The Interrupted Odyssey of US Grant and Ely Parker and Visiting a Devastated Town After a Tornado... and Lending a Hand

This is Lee happy. This is our American stories we tell stories about everything here on the show are next-door is on her 18th president Ulysses S Grant and his friend and associate Billy Parker the first Native American appointed to a cabinet level position in United States history. Grand total to the west first SMS soldier came was to have went to West Point in one of his first assignments. He was sent out to Missouri and then during the Mexican war, he was sent to fight in Mexico when he was about to go he was already engaged to Julia Larry and she kept saying to him, you know you're going to be killed by the Indians and be killed by the wild Comanches. He said don't worry about it. I'm all right. He wasn't afraid of the Indians, but we got into Mexico with the very first time he saw people of Native American descent is the first generation.

Eight generations of his family since the 1630s. He was the first one. No encounter with Indians going up everybody else in his family had been on some frontier moving from Massachusetts out to Ohio so at least encountered Indians he saw the poorest of the poor in Mexico who were descendents of Indians in native people themselves and he said this country is so beautiful in his treatment of these people who at the bottom of society by the wealthy and powerful is terrible and that she can deeply then later was assigned to California as a soldier after the Mexican war and he said here.

The Indians, they were nicknamed the Indians because they survived by gathering nuts and roots. He said theory used like beast of burden by the men seeking gold in the goldfields. He said this is terrible and he used to write again back home to his family. Don't tell me about civilization tell me that the white man is bringing civilization to the Indians. The only civilization that they ever brought was smallpox and whiskey. A sense of right from the start adamant sympathy for them.

In fact, he did a painting when he was a student at West Point, in itself, an Indian woman and man training so we know from his letters and later in his memoirs must've had some innate sense of these are good decent people did not like more so the thought that he would go and slaughter people that he felt had done nothing except be the original occupants of the land as he said he didn't like that. I think if he had been allowed to choose his own life for himself. He would have been a farmer and he would've stayed on the land in Ohio and he loved animals he never ever ever went hunting loathed hunting alike is the children he was going up with.

He had a respect for nature to me that he was, had a more sympathetic view to creation reality not normal to his time in question may be, still not today. His best friend Parker, who was authentic Indian said there was something innately Indian about US Grant is not like other Americans. He's definitely might not like the men of his time. This man has come to be known for these horrible battles in the Civil War had a kind of inmate sympathy for nature and up the Indian way about him.

At least that's what Parker noticed about him.

Parker was born in Western New York is Seneca. He was born on the Tonawanda Indian reserve and right from the start, he was just remarkable student. He wanted to learn. He often told the story of once he was riding with British soldiers and they mocked him, because he couldn't speak English and he was so humiliated he told his father.

I want to learn. I want to master the English language I want to learn everything and so he was sent to local schools on his reserve run by a Baptist preacher. He went to local academies eventually had some college education and he read everything, absolutely everything. People who met him said there's nothing you can mention that he doesn't know he can converse on everything. He became a great writer. He became a great speaker.

He loved oratory and eventually the rather long he should've been able to sit for the bar exam in New York, but they told him he was an Indian. So no, you can't take the bar exam. But when his tribe was fighting in the Supreme Court to maintain their land and Tonawanda was the advisor to the tribes lawyers and he sat there the supreme court giving him advice that help is Seneca key Tonawanda. He was guilty was how Sherry said he accepted like us. This will tribe did we know the world is changing, will do our part to be part of this American experience of his perfectly educated but he loved his tribe respected their traditions. He was so beloved by his tribe.

He was elected leader of the Seneca was 18, so he was an amazing person he was so far ahead of all of the world. He was living in where this idea would later be developing this that somehow to be American to wipe out all your Indian medicine.

Whatever your culture has used to say no. You can be both.

You can retain your traditions but you can still be part of this new American experience with himself if he could've voted, he would've voted Democratic like Stephen Douglas, who believed in settling the West, not looking back, letting slavery die and I'm building the tremendous American civilization. All of us to get out west so is a fascinating human being, but he needed to get a job and his job was. He became an engineer and he worked on the canals.

New York finally got a job right before the Civil War, working for the US treasury and he was the superintendent of all the lighthouses in the Great Lakes and then write about 1859, gets a job. Only the customhouse of Galena, Illinois, and that's right. And you were listening to Dr. Mary Stark will tell the story of Ulysses S Grant, and Julie Parker and Parker is the first Native American appointed cabinet level position in United States history and of course Grant who have the special special feelings for American Indians identified with them. If you know in your more about Grant's life you'll come to understand it go to American stories and listen the story of Ulysses Grant when we come back more of this remarkable American story dear on our American store mulch if you love the stories we tell about this great country and especially the stories of America's rich past. Know that all of our stories about American history innovation culture and faith are brought to us by the grateful Hillsdale College placement.

