Tribal Dispossession and the Ottawa Indian University Fraud.

The story is complex with many actors-- white missionaries, church officials, land speculators, town boosters, government officials, and Ottawa Indian leaders from opposing factions. Good intentions are mixed with deceit. And in the final chapter, there is neither a happy nor a tragic ending, only a belated settlement. William E. Unrah and H. Craig Miner, two highly capable historians at Wichita State University, have produced this case study of the chicanery associated with the creation of Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas. They expose how the desire of Baptist missionaries to create a college for Ottawa Indians became entangled with land speculation and town building enterprises and how e\ en in the eyes of the churchmen the goal of establishing the college took precedence over the rights of the Indians

Forty Years of Growth and Achievement: A History of Iowa\u27s Community Colleges

Review of: "Forty Years of Growth and Achievement: A History of Iowa\u27s Community Colleges," by Jeremy Varner, edited by Janice Nahra Friedel

Prophet of Progress: the Life and times of Elias Cornelius Boudinot

Sometimes the historian-biographer is presented with a perplexing situation. He has discovered an intriguing and significant individual to study but, unfortunately, the requisite information for a full length study is either not available or nonexistent. So it seemed when looking at the life of Elias Cornelius Boudinot. He was an excellent subject. A mixed blood Cherokee from a noted Cherokee family, he had a lively and controversial past. Indeed, his activities placed him beyond the realm of Indian history and into the wider context of American western history. Not often does one find a person involved in so many undertakings. Unfortunately, the few writings on Boudinot indicated that at best only certain parts of his life could be viewed in any depth. Happily, I soon concluded that first impressions were deceiving, and thus I commenced this study.Histor

Tribal Dispossession and the Ottawa Indian University Fraud.

The story is complex with many actors-- white missionaries, church officials, land speculators, town boosters, government officials, and Ottawa Indian leaders from opposing factions. Good intentions are mixed with deceit. And in the final chapter, there is neither a happy nor a tragic ending, only a belated settlement. William E. Unrah and H. Craig Miner, two highly capable historians at Wichita State University, have produced this case study of the chicanery associated with the creation of Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas. They expose how the desire of Baptist missionaries to create a college for Ottawa Indians became entangled with land speculation and town building enterprises and how e\ en in the eyes of the churchmen the goal of establishing the college took precedence over the rights of the Indians

Wallace M. Short: Iowa Rebel By William H. Cumberland

Wallace M. Short, a clergyman influenced by the Social Gospel of Washington Gladden and the Progressivism of Robert M. La Follette, was defrocked by the Congregational Church in 1916, in large part for his opposition to prohibition and his defense of organized labor. Two years later he became mayor of Sioux City, Iowa, and for the next three decades he was a conspicuous figure in state politics

Chronicles of Oklahoma

Article explores the legal ramifications of the case of mixed-blood Cherokee businessman E.C. Boudinot's hotel. Thomas Burnell Colbert returns to the colorful career of Elias Cornelius Boudinot to discuss the impact of him calling for the involvement of the federal government in Indian Territory

Chronicles of Oklahoma

Article describes the colorful political career of Elias Cornelius Boudinot, a man considered by some a progressive altruist and others as a self-seeking politician who betrayed his people. Boudinot was a Cherokee lawyer who fought for many controversial ideas, such as making Indian Territory an official territory of the United States and establishing a central government there