Indian women -- North America.
Subject
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Account of a visit made by Penrose Wiley, John Letchworth, Anne Mifflin, Mary Bell, and others to the Seneca Indians settled on the Allegany River
Collection — Huntington box 39 - folder 1
Identifier: 9001
Scope and content
Original manuscript attributed to Mary Gilbert with description of meeting with Indians at Coldspring, Usqueshanadarqua, and Geneshatago. Includes quotes from Seneca chief Cornplanter and Blue Eyes. Described as the first visit by white women to Geneshatago. Also includes transcript of an excerpt from letter of Charles E. Congdon dated December 20, 1945 mentioning the manuscript, and the original invoice from Dauber & Pine Bookshops. Discussion of the white man using up all the water...
Dates:
1803.
Notes made or collected by Lieutenant Allyn Capron
Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9015
Scope and content
This collection of letters and notes relates to Geronimo and other Chiricahua Apache prisoners of war. The letters were written at Mount Vernon Barracks and Fort Sill and include documents signed by Geronimo. There is some documentation of the Apache culture. Provenance note from Agnes K. Capron, wife of Allyn Capron, dated March 26, 1938, to George Gustav Heye. Notes by Capron, 7 pages and copies of notes about Apache culture, legends, religion, thoughts about white men. 5 leaves of notes...
Dates:
1884-1896.