Indians of North America
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 147 Collections and/or Records:
Cuadro historico : geroglifico de la peregrinacion de las tribus Aztecas que poblaron en valle de Mexico. Num. 1-2.
Collection — Huntington box 32 - folder 1
Identifier: 9155
Scope and content
A portion of the Atlas geografico, estadistico e historico de la Republica Mexicana, formado por Antonio Garcia y Cubas, Mexico. Imprenta de Jose Mariano Fernandez de Lara. Atlas mexicano, por Antonio Garcia y Cubas Cuadro I and II. Maps are surrounded by explanatory text in Spanish. The maps depict the migration of the Aztec people from Aztlan to Tenochtitlan over the period of several hundred years.
Dates:
1858; Undated
Daniel Alden Reed papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1907
Abstract
Includes correspondence with constituents, colleagues, and others, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous materials concerning taxation, tariff policies, and other aspects of his work.
Dates:
1914-1960.
Daniel Claus journal and associated material
Collection — Huntington box 16
Identifier: 9151
Scope and content
Bound journal of Daniel Claus that documents his stay at Caughnawaga from 1762-1766. There are three typescript copies of the journal by Lillian Doyle, two different versions. The manuscript appears to have been bound out of order. One transcript copy is ordered as the original is ordered the other is ordered as Lillian Doyle thought the pages should be bound, which is chronologically. Also included are 2 copies of a typed manuscript by E. J. Devine titled Historic Caughnawaga, a map...
Dates:
1762-1766.
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.
De Cost Smith Collection
Collection — Huntington box 59
Identifier: 9174
Abstract
Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, notebooks, brochures, manuscripts, maps, paintings, and sketches. Focus areas of the notes for articles, speeches, and books cover a wide variety of topics including the Onondaga Indians and their reservation, festivals and culture, Sitting Bull using a telephone, Tendoi The climber, articles by Elizabeth Custer, Moravian missions, history of Amenia, N.Y., Fort Buford, manuscript regarding Indian attitudes towards African Americans,...
Dates:
1880-1943.
De Cost Smith Onondaga vocabulary
Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1
Identifier: 9217
Scope and content
Words in Onondaga language with translation. Recorded by Smith at the Onondaga Reservation, New York.
Dates:
[ca. 1888]
Diligencias de la notica dada por la rancheria que vino a Picuries en 29 de Septiembre de 1695 ano. Octavo Cuaderno no. 118
Collection — Huntington box 39 - folder 1
Identifier: 9005
Scope and content
Letter and two reports, transcript in Spanish, two versions of transcript in English. The first report is addressed to the Lord Governor and Captain General Don Diego de Vargas Zapata Lujan Ponce de Leon from Secretary of Government and War Domingo de la Barreda. It comes with a cover letter mentioning the Apache retreat into New Mexico because of French attacks on them from Luis Granillo. The second section is signed by Domingo de la Barreda, Luis Granillo, and Alonso Garcia. It describes...
Dates:
1895.
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.
Drawing of carved pipe from beyond Rocky Mountains
Item — Huntington box 41 - folder 1
Identifier: 9099
Scope and content
Pencil drawing of an elaborate carved pipe. The pipe has Indians on it and could be carved in the shape of a boat. Provenance is on the back of the drawing. It states that the pipe the drawing is based on was found in British Columbia.
Dates:
1857.