The Seneca Man Who Wrote The Surrender Terms At Appomattox – Then Became America’s First Native Commissioner Of Indian Affairs
That, in the long perspective of American history, is its own form of testimony.
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The Grant Friendship, Examined Honestly
The relationship between Ulysses Grant and Ely Parker has sometimes been reduced, in popular accounts, to either a story of pure meritocracy — the good general recognizing talent regardless of race — or a more cynical narrative about Parker as a useful token appointment.
Neither version is adequate to what the documented record shows.
Grant and Parker met as equals in Galena in the late 1850s.
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