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"maff" |
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28 Aug 2005 07:12:11 PM |
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OT: William Johnson |
In the valley of the Mohawk
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1556476,00.html
Michael Moorcock admires Fintan O'Toole's White Savage, a biography of
the Irish Tory William Johnson who became an Iroquois leader
Saturday August 27, 2005
The Guardian
White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America
by Fintan O'Toole
402pp, Faber, =A320
A few years ago, while researching the Haudenosuanee, I found their
official website, sponsored by Iroquois Computer Solutions. The
population of the Six Nations, I learned, suffered some setbacks during
the French and Indian wars, but continued growing at a healthy rate,
and today is the highest in Iroquois history. Civil rights legislation
had allowed native Americans to exploit their economic independence. As
in Ireland, commodified romance is now part of their booming heritage
industry.
Iroquois
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/a4494fd374e839cd
William Johnson
http://news.google.com/news?q=3D%22William%20Johnson%22&num=3D100&hl=3Den&l=
r=3D&safe=3Doff&sa=3DN&tab=3Dgn
http://www.google.com/search?q=3D%22William+Johnson%22&num=3D100&hl=3Den&lr=
=3D&tab=3Dnw&ie=3DUTF-8&sa=3DN
http://www.google.com/search?q=3D%22William+Johnson%22&btnG=3DSearch+Direct=
ory&hl=3Den&cat=3Dgwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=3D%22William%20Johnson%22&num=3D100&hl=3D=
en&lr=3D&safe=3Doff&sa=3DN&scoring=3Dd&tab=3Dwg
Fintan O'Toole
http://news.google.com/news?q=3D%22Fintan%20O'Toole%22&num=3D100&hl=3Den&lr=
=3D&safe=3Doff&sa=3DN&tab=3Dgn
http://www.google.com/search?num=3D100&hl=3Den&lr=3D&tab=3Dnw&q=3D%22Fintan=
+O%27Toole%22&ie=3DUTF-8&sa=3DN
http://www.google.com/search?q=3D%22Fintan+O%27Toole%22&btnG=3DSearch+Direc=
tory&hl=3Den&cat=3Dgwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=3D%22Fintan%20O'Toole%22&num=3D100&hl=3De=
n&lr=3D&safe=3Doff&sa=3DN&scoring=3Dd&tab=3Dwg
Forgotten Founders
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/6a0fe41017f7944a
A Blueprint for the Future
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/59c28cd6dfe6f60f
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| User: "maff" |
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| Title: Re: OT: William Johnson |
29 Aug 2005 07:50:41 AM |
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maff wrote:
In the valley of the Mohawk
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1556476,00.html
Michael Moorcock admires Fintan O'Toole's White Savage, a biography of
the Irish Tory William Johnson who became an Iroquois leader
Saturday August 27, 2005
The Guardian
White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America
by Fintan O'Toole
402pp, Faber, =A320
A few years ago, while researching the Haudenosuanee, I found their
official website, sponsored by Iroquois Computer Solutions. The
population of the Six Nations, I learned, suffered some setbacks during
the French and Indian wars, but continued growing at a healthy rate,
and today is the highest in Iroquois history. Civil rights legislation
had allowed native Americans to exploit their economic independence. As
in Ireland, commodified romance is now part of their booming heritage
industry.
FABER =A320 (402pp) =A318 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897
White Savage: William Johnson and the invention of America by Fintan
O'Toole
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article306742.ece
On the frontier of history and myth
By Stephen Howe
Published: 19 August 2005
In about 1738, a young man called William Johnson escaped his
impoverished if well-connected Irish home for America. Initially
working for his uncle, he soon struck out on his own as a fur-trader
and land speculator. And he "went native", acquiring an Iroquois wife,
family and name. Within a few years, he became the most important
intermediary between white and native societies, and a crucial actor in
the complex conflicts which consolidated British power in North
America, broke that of France, and gradually destroyed the indigenous
societies with which Johnson had become so intimate.
But he also made himself something far more even than all that. As
Fintan O'Toole argues in this remarkable, vivid biography, Johnson was
a vital figure in the making of America: in a sense, one could even say
that he was the first American.
Iroquois
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/a4494fd374e839cd
William Johnson
http://news.google.com/news?q=3D%22William%20Johnson%22&num=3D100&hl=3Den=
&lr=3D&safe=3Doff&sa=3DN&tab=3Dgn
http://www.google.com/search?q=3D%22William+Johnson%22&num=3D100&hl=3Den&=
lr=3D&tab=3Dnw&ie=3DUTF-8&sa=3DN
http://www.google.com/search?q=3D%22William+Johnson%22&btnG=3DSearch+Dire=
ctory&hl=3Den&cat=3Dgwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=3D%22William%20Johnson%22&num=3D100&hl=
=3Den&lr=3D&safe=3Doff&sa=3DN&scoring=3Dd&tab=3Dwg
Fintan O'Toole
http://news.google.com/news?q=3D%22Fintan%20O'Toole%22&num=3D100&hl=3Den&=
lr=3D&safe=3Doff&sa=3DN&tab=3Dgn
http://www.google.com/search?num=3D100&hl=3Den&lr=3D&tab=3Dnw&q=3D%22Fint=
an+O%27Toole%22&ie=3DUTF-8&sa=3DN
http://www.google.com/search?q=3D%22Fintan+O%27Toole%22&btnG=3DSearch+Dir=
ectory&hl=3Den&cat=3Dgwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=3D%22Fintan%20O'Toole%22&num=3D100&hl=
=3Den&lr=3D&safe=3Doff&sa=3DN&scoring=3Dd&tab=3Dwg
Forgotten Founders
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/6a0fe41017f7944a
A Blueprint for the Future
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/59c28cd6dfe6f60f
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