“All Intent on Seeing the White Woman Married to the Red Man”: The Parker/Sackett Affair and the Pub...
“All Intent on Seeing the White Woman Married to the Red Man”: The Parker/Sackett Affair and the Public Spectacle of Intermarriage
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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
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This article examines the events surrounding the 1867 wedding ceremony of Ely Parker, the Seneca sachem and Civil War general, to Minnie Sackett, a young, white socialite. It uses, as its main source of evidence, the newspaper coverage of and public discourse about this fascinating event. The Washington DC public obsessed over the wedding, and even...
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“All Intent on Seeing the White Woman Married to the Red Man”: The Parker/Sackett Affair and the Public Spectacle of Intermarriage
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_60306445
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_60306445
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1042-7961,1527-2036
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1527-2036
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10.1353/jowh.0.0005
