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Carlos Montezuma Papers, 1892-1937

Title: Carlos Montezuma Papers, 1892-1937

Papers of a prominent American Indian leader and physician who gained recognition for participation in the Pan-Indian movement and as an advocate of Indian assimilation. Papers include correspondence, financial records, newspaper clippings, writings and notes, and American Indian periodicals. The correspondence focuses on Montezuma's interest in the assimilation and cooperation among tribes through the Society of American Indians and his ongoing struggles with the Office of Indian Affairs. Prominent correspondents include founding members of the Society of American Indians Fayette McKenzie, Charles Alexander Eastman, Francis La Flesche, Henry Standing Bear, Thomas Sloan, and Henry Roe Cloud. The correspondence also documents differences between U.S. Indian Commissioner Francis Leupp and Richard H. Pratt, head of the U.S. Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Additional correspondents include Zitkala-s̈a (Gertrude C. Bonnin), Dennison Wheelock, Rosa La Flesche, and Francis M. Cayou. The printed materials include published articles by Montezuma, pamphlets written by and about Indians, the publications of Indian organizations, schools, and missions, and Montezuma's magazine, "Wassaja." The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1892-1937, and is described in the register. Additional accessions are described below.

ArchivalResource: 4.4 c.f. (11 archives boxes) and10 reels of microfilm (35mm); plusadditions of 0.1 c.f.,110 photographs,45 negatives, and9 drawings.

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Wheeler-Howard Bill Conference (Hayward, Wis.). Conference proceedings, 1934 Apr. 23-24.

Title: Conference proceedings, 1934 Apr. 23-24.

Proceedings (typed transcript) of one of a series of conferences held by the United States government to discuss the Wheeler-Howard Bill, a proposed reorganization of the government's Indian policies, with Indian tribes from throughout the country. Present in Hayward were 25 Indian delegations from reservations in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, and officials of the Office of Indian Affairs. The Wheeler-Howard Act (also known as the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934) became law on June 18, 1934.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Roe family papers 1802-1977

Title: Roe family papers 1802-1977

The papers contain family correspondence, missionary correspondence, family papers, diaries, sermons, printed works, photoprints, and other materials documenting the lives and careers of Alfred Cox Roe, Emma Wickham Roe, Mary Abigail Roe, Walter Clark Roe, Mary Wickham Roe, Joseph Wickham Roe, Henry Roe Cloud, and several other Roe relatives. The Roe family papers have extensive material on family life, specifically concerning such subjects as relations between brothers and sisters and parents and children, courtship, marriage, stepmothering, health and illness, old age, death, and finances. The papers also document the educational, missionary, and pastoral careers of several members of the Roe family and the Indian mission work of the Women's Board of Domestic Missions of the Reformed Church in America.

ArchivalResource: 77.25 Linear Feet (164 boxes)

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0774 View

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian Affairs. Documents pertaining to the Wheeler-Howard or Indian Reorganization Act, 1934.

Title: Documents pertaining to the Wheeler-Howard or Indian Reorganization Act, 1934.

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 Hayward, Wisconsin to discuss the Wheeler-Howard bill of Indian rights; Minutes of meeting held at Miami, Oklahoma; Proceedings of the conference at Chemawa, Oregon; Minutes of All-Pueblo Council, Santo Domingo Pueblo, March 15, 1934; Meeting of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs at Anadarko, Oklahoma; Proceedings of the Conference for the Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma; Proceedings of the Conference for the Indians of California; and Minutes of the Navajo Tribal Council. Minutes include testimony by the representatives of many Indian tribes regarding the bill as well as the feedback from members of the Committee. Some of the items are from the United States Government Printing Office.

ArchivalResource: .4 cubic ft. ; 7 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/67615675 View

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. Dept. of Education and Welfare. Records of the American Indian Institute, 1908-1954 [microform]

Title: Records of the American Indian Institute, 1908-1954 [microform]

ArchivalResource: v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29733509 View

Huntington Free Library. Native American biography vertical file [ca.1850-2000.].

Title: Native American biography vertical file, [ca.1850-2000]

This collection contains ephemera providing biographical information of, both Native Americans and non-Native Americans, whose work focused on Native American subjects. Brochures, correspondence, programs from events, photographs, publications, small books, reprints. Collection contains a vast range of reference material, that covers anthropology, archaeology, culture, education, politics, and many other Native American topics. Many unique, author signed and annotated, and privately printed items. The collection was split between Non-Indian and Indian individuals.

ArchivalResource: 9 cubic feet

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United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. Division of Church Strategy and Development. Records, 1871-1972 / Board of National Missions, Division of Church Strategy and Development.

Title: Records, 1871-1972 / Board of National Missions, Division of Church Strategy and Development.

Correspondence, minutes, reports, blueprints, maps, and photographs documenting the history of Presbyterian missions undertaken by the various departments of the Division of Church Extension of Missions, Board of National Missions (1924-1952), and its successor bodies: Department of Missionary Operations (1952-1954), Division of Missionary Operations (1954-1961), Division of Church Strategy and Development (1961-1971) and Department of Mission Development (1971-1972); also included are the papers of H.S. Randolph, Henry Roe Cloud, and Warren H. Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 48 boxes ; 40 x 28 x 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24788442 View

Smiley family. Papers, 1885-1930.

Title: Papers, 1885-1930.

Correspondence, letterbooks, annual reports, clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, maps, and other papers. Bulk of collection (81 boxes) consists of records (1885-1930) of Lake Mohonk Conferences on the Indian, includes correspondence (1885-1930), lists of invitees and those attending, annual reports, subject files (ca. 1910-1916), clippings and scrapbooks of clippings (6 v., 1901-1913), photographs, maps, etc.; also records (2 boxes, 1889-1891) of Lake Mohonk Conferences on the Negro Question, includes correspondence (1889-1891), scrapbook of clippings (1890-1891) and other misc. papers; personal archives (17 boxes, 1901-1930) of Daniel Smiley related to term on U.S. Board of Indian Commissioners, includes correspondence, reports, bulletins, press releases, and other papers, file (1899-1923) related to Indians of N.Y.; Smiley family misc. papers (1 box). Some correspondents are Lyman Abbott, Bailey K. Ashford, Charles Henry Brent, Elmer Ellsworth Brown. S. Parkes Cadman, Henry Roe Cloud, George W. Davis, George Dewey, Sanford B. Dole, Charles Eastman, Charles W. Eliot, Francis La Flesche, Alice C. Fletcher, Luther H. Gulick, Jonah Kalanianaole, Tulio Larrinaga, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Arthur MacArthur, Carlos Montezuma, James M. Mooney, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Hugh Lenox Scott, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.

ArchivalResource: ca. 24, 240 items (101 boxes, 7 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28857531 View