Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Indian Committee. Records, ca. 1502-1983.
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Records, ca. 1502-1983.
Minutes, financial papers, account books, correspondence, speeches, reports, journals, scrapbooks, legal and land related papers, maps, lists, transcripts, publications, photographs, film, video and other records of PYMIC. Includes Friendly Association records (1745-1792). PYMIC records include: minutes, 1795-1983; financial records, ca. 1776-1983; correspondence, ca. 1791-1953, includes letters from Stockbridge, Creek, Delaware, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, Tuscarora and other Native American tribes and individuals (Cornplanter, etc.); letters from Friends at Tunesassa, etc.; letters from government officials in U.S. War Dept., Interior Dept., etc.; reports, ca. 1793-1922; addresses to Indians from Friends, ca. 1803-1892; lists of committee members; papers related to legal, land and legislative issues, ca. 1795-1908; Friends Indian School ("Tunesassa") records, ca. 1828-1964 (photographs, reports, minutes, financial records, faculty lists, maps, student publications, film, video, etc.). Topics include: settlement and school at Tunesassa, Ogden Land Company. Buffalo Treaty of 1838, Kansas land claims, leasing of Indian land, temperance, Kinzua Dam project (Allegheny Reservoir, N.Y. and Pa.), civil rights issues, etc. U.S. Commission to locate villages in the Allegany Reservation, N.Y. ("Salamanca Commission") papers, 1871-1877, of Joseph Scattergood; journals of visits to Indians by John Pierce (1798, 1801), John Philips (1806) and Joseph Scattergood (1865); journals and letterbooks (1815-1858) of Joseph Elkinton (Tunesassa teacher 1816-1831). Papers (ca. 1789-1918) of Joseph S. Elkinton include journal, notebooks, correspondence, transcripts, etc.; 13 scrapbooks of newspaper clippings on Indians (1878-1909); 15 v. of "Indian Records" (handwritten transcripts of mss. (1502-1903) related to Indians and the Committee); issues of The Friend, 1904-1905 (review of Committee's work 1795-1894); papers (1942-1969) of Robert and Edith Reeves Solenberger include notes and report on Allegany Reservation (1942), correspondence re: Kinzua Dam project, Indian related publications (Kinzua Planning Newsletter, 1962-1967; Rosebud Sioux Herald, 1964-1966, etc.). Annual reports, etc. from Indian Aid Association of Philadelphia, Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs, etc.
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