William Apess

Title

William Apess

Rights

"Drawing of William Apess" by William Apess in A Son of the Forest (1831) is under the Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Birth Date

1798

Birthplace

Pequot

Death Date

1839

Primary Sources

Apess, W. (1835). Indian nullification of the unconstitutional laws of Massachusetts, relative to the Marshpee tribe: or, The pretended riot explained. By William Apes, An Indian and preacher of the gospel. Boston Press of J. Howe, urn:oclc:record:1047452872. Accessed March 18, 2023. https://archive.org/details/indiannullificat00apesuoft

Apess, W (1798). A son of the forest: The experience of William Apes, a native of the forest: Comprising a notice of the Pequod tribe of Indians. Accessed March 18, 2023. https://archive.org/details/sonofforestexper00inapes

Apess, W (1798). Eulogy on King Philip: As pronounced at the Odeon, in Federal Street, Boston. Accessed March 18, 2023. https://archive.org/details/eulogyonkingphil00apes

Secondary Sources

Lopenzina, D. (2020). “In de dark wood, no Indian nigh” : William Apess and the “Indian Hymn.” Early American Literature, 55(2), 473–498. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26973775

Manshel, H. (2020). William Apess and the nullification of settler law. Early American Literature, 55(3), 753–780. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26973807

Lopenzina, D. (2017). Through an Indian’s looking-glass: A cultural biography of William Apess, a Pequot. University of Massachusetts Press.

Hirsch, A.K. (2017). Agonism and hope in William Apess’s Native American political thought. New Political Science, 39(3), 393–411. https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2017.1339414

Gura, P.F. (2015). The life of William Apess, Pequot. The University of North Carolina Press.

Extra Resources

Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures, Yale University Press, 2021, Kelly Wisecup: Mar 11, 2022, American Philosophical Society, Accessed August 23, 2022. https://youtu.be/eLxPWBCP1S8?t=170

Citation

“William Apess,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed December 27, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/576.

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