The Seneca Man Who Wrote The Surrender Terms At Appomattox – Then Became America’s First Native Commissioner Of Indian Affairs
He did not live to see those catastrophes fully unfold.
He died in 1895, two years before the allotment policy began to produce its worst effects on Native land holdings.
The generation of Native Americans who would experience the full force of the Dawes Act’s consequences — the loss of two-thirds of the Native land base between 1887 and 1934 — was a generation younger than Parker.
The Question His Life Left Open
Ely Parker’s biography poses a question that his life could not fully answer and that American history has been wrestling with ever since: what is the relationship between exceptional individual achievement and structural change?
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