The Life of Sherman Coolidge, Arapaho Activist
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The Life of Sherman Coolidge, Arapaho Activist

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The Life of Sherman Coolidge, Arapaho Activist

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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.

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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781496233974
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Native American Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Prologue
  10. 1. The Arapahos and Runs On Top
  11. 2. New Life
  12. 3. Return
  13. 4. Conspiracy, Exile, and the East
  14. 5. Losing Ground
  15. 6. Grace
  16. 7. Proving Herself
  17. 8. Twosing
  18. 9. Death and Life
  19. 10. Malcontents
  20. 11. A New Mission, a New Society
  21. 12. The Society Ascendant
  22. 13. Harmony in Jeopardy
  23. 14. State of Chaos, State of War
  24. Epilogue
  25. Notes
  26. Bibliography
  27. Index
  28. About Tadeusz Lewandowski
  29. Illustrations