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1882-1944

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Collection consists primarily of correspondence between Keppler and Iroquois Indians of Cattaraugus and Tonawanda Reservations, New York State, 1899-1944. Correspondence is occasionally accompanied by news clippings on Edward and Jesse Cornplanter, Deerfoot (a famous Seneca Indian runner), Chief Delos Kittle, Lyman Johnson, Arthur C. Parker (Seneca Indian, leader in Pan-Indian movement, author, and Director of Rochester Museum), Chief Chapman Schanandoah of the Oneida Indians, and many others. All correspondence has been summarized in paragraph form. Also, news clippings referring to the death in 1903 of Harriet Maxwell Converse, a white woman adopted by the Iroquois; and some photographs of Indian ceremony to honor Keppler in 1937. Other papers include a typed copy of an 1882 agreement between Tonawanda band of Seneca and the New York West Shore and Buffalo Railway Company, concerning right-of-way through reservation; typed copies of letters and a speech, 1888-1891; Keppler's research notes including manuscripts about Iroquois masks, with photographs, and information on folklore and ceremonies. There are also news clippings regarding the proposed Vreeland bill to reallot reservation land, 1902; and government documents concerning other legislation affecting Indians.

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Cornplanter, Edward, 1856-1918

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Edward Cornplanter (1856–1918) was a chief of the Seneca people of the Iroquois Nation (Haudenosaunee) and a leading exponent of the Code of Handsome Lake (Gai'wiio, also known as the Longhouse Religion). He was the great-great-grandson of Chief Cornplanter, who led the tribe during the American Revolutionary War. His Seneca name So-son-do-wa means "Deep Night." Cornplanter was one of six Iroquois authorized as "holders of the Gai'wiio"; he regularly traveled among the Iroquois reservations t...

Converse, Harriet Maxwell, 1836-1903

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Converse had been named as a chief of the Six Nations (of the Iroquois). From the description of Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, 1892-1897. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 226041260 Poet, essayist, and Six Nations advocate born in Elmira, N.Y. Wife of musician Frank Converse; friend of Ely S. Parker. From the description of Harriet Maxwell Converse note : Buffalo, to Mr. Langdon, ca. 1897. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat re...

Johnson, Lyman T., 1906-1997

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Lyman Tefft Johnson was born in Columbia, Tennessee in 1906. He received a bachelor's degree from Virginia Union College in 1930 and a master's degree in history from the University of Michigan in 1931. In 1933, he joined the teaching staff at Louisville Central High School, beginning many years of service to Louisville's public schools, service that included being elected to the Louisville Board of Education. Lyman Johnson was pivotal in the Civil Rights movement in Kentucky, and particularly i...

Wanneh, Gawaso, 1881-1955

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Arthur C. Parker was born in 1881 on the Cattaraugus Reservation of the Seneca Nation of New York in western New York. He was the son of Frederick Ely Parker, who was one-half Seneca, and his wife Geneva Hortenese Griswold, of Scots-English-American descent, who taught school on the reservation. As the Seneca are a matrilineal nation, the young Parker did not have membership status at birth, as his mother was not part of the tribe, but he was descended from prominent Seneca, including the prophe...

Keppler, Joseph.

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Editor of PUCK magazine. In 1903 Keppler was made Great Chief of the Iroquois and hence mediator between the tribe and the U.S. Government. He donated a significant collection of Iroquois artifacts to the Museum of the American Indian. From the description of Papers, 1882-1944, 1899-1944 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155480696 ...

New York West Shore and Buffalo Railway Company.

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Schanandoah, Chapman.

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Deerfoot, -1896

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Kittle, Delos.

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Rochester Museum and Science Center

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