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According to Barry O'Connell (listed below) , Apes changed his name to Apess is his later publications and in the legal documents of 1836 and 1837. His family members continue to use the spelling Apes.
Primary Works
A Son of the Forest: The Experience of William Apes, A Native of the Forest, Comprising a Notice of the Pequod Tribe of Indians, Written by Himself, 1829; The Increase of the Kingdom of Christ, a Sermon, 1831; The Experiences of Five Christian Indians of the Pequod Tribe; or An Indians's Looking-Glass for the White Man, 1833; The Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts, Relative to the Marshpee Tribe: or, The Pretended Riot Explained, 1835; Eulogy on King Philip, as Pronounced at the Odeon, in Federal Street, Boston, by the Rev. William Apes, an Indian, 1836.
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Ashwill, Gary. "Savagism and Its Discontents: James Fenimore Cooper and His Native American Contemporaries." American Transcendental Quarterly 8.3 (Sep 1994): 211-27.
Berson, Robin K. Marching to a Different Drummer: Unrecognized Heroes of American History. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994.
Gustafson, Sandra. "Nations of Israelites: Prophecy and Cultural Autonomy in the Writings of William Apess." Religion and Literature 26.1 (Sprg 1994): 31-53.
Haynes, Carolyn. "'A Mark for Them All to. . .Hiss at': The Formation of Methodist and Pequot Identity in the Conversion Narrative of William Apess." Early American Literature 31.1 (1996): 25-44.
McQuaid, Kim. "William Apes, Pequot, an Indian Reformer in the Jackson Era." New England Quarterly 50 (1977): 605-25.
Moon, Randal. "William Apes and Writing White." Studies in American Indian Literatures 5.4 (Wint 1993): 45-54.
O'Connell, Barry. ed. On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess, A Pequot. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1992.
Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown. "Three Nineteenth Century American Indian Autobiographers." Redefining American Literary History. Eds. A. LaVonne B. Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward. NY: MLA, 1990.
Sayre, Gordon. "Defying Assimilation, Confounding Authenticity: The Case of William Apess." Auto-Biography Studies 11.1 (Sprg 1996): 1-18.
1. (a) Relationship between the publication of "An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man" (1833) and the debate over passage of Indian Removal Bill. Also relationship to miscegenation bill in Massachusetts passed around this time.
2. (a) Compare/contrast the oratorical styles used by Apess and Douglass and their treatment of Indian-White relations.
(b) Compare and contrast the oratorical style used by Apess and American Indian orators such as Logan and Seattle.
(c) Discuss Apess's and the slave narrators' criticisms of the treatment of Indians and slaves by White Christians.
(d) Discuss the influence of Christianity and its concept of the essential equality of all men under God as expressed by Apess and Copway and by slave narrators such as Douglass.
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