{"id":48401,"date":"2016-07-26T00:56:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T00:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48401"},"modified":"2016-07-26T00:56:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T00:56:55","slug":"going-against-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48401","title":{"rendered":"Going Against History?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Going Against History?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Institute for Advanced Study<\/a>
\n2016<\/p>\n

Ann McGrath<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of History, Director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History
\nAustralian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nLocket images of Elias and Harriett, ca. 1826 (Courtesy of the Boudinot Family<\/em>)<\/small><\/p>\n

Illicit love and intermarriage<\/em><\/p>\n

When leading church elders posted the wedding banns<\/a> on the church doors in Cornwall, Connecticut<\/a>, in the summer of 1825, all hell broke loose. The banns proclaimed that Harriett Gold, a nineteen-year-old white woman, was to marry Elias Boudinot, a young Cherokee<\/a> man and a recent graduate of the town\u2019s Foreign Mission School.<\/p>\n

Born Gallegina Uwatie, or Buck Watie, Elias had already crossed the boundaries of nations. He took his new name out of respect for Elias Boudinot<\/a> (1740\u20131821), the School patron and congressional statesman of New Jersey<\/a>, whom he had met on the journey from his native Georgia<\/a> to Cornwall. The original Boudinot had married Hannah Stockton, whose Princeton<\/a> family had bought their land from William Penn<\/a> and whose brother was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence<\/a>. A trustee of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University), Boudinot founded the American Bible Society<\/a>, a nationalistic effort that included James Fenimore Cooper<\/a>, author of The Last of the Mohicans<\/em><\/a>. His religious tracts expounded theories that the Indians were from the lost tribes of Israel<\/a>. He also wrote sentimental poems about his beloved wife and the happiness brought by their marriage…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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