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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. $29.95, ISBN 0-8061-3412-7.)
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| In the early nineteenth century the New York Oneida community began to split, with the result in the 1820s that part of the tribe began removal to Menominee and Ho Chunk (Winnebago) land in what is now Wisconsin. The Mohawk missionary Eleazer Williams has been credited as the key figure in this Christian Oneida removal to the west. Laurence M. Hauptman and L. Gordon McLester III refute Williams's role in this history, instead calling Chief Daniel Bread "the most important Oneida Indian leader of the nineteenth century" and "the founding father of the Oneida Nation of Indians of Wisconsin" (p. xiii). |
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