United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency

Letters to General William Tecumseh Sherman about drawings from Red Dog and Zotom

Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1

Identifier: 9017

Scope and content Two letters from Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt and Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy. Letter from Pratt dated January 22, 1876 from St. Augustine, Florida. Mentions paying Zotom for a book of drawings. Discussion of having the government add a detachment of Indian soldiers. Letter from McGillycuddy dated December 11, 1884 from Pine Ridge Agency, Dakota, now South Dakota. Letter is informing Sherman of the death of Red Dog. It mentions that Red Dog was involved with the Treaty of 1868. The...

Dates: 1876-1884.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Letters to General William Tecumseh Sherman about drawings from Red Dog and Zotom

Sioux on the warpath, scrapbooks

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 9150

Scope and content Three scrapbooks, one titled Sioux on the warpath, one titled Indians on the warpath, and one untitled. The books contain newspaper clippings regarding Indians, particularly the Sioux, and the events leading up to and shortly after the Wounded Knee massacre. Clippings discuss the people involved, the Ghost Dance, thoughts on how to disarm the Indians, mention of individuals coming over from Great Britain to aid soldiers at the Pine Ridge Agency, Sitting Bull's death, some other events...

Dates: 1890.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Sioux on the warpath, scrapbooks

Testimony of Indian school and reservation superintendents in regard to a law and order bill

Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1

Identifier: 9060

Scope and content Typed transcripts of feedback from agency and district superintendents eliciting their response to extending criminal jurisdiction to reservations. Folder one includes copies of two bills, one extending State laws to reservations dated April 18, 1929, the other regarding extending federal civil and criminal laws to reservations, dated January 8, 1930. Also a copy of the questionnaire that was sent to the superintendents and a summary of the responses. Folders two and three are the responses,...

Dates: 1930.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Testimony of Indian school and reservation superintendents in regard to a law and order bill

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United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Letters to General William Tecumseh Sherman about drawings from Red Dog and Zotom

Sioux on the warpath, scrapbooks

Testimony of Indian school and reservation superintendents in regard to a law and order bill

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