Gone to Croatan : origins of North American dropout culture

Lost history viewed through cracks in the cartographies of control, including “tri-racial isolate” communities, buccaneers, “white Indians,” black Islamic movements, the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp, the Métis nation, scandalous eugenics theories, rural hippie communes, and many other aspects of North American autonomous cultures. A festschrift honoring late historian Hugo Leaming Bey of the Moorish Science Temple. Preface by Ron Sakolsky Dedication by James Koehnline PART I. HOMAGE TO HUGO PROSPER LEAMING BEY 1. lines for the tribe of ben ishmael by John Knoepfle 2. The Ben Ishmael Tribe: Fugitive Nation of the Old Northwest by Hugo Prosper Learning Origin and Settlement The Culture of the Tribe of Ishmael The Tribe of Ishmael in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Prairie The War upon the Ishmaelites Was the Tribe of Ishmael Islamic? References 3. Lost Ancestors: An Introduction to Pooch Van Dunk's “Indian Heritage” by Peter Lamborn Wilson References 4. "Indian Heritage" by William "Pooch" Van Dunk (as told to Paul Ryan) 5. Owning Difference by Gail Tremblay PART II. DISCOVERING OUR ANCESTORS: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA 6. Wounded Knee by Meridel LeSueur 7. Legend of the Great Dismal Maroons: Swamp Rats of the World Unite! A Secret History of "The Other America” by James Koehnline I. OH. MY BROTHERS II. BEYOND THE PALE III. THE OTHER AMERICA IV. TOWARD THE SWAMP: THE WAY HOME References 8. Calibn's Masque: Spiritual Anarchy & The Wild Man in Colonial America by Peter Lamborn Wilson References 9. Cornelius Plockhoy and the Beginnings of the American Communal Tradition by Timothy Miller References 10. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves and the Atlantic Working Class in the Eighteenth Century by Marcus Rediker and Peter Linebaugh Introduction The Myth of the Many-Headed Hydra 1747: Seamen, Slaves, and the Origins of Revolutionary Ideology 1776: The Mob and the “Many-Headed Power” in America 1768: From Ireland to London, Where the Serpent Learns to Strike 1780: Insurrectionary London Conclusion References 11. "Anarchy" in the American Revolution by David Porter References 12. Henry Tuft, Land Pirate by Neal Keating The Charge Going There The Ontological Basis for Criminal Narratives Henry Tufts’ Narrative Of Land Pirates & the American Revolution References 13. Keep Your Powder Dry: Two lnsutteetions in Post-Revolutionary America by Paul Z. Simons Some Background Shays’ Rebellion The Whiskey Rebellion A Few Final Thoughts References 14. Transform and Rebel: The Calicco Indians and the Anti-Rent War by Thom Metzger References 15. The Iroquois Influence on Women's Rights by Sally Roesch Wagner References 16. Gone to Prophetstown: Rumor and History in the Story of Pan-Indian Resistance by Rachel Buff Bad Birds and Bad News: Rumors of War "A Big Baby! A Big Baby!" References 17. African Seminoles by Doug Sivad New Year’s Eve, 1978 Beginnings, 1497-1760 The Seminoles, 1760-1837 The Los’ Pla’ns, Arkansas Territory, 1837-1849 The Trail to Coahuila Guards of the Border for Mexico, 1850-1870 Texas, 1870 and After New Year's Eye, 1978 References 18. A New Nation in Their Hearts: The Historical Evolution of the Métis People by Richard Kess New France and the Colonial Origins of the New Nation The Fur Trade & Ecomonic Interchange Between the Peoples The Rise of the Pays d'en Haut Americans and Imperialism in the Pays d’en Haut The Métis at Mid-Century The Provisional Government The End of the Old World Notes Bibliography 19. Return From Without: Louis Riel and Liminal Space by Damon S. Wershler-Henry References 20. Beneath the Tundra, the Permafrost (A Few Thoughts on Barrenness) by Jordan Zinovich Culmination References PART III. IMAGINING FUTURES PAST 21. Trickster by Joy Harjo 22. 1992 (Part I) by Guillermo Gomez-Pena 23. Manifest Manners: The Long Gaze of Christopher Columbus by Gerald Vizenor Ishi and Literal Banishment Nicknames in the Quincentenary The Deranged Humors of Civilization 24. The Dream of lnjun Joe: A Page from the Alcatraz Seminars by Jack D. Forbes 25. The Downfall of Disease-Giver by Carlos Cortez