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As they were led : Quakerly steps and missteps toward Native justice, 1795-1940 : chronicles and history highlights of Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Affairs Committee /

"Several small Quaker groups began advocating for Native justice over two centuries ago, journeying through wilderness to meet with distant Native Nations. In 1798, Wyandot Chief Tarhe spoke of 'a chain of friendship' with 'Brethren, Quakers.' In the 1870s, President Ulysses...

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Main Author: Catlin, Martha Claire, (Author)
Contributors: Powers, Patricia R., (author of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia, Maryland : Quaker Heron Press, [2021]
Subjects and Genres:
Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. > Committee Appointed for Indian Affairs > History.
Society of Friends > History > 18th century.
Society of Friends > History > 19th century.
Indians of North America > History > 18th century.
Indians of North America > History > 19th century.
Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation.
Indians, Treatment of > North America.
Indians of North America > Government relations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Origins : beginnings of Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee
  • Journeys : trips to "brighten the chain of friendship"
  • Responses : Joint committee of four yearly meetings and the Seneca
  • Agents : Quakers become government agents to assist tribes : post-Civil War era
  • Departures : unraveling of President Grant's "peace policy"
  • Constraints : friends in the era of allotment and assimilation 1887-1934
  • Unity : an abiding impulse to unite in a common purpose.

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