Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nuñez papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924112438795]
Identifier: 9169
Scope and content
Photocopies of notes, diaries, poetry, and drawings, some of them published in Spirit Woman by Steiner. Also includes some original notes, clippings, and typed manuscripts by Nuñez. Titles include Inside the Indian wind, The hidden life, My trip to hell, and others. Correspondence to her, mostly from the 1920s, includes letters from Carlos Montezuma. Notes discuss mission schools, a speech by Major Pratt, laws governing Native Americans, information about growing up as an Indian, and...
Dates:
[ca. 1900-1972]
Lubicon Lake Cree Indian Band papers
Collection
Identifier: 9171
Abstract
Copies of correspondence, news clippings, and other documents pertaining to the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation's struggle with the Canadian government and various companies who were seeking to develop traditional Lubicon Cree lands. Press releases, letters, and articles discuss land claims, economic and social conditions, activism, and legal fights of the Lubicon Lake Cree Band. A couple of original clippings and magazine articles are also included. Includes a letter to Chief Bernard Ominayak...
Dates:
1981-1988.
Paul Wallace Gates papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-17-1403
Abstract
Correspondence, office files, printed material, and other papers relating to Gates's study of U.S. land policy, his role in Indian land claims, and his work as a professor of American history.
Dates:
1873 - 1996; 1934 - 1982
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.
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.
The Delaware Indians: a brief tribal history
Collection — Huntington box 27a - folder 1
Identifier: 9179
Scope and content
Typed manuscript with annotations that was under consideration for publication by the Museum of the American Indian. It appears to have not been published. Included is correspondence discussing the work, to Roland Force from Mary Davis and Brenda Holland. Includes suggested further reading list.
Dates:
1985.