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Indians of North America

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 147 Collections and/or Records:

Letters to George and Thea Heye from Lorenzo Chavez and other Zuni Pueblo Indians

 Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1
Identifier: 9062
Scope and content

Includes letters from Lorenzo Chavez, Natusey, Tom Kawaya, Harry Shusta, Herman Fryling, Bessie C. Boomshe, and others. Typed diary of a visit to New York City by Lorenzo Chavez and Waihusiwa, who stayed with Mr. and Mrs. George Heye, January to February 1923, includes description of places visited, including the Mauretania. Newspaper clippings covering the visit and a treatment of Chavez's blindness. Correspondence from Zuni Mission Station Day School from Herman Fryling.

Dates: 1916-1930.

Letters to Jeremiah Evarts concerning the Dwight mission for Cherokees in Arkansas

 Collection — Huntington box 36 - folder 1
Identifier: 9202
Scope and content Negative and positive photostats of one letter from Alfred Finney, August 12, 1824, and two letters from Cephas Washburn October 14 and 27, 1828, to Jeremiah Evarts of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The letters describe conditions at the Dwight mission and the surrounding area or Arkansas. Description of the local settlements and missions on the Arkansas River. Mention of the potential Cherokee removal. One of the Washburn letters encloses a drawing of the mission...
Dates: 1824; 1828.

Lienzo de Metlaltoyuca.

 Item — Huntington box 32 - folder 1
Identifier: 9158
Scope and content

Hand drawn and colored copy of an Aztec document. The copy was made by Philipp Josef Valentini. Document shows Aztec symbols, in a map format.

Dates: Undated

Lubicon Lake Cree Indian Band papers

 Collection
Identifier: 9171
Abstract Copies of correspondence, news clippings, and other documents pertaining to the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation's struggle with the Canadian government and various companies who were seeking to develop traditional Lubicon Cree lands. Press releases, letters, and articles discuss land claims, economic and social conditions, activism, and legal fights of the Lubicon Lake Cree Band. A couple of original clippings and magazine articles are also included. Includes a letter to Chief Bernard Ominayak...
Dates: 1981-1988.

M. L. Baker letters

 Collection — Huntington box 36 - folder 1
Identifier: 9201
Scope and content Photostats of letters from M. L. Baker to his family with typed transcriptions. Ten letters dating from September 13, 1846 to May 23, 1849. They describe the writer's participation in Mexican and Indian campaigns. Descriptions of the culture of Indians and landscape of the area around New Mexico, including encounters with Indians. Letters are addressed from Santa Fe New Mexico, Council Grove Kansas, Arkansas River near Pawnee Forks, Albuquerque New Mexico, and Head quarters Fort...
Dates: 1846-1849.

Mapa de Siguenza.

 Collection — Huntington box 32 - folder 1
Identifier: 9156
Scope and content

The map depicts the migration of the Aztec people from Aztlan to Tenochtitlan over the period of several hundred years. Reverse of the map has a ticker on it that says Peregrinacion de los Aztecas from Careri Gemilli [sic], Giro del Mundo. Note of explanation is included in the folder.

Dates: 1699 - 1700; Undated

Mappa Reinisch.

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 9157
Scope and content

Copies of an 1886 reproduction of the original Mappa Reinisch, which was written March 23, 1586. The reproduction was made by Dujardine under the auspices of Comte Henri de Charencey in an edition of 25 copies, in Paris. It shows a genealogical tree of a Mexican tribe with hieroglyphic characters and text in Aztec written in Roman letters. Includes note of provenance signed by Marshall Saville. Two of the pieces are labeled, "Fragment du verso" and "recto." Has Indian writing and symbols.

Dates: 1886; Undated

Maps of New York City and vicinity showing Indian possession

 Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9028
Scope and content

Two maps of the same area of the United States, southeastern New York and Long Island. Maps is labeled with many different tribes and the areas that they possess. One map says outline is from Smith's 1837 map. One map is printed, but looks to be a proof because it has pencil notes for corrections. The color map is hand drawn. Includes, but not limited to: Acquackanonk, Cortland, Navesink, Nochpeem, Secatogue, Siwanoy, Tankiteke, Tappan, and Waoranec tribes.

Dates: [18--].

Memorandum re indebtedness of Isaac Nantopom et al. to Gideon Nantopom

 Collection — Huntington box 39 - folder 1
Identifier: 9004
Scope and content

Form completed by hand, dated October 22, 1731 in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Shows Isaac Nantopom owes 10 pounds and James Hamblin and Jacob Nantompom owe 5 pounds, whereby they were to pay or work out the debt. Signed John Sturgis, Clerk.

Dates: 1731 October 22.

Miscellaneous artwork for the Museum of the American Indian publications

 Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9020
Scope and content

Contains 6 original paintings of art signed by R. Cronau, mounted for publication. 4 pages of printed proofs of the paintings as well. Pencil notes along painting edges for publication purposes. Paintings have captions, Tizoc; Gold Treasure of Sigsig, Ecuador; and Turquois Mosaic Objects from Hawikuh, New Mexico. The paintings show Aztec and southwestern United States jewelry and sculpture.

Dates: undated.