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The success story brilliantly educated, helping to argue cases engineer with all these responsibilities he was at the height of what you could be as a ambitious young American in the 50s. The failure Grant has fallen on hard times.

He missed his family.

They were living in Missouri, his wife and children. He starts to drink any parting of the ways the Army leaves the Army science go back to Missouri.

He feels that everything the farm fails everything his father was a very wealthy man who had been farmer and then Tanner had a tannery and then he built this big leather business across the Midwest. He gives his son a job just to clerk again and the lumber store Galena something Grant hated and that's where Parker made some Parker comes in to buy leather goods, and he's fascinated by this man was about the same age. This man, Ulysses Grant and at any time to go to the store to buy something Grant hides in the back room and wait. Still the customers are gone, while Parker waits to talk to him because he said I like it is behaving more like he Seneca Lake East Indian Parker said white man love to talk and love to brag and left to say hello how are you said they never shut up. You don't have to be a loudmouth to be gregarious. You must be stoic, respectful and slowly you get to know and slowly Parker befriended grant then the war begins in US Grant eventually starts his way back into the Army becomes a general and Parker was a Democrat. As soon as Lincoln is elected loses his office because he's been working for the Buchanan administration and is not a Republican because back home to Tonawanda and is just trying to farm he tries and tried.

Let me in the Army goes to everyone asking let me serve.

But even Seward says to him, this is a white mentor go back home and farm, but eventually he was can't help some to get a job because he has perfect English speaking perfect writing perfect penmanship. This is the time before anything typewritten so your secretary must be able to write anything quickly in a perfect handwriting. No telegrams or beginning but letters are still the main reason communication US Grant gets him a job working for another general but when Grant's own secretaries are so miserable and they can't clearly state what is happening in writing the letters for grant, they realize the man was that the great penmanship the man who's really the most educated genius is this young guy Parker and they take it in the assignment to grant he's chosen becomes a canvas ability to communicate is perfect handwriting and it's not like a secretary today where you dictated it would be more like Grant has to figure out what to say.

Parker helps them say it helps them communicate with Washington DC and after Vicksburg grant the big general.

But since this is you can often see drawings newspaper reporters will be drawing pictures at the time as they start to follow grant coming from Vicksburg out to Tennessee to Virginia to finally fight probably always see Parker behind him.

His uniform and he would have ink bottle tied to the buttons on his best coat or scope tied with the rope.

He was always with them always behind and did a tremendous job when they get Appomattox Robert E Lee is supposed to come in and sign surrender agreements. Another secretary is so shaken. Can you hold the pen returns to Parker.

He says you do it so it's Parker who will do all the agreements all the surrender in effect when we saw him standing there as union uniform. He became offended because the federal grant has a freed slave, free black working form. Then he looked closer he looks close to his nose. He sees his two Parker shook his hand. He said you know the only American in the room and Parker school of all Americans all Americans. Parker often said to that was a dramatic meeting.

He said the next day they had another meeting that was far more dramatic meeting.

I'm sitting there with my portable desk writing writing and he said I wish someone would've hated that day by releasing to really realize this was over and it he said it's the CVs to one who had been so numerous in the Mexican war. We the other bed. A failure as a soldier to see upside down. Lee is now-grant-fix the popular's famous almost unbelievable to sit there and to chronicle this papacy was writing back to Washington DC. US Grant is inaugurated president. He makes the strange comment in his first inaugural address, everybody sentences and talk about the South.

Let's not hate. Let's get back together. But he also makes a strange comment. He said the original occupants of the land. I'm in favor of anything that will help in their civilization and citizenship status like tinny quality wise he talking about the humans. These should only care about the South, people forget he's inaugurated in 1869. What did he do between 1865 in 1869 will. That's when he was general of the Army and he looks west and he says we are going to come up with any policy that is humane and he said I do not want no more murdering, no more killing been a general in the Civil War with things like the Sand Creek massacre occurred out in Colorado.

He said this is terribly can't just murder people willy-nilly. There's no you must not massacre the Indians can figure out a way to save them so he turned to many people.

He asked Sheridan to help him. Sheridan was just Civil War all over again to all the Indians he turned to Sherman, hunted me some ideas. He turned to many generals. Finally, the person who helped on the most was Parker Parker remains at his side.

