Indians of North America -- Government relations
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Letters of Captain Alexander B. MacGowan
Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9046
Scope and content
Most letters are addressed to his wife and his son, George P. MacGowan, with some other correspondence as well. Other correspondents include Mrs. S. E. K. Ames, Rev. Cyrus Hamlin, and Mrs. George W. Hazel, who was MacGowan's sister-in-law. Letters from George P. MacGowan to George G. Heye, letter to George MacGowan from Paul D. Moody, President of Middlebury College, VT. Report of Operations by E. A. Carr at Fort Apache mentioning MacGowan's gallant acts. Telegram from E. A. Carr at Fort...
Dates:
1862-1887.
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.
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.]
Paul Wallace Gates papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-17-1403
Abstract
Correspondence, office files, printed material, and other papers relating to Gates's study of U.S. land policy, his role in Indian land claims, and his work as a professor of American history.
Dates:
1873 - 1996; 1934 - 1982
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.
Richard H. White modern Iroquois collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6862
Scope and content
Primarily clippings of articles concerning the Six Nations from central New York newspapers. Also, periodicals published by Native groups from New York including RAIN Smoke Signals, AHSKWA, Message from Ganienkeh, and Indian Survival Crisis Bulletin. Teaching materials including filmstrip, People of the Longhouse; correspondence between White and Ray Fadden (aka Tehanetorens); curriculum guide and documents concerning the Oneida Land Case; folder of materials on Indian treaties; cartoons...
Dates:
ca. 1970-2014.
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.
Stockbridge Indian papers
Collection
Identifier: 9185
Abstract
Collection includes correspondence, government publications, bills and acts related to the Stockbridge Indians. Includes copies of treaties; petitions to New York State and the federal governments; tribal rolls; lists of payments to Stockbridge and Munsee individuals; powers of attorney from Stockbridge leaders to particular individuals; government documents; and annuity claims. The documents range from correspondence about relocating to sites in Indiana and Wisconsin to receipts for small...
Dates:
1739-1915.
Testimonial for giving Indians medals, engraved by Henry Dawkins
Collection — Huntington box 41 - folder 1
Identifier: 9100
Scope and content
Reprint of a William Johnson Indian testimonial used for giving medals to Indians, printed from the original copper plate. The print is in a folder that states "On the occasion of the visit of the Walpole Society to the New York Historical Society on May 25, 1946 there were made from the original copperplate owned by the latter Society, fifty impressions of Sir William Johnson's Indian Testimonial, engraved by Henry Dawkins of Philadelphia in the month of April 1770 and originally designed...
Dates:
1946.