Ely S. Parker
✓ Source-basedfallingUnion Army officer and a Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1828-1895)
Ely Samuel Parker, born Hasanoanda, later known as Donehogawa, was a United States Army general and a commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He was bilingual, speaking both Seneca and English, and became friends with Lewis Henry Morgan, who became a student of the Iroquois in Upstate New York.
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A 19th century photo of General Ulysses S. Grant and staff, including (from left to right): Parker (left sitting), Adam Badeau, General Grant (at table), Orville Elias Babcock, and Horace Porter, now on display at Harvard Art Museums at Harvard University
Surrender at Appomattox, a portrait depicting Confederate Army general Robert E. Lee's surrender to Union Army general Ulysses S. Grant with Parker in the back row (third from right)Politicians from United States 6
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Ely Samuel Parker, born Hasanoanda, later known as Donehogawa, was a United States Army general and a commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He was bilingual, speaking both Seneca and English, and became friends with Lewis Henry Morgan, who became a student of the Iroquois in Upstate New York. Parker earned an engineering degree in college and worked on the Erie Canal, and other projects.
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