He had now assigned him to go out West to sit in many of these Indian councils and he says to Scott and listen to these people figure out a way we can live together in peace.

The tribes outlets were astounded when Grant's personal representative appears that all of these meetings.

She's obviously Native American, he Seneca there astounded.

So over four years.

Grant and Parker come up with a policy, what should we do a simple piece of course it's often the thing that this policy goal for both grant Parker was eventually all the Indians with citizens of the United States and grace to talk about. Then like the blanket of the Constitution would rest on them and they would be they would have all the rights of citizens of the United States.

So when he make that strange statement. The original occupants of the land been thinking about this and studying it with Parker for four years. Now he's president now we can implement this policy, and he figures the person who can help with the most Parker. He is what I would like all the Indians in the Far West to be God's heritage and his culture.

She's proud of, but he also made the transition to a modern livelihood. He's like a model of what I want everyone to be Grant's only worry I point this man is an American citizen is the Seneca Indian who so brilliantly educated at my side.

Is he an American citizen, and he turned to his own attorney general and he said yes because we read the Constitution is a line about Indians who do not pay taxes can be counted in congressional representation in a civil she's been working in New York. He's worked in Virginia. His work throughout the Westies always pay taxes, obviously he's an American citizen. That was the decision in rent was extremely popular at the time and he was appointed head of the Commissioner of Indian affairs. I think it's a forgotten story to this day the tremendous story in many ways and you been listening to Dr. Mary Stockwell on the relationship between Jesus, grant Parker, first Native American appointed to a cabinet level position in American history. Story continues here on our American store.

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The first Native American to hold any cabinet level position, ensuring both grant and Parker would be thrust into the political turmoil of the day, and here's Dr. Mary Stockwell to continue the story you know when I was in school and I read it in every recent biography, unless grant they always tell you the same thing, Grant had a piece policy in which he wanted peace in the Indians and then they say appointed Christian missionaries to run all the reservations in the West, and it failed because of the Civil War and custard things like that. I discovered that troop none of that was true. He gets into office.

He lays out this policy.

They got what we should do is should be in charge of all the reservations and get rid of all the private people to get rid of private traders, all the corruption is going to end and will watch over the soldiers that we appoint the superintendents, though I can run reserves around the trading post grant wanted to do that because he said if the president appoints the Army anybody gets out a line in the West they can be court-martialed and thrown away. The idea was it the Army protected the Indians from the onrush of settlers and railroads immigrants coming their way. The Indians would have time maybe a generation or two to realize the buffalo disappearing to come up with different livelihoods and grant Parker hope you know maybe maybe the become ranchers that will be something they could to raise cattle something like that yes they would send doctors and teachers or whatever, but there was no sense that you can wipe out the Indian this but it's very clear when you go through the grant papers you realize these two men know they figured that soldiers were more honorable soldiers could be dismissed if they disobeyed. The soldiers are told to protect these people. They would do it, on pain of court-martial and being removed from the Army. It works for a long time, at least for a year or year and 1/2.

It works what these two men hadn't realized is the tremendous opposition that they would face in they face it from all kinds of people suffers out well thought grant was the Western newspaper said you doing this tribes in places like Oklahoma like the Cherokee said no we don't want citizenship in Congress didn't like it because they said you shifted the power you're taking power from us. We appoint everybody affairs.

It was political patronage. Who cares if they got rotten stuff because the people we appointed sold the good blankets the good food and pocketed the profit they set up a thing called a board of Indian commissioners. They picked the wealthy philanthropic American men and they they say you you help us give us advice on what were doing. Keep an eye on us but you help us Americans gone through a weird revision of attitude towards wealth. Americans traditionally didn't like wealth.

Wealthy people. After the Civil War we thought was corrupt, but in the Civil War. So many wealthy men wealthy industrialist had helped the North now people respect businessmen wise. This 10 man commission they are determined to destroy grant study policy led by a fellow named William Welsh, who was a merchant from Philadelphia and he said this policy is terrible.

Indians must never be citizens there like second-class children and how could grant appoint the savage Seneca to run it working do everything we can to destroy this policy and they do Congress and this Board of Indian commissioners stick a knife into Parker we get rid of Parker we can get rid of grants, ideas of what they do. Early part of 71 William Welsh accuses Parker pocketing a million-dollar contract that was Parker's brought before a subcommittee in Congress is put on trial a frightening trial where he is hollow kinds of names claim sees corrupt claims he's pocketing money for the Indians when he didn't. Parker was finally exonerated. He he he quits. He resigns, and in the in the Army goes and that's the last true communication ever has with grant. Sorry resigns in 1871 he goes back to New York, he tries to find work. He tries to just survive.

