andrew Connors, Bad River Band Ojibwe 000
17. My Mother and I Had a Discussion One Day¿Denise Sweet, White Earth Ojibwe 000
18. Sage Dreams¿Danielle Hornett, Bad River Chippewa 000
19. The Importance of Madeline Island¿William Whipple Warren, Madeline Island Ojibwe 000
Chapter Four: Literature of the Potawatomi Nation
1. The Creation of the World¿Wapuka, Potawatomi 000
2. We All Sing¿Anonymous, Potawatomi 000
3. Now We All Move¿Anonymous, Potawatomi 000
4. The Trail of Death: Potawatomi Diaspora¿Susan Campbell, Citizen Potawatomi Nation 000
5. Chief Menominee's Petition¿Menominee, Potawatomi 000
6. I Am Not Going to Leave My Lands¿Menominee, Potawatomi 000
7. The Story of a Faithful Wife¿John Nuwi, Wisconsin Potawatomi 000
8. Counciling Peace to Black Hawk¿Senachwine, Potawatomi 000
9. How Mko Lost His Tail¿Lee White, Forest County Potawatomi 000
10. Now I Raise My Hand¿Anonymous, Potawatomi 000
11. Dance with Our Mother Earth¿Anonymous, Potawatomi 000
12. One People: the Ojibwe, Ottawa, and Potawatomi¿Oral Tradition, Potawatomi 000
13. The Origin of Tobacco¿Oral Tradition, Potawatomi 000
14. The Adventure of a Poor Man¿Oral Tradition, Potawatomi 000
15. They Will Sometime Find Their Mistakes¿Shawequet, Potawatomi 000
16. Queen of the Woods¿Simon Pokagon, Potawatomi 000
Chapter Five: Literature of the Oneida Nation
1. The Thanksgiving Address¿The Oneida Nation 000
2. The Oneida Creation Story¿Demus Elm and Harvey Antone, Oneida 000
3. People of the Standing Stone¿Thelma Cornelius McLester, Oneida 000
4. Jikohnsaseh, Mother of Nations¿John C. Mohawk, Seneca 000
5. The Peacemaker¿Mohawk People, Haudenosaunee Oral Tradition 000
6. The Great Law of Peace¿Degonawida, Huron 000
7. Matriarchy¿Degonawida, Huron 000
8. Did You Hear Wind Sing Your Name: An Oneida Song of Spring¿Sandra De Coteau Orie, Oneida 000
9. Oneida Counsel Peace Between Two Brothers¿Oneida Headmen 000
10. From New York to Wisconsin¿Oneida Headmen 000
11. Forced from New York in the 1820s¿Daniel Bread, Oneida 000
12. No! You Will Not Drive Us From Our Lands¿Onon-gwat-go or Reverend Cornelius Hill, Oneida 000
13. The Way They Used To Get Married¿Katie Cornelius, Oneida 000
14. Broken Spine and His Wife¿Sarah Summers, Oneida 000
15. Philadelphia Flowers¿Roberta Hill, Oneida 000
16. The Long Parentheses¿Roberta Hill, Oneida 000
17. Evening at the Warbonnet ¿Bruce King, Haudenosaunee-Oneida Nation Wisconsin 000
18. Interview with a Midwife¿Carol Cornelius, Oneida/Mahican and Katsi Cook, Mohawk 000
Chapter Six: Literature of the Mohican Nation, Stockbridge-Munsee Band
1. Traditional Teachings¿Hendrick Aupaumut, Mohican 000
2. Mama's Little One¿Kristina Heath Potrykus, Mohican and Menominee 000
3. Ancestral Voices¿Cathy Caldwell, Stockbridge-Munsee 000
4. Historical Overview¿Dorothy Davids, Stockbridge-Munsee 000
5. We Have No More Land¿Mohican Headmen 000
6. That Our Children Not Be Taken Away From Us For Debt¿Konkapot, Housatonic Tribe of Mohicans 000
7. Watching My Daughter Sleep¿Cathy Caldwell, Mohican, Stockbridge-Munsee 000
8. Not Tyrants Over Any Nation¿Hendrick Aupaumut, Mohican 000
9. Hunting Now Is Grown Very Scarce¿Stockbridge Headmen 000
10. Return to Me That Land That Is Justly Mine¿Johannis Mtohksin, Jacob Naunauphtaunk, and Solomon Uhhaunauwaunmut, Stockbridge Mohican 000
11. Former Concentration Camp and Cemetery: Now a Recreation Area?¿Muhheconneuk Intertribal Committee on Deer Island 000
12. Thanksgiving¿Dorothy Davids, Stockbridge-Munsee 000
13. Mohican Diplomat¿Hendrick Aupaumut, Mohican 000
14. Daniel Nimham, Mohican Sachem¿Dorothy Davids, Stockbridge-Munsee 000
15. Chief Nimham, Hero of Van Cortlandt's Woods¿Eva Jean Bowman, Stockbridge-Munsee 000
16. Conversion¿Dorothy Davids, Stockbridge-Munsee 000
17. Matrilineage and Democracy¿Hendrick Aupaumut, Mohican 000
18. Grandmother Moon¿Cathy Caldwell, Mohican, Stockbridge-Munsee 000
19. Eunice Stick¿Nicole Hirthe and Brad Pecore, Stockbridge-Munsee 000
Chapter Seven: Literature of the Brothertown Nation
1. Brothertown Indian Nation of Wisconsin¿Brothertown Indian Nation 000
2. Mission Statement¿Brothertown Indian Nation 000
3. First of the Mohegans¿Uncas, Mohegan 000
4. To Settle My Posterity to Walk in the Straight Path¿Uncas, Mohegan 000
5. Massacre of Pequot at Mystic in 1637¿Miantonomi, Narragansett 000
6. Narragansett Act of Submission¿Canonicus, Pessicus, and Mixam, Narragansett 000
7. Our Forefathers Had Everything in Great Plenty¿Henry Quaquaquid and Robert Ashpo, Mohegan 000
8. A Mohegan Minister's Autobiography¿Samson Occom, Mohegan 000
9. The Diary of Samson Occum¿Jim Ottery, Brothertown 000
10. An Execution Sermon¿Samson Occom, Mohegan 000
11. Nation Building and Cultural Adaptation¿Joseph Johnson, Mohegan 000
12. Second Speech to the Oneida¿Joseph Johnson, Mohegan 000
13. Eulogy on King Philip¿William Apess, Pequot 000
14. Protectors of Mary Rowlandson¿Sam Sachem, Kutquen, Quassohit, Peter Jethro, Algonquians 000
15. Out-Skating the Devil¿Carolyn K. Andler, Brothertown 000
16. Makia'wisag or "Little People"¿Fidelia Fielding, Mohegan 000
17. A Son of the Forest¿William Apess, Pequot 000
18. Sketch of the Brothertown Indians¿Thomas Commuck, Brothertown 000
19. Rhetorical Sovereignty¿Jim Ottery, Brothertown 000
20. Petition for Federal Acknowledgement as an American Indian Tribe¿Brothertown Nation of Wisconsin 000
Index 000