THE
AND THE
STATES
W. J. Sidis
© 1982 (1935) by Wampanoag Nation
(background: wampum language pattern.)
Short Annotated Bibliography of Animate and Inanimate in Basque and Algonquin Languages
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America's Search for Liberty in Song & Poem
197 Warren Ave.
Boston, Mass
[Sunday,] Aug. 4, 1935
I have sent you a copy of the first installment of the Tribe's pamphlet "The Tribes and the States." Not my pamphlet, but the Tribe's―compiled and edited by the Okamakammessets, and issued by the American Independence Society. The charge is 50,ドル but no real hurry.
I am sorry I have no better news to report so far. Took another Civil Service exam, and was informed that I passed the state clerical exam, and I am No. 254―not so encouraging.
The Independence Society is getting together a new one―a collection of poems of American Liberty. I heard also last week that the "Tribe" is planning to get out its history in a new form―a monthly issue, each time to be dated some past date and describing the history of that time as current news.
Sorry things are going worse over in N.Y. Better luck for next time!
W. J. Sidis
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197 Warren Ave.
Boston, Mass
[Wednesday,] Aug. 14, 1935
I have got hold of three more copies of "The Tribes and the States," and sent them to you, as you ordered. I do wish it to be understood that, as the pamphlet states in the introduction, it is not to be considered to be the work of any individual, but of an organisation. I may have helped on it, but I certainly do not want to be considered the author, as there are lots of things there I would not care to take personal responsibility for; so please do not represent the pamphlet to anyone as my work.
That tribal organisation just surprised me by sending―from some place in New Hampshire I never heard of before, an historical newspaper written in American, and which seemed to be good and exciting stuff. Hope they can keep it up.
Yours truly,
W. J. Sidis
Sidis mentions the pamphlet in Continuity News, Feb., 1939.
"The following mimeographed pamphlets may be ordered through Continuity News: The Tribes and the States (a new version of American history), 50¢. per section. These sections are now ready, covering history to 1689."
Transfer of The Tribes and the States to the Wampanoag Nation
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From a blogger:
"It is hard to be fair to Sidis from this distance. His book The Tribes and The States, about the 100,000-year history of American Indians, is insanely wrong. He gets their genetics, languages, and government badly wrong. But I am not certain what knowledge was available to him in the early 20th C. Though his theories did not turn out to be true, he may have had ideas worth exploring – no worse than the theories of other experts – based on what was known. I suspect not. He also believed in Atlantis, which figures prominently in his discussion, and reads into the known historical record with great certainty things that even then would have been highly speculative. He insists that “farthest Thule,” where Phoenicians and others raided for slaves was Newfoundland. There is simply no evidence this is so."
Posted Monday, December 19, 2011 Assistant Village Idiot .
The above should earn him a promotion.
Posted here by Dan Mahony,Monday,July 29, 2013:
