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Shawnee Project Bibliography

manonmoon21 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:49:34 +0000

1.) Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees by John Sugden
Blue Jacket was one of those prominent figures for the Shawnee people being an aggressive war chief during the 1800′s. Blue Jacket led his people in the Northwest Indian War, Dunmore’s War, and The Revoulutionary War. He was a predecessor to Shawnee great Tecumseh who also thrived to keep Shawnee lands no matter the circumstances. A significant win for this war chief was against Arthur St. Clair at the Battle of Wabash. Being brutally defeated by General Anthony Wayne at Fallen Timbers Blue Jacket eventually signed the Treaty of Greenville giving up most of his people’s lands up in Ohio.

2.) Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership by David Edmunds
One of the most trusted members of the Shawnee and one of its greatest hero’s, Chief Tecumseh was destined to change the course of history for Native American Indians. Tecumseh was a brave warrior that learned to fight from his eldest brother, and got his first bit of war action at somewhat of a younger age. Battling and losing to Arthur St. Clair Tecumseh realized individual tribes of Indians would not be able to push the white settlers out of their lands. He organized the first ever organized rebellion in Native American history. His death resulted in the breaking up of this alliance but his remarkable legacy lives on through Ohio History.

3.) Ohio History Central.Org
I got alot of my general information from the ohiohistorycentral.org site as well as googling other sites to get any type of ideas on the Shawnee people. I got my idea for doing the Shawnee people more so over any other Ohio Indian because I fell in love with the Tecumseh story. I felt that his story has rarely been heard and I wanted to give it a voice, any man standing up for his people regardless of race just to make a difference deserves recognition. Through my research I learned that the Shawnee’s influence around the Datyon area was very very large also so alot of the side material I was discovering, such as high schools/colleges named after them, made the subject of their people more relatable in a sense. I had a blast getting this project together and hope to go back and edit a few things and possibly do a 30 minute documentary on Chief Tecumseh with real documentary footage with real Shawnee descendants.

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

manonmoon21 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:13:23 +0000

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center opened in Cincinnati, Ohio on August 2004 on the banks of the Ohio River. The museum covers 158,000 square feet and costing a whopping $110 million to complete. It offers 35,000 square feet of exhibit space, a 325-seat theater, a Café, and an 8,000 square foot welcome hall. The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is an impressive sight to walk up to. Visitors are greeted with a large imposing glass wall. The expanse of glass faces North and South. The museum is divided into three main pavilions. The pavilions were built to represent courage, cooperation, and perseverance; they are connected by glass hallways. The museum is listed as a “Nationally Significant Building” in Cincinnati. This recognition was given by the Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati and the Cincinnatuss Association. It does not take a degree in architecture to appreciate this impressive building or its many amenities. The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center states it purpose as to “recount and reconnect the powerful American story of freedom from slavery to contemporary issues of freedom today.” Slavery existed for over 300 years in the United States. Blacks, white, former slaves, and Native Americans all participated in the struggle to provide a path to freedom known as the Underground Railroad. The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center tells this story through nine different exhibits. Each exhibit tells a portion of the past, while incorporating some of the most modern means employed by museums today. The museum tells the story of the involvement of the Underground Railroads participation in the fight to eliminate human slavery through many amazing features including educational programs, exhibits, live performances, interactive media, and simulation media. Your able to interact with and learn in the exhibits representing past as well as present heroes, including people such as Frederick Douglas, Mother Jones, Harriet Tubman, and Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth. This exhibits the museums adept ability at bringing both current technology together with history. I found this musuem visit the most exciting hands down just for the mere suspense and theatrics you can choose to encounter. I feel like I was having major deja vu during some of the skits with the characters almost as if I had been there before in the past on a field trip from my school days as I also mentioned in the Paul Laurence Dunbar musuem post but I honestly can’t recall if I have ever been to the freedom center. Either way I’d recommend it to anyone looking for a good time as well as knowledgable one to go to the National Unerground Railroad Freedom Center, I would easily go again in a heart beat!

Paul Laurence Dunbar House

manonmoon21 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:52:10 +0000

Going back to Paul Laurence Dunbar’s House was actually not as excting as I remembered it when I had gone in the 6th grade for a field trip but that was probably because I had my friends with me to goof around with. But not this time I actually read and listened to people around me and was quite frankly shocked learning new things about this great man for Dayton. Taking a few notes while touring the house I also looked up some sites online to get a better in depth analysis to describe Dunbar. Born in Dayton, Ohio, on June 27, 1872, to Matilda and Joshua Dunbar, both natives of Kentucky who had escaped from slavery, Dunbar had a love of learning and history. Matilda and Joshua had two children before separating in 1874. Matilda supported her children by working in Dayton as a washerwoman. One of the families she worked for included that of Orville and Wilbur Wright. Having heard poems read by the family she worked for when she was a slave, Matilda loved poetry and encouraged her children to read. Dunbar was inspired by his mother, and he began reciting and writing poetry as early as age 6. And although he was the only black student at Dayton Central High School, Dunbar participated actively. He was a member of the debating society, editor of the school paper and president of the school’s literary society. He also wrote for Dayton community newspapers. He worked as an elevator operator in Dayton’s Callahan Building until he became locally and nationally known as a writer. He published the first African-American newsletter in Dayton, the Dayton Tattler, with help from the Wright Brothers. In 1897, Dunbar traveled to England to recite his works on the London literary circuit. His national fame had spread across the Atlantic. After returning from England, Dunbar married Alice Dunbar Nelson, a young writer, teacher and proponent of racial and gender equality who had a master’s degree from Cornell University. Dunbar took a job at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. He worked there for only a year before quitting to write and recite full time. In 1902, Dunbar and his wife separated. Depression stemming from the end of his marriage and declining health drove him to a dependence on alcohol, which further damaged his health. He continued to write, however. He ultimately produced 12 books of poetry, four books of short stories, a play and five novels. His work appeared in Harper’s Weekly, the Sunday Evening Post, the Denver Post, Current Literature and a number of other magazines and journals. He traveled to Colorado and visited his half-brother in Chicago before returning to his mother in Dayton in 1904. He died there on Feb. 9, 1906. During his life, considerable emphasis was laid on the fact that Dunbar was of pure black descent, with no white ancestors. This is extraordinary feat for an African American man to set goals at such high standards and excel in them on a national level, Dunbar’s legacy will always be remembered for years to come in the city of Dayton and the state of Ohio.

