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Indians of North America -- New York (State)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Pamphlets on the Seneca Indians

 Collection — Manuscript box 55 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065252524]
Identifier: 3148m
Scope and content Pamphlet "The Indian bread root of the Senecas" (1890), describing various roots and how the Indians used them; "Rites of adoption by the Seneca Indians on the Cattaraugus Reservation" (June 15, 1885), with two pages of manuscript notes laid in; and "Dust from an old Indian trail" by Irving W. Coates (reprinted from the Ontario repository-messenger of March 15, 1894), describing a Seneca trail that ran from the Canandaigua Outlet at Littleville, New York to Phelps, New York, and commenting...
Dates: 1885-1894.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Pamphlets on the Seneca Indians

Richard H. White modern Iroquois collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6862
Scope and content Primarily clippings of articles concerning the Six Nations from central New York newspapers. Also, periodicals published by Native groups from New York including RAIN Smoke Signals, AHSKWA, Message from Ganienkeh, and Indian Survival Crisis Bulletin. Teaching materials including filmstrip, People of the Longhouse; correspondence between White and Ray Fadden (aka Tehanetorens); curriculum guide and documents concerning the Oneida Land Case; folder of materials on Indian treaties; cartoons...
Dates: ca. 1970-2014.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Richard H. White modern Iroquois collection

Stockbridge Indian papers

 Collection
Identifier: 9185
Abstract Collection includes correspondence, government publications, bills and acts related to the Stockbridge Indians. Includes copies of treaties; petitions to New York State and the federal governments; tribal rolls; lists of payments to Stockbridge and Munsee individuals; powers of attorney from Stockbridge leaders to particular individuals; government documents; and annuity claims. The documents range from correspondence about relocating to sites in Indiana and Wisconsin to receipts for small...
Dates: 1739-1915.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Stockbridge Indian papers

The "good" of a dead Indian

 Collection — Manuscript box 23 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065307146]
Identifier: 47-1-m.923
Scope and content

Five page essay, "The 'Good' of a Dead Indian," n.d., by Tcagi Algon (Roger Dube), claiming that Cornell University, Ithaca, New York is built on Indian land; also, a two page memorandum, Gould Colman to Margaret Condon, April 18, 1972, disputing Algon's claim.

Dates: [ca. 1972]
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / The "good" of a dead Indian

William Johnson correspondence

 Collection — Manuscript box 7 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240693]
Identifier: 1028
Scope and content

Correspondence of William Johnson in upstate New York, mentioning local Indian matters, and Forts Schuyler and Stanwix.

Dates: 1755-1769.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / William Johnson correspondence

William Wallace Tooker papers

 Collection
Identifier: 9187
Abstract

Correspondence, memoranda, notes, and other papers, concerning Indian place names on Long Island, N.Y., Coastal Algonquian ethnology, ethnohistory, and linguistics. Notes investigate name origins and discuss how they derive from native languages. Other notes include analysis of early American texts in native languages. Extracts made from Indian land deeds and notes discussing land boundaries also included. Index cards for all the items included.

Dates: [18--]-1917.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / William Wallace Tooker papers

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