Indians of North America -- Social conditions
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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]
Lubicon Lake Cree Indian Band papers
Collection
Identifier: 9171
Abstract
Copies of correspondence, news clippings, and other documents pertaining to the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation's struggle with the Canadian government and various companies who were seeking to develop traditional Lubicon Cree lands. Press releases, letters, and articles discuss land claims, economic and social conditions, activism, and legal fights of the Lubicon Lake Cree Band. A couple of original clippings and magazine articles are also included. Includes a letter to Chief Bernard Ominayak...
Dates:
1981-1988.
Notes about the Tlingit people of southeastern Alaska
Collection — Manuscript box 40 - folder 1
Identifier: 9009
Scope and content
One folder of non-sequential loose notes; some look to be hastily written on scrap paper. These contain descriptions of events; phonetic spelling of native words and their meanings; notes about sociology and class which may have been used as a basis for a publication. The second folder contains extensive notes removed from a notebook. Some pages appear to be missing. The notes are observations of the people covering many aspects. There is a list of common animal names and their translation....
Dates:
[1890-1900]
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.