id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7100 William Apess - Wikipedia .html text/html 2656 226 64 Apess alienated many of his supporters before dying in New York City at age 41, but he has been described as "perhaps the most successful activist on behalf of Native American rights in the antebellum United States."[1] In 1829 he was ordained as a Protestant Methodist minister, a group he found less hierarchical and rule bound than the Methodist Episcopal Church.[10] In the same year he published his autobiography, A Son of the Forest: The Experience of William Apess, A Native of the Forest, Comprising a Notice of the Pequot Tribe of Indians, Written by Himself. On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess, a Pequot, Culture, history and the contemporary Native Americans of the Northeast, Univ of Massachusetts Press, 1992 ISBN 0870237705 "Through an Indian's Looking Glass: A Cultural Biography of William Apess, Pequot" University of Massachusetts Press, 2017. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7100.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7100.txt