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Found in 154 Collections and/or Records:

Joel Benson collection

 Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9026
Scope and content

Includes one page titled "The prophet of the Allegheny," which is a description of meeting Red Jacket. A hymn in Mohawk, signed by Daniel Bread, dated February 13, 1829. Another letter in Mohawk signed by Daniel Bread. Also included is a Cherokee hymn book published by the American Baptist Publication Society, 1896. The items come with a letter explaining their provenance from Mary Benson Mann Adams, the great grand daughter of Joel Benson, dated February 20, 1944.

Dates: 1829.

Joseph Alfred Borome papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 9164
Scope and content Papers include publications and correspondence. Several copies of his manuscript The Venezuelan Indian, a history and analyses of his status, May 1945. Notes and bibliographic information used in preparation for the work. Pamphlet on Venezuelan missionaries, manuscript draft for Indian Legislation and Policy in Venezuela. Correspondence between universities and libraries regarding information and sources pertaining to Venezuelan Indians. Manuscripts provide history on the Indians from the...
Dates: 1945-1959.

Joseph Jones collection of papers relating to Indians of Tennessee

 Collection
Identifier: 9152
Abstract Collection focus is mainly on the Indians of Tennessee and Jones' work Explorations of the aboriginal remains of Tennessee or Antiquities in Tennessee. Covers Indian burial practices, archaeological digs, items found, and other information about Indian antiquities. Includes Mounted pages from Jones' book on notebook sheets with handwritten notes, probably a proof. A handwritten manuscript for the book, bound in a notebook with the hand written title "Explorations of the antiquities of...
Dates: 1846 - 1889; Majority of material found within 1867 - 1868

Joseph Keppler Jr. Iroquois papers

 Collection
Identifier: 9184
Abstract Primarily letters to Keppler, including a record of events and people at the Tonawanda and Cattaraugus reservations, among others, over the first part of the twentieth century. Well known correspondents include noted Seneca scholar, Arthur C. Parker; artist, Jesse Cornplanter; and Mohawk poet, E. Pauline Johnson. Other parts of the collection include newspapers clippings on Iroquois subjects, government documents, Seneca vocabulary collected by Keppler, and other miscellaneous documents...
Dates: 1882-1944.

Key to archaeological map of the proposed national park of the cliff cities, with correspondence

 Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9036
Scope and content

Three copies of the key. The key is in support of Senate Bill 5176 and House Bill 14739. Also, drawing of the Gateway of Puye; letter from F. Bush to Douglas; notes on Daniel Boone, and paper on the Grinding Song of Taos.

Dates: 1915.

L. A. Huffman scrapbook

 Collection — Huntington box 35
Identifier: 9113
Scope and content

Scrapbook containing pictures of L. A. Huffman photos, newspaper clippings about Huffman. Articles contain biographical information about Huffman as well as information about frontier life.

Dates: 1905-1930.

Land of the Seri

 Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1
Identifier: 9222
Scope and content

Unpublished personal reflections on the author's contacts with the Seri Indians. Includes correspondence and color photographs from the author's collection of iron wood carvings and Seri baskets. A bibliography and list of suggested readings are also included.

Dates: 1983.

Les Antilles: etude d'ethnographie et d'archeologie americaines, notes

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 9126
Scope and content

Packets of hand written copies and notes of a work published by the same title. Information regarding the West Indies.

Dates: [ca. 1860]

Letter from Joseph Brant : to Sir John Johnson Bart.

 Collection — Huntington box 39 - folder 1
Identifier: 9006
Scope and content

Letter appears to have been written from a place called Beach. It discusses Brant's arrangements to meet Johnson. The letter also mentions public opinion on General De Puisaye. Brant says he will dispatch two young men to Johnson, and also references a previous letter from Johnson in which Johnson expressed a desire to meet with the Missisaqua [sp] chiefs, probably refering to Mississauga. Also two copies of a transcript, a slide, and a condition note.

Dates: 1799 March 17.

Letter from Samuel Hodgdon : respecting wagons loaded with goods for the Cherokee treaty

 Collection — Huntington box 39 - folder 1
Identifier: 9008
Scope and content

Letter mentions invoices for the supplies being carried in the wagons for the treaty. Mention of an enclosed letter, not present, to Lieutenant Devin, instructing him to include a small package from Major Cushing with the wagons.

Dates: 1798 March 1.

Additional filters:

Subject
Indians of North America 135
Indians of Mexico 23
Indians of North America -- Government relations 21
Cherokee Indians. 19
Dakota Indians 17
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Indians of North America -- Education 16
Indians of North America -- Pictorial works 12
Mayas. 11
Zuni Indians. 11
Aztecs. 10
Indians of North America -- Folklore 10
Indians of North America -- Missions 10
Navajo Indians. 10
Seminole Indians. 10
Delaware Indians. 9
Indians of North America -- Languages 9
Mohawk Indians. 9
Hopi Indians. 8
Indians of North America -- Funeral customs and rites 8
Indians of South America. 8
Seneca Indians. 8
Indians of North America -- Great Plains 7
Indians of North America -- Land tenure 7
Munsee Indians. 7
Nahuatl language. 7
Photographs 7
Shawnee Indians. 7
Cheyenne Indians. 6
Frontier and pioneer life. 6
Indians of North America -- California 6
Indians of North America -- Dictionaries 6
Indians of North America -- Religion 6
Manuscripts -- Mexico. 6
Oneida Indians. 6
Pueblo Indians. 6
Abenaki Indians. 5
American bison hunting. 5
Apache Indians. 5
Aztecs -- History. 5
Choctaw Indians. 5
Indians of Central America. 5
Indians of North America -- Antiquities 5
Indians of North America -- Arizona 5
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation 5
Indians of North America -- New Mexico 5
Indians of North America -- New York (State) 5
Indians of North America -- Politics and government 5
Indians of North America -- Treaties 5
Iroquois Indians. 5
Mohegan Indians. 5
Ojibwa Indians 5
Osage Indians. 5
Algonquian Indians. 4
Chickasaw Indians. 4
Comanche Indians. 4
Creek Indians. 4
Crow Indians. 4
Eskimos. 4
Indian captivities. 4
Indians of North America -- Alcohol use 4
Indians of North America -- Canada 4
Indians of North America -- Claims 4
Indians of North America -- Dwellings 4
Indians of North America -- Kansas 4
Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. 4
Indians of North America -- Rhode Island 4
Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) 4
Mexico City (Mexico). 4
Ranch life. 4
Wampanoag Indians. 4
West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Pictorial works. 4
Algonquian languages 3
Aztec art. 3
Calumets. 3
Carib Indians. 3
Cliff-dwellers. 3
Cree Indians. 3
Drawings. 3
Excavations (Archaeology). 3
Indian art -- North America 3
Indian art -- North America. 3
Indian mythology -- North America. 3
Indians of North America -- Bibliography 3
Indians of North America -- Commerce 3
Indians of North America -- Games 3
Indians of North America -- History 3
Indians of North America -- Jewelry 3
Indians of North America -- Massachusetts 3
Indians of North America -- New England 3
Indians of North America -- Social conditions 3
Indians of North America -- Social life and customs 3
Indians of North America -- Songs and music 3
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New 3
Indians of North America -- Sports 3
Indians of North America -- Washington (State) 3
Indians of North America -- Wisconsin 3
Latter Day Saints 3
Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876. 3
Maya astronomy. 3
Mayan languages -- Writing. 3
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