Navajo Indians.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Accounts and publications about Indians
Collection
Identifier: 9087
Abstract
Correspondence, biographies, and accounts collected in the 1930s, but describing actions from many years previous. Focus is on western Indians, exploration, and pioneers, particularly pertaining to Colorado and Utah. Folder 1: correspondence from Thomas P. Willson of the society. Stories of Indian captivities in Nebraska. Folder 2: accounts about Tascosa Texas, Guatemala, Central America Accounts, E. B. Sopris, William Carroll Riggs, St. Louis, Pierre Laclede, William Campbell, The Pony...
Dates:
1934-1938.
Bills and reports regarding Indians
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924112438985]
Identifier: 9183
Scope and content
Collection of items from Congress, many from the Government Printing Office. Items include meeting minutes and proceedings, copies of acts and bills, reports, and other information that was discussed by the committees and subcommittees on Indian affairs. The papers cover a wide range of topics, some are broad, covering all Indians; others are specific to certain areas and tribes. Some topics include leasing of lands from the Indians, mining rights, tuberculosis on reservations, reparations,...
Dates:
1926-1935.
Catalogs and advertisements for Indian traders
Collection — Huntington box 27a - folder 1
Identifier: 9190
Scope and content
Collection of catalogs, auction listings, and brochures for Indian curios. Some of the catalogs list prices for items including jewelry, blankets, clothing, baskets, and pottery. Some of the shops appear to have specialized in excavated items, while others contracted with tribes and reservations to have items made for their shops. Auction catalogs list items from estates of Indian collectors. Collection has a focus on Navajo textiles, but includes information on other items from Alaska to...
Dates:
[ca.1900].
Daughters of the American Revolution, American Indian Committee papers
Collection — Huntington box 1
Identifier: 9153
Scope and content
Contents of a scrapbook that has been taken apart. Includes photocopies of all the items that were in the scrapbook, many of the original items are included as well, but some are missing. Includes, clippings, correspondence, committee reports, publications, postcards, and other ephemera documenting the Daughters of the American Revolution's involvement in Indian affairs. Much of the correspondence is to Leda Ferrell Rex (Mrs. Loren Edgar Rex), the National Chairman of the D.A.R.. Also...
Dates:
1941-1950, 1986.
Documents pertaining to the Wheeler-Howard or Indian Reorganization Act
Collection — Huntington box 26
Identifier: 9182
Scope and content
Collection contains transcripts and proceedings of testimony and hearings, meeting minutes, copies of bills, and a letter to Frederick A. Blossom from Will Rogers, chairman of the Committee. Contents include: Readjustment of Indian affairs, Hearings before the Committee on Indian Affairs, House of Representatives, 73d Congress, 9 parts; Bills H. R. 7902 and S.2755; The purpose and operation of the Wheeler-Howard Indian rights bill; Amendments to Wheeler-Howard bill; Testimony taken at ...
Dates:
1934.
McCormick family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1312
Abstract
Consists mostly of graphic arts materials of Howard McCormick and correspondence of family and friends.
Dates:
1900-1941.
Native American artist vertical file
Collection
Identifier: 9241
Abstract
This collection contains ephemera covering artists, both Native American and non-Native American, whose artwork often focused on Native American subjects.
Dates:
[ca.1850-2000.]
Native American biography vertical file
Collection
Identifier: 9242
Abstract
This collection contains ephemera providing biographical information of, both Native Americans and non-Native Americans, whose work focused on Native American subjects.
Dates:
[ca.1850-2000]
Native American publications vertical file
Collection
Identifier: 9246
Abstract
This collection contains newsletters, newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals produced by Native American and non-Native American sources.
Dates:
[ca.1960-2000].
Native American subject vertical file
Collection
Identifier: 9205
Abstract
This collection contains ephemera covering a broad variety of topics relating to Native Americans.
Dates:
[ca.1850-2000.]