He sees grant only one more time. When grant is out of office and grant setting off on a world tour. Parker comes to meet him and he brings him the death yes save the desk from the McLean Courthouse where they signed the peace agreement in 1865.

Any offer set to grant. He never sees grant again grant will later be sick and dying outside of Saratoga, New York is like a summer home. Parker will try to come in Needham but grandson really disliked him he would let them near them would never let them say goodbye to him grant before he dies. Write his memoirs. He never ever discusses his Indian policy, which was in the beginning so creative, he never discusses the stories I told you at the beginning. Those are all from his memoirs when he talks about the Indians and the sympathy he never never discusses what just walks away from the sadness of the disaster of it and the wars to out West about Parker Parker goes on to help write a book, he writes a book on the probably the first true study of an American Indian tribe.

It doesn't denigrate them over the uncivilized that it shows the hot sunny.

It shows the Confederacy Masonic nation positive life that can be the beginning of getting American scholars to stop St. Indians are savages to be happy that we crush them and it gets us to respect them and I should subs bite 1924 All-American Indians were given citizenship if they didn't already have it. That was because so many Native Americans have fought the first world war was a was a thank you to Grant's vision that were all one nation to be an American, doesn't mean you're the Puritans imager here you're on this great ship of state. You can be a mix of people and doesn't matter where your ancestors came from because we are we have these legal rights and we have an identity through the law. Reminds me of home.

Walt Whitman is to write about a song of democracy where he talks about all of us on this ship coming from all over the world together and into the future as Americans.

That is the great vision.

These two men hit. I think of grant like Ulysses and his beautiful story of the Odyssey were somehow grant if this mission will all be together some grand adventure. All of us.

My ancestors go back to the Puritans all the Indian tribes welcome my ancestors, poverty-stricken Catholic immigrants from Europe wanted the freedmen in the South. The free Blacks to be private somehow wrong to be under the Constitution. And that's what it is to be an American we go forward together and a great job as always by Monty Montgomery on the production of the piece of storytelling and a special thanks to Dr. Mary Stockwell on her contribution book is interrupted. Odyssey Ulysses S Grant, and the American Indians on Amazon or the usual suspects and pick up a copy and what a story. Grant had a piece policy.

It turns out, my goodness in the U.S. Army in charge will seem like a good idea work for a bit to be improved to be disastrous. In the end, nobody really wanted his policy.

Even the Indians didn't want the story of US grandson really Parker here on our Americans. I know everything there is to know about running a coffee shop for small business insurance. I need my State Farm agent make sure my business days piping hot and I think will incompetent the small business owners to help you best. State Farm is in your corner and on like a good neighbor. There call your local State Farm agent for quote today doing household chores can Artie be time-consuming and tedious.

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Shortly after the tornado had hit generous individuals give money to sports.

This tile which was hit in the middle of the night in mid December and has the daylight approached people saw with their very own eyes that their entire community was ruined by mother nature.

I spoke with Cindy from Assembly of God Church by phone before we departed, and she said the good Lord is not blessed us with the best weather if you saw the town of Mayfield.

This was an understatement. They were then hit with an ice storm. Soon afterward, which incapacitated residence for a few days.

The salt shack had been destroyed by the tornado.

So they were in need to melt the snow building up when the tornado hit it intensified, reaching high in year four levels is a tour directly through the center of town, resulting in widespread catastrophic damage throughout that historic downtown square of Mayfield. Most of the structures in downtown were heavily damaged or destroyed, including multiple large will build multistory brick buildings that completely collapsed, only large piles of bricks and lumber remained in the hardest hit portions of the downtown area streets were left buried under the debris. The large and well constructed Graves County Courthouse and much of its roof torn off sustained collapse of its clock tower and had some of its exterior upper floor walls knockdown several restaurants and indoor soccer facility barbershop automotive business Jim Bay movie theater health and rehab center and many other businesses were destroyed, even the emergency operations center lost the ability to transmit radio communications. Three large churches were destroyed in downtown Mayfield school bus garage metal industrial buildings and apartment buildings also sustained major structural damage or were destroyed.

Other areas of town residential areas of the city were devastated as well with numerous homes being damaged, including mimic many that were actually leveled or swept from their foundations. Also, many trees sustained severe debarking while cars were thrown hundreds of yards and mangled some dual polarization radar imagery news mention showed that the tornado had lofted re-up to 30,000 feet into the air as it impacted the city and more importantly, sadly. 22 people were killed in and around Mayfield with hundreds more injured.

