William H. Armstrong (3) (1932–2022)

Ely S. Parker, aka Ha-sa-no-an-da, aka Do-ne-ho-ga-wa grew up as an Indian, and represented the Tonawandas in a land dispute before he was 18. Trained in law (but rejected for practice as he was a Native, and not a citizen), he turned to engineering, ultimately becoming General Grant's adjutant general, the secretary who actually wrote the articles of surrender at Appomattox, and the first Native American Commisioner of Indian Affairs. He also was a Sachem of the Iroquois Confederacy, a Mason, and member of several post-Civil War groups. But to the end, he was a part of two worlds, yet fully of neither. A minor and yet interesting figure of the 19th Century.… (mehr)