Beyond the Spectacle: Indigenous Norwich

Follow in the footsteps of Indigenous North American visitors to Norwich.

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Beyond the Spectacle: Indigenous Norwich

England NR2 1RL, United Kingdom

Created By: Beyond the Spectacle

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A walking tour of Norwich that explores the hidden and not-so-hidden histories of Indigenous North American visitors to this city.

This walking tour has been produced by the AHRC-funded project, “Beyond the Spectacle: Native North American Presence in Britain,” a team of researchers from the Universities of East Anglia, Kent, and British Columbia, who are exploring the history of Indigenous North American peoples’ engagements and influence in Britain.

Website: https://research.kent.ac.uk/beyondthespectacle/

Email: beyondthespectacle@kent.ac.uk

Twitter: @beyondthespec


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On 12th March 1876, the prominent Mississauga Ojibwe preacher Henry Pahtahquahong Chase gave sermons at three parish churches in Norwich, culminating at Christ Church in Eaton. His sermons and the lectures which followed on the 13th at the ... Read more
  Born on the Cattaraugus reservation in what is currently New York in 1860, Gowongo Mohawk was a talented athlete and performer. She gained fame around the same time as the Buffalo Bill Wild West Shows, in the 1890s and early 1900s, and s... Read more
During his visit to Norwich in March 1876, the Rev. Henry Pahtahquahong Chase also delivered a sermon here at St Giles Church on behalf of the Colonial and Continental Church Missionary Society. According to newspaper reports, there was a "... Read more
In early May 1848, George Catlin, an American painter and traveller, visited Norwich's Guildhall to deliver two evenings of lectures on the "manners and customs, and present condition" of North American Indians before "small but respectab... Read more
Akenawaka and Tomapamelaut, two Delaware temperance preachers from the Munsee-Delaware nation in Ontario, Canada, attended a temperance meeting here at the Quaker Meeting House during their visit to Norwich in December 1885. As a partner... Read more
On 13th September 1885, two Delaware temperance preachers from Moraviantown in Ontario, Canada, gave an impassioned speech to an audience at St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich. Opposed to the consumption of alcohol, their mission was to warn the Br... Read more
Mexican Joe ran a disreputable Wild West Show which toured Britain in the 1880s and 1890s. Unlike the spectacular shows of Buffalo Bill, Mexican Joe's shows were smaller, cheaper, and attracted a rougher element. Fighting was common, with o... Read more
On 26th October 1926 a party of Sioux performers, led by the actor Chief Eagle Elk, appeared at the Electric Theatre to promote the Hollywood silent film "The Flaming Frontier." Eagle Elk appears to have spent considerable time in Britain ... Read more
One of the pioneers of the Wild West Show, Buffalo Bill Cody brought his spectacular show to Britain three times at the turn of the century, touring the country in 1887, 1891-2, and again in 1902-4. The three tours brought larger groups ... Read more
Deerfoot, a Seneca from the Cattaraugus reservation, was a famous runner in the mid-nineteenth century. During this period, races attracted huge audiences, who often placed wagers on the outcome, and the runners themselves were rewarded wi... Read more

 

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