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Keller, Mark, 1950-. Papers, 1815,2010.

Title: Papers, 1815,2010.

The collection is composed mostly of photocopies of Keller's reference files, reports, correspondence, and a cassette tape. The reports include: the Canal lands of Keweenaw Bay : a report for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Michigan Agency, 38 p., 1984; a Micro model of leadership among the Ojibwa of southeast Michigan and their descendants, 58 p. [89 p.], with a cassette tape of oral interviews with Norman Landosky and Ron Douglas on Aug. 28-29, 1995, which were used to create the report; and a Place to make sugar: a Saginaw Chippewa land history, c. 1990, 455 p. The reference files include photocopies of Probate Court files, commonly referred to as "350 files" of Saginaw Chippewa Indians from the National Archives. These files are used to prove tribal genealogy, lineage, and membership. Each file usually includes: a letter to the Dept. of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs re: approval of heirship, with the related Report on Heirship (form) and testimony of witnesses. A Status of (Land) Allotment (form) may be included. Many of the witnesses were illiterate and "signed" by leaving their mark, a fingerprint. Most of the files were processed through the Mount Pleasant (Mich.) Indian Agency, but others went through the Tomah Indian Agency in Green Bay (Wis.). User copies of the 350 files (1 cubic ft.) are available for patrons to use. Additional reference files document the Keweenaw Bay and L'Anse Native American communities in reports, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other published materials. A later addition of 16 boxes includes Keller's diaries, 1969-2010; Client Files, mostly 2005-2007, mostly documenting Saginaw Chippewa and other genealogical research; Caro historical materials;materialssdocumentingg Keller's parents; Native (American research) Files, mostly related to casinos and other, modern tribal issues and concerns, 2005-2007; Research Binders of mostly genealogical and Michigan Native American materials, and copies of Native American historical publications, 1992-2007. Correspodence in Box 26 is closed until 2030 as per donor agreement.

ArchivalResource: 14.5 cubic ft. (in 26 boxes) : ill.

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