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The Germans, Frederick C. Luebke
The Germans, Frederick C. Luebke
Department of History: Faculty Publications
IN 1928, MIDWAY BETWEEN the two world wars, H. L. Mencken observed that with few exceptions the leaders of the Germans in America were an undistinguished and unintelligent lot, a collection of mediocrities, most of whom had something to sell. The few national German ethnic organizations still in existence, he noted, were led by entirely unimportant men. Moreover, the leaders of German immigrant churches were nonentities, unknown to the general public. The blame for this lamentable dearth of leadership, in Mencken's view, rested upon the German Americans themselves, who displayed an unfortunate tendency to follow inferior men. As Catholics they …
Occupying The Cherokee Country Of Oklahoma, Leslie Hewes
Occupying The Cherokee Country Of Oklahoma, Leslie Hewes
University Studies (University of Nebraska): Papers
"CITIZENSHIP IN THIS NATION, as you know, does not mean the possession of civil rights merely-as it does outside Indian Territory. The right of citizenship in this Nation means ... the right to erect residences and make farms on land bought and paid for by the Nation .... It means the right to materials and benefits which elsewhere must be purchased by the citizen himself." So spoke D. W. Bushyhead, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, at Tahlequah, Indian Territory, the Cherokee capital, in 1883. He added that all citizens and their posterity expected to enjoy these benefits without limitation …