Native American biography vertical file, [ca.1850-2000]

Calamity Jane, 1852-1903

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Calamity Jane, born Martha Jane Canary, was an American frontierswoman, sharpshooter, and storyteller. In addition to many exploits, she was known for being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok. Late in her life, she appeared in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition. She is said to have exhibited compassion to others, especially to the sick and needy. This facet of her character contrasted with her daredevil ways and helped to make her a noted frontier figure. She ...

Sacagawea, 1786-1884

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Sacagawea, also spelled Sakakawea or Sacajawea, born in the Lemhi River Valley, near present-day Salmon, IdahoMay circa 1788. She died December 20, 1812 or April 9, 1884, Kenel South Dakota or in Wyoming. She was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who, in her teens, helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by exploring the Louisiana Territory. Sacagawea traveled with the expedition thousands of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean, helping to establish cu...

Banks, Dennis James, 1937-2017

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Dennis James Banks, also known by his Ojibwe name Nowa Cumig, was born on April 12, 1937, in his grandparents’ home on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota. He was raised by his grandparents, Josh and Jenny Drumbeater, until going to the Pipestone Indian Boarding School at the age of five. There, he experienced physical and emotional abuse and forgot most of the Ojibwe language because he was not allowed to speak it. He was transferred to the Wahpeton Indian School in North Dakota for ...

Geronimo, 1829-1909

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Geronimo, also known as Goyaałé, also known as The One Who Yawns'; born in Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico, June 1829 – died, Fort Sill, Oklahoma February 17, 1909), prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Apache people. From 1850 to 1886, Geronimo joined with members of three other Chiricahua Apache bands—the Tchihende, the Tsokanende and the Nednhi—to carry out numerous raids, as well as fight against Mexican and U.S. military campaigns in the northern Mexico states of Chihuahu...

Rogers, Will, 1879-1935

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The youngest of eight children, William Penn Adair Rogers was born on November 4, 1879 at Rogers Ranch in Oologah, Indian Territory (what is now Oklahoma). His parents, Clement Vann Rogers and Mary Schrimsher, were partly of Cherokee descent. While growing up on the family ranch, Will worked with cattle and learned to ride and lasso from a young age. He grew so talented with a rope, in fact, that he was placed in the Guiness Book of World Records for throwing three lassos at once. One went ar...

Red Cloud, 1822-1909

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Red Cloud was born close to the forks of the Platte River, near the modern-day city of North Platte, Nebraska. His mother, Walks as She Thinks, was an Oglala Lakota and his father, Lone Man, was a Brulé Lakota leader. They came from two of the seven major Lakota divisions. As was traditional among the matrilineal Lakota, in which the children belonged to the mother's clan and people, Red Cloud was mentored as a boy by his maternal uncle, Old Chief Smoke (1774–1864). Old Chief Smoke played a m...

Fielding, Fidelia A. H., 1827-1908

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Fidelia Ann Hoscott Smith Fielding (1827–July 18, 1908), also known as Dji'ts Bud dnaca ("Flying Bird"), was the daughter of Bartholomew Valentine Smith (c. 1811–1843) and Sarah A. Wyyougs (1804–1868), and granddaughter of Martha Shantup Uncas (1761–1859). Fielding married Mohegan mariner William H. Fielding (1811–1843), and they lived in one of the last "tribe houses," a reservation-era log cabin dwelling. She was known to be an independent-minded woman who was well-versed in tribal traditions...

Tooker, William Wallace, 1848-1917

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Authority on Algonquian Indian language, history, and culture; resident of Sag Harbor, New York. From the description of Long Island New York Indian vocabularies: glossary, [189-]. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58758383 William Wallace Tooker once was widely recognized as one of his era's leading specialists in Coastal Algonquian culture, history and place names. A productive and prolific writer, he published 12 books, some 50 pamphlets and over...

