Early in the 19th century ... the five Indian nations had made earlier attempts at resistance, many of their strategies were non-violent. One method was to adopt Anglo-American practices such ...
The writer Vine Deloria Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux, 1933–2005) called Adams “the most important Indian” of the second ... in handwritten minutes of [19th-century] treaty council meetings ...
His countrymen hailed him as the "Indian Edison" after the famed American inventor ... a pioneering Indian inventor of the 19th Century, is all but forgotten today. How has this come to pass?