Dakota Indians

Notes on discovery of upper Mississippi River

Collection — Huntington box 15a - folder 1

Identifier: 9082

Scope and content

Handwritten notes by an unknown author. Notes mention Louis Hennepin, Robert Cavelier sieur de LaSalle, Jacques Marquette, Louis Joliet, Claude Jean Allouez, and Father Claude Dablon. Mention of the Huron, Ottawa and Sioux Indians, Mascouten or Asistieron, and Nation of Fire, as well. Two maps are also included. The maps were published in Paris by Thevenot in "Marquette's Map." The notes describe exploration of the river in the late 1600s.

Dates: [ca. 1900].

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Notes on discovery of upper Mississippi River

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.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Samuel A. Elliot collection

Scrapbook containing information and pictures pertaining to Frederic Remington

Collection — Huntington box 35

Identifier: 9112

Scope and content

Scrapbook containing pictures of Remington paintings and sculptures, newspaper clippings about Remington or showing Remington artwork, and program from a Remington exhibition. Articles cut from the Saturday Evening Post and Detroit Free Press. Articles containing biographical information about Remington as well as information about frontier life.

Dates: 1905-1930.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Scrapbook containing information and pictures pertaining to Frederic Remington

Sioux on the warpath, scrapbooks

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 9150

Scope and content Three scrapbooks, one titled Sioux on the warpath, one titled Indians on the warpath, and one untitled. The books contain newspaper clippings regarding Indians, particularly the Sioux, and the events leading up to and shortly after the Wounded Knee massacre. Clippings discuss the people involved, the Ghost Dance, thoughts on how to disarm the Indians, mention of individuals coming over from Great Britain to aid soldiers at the Pine Ridge Agency, Sitting Bull's death, some other events...

Dates: 1890.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Sioux on the warpath, scrapbooks

The Huffman pictures

Collection — Huntington box 20

Identifier: 9089

Scope and content Album of photographs dated between 1870 and 1910. Some illustrations from magazines. Includes invoice for purchase by The Heye Foundation. Some of the photos are colored. The photos show various aspects of frontier and Indian life in Montana and Missouri. There is a typed note inside the cover from Huffman written at Miles Creek, Montana and a signed picture of Huffman. Included are photos of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, cowboys, and ranchers, the battle field of Little Bighorn with the grave...

Dates: 1870-1910.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / The Huffman pictures

Tracing made from a painted buckskin showing tribal history

Collection — Manuscript box 40 - folder 1

Identifier: 9012

Scope and content This is a tracing of a deer skin history made by Wounded Bear, Ogallala Sioux. The tracing was made by E. J. Bush. Two versions of the tracing are included. The collection also contains 2 typed translations of the drawings and 1 handwritten copy, plus provenance notes. A note with the collection states that the original deerskin has been lost. A separate note, from E. K. Bennett, states that on June 20, 1938, Mr. Bush reported that the original deer skin was offered for sale through Ben...

Dates: 1894.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Tracing made from a painted buckskin showing tribal history

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.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / United States War Department correspondence and records regarding Indian affairs and activities with Indian nations

Wahacankaduta letters of introduction from Fort Totten

Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1

Identifier: 9258

Scope and content Two letters of introduction regarding Wahacankaduta a son of a chief who lived at the Devils Lake Reservation. The letters were collected by Mrs. O.C. Gray from Sunkaitewakan the son of Wahacankaduta. The letters are from Fort Totten in Dakota Territory. One is dated August 1, 1873 from William H. Forbes. The other is from September 30, 1873 from James McLaughlin. The letters state that the bearer is a soldier of the Cut Head Indian band from the Grand River Agency in Missouri, who is a good...

Dates: 1873.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Wahacankaduta letters of introduction from Fort Totten

Warner D. Miller collection

Collection

Identifier: 9180

Abstract Notebooks, sketches, postcards, photographs, manuscripts, Indian vocabularies, poetry, newspaper clippings, and maps. Most pertaining to mid west and northern Great Plains Indians. There are many sketches of native plants, some of them appear to have been copied from botanical books, but others appear to be original drawings also sketches of land formations. Biographic and encyclopedic information on Indians and their customs. Notes regarding places of the west he visited, cowboys, how to...

Dates: [ca. 1930-1945].

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Warner D. Miller collection

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