An account of a visit to Indian territory : Ft. Scott, Kansas
Scope and content
A 10 page letter handwritten by Mrs. Coffin to her children about a 10 day trip she and her husband took visiting various missions in Indian Territory, dated November 5, 1894. Also includes typed copy and envelope. Their journey went through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Letter mentions having dinner with Shawnee chief Charles Blue Jacket. There is discussion of government schools; full-blooded and half-blooded Indians; how intermarriage will eventually cause the Indian race to be absorbed; the Agencies of Friends; and the Friends Mission School.
Dates
- 1894 November 5.
Creator
- Coffin, Rhoda M. (Rhoda Moorman), 1826-1909. (Person)
- Huntington Free Library (Former owner, Organization)
Biographical / Historical
Rhoda M. Coffin was a Quaker active in prison reform and reform of the treatment of the insane, as well as the temperance movement.
Extent
3 items. (3 items.)
Language of Materials
English
Ownership and Custodial History
Provenance: Huntington Free Library.
Alternate Form Available
Includes typed copy.
- Agencies of Friends
- Blue Jacket, approximately 1752-
- Cherokee Indians.
- Friends Mission School
- Indians of North America
- Indians of North America -- Education -- Oklahoma.
- Indians of North America -- Mixed descent
- Indians of North America -- Oklahoma -- Ethnic identity
- Indians of North America -- Oklahoma -- Missions
- Indians of North America -- Texas -- Missions
- Miami Indians.
- Modoc Indians.
- Peoria Indians.
- Quakers.
- Shawnee Indians.
- Skiatook Lake (Okla.).
- Wyandot Indians.
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
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Cornell University
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