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Connecting some of the older dots . . . . . The Green Corn Rebellion took place within a remarkable living memory. There were people around in 1917 who had been alive and aware half a century before, just as some of us today remember living through the 1960s. Half a century before the U.S. entry into the war and the imposition of a draft, the Seminole and other people living in what became Oklahoma shared the Indian Territory. The nations there had all been removed by the Southern-dominated Democratic administrations that had dominated the country since3 the 1820s. When the ruling class of those Southern states lost the election of 1860, the nations remained tied by treaty to the U.S. government in Washington, which broke those treaties by removing the small army garrisons in the territory. In their absence, the Indian leaders hoped to remain neutral, which suited the Lincoln administration. However, it did not suit the Confederacy, as the territory had earlier belonged to Texas, which invaded the Indian lands along the Red river and began a process that imposed a treaties with the government in Richmond. Those treates subjugated all Indian men of military age to bear arms for the secessionists at the decree of the Confederate president. This was the first step towards the kind of sweeping universal constriction the Confederacy eventually imposed on all whites. However, the resistance of the native peoples proved to be very effective. Like many of their neighbors in Arkansas, they pledged to each other to defy conscription into the Confederate Army and to support each other in doing so. As a result, those Indian units mustered by the Confederacy had a very bad habit of disappearing in the face of the Union army and turning up on the other side. The official regiment of the Cherokee nation, for example, crossed over en mass in the summer of 1862 and became the Third Indian Home Guards with many of the same officers. The Unionist governments they established also became the first southern governments to voluntarily eliminate slavery. So the rebellion of 1917 grew from very local roots that, by 1917, recognized themselves as part of an international movement. ML _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