Soto, Hernando de, approximately 1500-1542

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Explorer and adventurer. From the description of Hernando de Soto collection, 1544-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71014512 ...

Campbell, Ben Nighthorse, 1933-

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Ben Nighthorse Campbell (born Benny Marshall Campbell, April 13, 1933, Auburn, California) is an American politician. He was a three-term U.S. Representative from Colorado's 3rd district, serving from 1987 to 1993 and a U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1993 until 2005. Initially a Democrat, he became a Republican in 1995. Campbell also serves as one of forty-four members of the Council of Chiefs of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe. Born Benny Campbell in Auburn, California, he attended Place...

Red Jacket, Seneca chief, approximately 1756-1830

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David Thompson was the postmaster, contractor's agent and commissary at Fort Niagara Garrison, New York, 1797-1804. From the description of Red Jacket's speech : Buffalo Creek manuscript 1802-1804 Sept. 28, 1803. (Tulsa City-County Library). WorldCat record id: 262845953 Red Jacket was a Seneca chief who was born ca. 1756 at or near Canoga, Seneca County, New York. He remained faithful to the British during the Revolutionary War. In 1792 he visited P...

Davis, Edward Hughesdon

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Collector of artifacts for Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. From the description of Field notes and sketchbooks, [ca. 1912]-1944. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155480512 ...

Cloud, Henry Roe, 1885-1950

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Reno, Marcus A. (Marcus Albert), 1835-1889

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Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de, 1510-1554

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Passaconaway, Chief of the Pennacook Indians

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Uncas, Chief of the Mohegans, -1684

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Crazy Bull (Sioux Indian)

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Buffalo Child Long Lance, 1890-1932

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Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956

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Frederick Webb Hodge was an ethnographer, archaeologist, editor and museum director. Hodge's first exposure to archaeology was as secretary of the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition. When the project was over he returned to work at the Bureau of American Ethnology as Librarian. His work as editor began with the revitalization of the American Anthropologist and carried through his 2 vol. set of the Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, to the famous 20 vol. set by Edward S. C...

Big-Tree, Seneca chief

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Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957

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George Heye was the President of the Museum of the American Indian. From the description of Letters to George and Thea Heye from Lorenzo Chavez and other Zuni Pueblo Indians, 1916-1930. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64063650 ...

Cassadore, Philip

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Echohawk, John

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Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938

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George Bird Grinnell was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on 20 Sept. 1849. His father prospered after the Civil War with a wholesale dry goods business. He eventually developed an investment firm in which he hoped his son would develop an interest. While a student at Yale University, however, young Grinnell went on a fossil and dinosaur expedition to the west led by Professor O.C. Marsh. By 1874 Grinnell dissolved the investment firm his father had founded and moved to New Haven, Conn., to work with Mar...

Bowditch, Charles P. (Charles Pickering), 1842-1921

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Charles Pickering Bowditch (born September 30, 1842; died June 1, 1921), was an early initiator and supporter of Meso and Central American research at the Peabody Museum. His interest in Maya studies was sparked by a pleasure trip to the Yucatan in 1888. Bowditch received both his A.B. (1863) and his M.A. (1866) from Harvard University. He was a leading member of the Museum's Committee for Central American Researchers from 1891 until his death. Bowditch joined the Department of Anth...

Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512

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Black Hawk, approximately 1832-approximately 1890

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Massasoit, 1580-1661

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Bowlegs, Billy, 1808?-1863 or 1864

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Billy Bowlegs (ca. 1810-ca. 1864), Seminole chief who led the third and final Seminole war against the whites of Florida, also known as the Billy Bowlegs war of 1855-1858, was born on the Alachua savannah in Florida. He was a direct descendant of Secoffee, originally a Creek chief who migrated to Florida from the Creek homelands in Alabama and Georgia and later founded the Seminole nation. The names of Billy Bowlegs's father, mother, and other family members are unknown. A striking feature of...

