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INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA-RELATED COLLECTIONS
This list gives the collection name, date range and number of items in a collection followed by a very brief description of the contents of the collection. All of these collections are related to Indians of North America.
ART MSS.- Of interest is an undated folio of a watercolor and colored pen drawing of two American Indians by artist Tonita Pena.
- DATE RANGE: 1855-1862
- ITEM COUNT: 10 items
- Letters written by trader and frontiersman Joseph Bissonette to the U.S. Congress requesting compensation for losses incurred from depredations committed by the Indians in Nebraska Territory.
- DATE RANGE: 1835-1937
- ITEM COUNT: 10,597 items
- Papers of Amos William Butler, zoologist, anthropologist and sociologist. Of interest are papers and correspondence on kitchen-middens in Florida dated 1917-1924.
- DATE RANGE: 20th century
- ITEM COUNT: 125 items
- Field notes of engineer Walter Mason Camp dealing with the Indians and Indian wars. Camp worked for the railroad and spent many summers traveling throughout the country interviewing various participants and survivors of the Indian wars.
- DATE RANGE: 1836-1893
- ITEM COUNT: 294 items
- Correspondence and papers of Indian trader William W. Cleghorn. Letters to Indian traders relate to the fur trade and some Indian claims.
- DATE RANGE: 1876-1933
- ITEM COUNT: 7 items
- Copy of the Proceedings of the Court of Inquiry, January 13, 1879, in the case of Major Marcus A. Reno concerning his conduct at the Battle of the Little Big Horn River. Also includes many related photographs.
- >DATE RANGE: 1855-1906
- ITEM COUNT: 13 items
- Letters and papers of Silas J. Day, first lieutenant, Company G, 2nd regiment, Oregon mounted volunteers. Includes reminiscences of Indian hostilities in Oregon, 1851-1855 by James H. Twogood.
- DATE RANGE: 1821-1899
- ITEM COUNT: 106 items
- Papers of Alexander H. Dunihue, merchant of Bedford, Ind. and his brother, Daniel R. Dunihue, cashier of the Bedford branch of the Indiana State Bank. Principally family letters, there is some mention of the removal of the Ohio Indians to lands beyond the Mississippi River.
- DATE RANGE: 1790-1949
- ITEM COUNT: 249 items
- Correspondence, memorandum books, diaries and journals, accounts of skirmishes with Indians and other records of exploits in the Far West compiled by oilman Robert Spurrier Ellison. For further information contact the Manuscripts Department.
- DATE RANGE: 1915-1951
- ITEM COUNT: 4,286 items
- Papers of labor leader Power Hapgood. Of interest is an undated copy of the Constitution of the Western Shoshone Community and a tentative draft of a suggested constitution for the Indians living on the San Carlos Indian Reservation in Arizona.
- DATE RANGE: 1779-1922
- ITEM COUNT: 149 items
- Material pertaining to William Henry Harrison, U.S. president and territorial governor of Indiana. Included are requisitions for food and whisky for Indians dated 1794-5 signed by Harrison as aide-de-camp to General Anthony Wayne during his campaign against the Indians in Ohio in 1794 and the treaty negotiations. Also included are other Indian treaties and acts.
- DATE RANGE: 1851-1914
- ITEM COUNT: 226 items
- Letters and papers of James Nathaniel Hill, Indiana farmer and Civil War soldier. Of interest is an undated letter to Hill from Mary B. Strong telling of attacks of Siouan and Chippewa Indians on white inhabitants of Minnesota.
- DATE RANGE: 1917-1960
- ITEM COUNT: 15,133 items
- Photographs and papers of Frank Michael Hohenberger, photographer and newspaperman. Includes numerous photographs of Indians, for further information contact the Manuscripts Department.
- DATE RANGE: 1833-1888
- ITEM COUNT: 7,780 items
- Legal papers of the law firm of Hughes, Denver and Peck, Washington, D.C. The papers relate mainly to cases before the U.S. Court of Claims. Included are cases relating to Indian claims and the Choctaw boundary question, 1853-1873.
- Of interest: An undated copy of The Autobiography of John H. Jones, 1814-1882 which includes mention of the removal of the Creek Indians from Georgia to Indiana territory in the winter of 1835.
- An undated account, The Last of the Miamis in Miami County, Indiana by Felix John Koch.
- DATE RANGE: 19th century
- ITEM COUNT: 22 items
- Consists of the working materials for the Antiquities of Mexico edited by Edward King, viscount Kingsborough. Includes material pertaining to Indians of Mexico.
- DATE RANGE: 1835-1906
- ITEM COUNT: 3,248 items
- Papers of Joseph Lane, first territorial governor of Oregon. The collection deals largely with Oregon affairs and there is some mention of Indian hostilities and treaties. There is also material on Indians in California, Texas, and Washington.
- DATE RANGE: 1502-1940
- ITEM COUNT: 4,856 items
- There is material about Indians and missions to the Indians in Florida, California, and Texas, as well as in Mexico. For further information contact the Manuscript Department.
- DATE RANGE: 1898-1948
- ITEM COUNT: 8,355 items
- Papers of Louis Leon Ludlow, journalist and congressman. Included are letters and articles on Indian mounds in Indiana and Ohio dated 1928.
