62 The Iroquois in the Civil War | Part 1 | Indian Territory
Iroquois History and Legends
Andrew James Cotter
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🗓️ 19 April 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In 1861 a group of Seneca-Cayuga Iroquois who had relocated to Oklahoma in search of peace find themselves right in the middle of the American Civil War.
Learn about the war in the west. This episode has everything, Cherokee Confederates fighting against Free Black Soldiers and Union allied Iroquois. Maurading desperados, tears, betrayals, death, and of course many battles.
Notes:
Armstrong, William H. Warrior in Two Camps: Ely S. Parker, Union General, and Seneca. Syracuse University Press, 1978.
Gibson, Arrell Morgan. "Native Americans and the Civil War." American Indian Quarterly (Oct. 1985): 385–410.
Hauptman, Laurence M. The Iroquois in the Civil War: From Battlefield to Reservation. Syracuse University Press, 1992.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Erichoy History and Legends. This is Caleb. And this is Andrew. And don't worry, |
| 0:27.6 | I got rid of that pesky tally, a character who tried impersonating and taking over the show. He is now |
| 0:33.6 | safely locked up in a closet. So Andrew and I can continue on with our narrative. |
| 0:39.2 | And let's never speak of him again. I mean, that was, that was pretty horrible. In fact, |
| 0:44.1 | everything is right other than Andrew, still being trapped in Asia after a year and a half. He's |
| 0:48.5 | still broadcasting from our Malaysian, Airquois History and Legend Studio. And I am here at |
| 0:53.2 | our hometown, Canada Diego studio. And what are we going to be talking about today, Andrew? |
| 0:57.4 | Same thing we've been talking about for a while now, the American Civil War. And we discussed |
| 1:02.5 | Ely Parker in three episodes, but we thought that we would make sure that we covered all the other |
| 1:09.0 | people that were involved in the conflict, too, because it wasn't just him. And the issue that we covered all the other people that were involved in the conflict, |
| 1:10.9 | too, because it wasn't just him. And the issue that we have at this point in Houdini-Nishani |
| 1:17.0 | history is they're now scattered as different tribes and bands and nations across all of |
| 1:23.5 | North America from New York to Oklahoma to Canada to Wisconsin. And so it makes it really hard to do a |
| 1:31.3 | solid narrative. So what we need to do is focus on each of these different groups individually |
| 1:37.1 | and see how they fit in. First of all, we're going to talk about the Seneca Cayuga Nation. |
| 1:43.4 | But that name is not quite right, because this band of people |
| 1:47.8 | are not the traditional Seneca people. They are, but they aren't. They're actually a people |
| 1:54.1 | group that we talked about all the way back in our French and Indian War episodes. |
| 2:00.0 | That's right, Andrew. If you recall, because the Seneca nation |
| 2:04.1 | was the furthest to the west, whenever they would bring new people into the nation, so to speak, |
| 2:10.3 | they would set them up with a village slightly further west. And also people started, other nations |
| 2:16.4 | were being adopted in to the Hone and a Soti |
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