64 The Iroquois in the Civil War | Part 3 | The Oneida Nation

Iroquois History and Legends

Andrew James Cotter

Canadian History, Iroquois, History, North American History, First Nations, Religion & Spirituality, American History, Education, Six Nations, Native America, Christianity, Native American, Indian History, Colonial History, Haudenosaunee

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🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In our final episode in our Haudenosaunee in the Civil War series we take a look at how other individuals and communities made contributions to the war effort.

We will cover Dr. Peter Wilson (Cayuga), the U.S. - Dakota War of 1862 and the Oneida Nation of Green Bay, WI

Notes:

Federal Publishing Company. The Union Army A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States 1861-65 — Records of the Regiments in the Union Army — Cyclopedia of Battles — Memoirs of Commanders and Soldiers Volumn VI Cyclopedia of Battles — Helena Road to Z. United States Army Reports. Federal Publishing Company, 1908.

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.

Horton, Russell. "Unwanted in a White Man's War: The Civil War Service of the Green Bay Tribes." The Wisconsin Magazine of History 2004: 18-27

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Iroquois History and Legends.
0:22.9	I am Andrew.
0:24.4	And I'm his little brother, Caleb.
0:26.7	Well, welcome back, everyone.
0:28.9	We are finally reaching the end of our Civil War series.
0:32.8	It's hard to believe that just three weeks ago we started this, Caleb.
0:38.3	I think there's people groaning that have been waiting a year and a half for this.
0:43.3	But in the future, when people listen to this, they'll just binge it one after the other.
0:47.3	So, hats off to you for discovering the show later.
0:51.3	So this week, we're going to talk about some individuals and some individual companies and regiments that participated or tried to participate in various parts of the war.
0:59.3	And first off today, we have a doctor, Dr. Peter Wilson.
1:05.2	Dr. Wilson was from upstate New York. He was a Cayuga leader. His Seneca name was D. John Nann de Wenho.
1:13.9	And it means they hear his voice or the pacifier.
1:19.0	Does that mean that like when people hear his voice, they become relaxed or calm down?
1:23.4	Or he's very good at dissuading people from battling against each other?
1:27.8	Like many of the Airquaint-S sachems, he was known as being a great speaker.
1:33.0	So it was said, if you were upset, he would talk to you and he would calm you down.
1:37.7	So he was the pacifier.
1:38.9	He was a peacemaker.
1:40.2	He was born in 1814.
1:42.7	We originally thought Dr. Peter Wilson was the first Erichoyne person to earn his medical doctorate.
1:49.1	But we actually have some evidence that there was someone named Jacob Jameson.
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