num_pages: 233
description: Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1981. Hard cover, 233 pp. First Edition. [Excerpt from front jacket flap] DIPLOMAT! IN BUCKSKINS A History of Indian Delegations in Washington City HERMAN). VIOLA In 1625, officials of the Jamestown colony invited the "great Kinge Apochanzion" and his leading chiefs and warriors to negotiate a peace treaty. "After a manye fayned speches, one of the colonists reported, an agreement was reached and a toast proposed. The unsuspecting Indians drank "a helthe or tooe." The colonist-reporter then goes on to It is thought some tooe hundred weare poysned. Years later, other confrontations, less brutal but no less bitter, took place in Washington, D.C., when Indian leaders met with government officials and attempted to defend their tribal interests. Herman J. Viola's Diplomats in Buckskins recounts the fascinating story of these Indian delegations to the capital city. The Indian visitors faced trying, sometimes hazardous situations. The long trek to Washington was fraught with difficulties and hardships—untrustworthy interpreters, inadequate medical care, dangerous terrain. And once in Washington, the Indians could not be sure of the reception they would they were often victimized by a host of unscrupulous whites who enjoyed a swindler's harvest at the expense of the U.S. Treasury. The number of Indians who died on the trail behveen their homes and the nation's capital remains unknown, but records reveal that more than thirty Indian chiefs died while in Washington. Herman Viola traces the Indian delegation story up to the present day, when Indians are among the most effective lobbyists on Capitol Hill. Dr. Viola pays particular attention to the nineteenth-century delegations and their experiences in Washington—the hotels, like the Indian Queen and the Washington House, where the delegates stayed...
language: English
title: Diplomats In Buckskins: A History Of Indian Delegations In Washington City
publisher: Rivilo Books