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Adams, Alex (son)
birth, 60
death, 84
visiting the reservation, 78
Adams, Daniel
death of, 61
farm work, 59
marries Electa Quinney, 49
missionary work, 47–49, 54, 58
Adams, Daniel, Jr. (son)
birth, 60
death, 84
letters to his mother, 82–83, 89
visiting the reservation, 78
Adams, John Clark (son)
birth, 60
death, 99
fighting for tribal membership, 98–99
important papers found, 100–101
leader of Citizens Party, 94
portrait, 95
visiting the reservation, 78
Ambler, Augustus, 41
Baird, Henry, 43
boarding school, 3, 14–19, 14, 15–17, 17
Boudinot, Elias, 65
Boudinot, William, 88
Brevoort, Marie, 43
Brothertown Indians, 34
Candy, John Walker
in Arkansas, 79
marries Electa Quinney, 65 farm and, 98, 99
returns to Indian Territory, 77–78
on Tahlequah town council, 71
Cherokee Advocate (newspaper), 67, 68, 69
Cherokee Nation, 65
Cherokee Phoenix (newspaper), 65, 66, 69
Cherokee Trail of Tears, 66–67
Christianity, 25–26, 58, 61, 87. See also
missionaries
Civil War, 63, 80–83, 80, 81, 82, 83
Clinton Female Seminary, 15–17, 17
Daun, Margaret, 73
Ducharme, Phebe (sister), 44
Etowaukaum (Mohican sachem), 9
European settlement, 20–23, 28–31, 51–52
fear of Indians, 27
financial panic (1857), 75–77, 75
Grand Kaukaulin, 34–37, 36, 37
Ho-Chunk Indians, 34
Housatonic Indians, 25
Ikutauam (spirit name), 12
Indian Removal Act (1830), 54
Indian Territory
during the Civil War, 80, 80, 81
created by US government, 52–53, 54
danger in, 70
living conditions, 55–57, 55, 56
map, 55
slave ownership in, 56
Lawrence University, 96, 97, 97
Ma-ko-me-ta (Menominee chief),50
Marsh, Cutting, 42
Menominee chief (Ma-ko-me-ta),50
Menominee Indians, 31, 34, 35, 49–51
Methodist Episcopal Church, 64
Mineral Point school, 39
Cutting Marsh, 42
Daniel Adams, 47–49, 53, 54, 58, 61
Green Bay private school, 39
John Sergeant, 11, 25–26, 26, 93
Mohawk, Jeremy, 12
Mohican Indians
journey to Wisconsin, 24
name, origin of, 9
Muhheakantuck River, 9, 20, 22
Nau-nau-neek-nuk, David (grandfather), 10
Nau-nau-neek-nuk, David (great-grandfather), 11
New Stockbridge, New York, 7, 28
newspapers, 65, 66, 67, 68–69, 68
Ojibwe Indians, 34
Potawatomi Indians, 34
Quinney, Austin Ikutauam (brother), 11, 13
Quinney, Electa
arrives in Wisconsin, 37
death, 98
first husband dies, 61
first public schoolteacher in
Wisconsin, 38
marries Daniel Adams, 49
marries John Walker Candy, 65
moves to Duck Creek, 51
moves to Indian Territory, 54
photo, viii
spirit name, 12
on Stockbridge-Munsee reservation, 78
teaching in New York, 19
teaching in Smithfield, 47, 49
teaching in Statesburg, 5, 38–41
Quinney, John W. (brother)
death, 72
move to Wisconsin, 32
Quinney Party, 94
River Indians, 25
sachem,9
schools, 17–18, 38–39. See also boarding
school
Seneca Indians, 58
Sergeant, John, 11, 25–26, 26, 93
Smithfield, Wisconsin, 47
Statesburg, Wisconsin
Electa teaching in, 5, 38, 40–41
first public school, 38
first white students, 40
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 26–27
Stockbridge Indians (in Massachusetts), 27–28, 27
Stockbridge Indians (in New York)
Henry Hudson and, 20
as Mohican Indians, 9
move to Wisconsin, 31
on Oneida Indian land, 28
at Quaker boarding schools, 18
Stockbridge Indians (in Wisconsin)
Civil War soldiers, 82
culture, 3
daily life, 42
living conditions, 9
Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican
Indians
citizenship issue, 91–93, 96–97
journey to Wisconsin, 24
in Wisconsin, 9
tuition, private school, 39
wampum, 22
Watie, Mary Ann, 65
Watie, Stand, 80
Waun-nau-con (spirit name), 12
Wheeler, John, 89
Wisconsin
part of Michigan Territory, 33
wildlife, 33
Wuh-weh-wee-nee-meew (spirit name), 12