- DATE RANGE: 1875-1878
- ITEM COUNT: 9 items
- Papers of Horatio N. Maguire, printer, editor, and judge. Of interest is an 1878 paper on Indian warfare centered around the fighting ability of Sitting Bull and his cohorts with modern weapons and also an undated paper entitled, "Indian Craft -- There is more craft in the North American Indian than any other race", being an account of an overland journey from Bismarck, North Dakota to the Black Hills in the spring of 1876, an expedition guided by a scout named Buckskin Bill and led by Captain Whitehead.
- DATE RANGE: 1794-1831
- ITEM COUNT: 85 items
- Papers of Return Jonathan Meigs, governor of Ohio, U.S. senator and postmaster general during the administrations of Presidents James Madison and James Monroe. The collection contains letters and papers relating to Indian disturbances in Indiana and Ohio in 1811. Also includes Meigs' accounts of disbursements, 1812-13 in connection with a council at Urbana, Ohio with chiefs of the Shawnee, Delaware, and Wyandot nations to obtain a cession of land for a road through the Indian country. Also included is a petition of the Wyandot Indians for a redress of land grievances.
- DATE RANGE: 1963-1966
- ITEM COUNT: 7 items
- Writings of educator Alan Parkhurst Merriam. Includes Ethnomusicology of the Flathead Indians by Merriam.
- DATE RANGE: 1866-1869
- ITEM COUNT: 7 items
- Papers of Benjamin B. Mills of Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Of interest is a August 23, 1868 letter from General William Selby Harney to Benjamin B. Mills offering him a position in the work of carrying out the recent treaty with the Sioux Indians. Also included is an April 7, 1869 letter from the U.S. attorney for the district of Wyoming to Mills informing him "that the Indians yesterday attacked the telegraph party ...."
- DATE RANGE: 1835-1888
- ITEM COUNT: 1,182 items
- Papers of Joel Palmer, superintendent of Indian affairs in Oregon Territory, 1853-1857. For 1853-January 10, 1857, the manuscripts consist almost entirely of official correspondence and papers of Joel Palmer as Superintendent of Indian Affairs. For 1871-1874 the papers are those of Palmer as U.S. Indian agent at the Siletz Indian Reservation.
- DATE RANGE: 1809-1868
- ITEM COUNT: 970 items
- Papers of William Polke, judge, commissioner for the Michigan road, and conductor of the removal of the Potawatomi Indians from Indiana in 1838. Much in the collection relates to the removal of the Potawatomi Indians from Indiana. Includes a copy of a letter from Polke giving an account of the Battle of Tippecanoe and part of an account by Polke of his Indian captivity.
- DATE RANGE: 1780-1825
- ITEM COUNT: 33 items
- Letters and papers of General Robert Todd of Kentucky. Includes material pertaining to actions against the Indians by General Anthony Wayne in 1794.
- DATE RANGE: 1838-1912
- ITEM COUNT: 119 items
- Papers of Elizabeth A. Tuttle, Ohio nurse and teacher. Included is a Nov. 18, 1864 letter to Tuttle from Alonzo Wilson relating his experiences in action against the Indians.
- Of interest: Dec. 7, 1764 letter from General Thomas Gage to John Penn congratulating him on the success of Bouquet's expedition against the Indians. June 18, 1765 letter from General Henry Bouquet to George Croghan which refers to a treaty with the Indians. Dec. 18, 1793 bill from guide James M'Dowell to the U.S. for services rendered on expeditions into the Cherokee nation. Feb. 10, 179[4?] reply of his Excellency Lord Dorchester, governor of Quebec to the Indians of the seven villages of Lower Canada. Oct. 4, 1810 receipt from Little Turtle, Miami chief for annuities due to the Miami tribe of Indians for 1810. Jan. 6, 1831 letter from David Crockett to Daniel W. Pounds in which he refers to the Cherokee Indians in Georgia. Jan. 23, 1834 petition from soldier and Indian trader James McPherson for pension, giving an account of his relations with the Indians in Ohio. Apr. 22-June 16, 1889 photographs of the Oklahoma and Indian territories, includes images of tepees and Indians. An undated account of the female Indian captive Dorothy Scudder: A Girl of the Wilderness by John Allen Rayner.
- DATE RANGE: 1867-1924
- ITEM COUNT: 6 items
- Copies of papers of Oliver Unthank, telegraph operator at Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Some of the papers relate to Indian attacks.
- DATE RANGE: 1776-1879
- ITEM COUNT: 3,181 items
- Material pertaining mostly to the War of 1812 but also contains numerous items related to Indians. Of interest: Oct. 8, 1802 letter from George Armistead which concerns distribution of goods to the Indians and their discontent. July 8, 1812 letter from U.S. senator Benjamin Hawkins to Edmund Pendleton Gaines at Fort Stoddart, Alabama in which he discusses the Seminole and Creek Indians and the annoyances which made Jackson's 1813 Indian campaign necessary. July 10, 1812 receipted bill from Indians James Bluejacket and Killiskessimmo of Detroit for traveling 500 miles and distributing the speeches of General Hull to the Indians. Oct. 18, 1813 letter from U.S. president William Henry Harrison to Governor of Ohio Return Jonathan Meigs describing the recent armistice with the Indians.