Clark County Heritage Musuem Visit

manonmoon21 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:18:10 +0000

The Clark County Musuem I found particularly different and exciting because of the fact that there was a sport section exhibit that immediately caught my attention. Especially the pictures, posters, and newspaper editorial of Harvey Haddix Jr., he played for my favorite baseball team the Cincinnati Reds which was a huge excitement factor for me on this visit. It was inspiring to see how much Clark County as a community have braced in their natives and in a sense honoring them with these exihibits and posters, they look like they had had alot of time and work put into them. Very detailed this heavy laden sports town is obviously proud and not ashamed to show the support for their kin. My next exhibit included the fashion sense of early Clark county which was kind of both hysterical and refreshing to see. Refreshing in the sense that seeing how conservative girls dressed back in those days (compared to now a days) and hysterical just because I could never imagine living in that era and seeing some of my female friends dressed that way. The Health and Hygiene exhibit actually was one of the most interesting things I had got to see during this visit, because it made me think and reflect the most on a serious level compared to the jokes I got out of the fashion and sport displays. This exhibit had a distinctive glass frame I remember from the Springfield Dairy Company stating ‘You will have clean and pure milk’ and the glass bottles which I assume were what they had stored the milk in definitely sunk into my brain. How unsanitary the conditions of traveling from door to door to deliver milk and the fact that they were in glass bottles compared to the cartons we’re all used to. It was all rather unsettling to my stomache just to think of all the germs spread around in those days and how easily people probably got sick and/or died from various viruses and diseases. The medication advertisements on some of the posters didnt even seem that legit, maybe thats because I’m so used to Pepto Bismal commercials but they just didn’t seem too convincing to help people get better being in black and white and all, I feel that the day and age for that type of marketing was pretty good for trying to get the point across that they had medicine and antibiotics to get people feeling better. I mainly took from this musuem visit a sense of gratefulness as to what era I was born into, because everything it seemed people back then were apart of resembles depression. With all the different pictures and various items our society has definitely upgraded although I did like the little bronze fan I’d still prefer an Air Conditioned vent blowing in my face.

Shawnee Video Project

manonmoon21 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:28:14 +0000

African American history

manonmoon21 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:21:59 +0000

Ok so first blog on wordpress here it goes lol. I decided to do my blog about the African American virtual site. I found it to be very interesting actually not just for the fact that I am of African American decent but just to read about all the injustices and obviously prejudice times, for the most part, the majority of us as studenst know African Americans had to go through. Yeah we learned about it back in grade school and every February we are reminded over and over again that its black history month and kind of go around the fact that slavery ended oh so many years ago, but re reading and looking through some of the pictures and newspaper links they had up on the website definitely made me sit back and think a little bit. Just seeing how unusual it is for me to think of how our country as a whole has come such a long way to treat any race, for that matter, in a demeaning way. I mean I know there’s still a little bit of tension out in our country still but just how we’re so used to, in our generation at least, to be going to any type of sporting event such as an ohio state game (boo to any michigan fans lol) bengals, browns, cavaliers, etc. and for every and anyone to be playing on the field and/or cheering as one…. really makes me wonder if the people back in the 1800′s could have seen this coming in the future for America. A section on the site that caught my eye was the article on the letter from Whitefield McKinlay to Charles Young written in 1917 was a very compelling letter very moving and sincere. It reminded me of my cousin who is also in the US army at this time serving time in Iraq, and I couldn’t help but to compare and contrast thinking if how he or I would feel if we were put in the same scenario Mr. Charles Young was put in so that was a very intriguing link to read. And I have to say maybe the one thing I disliked about the site was just the news articles which I personally found kind of annoying. They seemed too one sided and biased but then again what form of news isn’t lol, but huh yes I strongly felt some stories may have been a little misconstrued and thats only because that is how I read it. I’m so used to how I was raised and how I am as a person now I’m a very open young man that is literally easy going and can hold on a conversation about nearly anything so I just think my open mindness/mindframe didnt want to believe the papers I read so that can also be a contender as to why I felt some where a bit fictional at parts. But any whoo I feel its def a different generation now its 2009 peace and love to everyone we all went through 9/11 together just think about how we all felt that day (as a country) appreciate the read, Thanks