Helen Hornbeck Tanner papers 1930s-2009

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Helen Hornbeck Tanner papers 1930s-2009

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Historian of American Indian history and literature, research associate at the Newberry Library, secretary of the Michigan Commission on Indian Affairs, and expert witness in legal cases involving Indian treaty rights. The collection contains correspondence, reports, clippings, and printed material concerning work of the Commission and status of Indians in Michigan; also depositions and other documents in the case of United States v. Michigan, landmark Indian fishing rights case.

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Tanner, Helen Hornbeck

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Secretary of the Commission on Indian Affairs of the state of Michigan. From the description of Helen Hornbeck Tanner papers, 1966-1977. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418756 Helen Hornbeck Tanner was a distinguished scholar of American Indian history and literature, publishing books on the Caddo and the Ojibwa as well as on early eighteenth-century Spanish Florida. A native of Minnesota, born July 5, 1916, Helen Hornbeck Tanner grew...

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