Carlos Montezuma Papers, 1892-1937

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Carlos Montezuma Papers, 1892-1937

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00263

Papers of a prominent American Indian leader and physician who gained recognition for participation in the Pan-Indian movement and as an advocate of Indian assimilation. Papers include correspondence, financial records, newspaper clippings, writings and notes, and American Indian periodicals. The correspondence focuses on Montezuma's interest in the assimilation and cooperation among tribes through the Society of American Indians and his ongoing struggles with the Office of Indian Affairs. Prominent correspondents include founding members of the Society of American Indians Fayette McKenzie, Charles Alexander Eastman, Francis La Flesche, Henry Standing Bear, Thomas Sloan, and Henry Roe Cloud. The correspondence also documents differences between U.S. Indian Commissioner Francis Leupp and Richard H. Pratt, head of the U.S. Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Additional correspondents include Zitkala-s̈a (Gertrude C. Bonnin), Dennison Wheelock, Rosa La Flesche, and Francis M. Cayou. The printed materials include published articles by Montezuma, pamphlets written by and about Indians, the publications of Indian organizations, schools, and missions, and Montezuma's magazine, "Wassaja." The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1892-1937, and is described in the register. Additional accessions are described below.

4.4 c.f. (11 archives boxes) and10 reels of microfilm (35mm); plusadditions of 0.1 c.f.,110 photographs,45 negatives, and9 drawings.

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Zitkala-S̈a, 1876-1938

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Zitkala-S̈a (Zitkála-Šá, Lakota for Red Bird), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (her English and married names), was a Lakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. Born on February 22, 1876 on the Yankton reservation in South Dakota, she was raised by a single mother. At eight years old she was taken by Quaker missionaries to White’s Indiana Manual Labor Institute in Wabash, Indiana, in spite of her mother's disapproval. The missionaries' stories about ri...

Montezuma, Carlos, 1866-1923

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Physican, Yavapai advocate for Native Americans. Born in Arizona Territory; educated at Chicago Medical College; served in U. S. Indian Service; practiced medicine in Chicago; helped organize Society of American Indians, a national lobbying group; and published "Wassaja." Born as Wassaja, a Yavapai Indian, around 1866, Carlos Carlos Montezuma, physician and Indian Rights activist, was born near the Four Peaks in the Superstition Mountains of Central Arizona in approximately 1866. H...

Pratt, Richard Henry, 1840-1924

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Richard Henry Pratt (1840-1924) was a U.S. Army officer who fought for the Union during the Civil War, served on the western frontier (to 1875), established and administered the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879-1904). He advocated fair treatment of U.S. Indians and strongly believed that through education they could be assimilated into American society. Richard Henry Pratt devoted his life to public service, beginning as a soldier in the Civil War and later fighting Indians on the fron...

La Flesche, Francis, 1857-1932

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Francis La Flesche was born on the Omaha Reservation in Nebraska and was of Omaha, Ponca, and French descent. He was the son of Omaha chief Joseph LaFlesche (also known as Iron Eye) and his second wife Ta-in-ne (Omaha). He attended the Presbyterian Mission School on the Omaha Reservation from 1865 until 1869. He later earned undergraduate and master's degrees at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC. In the late 1870s, he acted as interpreter and informant for ethnologi...

Sloan, Thomas, 1839 or 1840-

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Wheelock, Dennison.

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Dennison Wheelock (June 14, 1871 – March 10, 1927) was an Oneida band conductor, composer, and cornet soloist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Wheelock was compared to prominent bandleader John Philip Sousa, and nominated to be bandmaster of the United States Marine Band. At the age of 40 he became an American Indian rights activist and attorney, and within several years was arguing cases for Indian nations at the United States Court of Claims and US Supreme Court....

Standing Bear, Henry.

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United States. Office of Indian Affairs

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United States bureau with responsibility for Indian relations. From the description of Letter, 1846. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122699812 Develops and implements, in cooperation with tribal governments, Native American organizations, other federal agencies, state & local governments, and other interested groups, economic, social, educational, and other programs for the benefit and advancement of Indian and Alaska native people. Established in 1824 within the War Dept...

McKenzie, Fayette Avery, 1872-

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Professor of economics and sociology; president of Fisk University (1915-1925), helped found Society of American Indians; d. 1957. From the description of Fayette Avery McKenzie papers. Supplement, 1909-1928 (bulk, 1910-1922). (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 755934805 From the description of Fayette Avery McKenzie papers, 1915-1926. (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 70970123 ...

Carlisle Indian Industrial School (Carlisle, Pa.)

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The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was the brainchild of a young lieutenant of the 10th United States (U.S.) Cavalry, Richard Henry Pratt. Lieutenant Pratt had great sympathy for the misery of the Indian, even while he was engaged in subduing the hostile tribes of the West. He became convinced that the solution to the Indian uprisings lay in the education of the Indian rather than in further bloodshed. No public schools allowed Indian students, but Pratt, with the help of influential sympathi...

Society of American Indians

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Maintained originally as part of the New York State Archaeologist's correspondence files, these records are actually the files of the private Society of American Indians. Organized in 1911 as the "Association of Indians in America," and renamed the "Society of American Indians" in 1912, the organization admitted full or part-blooded aboriginal Americans to active membership and other persons interested in the welfare of Indians as associate members. The organization's goal was "to advance Americ...

La Flesche, Rosa.

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Cayou, Francis M.

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American Association on Indian Affairs

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American Indian Association.

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Eastman, Charles Alexander, 1858-1939

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Mixed Mdewakanton Sioux physician, writer and lecturer on Indian topics, and government employee. Born in 1858 in Minnesota of Jacob Eastman (Many Lightnings) and his mixed-blood wife, Mary Nancy Eastman, the daughter of painter Seth Eastman, Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) was raised in what is now North Dakota as a traditional Sioux, and later graduated from Dartmouth College (1887) and the Boston University School of Medicine (1890). He had a varied career, includ...

Leupp, Francis E. (Francis Ellington), 1849-1918

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Cloud, Henry Roe, 1885-1950

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