... unacknowledged. In the 1850s, however, Iroquois leaders Ely and Nicholson Parker referenced Apess's Eulogy on King Philip in some of their writings. Then in 1845, Commuck, a Narragansett convert to Methodism and a member of the Brothertown Indian Nation, published Indian Melodies...

... (1932), Reverend William Apess's Eulogy on King Philip (1836), and the elegiac poetry of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, John Rollin Ridge, and others. Black Hawk farewell speeches Irving Washington “Philip of Pokanoket” Irving 1819–20 Tecumseh written elegy Apess William...