Above: A portrait of Lydia Marie Child by John Adams Whipple. Boston, 1865. Below: A photograph of the Panobscot Island Reservation, Maine taken in 1919. Lydia Marie Child’s story, “The Indian Wife,” was published in 1828 in The Legendary, Consisting of Principle Pieces, Principally Illustrative of American History, Scenery, and Manners, edited by Nathaniel Parker … Continue reading Lydia Marie Child, The Legendary
Postcard from c. 1900. Charters Street, Lower French Quarter, New Orleans. Alice Dunbar Nelson was a first-generation free Black person born in New Orleans, Louisianna in 1875. She studied at renowned institutions such as Cornell, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania. She worked as a public school teacher her entire adult life while also pursuing … Continue reading Alice Dunbar Nelson’s MultiCultural New Orleans
“Buffalo Bird Woman” is an account of a woman’s typical life as a member of the Hidatsa Native American tribe in North Dakota in the mid nineteenth century. It was originally published in the works of ethnographer Gilbert L. Wilson, a progressive Christian. Wilson published his documentation the way of life of the Hidatsa people … Continue reading The Labor and Resources of Hidatsa Women: Buffalo Bird Woman’s Account
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