Indians in the Family by Dawn Peterson

Author:Dawn Peterson [Peterson, Dawn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, United States, Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), 19th Century, Social Science, Ethnic Studies, American, Native American Studies
ISBN: 9780674978744
Google: M0UkDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2017-06-01T01:11:41+00:00

FIGURE 7–1. An image that is likely of James Lawrence McDonald (Choctaw), painted during his stay in Ohio, although the current description of the image refers to him as a member of the Miami Nation, Courtesy of the Ohio History Connection (H 24742). See the appendix for further details.

By October 1823 James McDonald had relinquished his attempts to carve out a life for himself in Ohio, at least for the time being. He had received news that his brother, Alexander Hamilton, had died, and, feeling few attachments to his life in Cincinnati, he felt compelled to return to the lower Mississippi Valley to take care of his family’s affairs. After “the disposal of some small property” he owned “in that country,” he told John Calhoun, he would pursue a career as a lawyer in “either the State of Mississippi or that of Alabama.”17 James McDonald would indeed wield his legal expertise after arriving in his homelands, but his plans to settle in the U.S. South dramatically diverged once he got there (Fig. 7–1).

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