Committee memoranda and reports. 1938-1939.

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Committee memoranda and reports. 1938-1939.

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Memoranda and reports documenting the formation and activities of a committee of Midwestern anthropologists and historians organized to compile and inventory primary and secondary documentary sources relating to pre-1850 Indian-white contact in the region.

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Minnesota Historical Society

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Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866

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Upper Mississippi Valley Ethno-History Committee.

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The committee came out of a conference called by the University of Chicago's Social Research Committee to gather together anthropologists and historians for an inter-institutional compilation of documents relating to pre-1850 Indian-white contact in the region. The committee came to include members from universities, historical agencies, and museums in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The committee devoted itself to compiling and inventorying primary and seconda...