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Letter from Texas Indian agent

Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1

Identifier: 9016

Scope and content Letter written from Fort Belkamo, Texas. Describes crimes committed by Wichita, Waco, and Keechi Indians against residents of Texas, including horse theft. Discusses meeting with Chief Kowaaka [sic] and Major H. H. Sibley to discuss theft. It goes on to describe the imprisonment of the Indians and then their escape, in which the Chief lost his life after killing one of the guards. The Chief also killed his wife and child. Mentions talks with a Comanche Chief Gatumsie [sic] and War Chief...

Dates: 1853 March 30.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Letter from Texas Indian agent

Letters concerning Seneca and Mohawk affairs

Collection — Manuscript box 40 - folder 1

Identifier: 9010

Scope and content Letter from Eleazer Williams, dated Oneida December 21, 1817 to David A. Ogden discussing a meeting regarding the subject of the late Council Fort Meigs. Includes references to Mr. Parish, western Indians, and the Six Nations. The second is from individuals at St. Regis, including Lewis Cook, William Gray, and Potter Late Gaienton, to David A. and Thomas L. Ogden, dated St. Regis May 7, 1803. The letter disagrees with the selling of some land called Rapid Plan Island to another individual....

Dates: 1803-1819.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Letters concerning Seneca and Mohawk affairs

Letters from Little River, Creek Nation

Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1

Identifier: 9029

Scope and content Eight letters from Robert Buckham. Some of the letters are addressed to Andrew Buckham, the others to George Buckham in New York City. Most of the letters are from Little River, Creek Nation. Letter one is entirely cross-written, and mentions a trip to Spanish America. Letter two discusses working for Abel Warren and meeting with David Benett. Letter three discusses Buckham's family life and wife Elizabeth and his sadness that he has been unable to father children, so he has adopted some...

Dates: 1841-1844.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Letters from Little River, Creek Nation

Letters of Captain Alexander B. MacGowan

Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1

Identifier: 9046

Scope and content Most letters are addressed to his wife and his son, George P. MacGowan, with some other correspondence as well. Other correspondents include Mrs. S. E. K. Ames, Rev. Cyrus Hamlin, and Mrs. George W. Hazel, who was MacGowan's sister-in-law. Letters from George P. MacGowan to George G. Heye, letter to George MacGowan from Paul D. Moody, President of Middlebury College, VT. Report of Operations by E. A. Carr at Fort Apache mentioning MacGowan's gallant acts. Telegram from E. A. Carr at Fort...

Dates: 1862-1887.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Letters of Captain Alexander B. MacGowan

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

Letters to George and Thea Heye from Lorenzo Chavez and other Zuni Pueblo Indians

Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1

Identifier: 9062

Scope and content

Includes letters from Lorenzo Chavez, Natusey, Tom Kawaya, Harry Shusta, Herman Fryling, Bessie C. Boomshe, and others. Typed diary of a visit to New York City by Lorenzo Chavez and Waihusiwa, who stayed with Mr. and Mrs. George Heye, January to February 1923, includes description of places visited, including the Mauretania. Newspaper clippings covering the visit and a treatment of Chavez's blindness. Correspondence from Zuni Mission Station Day School from Herman Fryling.

Dates: 1916-1930.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Letters to George and Thea Heye from Lorenzo Chavez and other Zuni Pueblo Indians

Letters to Jeremiah Evarts concerning the Dwight mission for Cherokees in Arkansas

Collection — Huntington box 36 - folder 1

Identifier: 9202

Scope and content Negative and positive photostats of one letter from Alfred Finney, August 12, 1824, and two letters from Cephas Washburn October 14 and 27, 1828, to Jeremiah Evarts of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The letters describe conditions at the Dwight mission and the surrounding area or Arkansas. Description of the local settlements and missions on the Arkansas River. Mention of the potential Cherokee removal. One of the Washburn letters encloses a drawing of the mission...

Dates: 1824; 1828.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Letters to Jeremiah Evarts concerning the Dwight mission for Cherokees in Arkansas

Lienzo de Metlaltoyuca.

Item — Huntington box 32 - folder 1

Identifier: 9158

Scope and content

Hand drawn and colored copy of an Aztec document. The copy was made by Philipp Josef Valentini. Document shows Aztec symbols, in a map format.

Dates: Undated

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Lienzo de Metlaltoyuca.

M. L. Baker letters

Collection — Huntington box 36 - folder 1

Identifier: 9201

Scope and content Photostats of letters from M. L. Baker to his family with typed transcriptions. Ten letters dating from September 13, 1846 to May 23, 1849. They describe the writer's participation in Mexican and Indian campaigns. Descriptions of the culture of Indians and landscape of the area around New Mexico, including encounters with Indians. Letters are addressed from Santa Fe New Mexico, Council Grove Kansas, Arkansas River near Pawnee Forks, Albuquerque New Mexico, and Head quarters Fort...

Dates: 1846-1849.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / M. L. Baker letters

Mapa de Siguenza.

Collection — Huntington box 32 - folder 1

Identifier: 9156

Scope and content

The map depicts the migration of the Aztec people from Aztlan to Tenochtitlan over the period of several hundred years. Reverse of the map has a ticker on it that says Peregrinacion de los Aztecas from Careri Gemilli [sic], Giro del Mundo. Note of explanation is included in the folder.

Dates: 1699 - 1700; Undated

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Mapa de Siguenza.

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Found in 154 Collections and/or Records:

Letter from Texas Indian agent

Letters concerning Seneca and Mohawk affairs

Letters from Little River, Creek Nation

Letters of Captain Alexander B. MacGowan

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

Letters to George and Thea Heye from Lorenzo Chavez and other Zuni Pueblo Indians

Letters to Jeremiah Evarts concerning the Dwight mission for Cherokees in Arkansas

Lienzo de Metlaltoyuca.

M. L. Baker letters

Mapa de Siguenza.

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