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Book SynopsisTadeusz Lewandowski presents the articles, stories, speeches, dispatches, letters, poems, and statements of Arapaho advocate Sherman Coolidge and his New York City society wife, Grace Wetherbee Coolidge.
Trade Review“This is the first time so much personal information about a Native American and his Anglo-American wife has been exposed in such depth and insight. Sherman Coolidge’s bold leadership in the 1910s called attention to the prejudice and abject ignorance of American people. There is no doubt that Lewandowski’s valuable work will be a lasting legacy to the Arapaho Nation, Euro Americans, U.S. history, and other Indian nations. Part of Coolidge’s papers should be incorporated into every American history textbook.”—Rowena McClinton, editor of
John Howard Payne Papers: Volumes 7–14 of the Payne-Butrick Papers“Lewandowski’s book serves as an important contribution to the field [in] its singular focus, its author-centrism, and its rigorous deployment of careful archival work and assemblage. This volume reveals Coolidge’s rhetorical tactics and his deft maneuvering of U.S. government policy concerning tribes, the impetus to convert Native people to Christianity that is at the core of his religiosity, and his growing circumspection regarding assimilationism, national pan-tribal organizations, the Indian Bureau, ‘civilization’ versus ‘traditionalism,’ and more.”—Julianne Newmark, author of
The Pluralist Imagination from East to West in American LiteratureTable of Contents List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Editorial Policy
Sherman and Grace Coolidge: A Biographical Sketch
Notes on the Writings of Sherman Coolidge
Notes on the Writings of Grace Coolidge
Part 1. Sherman Coolidge: Stories, Articles, Speeches, and Statements
Scenes from an Arapaho Boyhood
Crow and Eagle
The Colt
A Little Gambler
A Horse Race
The Death of Big Heart (Brave Heart)
Dispatches from a Wind River Missionary
1885 Report to the Spirit of Missions
1886 Report to the Spirit of Missions
1896 Report to the Spirit of Missions
1897 Report to the Spirit of Missions
1898 Report to the Spirit of Missions
1899 Report to the Spirit of Missions
Early Articles and Statements
Education of Indians
Speech at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Lake Mohonk Conference of the Friends of the Indian
The Indian of To-Day
Indians in Wyoming
Sherman and the Society
The Indian American: His Duty to His Race and to His Country, the United States of America
American Indians for the Honor of Their Race
The American Indian of Today
The Function of the Society of American Indians
Conference Evening at Haskell Indian School
American Indian Day
Statement before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
Opening Address of the President at the Sixth Annual Conference of the Society of American Indians
Open Debate on the Loyalty of Indian Employees in the Indian Service
Escaped Massacre to Be Taken by White Folk and Educated for Ministry—Story of an Indian Boy
Statements for Sunset
A Sermon and a Protest
Ye Cannot Serve God and Mammon
Statements at the Colorado Springs Open Forum on the American Indian
Part 2. Grace Coolidge: Writings, Letters, and Poems
Articles for the Spirit of Missions
An Arapahoe Christmas Tree
A Christmas Tree that Bore Souls
Writings for the American Indian Magazine
Wanted: To Save the Babies, or Capricornus and a Coroner
The Carpenter Who Had No One to Set Him Straight
The White Plague
Justice on a Reservation: A Story of an Actual Happening
Letters
Dearest Reddy, 1896–1901
Love, Marriage, and Death at Wind River, 1902–5
Later Missives, 1911–32
Poems
The Offering of the Goddess
On Finishing a Book
Notes
Bibliography
Index
