Nanticoke Indians.
Subject
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Alfred Tamarin papers
Collection — Huntington box 1: [Barcode: 31924092111024]
Identifier: 9070
Scope and content
Correspondence, notes, photography permissions, and documents accumulated during research for the publication of his book We Have Not Vanished: Eastern Indians of the United States. Folder one contains copy of a draft of the publication titled "American Indians Today on the Atlantic Seaboard." Has the original photos that were to be used for the publication taped or laid into the pages. Folder two, list of George Catlin slides. Folder three, edits, revisions, additions, other historical...
Dates:
1968-1975.
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.