Stockbridge Indians.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence to Jedidiah Morse
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 9086
Scope and content
Collection contains original letters, Photostats of letters, and typed transcripts of the letters pertaining to the missionary work and government relations of the Indians. Letters are almost entirely to Jedidiah Morse. Folder 1: Handwritten guide to letters. Letters to Jedidiah Morse from: James Stacy, sent from Savannah, April 16, 1794; John Sergeant, sent from New Stockbridge, October 28, 1796, discussing the Oneida Indians; John Campbell, sent from Edinburgh, May 28, 1806, discussing...
Dates:
1794-1824.
De Cost Smith Collection
Collection — Huntington box 59
Identifier: 9174
Abstract
Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, notebooks, brochures, manuscripts, maps, paintings, and sketches. Focus areas of the notes for articles, speeches, and books cover a wide variety of topics including the Onondaga Indians and their reservation, festivals and culture, Sitting Bull using a telephone, Tendoi The climber, articles by Elizabeth Custer, Moravian missions, history of Amenia, N.Y., Fort Buford, manuscript regarding Indian attitudes towards African Americans,...
Dates:
1880-1943.
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.
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.