The Collected Writings of Sherman and Grace Coolidge
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3405-6 (ISBN)
Sherman and Grace Coolidge were a remarkable couple in many respects. Sherman Coolidge (Runs On Top), born in the early 1860s into the Northern band of Arapahos, experienced the extreme violence of the Indian Wars, including the death of his father, as a young boy. Grace Wetherbee Coolidge was born into wealth and privilege in 1873, only to reject her life as a New York heiress and become a missionary on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. It was there that Sherman and Grace met and later married in 1902.
After eight years together at Wind River, both went on to achieve prominence: Sherman as the president of the Native-run reform group the Society of American Indians (1911–1923), Grace as the author of Teepee Neighbors, a book describing her time on the reservation that drew praise from critics such as H. L. Mencken. Sherman was an Episcopal priest and a mesmerizing speaker who had the unique ability to blend his assimilated Western perspective with Arapaho values to educate the American public about the significant challenges facing Native peoples, including endemic poverty, racism, and inequality. Offering unprecedented entrée into the most significant writings and documents of a leading Native American advocate and his wife, this volume is an intimate portrait of their life and contributes to our understanding of American Indian activism at a key moment of Indigenous resurgence against the settler state.
Sherman Coolidge (1860–1932), a leading Native American advocate of his generation, and his wife Grace Coolidge (1873–1937) wrote about Native American life and were married almost thirty years. Tadeusz Lewandowski (1973–2023) was a professor extraordinarius at the Institute of Literatures, University of Opole, Poland, and an associate professor of English and American studies at the University of Ostrava in the Czech Republic. He is the author of The Life of Sherman Coolidge, Arapaho Activist (Nebraska, 2022) and Ojibwe, Activist, Priest: The Life of Father Philip Bergin Gordon, Tibishkogijik.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Editorial Policy
Sherman and Grace Coolidge: A Biographical Sketch
Notes on the Writings of Sherman Coolidge
Notes on the Writings of Grace Coolidge
Part 1. Sherman Coolidge: Stories, Articles, Speeches, and Statements
Scenes from an Arapaho Boyhood
Crow and Eagle
The Colt
A Little Gambler
A Horse Race
The Death of Big Heart (Brave Heart)
Dispatches from a Wind River Missionary
1885 Report to the Spirit of Missions
1886 Report to the Spirit of Missions
1896 Report to the Spirit of Missions
1897 Report to the Spirit of Missions
1898 Report to the Spirit of Missions
1899 Report to the Spirit of Missions
Early Articles and Statements
Education of Indians
Speech at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Lake Mohonk Conference of the Friends of the Indian
The Indian of To-Day
Indians in Wyoming
Sherman and the Society
The Indian American: His Duty to His Race and to His Country, the United States of America
American Indians for the Honor of Their Race
The American Indian of Today
The Function of the Society of American Indians
Conference Evening at Haskell Indian School
American Indian Day
Statement before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
Opening Address of the President at the Sixth Annual Conference of the Society of American Indians
Open Debate on the Loyalty of Indian Employees in the Indian Service
Escaped Massacre to Be Taken by White Folk and Educated for Ministry—Story of an Indian Boy
Statements for Sunset
A Sermon and a Protest
Ye Cannot Serve God and Mammon
Statements at the Colorado Springs Open Forum on the American Indian
Part 2. Grace Coolidge: Writings, Letters, and Poems
Articles for the Spirit of Missions
An Arapahoe Christmas Tree
A Christmas Tree that Bore Souls
Writings for the American Indian Magazine
Wanted: To Save the Babies, or Capricornus and a Coroner
The Carpenter Who Had No One to Set Him Straight
The White Plague
Justice on a Reservation: A Story of an Actual Happening
Letters
Dearest Reddy, 1896–1901
Love, Marriage, and Death at Wind River, 1902–5
Later Missives, 1911–32
Poems
The Offering of the Goddess
On Finishing a Book
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 18.03.2023 |
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Zusatzinfo | 2 photographs, index |
Verlagsort | Lincoln |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4962-3405-7 / 1496234057 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-3405-6 / 9781496234056 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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