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Book Review
| Chief Daniel Bread and the Oneida Nation of Indians of Wisconsin. By Laurence M. Hauptman and L. Gordon McLester III. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. xviii + 213 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)
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In 1829, Chief Daniel Bread led a group of emigrating Oneida Indians from upstate New York to their new home in the area around Green Bay in Michigan Territory. During the next forty years, Chief Bread skillfully defended his people's interest as they struggled to establish themselves and their nation in the Wisconsin wilds. Trouble loomed everywhere. The Oneidas fought among themselves. The Menominees and Winnebagos reneged on treaty agreements. Missionaries and frontier politicians schemed to enrich themselves at the Oneida's expense. Federal officials pressured the Nation to move west yet again. Chief Bread shepherded his people past these difficulties. His leadership during these critical years marks him as a father of the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin. |
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