Many severely will meanwhile my driving partner Paul and I ended up in West Frankfort Illinois at around 10:30 PM after having started at 7 AM in the Twin Cities. We traveled through small towns such as Canton, Missouri heading into Illinois on our way to Mayfield. We were lucky before we ventured from St. Paul solves a dear colleague dropped off 20+ quilts to give to residents. Her church colleagues made these for a cause, such as this is so we loaded those in my Jeep along with their own suitcases and supplies and ventured out to go fund me. Funds served as a springboard for money to be used in Mayfield and given to the City Hall. We were so grateful that these funds could go to good use. We were on a road trip with a mission.

We were headed to a distribution site at the County Fairgrounds and much awaited us if we could offer even a temporary relief. Get a new educational wanted town goes through when much if not all is wiped out by a tornado that we were open to a new challenge, giving people hope was the main objective we made it to Mayfield in one piece and had a great day moving many supplies and pallets of supplies all the while working in the heart of where devastation hit the tile.

We worked in collaboration in a massive effort with Army National Guard locals and those from the outside in Mayfield, Kentucky. It will take decades to get back to normal, but I remain hopeful because the people are strong.

The people we worked with at the distribution center in the heart of Mayfield at the fairgrounds were welcoming and in need of help. The all gave hope to a situation that look like orzo the debris had been cleared off many streets, but metal twisted around poles structures overturn roofs missing cars destroyed, and even a multitude of RVs were brought in to give temporary housing and shelter to the displaced. My new friend Dora asked me to move plastic gas cans donated to be removed from a top shelf and brought within her reach. I asked her if she was a resident of Mayfield. She explained yes and with hopeful words. I love my town, but when I came through the devastation recently. I actually got lost because all the markers I once knew work on when you work with others and share stories. You build a common bond that even though you may not walk together again you connected and found that we are also similar in what we need is people love care a place to call home and a purpose shipment after shipment came in my colleague and I spent most of our time with that hydraulic equipment moving paper products such as towels, toiletries, diapers, baby wipes, hand cleansers, toothpaste bags, all the sites on the floor of the fairgrounds. Sometimes donations were mixed.

I came upon what I thought were some great towels they were in fact depends lien.

One of the coordinators with the vision for the big picture said you never know when you need a diaper no matter what your age. We all laughed. She said glad you have a sense of humor. I need to see people laugh and smile around it helps get me through each day. Earlier in the morning.

I had thrown out my lower back. But as I stretched it out. I said to myself I can't let these people down. Somehow my pain subsided to get the task done.

As midnight approaches and as we got back to rest for the night. The pain emerged again, but I felt good that we could laugh and be present with others who spent days trying to rebuild their lives and their tall as we got our rhythm. My colleague and I seem to be on automatic pilot and I trained others in the process of transport and stocking and serving the residents who desired goods to sustain their lives.

You could feel the love and the camaraderie everyone wanted each other to succeed in our common mission to serve Mayfield on Saturday night we took a little time to go to a bar named in honor of Bob Seger song night and a guy named Bob came up to me and said, great to see you again talked about Super Bowl pics how we move from Chicago to Paducah and never regretted since I was in Kentucky I had to have Jack on ice here.

You approach the bar get your drink and then take your seat. The band bellowed tip your wait staff generously and then launched into another song from the 80s and later. The fact is, I've never been here myself or with my colleague until this night the music was very good vocalist and guitar player entertained us with stories and played three different sets with the drummer even stop to see us noting we were having a very good time and was glad that we came out after another set I try to tequila sunrise. My colleague was enjoying the song, the guy who claim to know me kept telling me about his own experiences and how an apartment complex. He owned had been three quarters devastated but hope was sustaining him and the insurance adjusters were working on. I hope a decade from now or sooner.

Mayfield and surrounding areas will be thriving again so people can recognize their neighborhoods. The people's spirits and time seemed diminished, but their sense of hope and care for one another. Guided by God's intentions for the future shed light on a tough situation.

Someday I would like to go back and it will be a new, beautiful, vibrant reality, and community and not just a memory, and a great job on the production by faith and a special thanks to Paul Cox for sharing his mission trip because it wasn't just a road trip. It was a mission trip and Americans do this all the time they go on mission trips to help people in need may do it when tornadoes hit with hurricanes. It sometimes they just do it. A few people were hungry or just hurting the story Paul cuts his mission of mercy. The story of Mayfield, Kentucky. Here on our American story