Logan's Lament: An Indian Identity Crisis
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Logan's Lament: An Indian Identity Crisis
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Regular price $43.99
In the spring of 1774, a succession of unprovoked murders had been carried out in Virginia and Pennsylvania, targeting the family of an important Indian chief known by the English surname of Logan. The perpetrators? The calculating Colonial government and greedy land speculators whose motives were to incite a regional Indian war -- not only to divert attention from the steadily growing rift between the British and the American colonies, but in hopes of personal financial gain that would ultimately result from defeating the Indians, forcing them to cede their lands and opening them up for sale and settlement. After the slaughter of his family, Chief Logan dictated an extraordinarily eloquent and devastatingly heart-felt speech delivered at the Treaty of Camp Charlotte in October 1774. At the time, this remarkable speech circulated across Colonial America and Europe and is now commonly known to history as Logan’s Lament.
Chief Logan has been misidentified for over 200 years as the son of the Oneida/Mingo chieftain Shikellemy. During the course of intensive research into her Native American heritage, the author found inconsistencies and dove deeply into the true identity and tribal affiliation of Chief Logan, the author of Logan’s Lament. In this volume, Ms. Soiret presents clear and incontrovertible evidence that over 200 years of American history has been dead wrong.
United States Copyright Office Registration No.: TX 9-438-908
Chief Logan has been misidentified for over 200 years as the son of the Oneida/Mingo chieftain Shikellemy. During the course of intensive research into her Native American heritage, the author found inconsistencies and dove deeply into the true identity and tribal affiliation of Chief Logan, the author of Logan’s Lament. In this volume, Ms. Soiret presents clear and incontrovertible evidence that over 200 years of American history has been dead wrong.
United States Copyright Office Registration No.: TX 9-438-908