Illegal Alien? The immigration case of Mohawk ironworker Paul K. Diabo

Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-78

  Reid, Gerald F ^a  

^a SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (41)

1. The date of Paul Diabo's birth varies with the source. In an application Diabo filed for a Social Security number in the United States in 1937, he listed his birth date as 26 May 1892 (Paul K. Diabo, "Application for Social Security Account Number," Form SS-5, 2 April 1937, Social Security Administration). However, on an Alien Registration Form that he submitted to the Immigration and Naturalization Service in 1945, he listed his birth date as 25 May 1891 (Paul K. Diabo, "Alien Registration Form," Form AR-2, 23 April 1945, Immigration and Naturalization Service)
2. For example, see United States of America, ex rel. Paul Diabo v. John B. McCandless, "Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus," 7 January 1927
3. and Diabo, "Alien Registration Form."
4. Barbara Graymont, ed., Fighting Tuscarora: The Autobiography of Clinton Rickard (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1973), 85
5. "Adrian Bonnelly Dies at 80," Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, 25 July 1970
6. "'Gray Wolf,' Indians in Powwow" (19 May 1960)
7. "Bonnelly Aids Indian" (22 June 1963)
8. and "Indians Call on Legal 'Chief'" (20 April 1965)
9. David Blanchard, "High Steel! The Kahnawake Mohawks and the High Construction Trade," Journal of Ethnic Studies 11.2 (1983)
10. and Dean R. Snow, The Iroquois (Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers, 1994), 193
11. Keith Fitzgerald, The Face of the Nation: Immigration, the State, and the National Identity (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996), 125-32
12. Desmond King, Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000), 199-212
13. and Marian L. Smith, "Immigration and Naturalization Service," in A Historical Guide to the U.S. Government, ed. George Thomas Kurian (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 305-08
14. Graymont, Fighting Tuscarora, 69-79
15. George P. Decker, "Rights of the Six Nations in Crossing the United States-Canadian Border," manuscript (with author's handwritten corrections), 25 February 1926 (D-Dec-95, Decker Collection, St. John Fisher Library, St. John Fisher College, Rochester N.Y.), 20-22
16. See also George P. Decker, "Rights of the Six Nations in Crossing the United States-Canadian Border" (National Archives and Records Administration, RG85, Stack 17W3, Box 384, File 55466/182, 25 February 1926)
17. and Marian L. Smith, "The INS and the Singular Status of North American Indians," American Indian Culture and Research Journal 21.1 (1997), 135-36
18. and Smith, "The INS and the Singular Status of North American Indians," 136-37
19. "Fight Indian's Exclusion," New York Times, 29 December 1926
20. "U.S. Held Indians' Country," Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, 21 January 1927
21. and "Point Won by Indians," Philadelphia Inquirer, 22 January 1927
22. "Case of Indian Born in Canada Before Court," Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 22 January 1927 and 19 March 1927
23. "Status of Indians Up to Phila. Court," Philadelphia Evening Ledger, 6 January 1927
24. and "Transcript of Record," pp. 3-5
25. Oliver B. Dickinson, born in 1857, was admitted to the bar in 1878 and was appointed Judge of the Eastern District Court in 1914. See "Judge Dickinson Dies at Age of 81," Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, 16 September 1939
26. The following discussion is based on several documents that were introduced as part of Diabo's trial before the Eastern District Court and the federal government's appeal in the case before the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. See John B. McCandless v. United States of America, ex rel. Paul Diabo, "Transcript of Record," 31 August 1927
27. "Brief of Appellant," 22 October 1927
28. and "Brief of Appellee," 20 December 1927
29. David Blanchard, Seven Generations: A History of the Kanienkehaka (Kahnawake, Quebec: Kahnawake Survival School, 1980), 410-11
30. Gerald F. Reid, Kahnawake: Factionalism, Traditionalism, and Nationalism in a Mohawk Community (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004), 134-49
31. "Iroquois Pow Wow Off Until Autumn after One Parley," Montreal Gazette, 29 June 1927
32. "Mohawk Tribe to Hold Pow Wow Tomorrow," Montreal Herald, 30 June 1927
33. th Parallel," Montreal Gazette, 4 July 1927
34. "Changing Religion," Montreal Daily Star, 11 November 1927
35. Reid, Kahnawake, 156-67
36. Gerald R. Alfred, Heeding the Voices of Our Ancestors: Kahnawake Mohawk Politics and the Rise of Native Nationalism (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1995), 59
37. "Six Nations Defense League Demands Border Privileges," Syracuse Post-Standard, 31 December 1926, 5
38. "Indian Border Rights Asked From Congress," New York Times, 23 January 1927, 18
39. Laurence M. Hauptman, The Iroquois and the New Deal (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1981), 5-15
40. "Iroquois Ask Asylum Here," New York Times, 12 March 1921
41. Hauptman, The Iroquois and the New Deal, 1-15