Life of Sherman Coolidge, Arapaho Activist
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American History
Author_Tadeusz Lewandowski
Biography
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Christian Missionary
Colorado
Committee of One Hundred
Doa che wa a
Episcopal Priest
Episcopalian
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Ethnic Studies
Ethnohistory
Grace Darling Wetherbee
Great Plains
Historical Biography
Indian Wars
Indigenous Studies
Intertribal Relations
Midwest History
Mixed Race Marriage
Native American History
Native American Rights
Native American Studies
New York City
Progressive Era
Religious Missionary
Reservation System
Runs-On-Top
SAI
Segregated School
Segregation
Shoshone Captive
Society of American Indians
Wind River Reservation
Wyoming
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- ISBN 9781496233479
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2022
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Sherman Coolidge’s (1860–1932) panoramic life as survivor of the Indian Wars, witness to the maladministration of the reservation system, mediator between Native and white worlds, and ultimate defender of Native rights and heritage made him the embodiment of his era in American Indian history.
Born to a band of Northern Arapaho in present-day Wyoming, Des-che-wa-wah (Runs On Top) endured a series of harrowing tragedies against the brutal backdrop of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars. As a boy he experienced the merciless killings of his family in vicious raids and attacks, surviving only to be given up by his starving mother to U.S. officers stationed at a western military base. Des-che-wa-wah was eventually adopted by a sympathetic infantry lieutenant who changed his name and set his life on a radically different course.
Over the next sixty years Coolidge inhabited western plains and eastern cities, rode in military campaigns against the Lakota, entered the Episcopal priesthood, labored as missionary to his tribe on the Wind River Reservation, fomented dangerous conspiracies, married a wealthy New York heiress, met with presidents and congressmen, and became one of the nation’s most prominent Indigenous persons as leader of the Native-run reform group the Society of American Indians. Coolidge’s fascinating biography is essential for understanding the myriad ways Native Americans faced modernity at the turn of the century.
Born to a band of Northern Arapaho in present-day Wyoming, Des-che-wa-wah (Runs On Top) endured a series of harrowing tragedies against the brutal backdrop of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars. As a boy he experienced the merciless killings of his family in vicious raids and attacks, surviving only to be given up by his starving mother to U.S. officers stationed at a western military base. Des-che-wa-wah was eventually adopted by a sympathetic infantry lieutenant who changed his name and set his life on a radically different course.
Over the next sixty years Coolidge inhabited western plains and eastern cities, rode in military campaigns against the Lakota, entered the Episcopal priesthood, labored as missionary to his tribe on the Wind River Reservation, fomented dangerous conspiracies, married a wealthy New York heiress, met with presidents and congressmen, and became one of the nation’s most prominent Indigenous persons as leader of the Native-run reform group the Society of American Indians. Coolidge’s fascinating biography is essential for understanding the myriad ways Native Americans faced modernity at the turn of the century.
Tadeusz Lewandowski is a professor extraordinarius at the Institute of Literatures, University of Opole, Poland, and an associate professor of English and American studies at the University of Ostrava in the Czech Republic. He is the author of Red Bird, Red Power: The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-Ša and Ojibwe, Activist, Priest: The Life of Father Philip Bergin Gordon, Tibishkogijik.
