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Cherokee Indians.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

Letters to Jeremiah Evarts concerning the Dwight mission for Cherokees in Arkansas

 Collection — Huntington box 36 - folder 1
Identifier: 9202
Scope and content Negative and positive photostats of one letter from Alfred Finney, August 12, 1824, and two letters from Cephas Washburn October 14 and 27, 1828, to Jeremiah Evarts of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The letters describe conditions at the Dwight mission and the surrounding area or Arkansas. Description of the local settlements and missions on the Arkansas River. Mention of the potential Cherokee removal. One of the Washburn letters encloses a drawing of the mission...
Dates: 1824; 1828.

Lewis Harris papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065245791]
Identifier: 875
Scope and content

Biographical sketches of Lewis of Frankfort, Herkimer Co., New York, and four letters from Henry Grosjean, a French agricultural inspector comparing Ohio farming with that of New York, and commenting on Cherokee agriculture and western cattle raising. Also a note to Libbie from Harris Lewis, photographs, 1 ribbon: "Judge"/ N. Y. S. Ag. So./ Syracuse, 1858; and 1 First Baptist Church, Frankfort, N.Y. calendar of the week.

Dates: 1881-1906.

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.]

Photostats of scattered Indian documents in the Archives of the Indies.

 Collection
Identifier: 9254
Abstract

Photostats of a selection of important manuscripts and documents regarding Indians from the Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain, particularly the section of Papeles procedentes de Cuba.

Dates: 1765-1802.

Reginald Pelham Bolton collection: notes regarding Indians near Inwood Hill Park, New York City

 Collection — Huntington box 29
Identifier: 9117
Scope and content Collection includes notebook by Bolton titled "Notes on discoveries and index to aboriginal objects with location of discovery, collected by W. L. Calver, with some collected in 1907-7-8-9 by W.L.C. and R. P. Bolton." Field notebook by Alanson Skinner from 1918 titled "Field Notes" has "Notes on the great shellheap at Cold Spring, Inwood" as first entry, but the book goes on to describe other Indian excavation sites across New York State, including sites in Jefferson, Orange, and Cayuga...
Dates: 1900-1935.

Samuel A. Elliot collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 9165
Abstract Contains reports to the Board of Indian commissioners, reports 1-107, bulletins regarding Indians to the 70th Congress, and bulletins from the American Indian Defense Association, Inc. The items are typed mimeos. Indexes for the 70th Congress and American Indian Defense association papers and for the Indian Commissioners reports are included. Various authors. A wide variety of topics are covered including Indian and government relations, land tenure, living conditions, laws, and government...
Dates: 1927-1935.

Samuel Austin Worcester correspondence and provenance

 Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9051
Scope and content Two letters from Samuel Worcester, one a typed transcript. Also, letter from Alice Mary Robertson dated January 19, 1877, in which she writes her mother from the Department of the Interior and encloses the letters from Worcester who was her grandfather. Provenance letter from Grant Foreman to Frederic W. Hodge dated October 28, 1930, upon presentation of the letters for the Hodge Collection. One of the Worcester letters is dated April 12, 1826 from Mayhew, Choctaw Nation, addressed to...
Dates: 1826-1832.