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William Apess
Pequot author and Methodist preacher (–)
William Apess (–, Pequot) (also known as William Apes before ), was a Methodist minister, writer, and activist of mixed-race descent.
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Apess spent most of his career in New England.
In he published A Son of the Forest, one of the first autobiographies by a Native American writer. Apess was part Pequot by descent, especially through his mother's family, and identified with their culture.
Later in life, he was adopted by the Mashpee tribe.
In recent decades, Apess's works have been frequently anthologized in collections of American literature, alongside other early American Native writers like Samson Occom and Jane Johnston Schoolcraft.[1] Apess has been described as "perhaps the most successful activist on behalf of Native American rights in the antebellum United States."[2]
Early life
William Apess was born in in Colrain in northwestern Massachusetts to William and Candace Apess of the Pequot