John Buck (Onondaga politician)
John Buck (c. 1818 – 1893), titled Skanawati among other variants,[a] was a leader of the Onondaga who lived near Ontario's Grand River.[1][2][3] He was the official keeper of the wampum records of the Iroquois,[4][5] sometimes described as a firekeeper.[3] He took on the role of wampum keeper in 1843.[6] Buck was described in a contemporary account as "a capable ruler and an able and trustworthy negotiator".[7] Kenyon and Kenyon identify him as a "follower of Handsome Lake".[8] He died in 1893,[9][10][11] aged approximately 75.[12][b]
Notes
- ^ Buffalo Historical Society 1885, p. 12.
- ^ Buffalo Historical Society 1885, p. 46.
- ^ a b Welles 1892, p. 17.
- ^ Hale 1883, p. 41.
- ^ Rogers & Smith 1994, p. 192.
- ^ Muller 2007, p. 137.
- ^ Hale 1883, p. 161.
- ^ a b Kenyon, Ian; Kenyon, Thomas (February 1986). "Echo the Firekeeper: A Nineteenth Century Iroquois Site" (PDF). KEWA: Newsletter of the London Chapter, Ontario Archaeological Society. 86 (2): 12. ISSN 0228-4111.
- ^ Muller 2007, p. 140.
- ^ Tooker 1998, p. 223.
- ^ Rogers & Smith 1994, p. 196.
- ^ "Chief John Buck: The Leader of the Six Nations Dies at His Home in Ontario". New-York Tribune. 23 March 1893. ProQuest 573780042.
Sources
- Hale, Horatio, ed. (1883). The Iroquois Book of Rites. Library of Aboriginal American Literature. Vol. 2. Philadelphia: Daniel Garrison Brinton. OCLC 1048299478.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - Muller, Kathryn V. (2007). "The Two "Mystery" Belts of Grand River: A Biography of the Two Row Wampum and the Friendship Belt". American Indian Quarterly. 31 (1): 129–164. doi:10.1353/aiq.2007.0013. ISSN 0095-182X. JSTOR 4138898. S2CID 162334379.
- Obsequies of Red Jacket at Buffalo, October 9th, 1884. Transactions of the Buffalo Historical Society. Vol. 3. Buffalo: Buffalo Historical Society. 1885. OCLC 297246323. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Rogers, Edward S.; Smith, Donald B. (1994). Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations. Dundurn Press. ISBN 978-1-55488-063-8. OCLC 244771106.
- Tooker, Elisabeth (1998). "A Note on the Return of Eleven Wampum Belts to the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy on Grand River, Canada". Ethnohistory. 45 (2): 219–236. doi:10.2307/483059. JSTOR 483059.
- Welles, S. R., ed. (1892). Unveiling of the Monument Erected by the Waterloo Library and Historical Society, as a Memorial of Red Jacket. Waterloo, New York: Waterloo Library and Historical Society. OCLC 1158057471. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Further reading
- Buck, John (1928) [20 July 1887]. "What Is Wampum?". 36th Annual Archæological Report. Toronto: King's Printer for Ontario. pp. 48–50. OCLC 1039497427.
- Hale, Horatio (May 1895). "An Iroquois Condoling Council". Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. 2nd series. 1: 45–65. ISSN 0316-4616.
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