In the 1840s, Parker was denied admission to the New York State bar, despite meeting all the requirements and training to become a lawyer, simply because Native Americans were not recognized as ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer who served in President Ulysses S. Grant’s cabinet, was posthumously admitted Friday to the New York State Bar, an ...

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman lives on as a larger-than-life figure in the oft-told annals of American military history. The most intimate and unknown details of the man behind the legend are ...

A Seneca Nation leader from the Tonawanda Band of Seneca and Civil War general is set to become the first-ever Native ...

President Abraham Lincoln visited the U.S. Naval Observatory in August 1863, observing the Moon and Arcturus with astronomer Asaph Hall, seeking respite from the Civil War. The Great Comet of 1861 and ...

Civil War general and Seneca leader Ely Samuel Parker posthumously admitted to New York State Bar BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer who served in President ...