Dr. Anne Marie Goodfellow received her Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia and is currently Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Western Washington University. Her research interests include early relations between colonists and American Indians in North America, and the history and consequences of language contact on the North American continent. Dr. Goodfellow is also the author of Talking in Context: Language and Identity in Kwakwaka’wakw Society (McGill-Queens University Press, 2005).
2007 0-7734-5512-4 This volume makes certain materials from the Draper Manuscript Collection of the Wisconsin Historical Society accessible to researchers interested in the life and history of Simon Girty. Girty, a figure maligned as much as praised, served as an interpreter between Americans, British, and Native Americans during the American Revolution, and is remembered by some as a turncoat and by others as a hero. Lyman Draper, founder of the Wisconsin Historical Society in the mid-19th century, was keenly interested in Girty’s life and attempted to show that Simon Girty really was an honorable man. Here presented are annotated reproductions of the Draper manuscripts of interest to Girty scholars and historians of the American Revolution.