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True West Magazine The highest ranking American Indian in the U.S. Cavalry was General Ely Parker, an Iroquois from Indian Falls, New York. His hopes for a career were stymied because he was an Indian until he made the acquaintance of Lewis Henry Morgan who helped him gain admission to study engineering at Rensselaer Polytech Institute at Troy, New York. He graduated with a degree in civil engineering. As an engineer he contributed to several upgrades on the Erie Canal. While working as a supervisor of government projects at Galena, Illinois he made friends with Ulysses S. Grant, something th...

Apollo. Preview and subscribe here.  ‘Life is at its most uninhibited here,’ Joan Eardley said of Townhead, then a slum in the centre of Glasgow. The painter, who was born 100 years ago this month, set up her studio there in 1949, fresh from her studies at Glasgow School of Art. Though she spent long spells in Catterline, an impoverished fishing village on the east coast, south of Aberdeen, Eardley would maintain a studio in Townhead until her premature death from breast cancer in 1963, at the age of just 42. She had found here ‘a little community […] where everybody knew everybody ...

Alex Salmond says Scottish Parliament is full of 'numpties' as he backs Holyrood second chamber EXCLUSIVE: The former First Minister's outburst will be seen as a criticism of the SNP. 09:15, 15 APR 2021 Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Join thousands of others and get the latest Scottish politics news sent straight to your inbox.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscr...

In the introduction to his 1952 translation of Beowulf, the Scottish poet Edwin Morgan ventured that in translation ‘communication must take place; the nerves must sometimes tingle and the skin flush, as with original poetry’. Morgan’s aim was to ‘interest and at times to excite the reader of poetry without misleading anyone who has no access to the original’. Fidelity and accuracy are all well and good, but a true translation must speak to the reader. It must connect in a way that sparks a dialogue with the tingling life fluttering within their bone-house, to borrow a much-loved ...

Alex Salmond inquiry shows why Scottish Parliament needs more power, not less, if it is to avoid becoming Edwin Morgan's 'nest of fearties' – Murdo Fraser MSP Giving evidence to the parliamentary committee investigating the Scottish government’s handling of harassment complaints against him, former First Minister Alex Salmond was damning of the state of leadership across pubic institutions in Scotland. Tuesday, 2nd March 2021, 4:45 pm Alex Salmond makes his opening statement to the Scottish Parliament committee examining the government's handling of harassment allegations against him. (P...