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Seneca Indians.

 Subject
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Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Account of a visit made by Penrose Wiley, John Letchworth, Anne Mifflin, Mary Bell, and others to the Seneca Indians settled on the Allegany River

 Collection — Huntington box 39 - folder 1
Identifier: 9001
Scope and content Original manuscript attributed to Mary Gilbert with description of meeting with Indians at Coldspring, Usqueshanadarqua, and Geneshatago. Includes quotes from Seneca chief Cornplanter and Blue Eyes. Described as the first visit by white women to Geneshatago. Also includes transcript of an excerpt from letter of Charles E. Congdon dated December 20, 1945 mentioning the manuscript, and the original invoice from Dauber & Pine Bookshops. Discussion of the white man using up all the water...
Dates: 1803.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Account of a visit made by Penrose Wiley, John Letchworth, Anne Mifflin, Mary Bell, and others to the Seneca Indians settled on the Allegany River

Alfred Tamarin papers

 Collection — Huntington box 1: [Barcode: 31924092111024]
Identifier: 9070
Scope and content Correspondence, notes, photography permissions, and documents accumulated during research for the publication of his book We Have Not Vanished: Eastern Indians of the United States. Folder one contains copy of a draft of the publication titled "American Indians Today on the Atlantic Seaboard." Has the original photos that were to be used for the publication taped or laid into the pages. Folder two, list of George Catlin slides. Folder three, edits, revisions, additions, other historical...
Dates: 1968-1975.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Alfred Tamarin papers

Documents relating to the Delaware and Seneca Indians, holographic copies

 Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9030
Scope and content The handwritten documents are all copied from existing documents. They include a short biographical sketch about Chief Cornplanter and his sons; a letter written by John Langdale to Benjamin Franklin in 1764 about the nobility of character among the American Indians; a letter describing an incident involving a drunk Delaware Chief at a council meeting; a document about Chief Teedyuscung; extracts from a pamphlet entitled Some Observations on the Situation, Disposition, and Character of the...
Dates: 1763-1784.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Documents relating to the Delaware and Seneca Indians, holographic copies

Joel Benson collection

 Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9026
Scope and content

Includes one page titled "The prophet of the Allegheny," which is a description of meeting Red Jacket. A hymn in Mohawk, signed by Daniel Bread, dated February 13, 1829. Another letter in Mohawk signed by Daniel Bread. Also included is a Cherokee hymn book published by the American Baptist Publication Society, 1896. The items come with a letter explaining their provenance from Mary Benson Mann Adams, the great grand daughter of Joel Benson, dated February 20, 1944.

Dates: 1829.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Joel Benson collection

Joseph Keppler Jr. Iroquois papers

 Collection
Identifier: 9184
Abstract Primarily letters to Keppler, including a record of events and people at the Tonawanda and Cattaraugus reservations, among others, over the first part of the twentieth century. Well known correspondents include noted Seneca scholar, Arthur C. Parker; artist, Jesse Cornplanter; and Mohawk poet, E. Pauline Johnson. Other parts of the collection include newspapers clippings on Iroquois subjects, government documents, Seneca vocabulary collected by Keppler, and other miscellaneous documents...
Dates: 1882-1944.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Joseph Keppler Jr. Iroquois papers

Letters concerning Seneca and Mohawk affairs

 Collection — Manuscript box 40 - folder 1
Identifier: 9010
Scope and content Letter from Eleazer Williams, dated Oneida December 21, 1817 to David A. Ogden discussing a meeting regarding the subject of the late Council Fort Meigs. Includes references to Mr. Parish, western Indians, and the Six Nations. The second is from individuals at St. Regis, including Lewis Cook, William Gray, and Potter Late Gaienton, to David A. and Thomas L. Ogden, dated St. Regis May 7, 1803. The letter disagrees with the selling of some land called Rapid Plan Island to another individual....
Dates: 1803-1819.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Letters concerning Seneca and Mohawk affairs

The white woman

 Collection — Huntington box 39 - folder 1
Identifier: 9002
Scope and content

Handwritten manuscript dated May, 17 1841, Chapel Hill, signed by Susan W. McFarland. An extract of an account of a mission performed in 1820 among the Seneca and Munsee by the Rev. Timothy Alden, president of Allegheny College, addressed to Rev. Abiel Holmes, describing a visit with Mary Jemison.

Dates: 1841 May 17.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / The white woman

United States War Department correspondence and records regarding Indian affairs and activities with Indian nations

 Collection
Identifier: 9188
Abstract

Typed transcripts of correspondence and records of activities with Indian nations. Transcripts include information on Indian census, Indian removal, reports from Indian agencies, United States policy, trade regulations, emigration, crime, and treaties. Many of the reports are from Indian agents to commanding officers or superintendents of the Office of Indian Affairs, some correspondence giving instructions to agents. Includes an index.

Dates: 1798-1874.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / United States War Department correspondence and records regarding Indian affairs and activities with Indian nations

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