Indians of North America -- Education
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
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.
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]
Constance Goddard DuBois papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924112438761]
Identifier: 9167
Abstract
The papers include her field notes from her summers in California, notes on her activities with the Connecticut Indian Association, and newspaper clippings relating to Indian affairs, particularly those in California. Drafts of manuscripts for her publications on Luiseno religion, Diegueno mythology, and other subjects relating to the Mission Indians of California are included in the collection. Letters written to Du Bois from 1897 to 1909 comprise a significant part of the collection....
Dates:
1897-1909.
Correspondence from Pima Indian Agency, Sacaton, Arizona
Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9050
Scope and content
41 letters written by Miss Wilson to her family in Willoughby, Ohio, while she was a teacher at the Pima Indian Agency. Includes a list of scholars and how they were renamed. The folder with transcripts includes provenance information and letters to and from Sidney Wilson about the Florence Wilson correspondence. The transcripts are also annotated.
Dates:
1884-1885.
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.
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.
Earl Y. Henderson papers
Collection
Identifier: 9059
Abstract
Correspondence to and from Henderson, Indian reports written and collected by Henderson.
Dates:
1916-1931.
Letters to George and Thea Heye from Lorenzo Chavez and other Zuni Pueblo Indians
Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1
Identifier: 9062
Scope and content
Includes letters from Lorenzo Chavez, Natusey, Tom Kawaya, Harry Shusta, Herman Fryling, Bessie C. Boomshe, and others. Typed diary of a visit to New York City by Lorenzo Chavez and Waihusiwa, who stayed with Mr. and Mrs. George Heye, January to February 1923, includes description of places visited, including the Mauretania. Newspaper clippings covering the visit and a treatment of Chavez's blindness. Correspondence from Zuni Mission Station Day School from Herman Fryling.
Dates:
1916-1930.
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.]