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Tag Archives: Native Americans
Mayflower 400: The Wampanoag and the Myth of the First Thanksgiving
The story of the first successful harvest and the celebratory feast that followed is told by Edward Winslow in a letter he wrote to a friend in 1621. This letter is part of a pamphlet that was published in London … Continue reading
Indigenous American Voices
This past Wednesday evening at the Eastern Avenue branch of the Davenport Public Library, a direct descendant of the Lakota leader Crazy Horse spoke about recording his family’s oral history. Floyd Clown, grandson to Crazy Horse, was on his 146th … Continue reading
New Resource! Gale Genealogy Connect : Native American
The Main Street location of the Davenport Public Library will be closed until December 26th for renovations. That means our Special Collections Center will also be closed. You will still be able to access all the genealogical and local history … Continue reading
Posted in Genealogy
Tagged Databases, gale, gale genealogy connect, Genealogy, Native Americans, online resources
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Giving Credit Where Credit is Due
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Credit Island, which took place during the War of 1812, on the fourth and fifth of September 1814. Special Collections will be participating in the city’s commemoration of this event … Continue reading
A Pencil-Drawn Snapshot in Time: City Engineering Department Survey Books
Many of our blog posts in the past year have involved the Civil War period, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the event. One Civil War era primary resource in the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections archives is the City of Davenport … Continue reading
Posted in Local History
Tagged Camp Kearney, Camp McClellan, Engineering Survey Books, Native Americans, Sioux Tribes
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The Nation’s First Concentration Camp
In its almost one hundred and seventy-five years, Davenport has had many national firsts. Some of these fill us with a sense of comfortable pride. Others do not. Genealogists and local historians may know that the Quad-City area was originally … Continue reading
