United States. Works Progress Administration: Chippewa Indian Historical Project Records

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United States. Works Progress Administration: Chippewa Indian Historical Project Records

1936-1942

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-micr0532

Records of a WPA project to collect Chippewa Indian folklore sponsored by the Great Lakes Indian Agency and directed by Sister M. Macaria Murphy of St. Mary's Indian School, Odanah, Wisconsin; including narrative and statistical reports, interview outlines, and operational records; and essays concerning Chippewa religious beliefs and rituals, food, liquor, transportation, trade, clothing, games and dances, and history. Also includes copies of materials from the John A. Bardon collection concerning the Superior, Wisconsin region, LaPointe baptismal records, the family tree of Qui-ka-ba-no-kwe, and artwork of Peter Whitebird.

2 reels of microfilm (35 mm.)

eng, Latn

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6813880

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

Murphy, M. Macaria, Sister.

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Red Cliff Indian School.

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United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Red Cliff Agency.

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Bad River Band of Chippewa Indians.

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United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Great Lakes Agency.

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United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Menominee Indian Agency

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Qui-ka-ba-no-kwe.

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