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Cheyenne Indians.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Catlin's North American Indian bills scrapbook

 Collection — Huntington box 40
Identifier: 9109
Scope and content Scrapbook of announcements and other ephemera advertising Catlin's Gallery of North American Indians and events pertaining to Indians. Includes some correspondence, tickets signed by Catlin, newspaper clippings, and information about his exhibitions in the Indian Museum at the Egyptian Hall, Picadilly. Also advertisements for events with Indians who were brought back to Europe, including archery competitions and am event held at Windsor Castle. The advertisements mention the various tribes...
Dates: 1840-1855.

Cheyenne primacy article and maps

 Collection — Folder 82: [Barcode: 31924070577824]
Identifier: 9264
Content Description Reprint of the article "Cheyenne primacy: new perspectives on a Great Plains tribe" by Margot Liberty and W. Raymond Wood (from Plains Anthropologist, volume 56, number 218, 2011), together with reprints of seven maps of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (June 25-26, 1876) and the wider Indian Wars of 1876. In support of Margot Liberty's article, the maps--drawn between 1927 and 1932--suggest that the Northern Cheyennes, not the bands of Lakota Sioux generally credited, played the leading...
Dates: 2011

Daughters of the American Revolution, American Indian Committee papers

 Collection — Huntington box 1
Identifier: 9153
Scope and content Contents of a scrapbook that has been taken apart. Includes photocopies of all the items that were in the scrapbook, many of the original items are included as well, but some are missing. Includes, clippings, correspondence, committee reports, publications, postcards, and other ephemera documenting the Daughters of the American Revolution's involvement in Indian affairs. Much of the correspondence is to Leda Ferrell Rex (Mrs. Loren Edgar Rex), the National Chairman of the D.A.R.. Also...
Dates: 1941-1950, 1986.

Frank Linabury collection on George Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

 Collection — Huntington box 37
Identifier: 9114
Scope and content Scrapbook of newspaper clippings and other ephemera relating to George Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Three smaller books containing collection of articles published about the battle removed from magazines. Includes information regarding Custer and Major Marcus Reno. First hand accounts from Indians and soldiers, stories by those who knew individuals involved, news reports, photos, brochure about the battlefield, souvenir flag from battlefield, correspondence to Linabury about...
Dates: 1880-1951-(bulk1920-1930.)

Notes on Moravian missions

 Collection — Huntington box 15a - folder 1
Identifier: 9080
Scope and content

Handwritten notebook. Gives a history of the Moravian Church and missions and their work with Indians. One section deals with the Moravian mission in Dutchess County, New York. There is mention of baptisms and giving Indians names. Works of George Loskiel, a Moravian historian, are used to write parts of the history. A laid in newspaper clipping about the ghost dance of the Cheyenne and Apache Indians is also included.

Dates: [18--?]

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.

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.