Quakers and Native Americans

Ignacio Gallup-Diaz is Professor of history at Bryn Mawr College. He is the author of The Door of the Seas and Key to the Universe: Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in the Darien, 1640-1750, (Columbia, 2005), and the editor of Colonial America: An Atlantic Handbook, (Routledge, 2017).Geoffrey Plank teaches history at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of John Woolman’s Path to the Peaceable Kingdom (Penn, 2012), and co-edited, with Brycchan Carey, the essay collection Quakers and Abolition (Illinois, 2014).

• General Series Editor’s Preface VIIAcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on Contributors1 Introduction2 The Lenape Origins of Delaware Valley Peace and FreedomJean R. Soderlund3 Apostates in the Woods: Quakers, Praying Indians, and Circuits of Communication in Humphrey Norton’s New England’s EnsigneMarie Balsley Taylor4 “The Calamett, a Sure Bond and Seal of Peace”: Native-Pennsylvania Treaties as Religious DiscourseScott M. Wert5 “Cast Under Our Care”: Elite Quaker Masculinity and Political Rhetoric about American Indians in the Age of RevolutionsRay Batchelor6 “Strong Expressions of Regard”: Native Diplomats and Quakers in Early National PhiladelphiaStephanie Gamble7 “The Great Spirit Hears All We Now Say”: Philadelphia Quakers and the Seneca, 1798–1850Ellen M. Ross8 The Meddlesome Friend: Philip Evan Thomas among the Onöndowa‘ga’: 1838–1861Lawrence M. Hauptman9 Tunesassa Echoes and the Temperance Struggle: A Family Tradition at Tunesassa Quaker Indian School, Allegany Indian Reservation across GenerationsThomas J. Lappas10 Of African and Indian Descent: Creating Mission and Memory in Western Ohio, 1805–1850Dr. Tara Strauch11 “A Damnd Rebelious Race”: The U.S. Civilization Plan and Native AuthorityLori Daggar12 Remembering and Forgetting – Local History and the Kin of Paul Cuffe in an Upper Canadian Quaker CommunityMary Beth Start13 Saving Indians by Teaching Schoolgirls to Work: Quakers, the Carlisle Institute, and American Indian AssimilationElizabeth Thompson14 Quaker Roles in Making and Implementing Federal Indian Policy: From Grant’s Peace Policy through the early Dawes Act Era (1869–1900)Carol Nackenoff and Allison Hrabar15 The Quaker Indian Boarding Schools: Facing our History and OurselvesPaula Palmer16 A Shared Vision for HealingJohn Echohawk