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Mohegan Indians.

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

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

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

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Correspondence to Jedidiah Morse

Fidelia A. H. Fielding papers

 Collection
Identifier: 9000
Scope and content

Digitized versions of the original three diaries written in the Mohegan language: December 20, 1902-January 23, 1903; April 21 - June 24, 1904; and May 17 - June 21, 1904. Copy of the Lord's Prayer in Mohegan; and a certificate for the unveiling of a monument in memory of Fidelia Fielding at Fort Shantok Park (Norwich, CT) by the Degree of Pocohantas, May 24, 1936.

Dates: 1902-1904, 1936.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Fidelia A. H. Fielding papers

Mohegan Indian documents

 Collection — Manuscript box 40 - folder 1
Identifier: 9011
Scope and content Census of the Mohegans living in Mohegan at New London, December 16-17, 1755. This document has meeting notes from the previous year discussing the census. It contains a list of the names of all the Indians living in the area at the time. Also, Act of Assembly at Hartford in favor of Benjamin Uncas, Sachem, forbidding the cutting of wood by settlers in tribal lands at Mohegan, May 3, 1759; complaint against Samson Occom addressed to the Governor of the General Assembly of Connecticut and...
Dates: 1719-1791.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Mohegan Indian documents

Notes on Moravian missions

 Collection — Huntington box 15a - folder 1
Identifier: 9080
Scope and content

Handwritten notebook. Gives a history of the Moravian Church and missions and their work with Indians. One section deals with the Moravian mission in Dutchess County, New York. There is mention of baptisms and giving Indians names. Works of George Loskiel, a Moravian historian, are used to write parts of the history. A laid in newspaper clipping about the ghost dance of the Cheyenne and Apache Indians is also included.

Dates: [18--?]
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Notes on Moravian missions

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