Shawnee Indians.
Subject
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Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
An account of a visit to Indian territory : Ft. Scott, Kansas
Collection — Huntington box 39 - folder 1
Identifier: 9003
Scope and content
A 10 page letter handwritten by Mrs. Coffin to her children about a 10 day trip she and her husband took visiting various missions in Indian Territory, dated November 5, 1894. Also includes typed copy and envelope. Their journey went through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Letter mentions having dinner with Shawnee chief Charles Blue Jacket. There is discussion of government schools; full-blooded and half-blooded Indians; how intermarriage will eventually cause the Indian race to be...
Dates:
1894 November 5.
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.
Documents relating to the Delaware and Seneca Indians, holographic copies
Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9030
Scope and content
The handwritten documents are all copied from existing documents. They include a short biographical sketch about Chief Cornplanter and his sons; a letter written by John Langdale to Benjamin Franklin in 1764 about the nobility of character among the American Indians; a letter describing an incident involving a drunk Delaware Chief at a council meeting; a document about Chief Teedyuscung; extracts from a pamphlet entitled Some Observations on the Situation, Disposition, and Character of the...
Dates:
1763-1784.
Extracts from articles, news items, and advertisements relative to Indians, chiefly those of New England
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 9007
Scope and content
Extracts from articles, news items, and advertisements relative to Indians, chiefly those of New England, which appeared in the Boston Courant, Boston Gazette, and Boston News-letter. Folder one contains handwritten notes, giving excerpts, gleaned from newspaper clippings from the 1700s. Folder two contains a typewritten transcript. Organized by name of publication. Appears to include information from 1700 to 1750. Papers give title or brief summary of article, date, length of article in...
Dates:
1700-1750.
Simon Butler : composed and drawn on stone
Item — Huntington box 41 - folder 1
Identifier: 9104
Scope and content
Print originally from Indian Traits Volume II, by Benjamin Bussey Thatcher, 1844, page 35. This version is from Annals of the United States illustrated: the pioneers: no. 4. Print depicts Simon Kenton, aka Simon Butler, tied to a horse which is being scared by Shawnee Indians in the background. There is description of the print on the front in English and French.
Dates:
1852.
Treaty of peace with the Delaware Nation, also documentation and supplemental treaty
Collection — Mapcase folder 45
Identifier: 9091
Scope and content
Treaty of peace with the Delaware Nation entered into by their deputies before Sir William Johnson, baronet, His Majesty's sole agent and superintendent of Indian affairs in the Northern Department of North America...May 8 1765. With supplemental treaty, which was bound to the main treaty, titled The Delaware deputys [sic] sent from Ohio, to strengthen, ratify and confirm the annexed treaty subscribed by Killbuck...July 12, 1765. Treaty discusses the Indians being accepted by the English in...
Dates:
1765.
United States War Department correspondence and records regarding Indian affairs and activities with Indian nations
Collection
Identifier: 9188
Abstract
Typed transcripts of correspondence and records of activities with Indian nations. Transcripts include information on Indian census, Indian removal, reports from Indian agencies, United States policy, trade regulations, emigration, crime, and treaties. Many of the reports are from Indian agents to commanding officers or superintendents of the Office of Indian Affairs, some correspondence giving instructions to agents. Includes an index.
Dates:
1798-1874.