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M. I. McCreight
MAJOR ISRAEL “MI” McCREIGHT (April 22, 1865 - October 13, 1958) was a noted Progressive Era banker, conservationist, expert on Native American culture and policy, and an author of books and article...vizualizați mai multeMAJOR ISRAEL “MI” McCREIGHT (April 22, 1865 - October 13, 1958) was a noted Progressive Era banker, conservationist, expert on Native American culture and policy, and an author of books and articles. He was a founder of the Pennsylvania Conservation Association, and authored President Theodore Roosevelt’s conservation policy on public education and Cook Forest State Park, the first Pennsylvania State Park acquired to preserve a natural landmark. McCreight dedicated his life to public education about Native American culture and was a nominee for U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Born on a farm in Paradise, Winslow Township, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania in 1865, he was raised with siblings by pioneer parents John Winslow McCreight and Eliza Uncapher McCreight His relationship with the Lakota people began as a young man in the Dakota Territory in 1885 when he lived with. He returned to Du Bois, Pennsylvania, became a successful banker, and led the region into prominence as the biggest bituminous coal producers in the United States between 1890 and World War I. McCreight collaborated with Flying Hawk, an Oglala Lakota Chief, to write a Native American’s view of U.S. history and classic accounts of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse and commentaries on Native American philosophy.
The Wigwam, McCreight’s home in Du Bois, Pennsylvania, was a Native American heritage center and once the Eastern home of Oglala Lakota “Oskate Wicasa” Wild Westers.vizualizați mai puține
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Firewater and Forked Tongues: A Sioux Chief Interprets American History