Huntington Free Library

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Joseph, Old, -1871

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Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917

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Buffalo Bill was employed as a scout by the United States 5th Cavalry, 1868-1872. In 1869 he participated in the Battle of Summit Springs, Colorado, in which the 5th Cavalry defeated Cheyenne Indians. From the description of Letter : Saint Louis, Missouri, to Joseph Witherspoon Cook, Greenwood, South Dakota, 1896 May 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702162229 From the description of Letter : Saint Louis, Mo., to Joseph Witherspoon Cook, Greenwood, S.D., 1896 May 23. (Unkno...

Sainte-Marie, Buffy

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Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950

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Frank G. Speck was an anthropologist. From the description of Naskapi scenes, [ca. 1930]. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523446 From the guide to the Naskapi scenes, [ca. 1930], Circa 1930, (American Philosophical Society) Frank Gouldsmith Speck was an anthropologist. From the description of Delaware Indian material, 1928. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122440271 From the descripti...

Wanamaker, Rodman, 1863-1928

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

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Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president, served 1901-1909. From the description of DS, 1904 March 1. : Washington, D.C. Homestead Certificate. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 15210791 26th president of the United States, 1901-1909. From the description of Theodore Roosevelt letters, 1917, 1918. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 213408920 Roosevelt was then Governor of New York. Chapman was one of the founders of the New York St...

DuBois, Constance Goddard

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Constance Goddard Du Bois, a successful novelist who lived in Connecticut, became interested in the Indians of southern California on a visit there around the turn of the century. From 1897 to 1907 she became increasingly involved in efforts to assist the Luiseno and Diegueno peoples of the area, spending many of her summers with them. At home in the winter she worked vigorously to bring the situation of these desperately poor people to the attention of her neighbors and officials of the Indian ...

Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von, 1782-1867

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Maximilian, Prinz zu Wied-Neuwied, German naturalist, ethnographer, and explorer who traveled to the American West in the 1830s, accompanied by Karl Bodmer, artist. From the description of Letter : Neuwied, to [Samuel George Morton?], 1841 Feb 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81161121 From the description of Letter : Neuwied, to [Samuel George Morton?], 1841 Feb 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702159688 Thomas M. Brewer (1814-1880) was an American ornithologist...

Ishi, -1916

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Lothrop, Samuel Kirkland, 1804-1886

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American clergyman; noted for funeral sermon of Gray Otis. From the description of Samuel K. Lothrop letter [manuscript], 1851 December 8. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 780088380 American pastor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : 12 Chestnut Street [Boston], to Rev. Dr. A[ndrew] P[reston] Peabody, 1865 Jan. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 751991761 Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (1892-1965) devoted his career to th...

Gates, William, 1863-1940

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Author, linguist, archaeologist, collector, publisher, museum director, and president of the Maya Society. From the description of Central American papers, 1544-1944. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122392536 William Gates (1863-1940) was an author, linguist, archaeologist, collector, publisher, museum director, and president of the Maya Society. From the description of William Gates photographs, postcards, and other materials, circa 1860s-1930s. (Brigham Young Un...

Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547

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Conquistador and explorer. From the description of Hernán Cortés correspondence, circa 1542. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980322 Hernán Cortés led the Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519 and the conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1521. He was governor of New Spain between 1522 and 1527 before returning to Spain and being named the Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca. Cortés returned to Mexico between 1530 and 1541 where he explored the northwestern part of Mexico and its Pacif...

Eliot, John, 1604-1690

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John Eliot, styled "the Indian Apostle," was born in England, emigrated to the U.S. (Boston) in 1631 and died at Roxbury, Mass. He was the translator of the first Bible into the Indian (N.A.) language; known as Eliot's Indian Bible. From the description of Autograph signature to covenant, 1624 Jan. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270615429 Clergyman and missionary. From the description of John Eliot letter, 1673. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71010036 ...

Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876

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Custer's paternal ancestors, Paulus and Gertrude Küster, came to the North American English colonies around 1693 from the Rhineland in Germany, probably among thousands of Palatines whose passage was arranged by the English government to gain settlers in New York and Pennsylvania. According to family letters, Custer was named after George Armstrong, a minister, in his devout mother's hope that her son might join the clergy. Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio, to Emanuel Henry Custer (1806...

Bolívar, Simón, 1783-1830

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President of Peru, "El Liberado." From the description of Letters, 1816-1823. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122598873 South American army officer and revolutionary and president of Colombia. From the description of Simón Bolívar papers, 1819. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79453982 President of Peru, "El Liberado". From the description of Letter, 1818, September 29, Angostura, to Guillermo White. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122348836 ...

Powhatan, approximately 1550-1618

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Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947

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Dockstader, Frederick J.

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Frederick J. Dockstader (1919-1998) was an art consultant, museum director, and silversmith from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Frederick J. Dockstader, 1970 June 16-July 2 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495595140 Art consultant, museum director, silversmith; New York, N.Y. Born 1919. From the description of Frederick J. Dockstader interviews, 1970 June 16-July 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220185506 ...

Chinquilla

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Bacon Rind (Osage Indian), 1860-1932

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Brant, Joseph, 1742-1807

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Joseph Brant, also known as Thayendanega, (born March 1743 in Ohio Country along the Cuyahoga River - died Burlington Beach, Upper Canada, November 24, 1807), Mohawk Chief and an officer in the British military during the American Revolutionary War. He served in expeditions during the French and Indian War. As a Captain during the American Revolution, he led the four Iroquois Nations that sided with the British as well as a group of loyalists. He married three times, lastly to Catharine Adonwent...

Benavides, Alonso de, active 1630

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Fray Alonso de Benavides was a Franciscan missionary in New Mexico. From the description of Ristretto della relazione del Nuovo Messico data alla sacra Congrg. del Padre Alonso Benavides, min. osste and memorial 1634. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 67615702 From the guide to the Memorial to the King of Spain, giving an account of New Mexico, 1630, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Franciscan missionary to New Mexico...

Crazy Horse, approximately 1842-1877

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Crazy Horse (b. approximetly 1840-d. September 5, 1877) was a Native American war leader of the Oglala Lakota in the 19th century. He took up arms against the United States government to fight against encroachment by white American settlers on Indian territory and to preserve the traditional way of life of the Lakota people. His participation in several famous battles of the American Indian Wars on the northern Great Plains, among them the Fetterman massacre in 1866, in which he acted as a deco...

Cornplanter, Jesse J., 1889-1957

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Jesse J. Cornplanter (September 16, 1889 – March 18, 1957) was an actor, artist, author, craftsman, Seneca Faithkeeper, and World War I decorated veteran. He illustrated several books about Seneca and Iroquois life. Jesse Cornplanter was born in 1889 to Seneca parents Nancy Jack and Edward Cornplanter on the Cattaraugus Reservation in New York. His father (Seneca name Sosondowah) was a Faithkeeper of the Longhouse religion. His mother was of the Snipe Clan of the Tonawanda, and the matrilinea...

Seattle, Chief, 1790-1866

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Chief Seattle (b. around  1786, near Blake Island, WA – d. June 7, 1866, Port Madison, Washington) was a Suquamish Tribe and Dkhw'Duw'Absh chief. A prominent figure among his people, he pursued a path of accommodation to white settlers, forming a personal relationship with "Doc" Maynard. The city of Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington, was named after him....

Low Cloud, Charles Round, 1872-1949

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Hiawatha, active 15th century

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Bruce, Louis R. (Louis Rooks), 1906-1989

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Louis Rooks Bruce (1906-1989) was the commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1969 to 1989. From the description of Bruce, Louis R. (Louis Rooks), 1906-1989 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10612039 ...

Penn, William, 1644-1718

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The British colony of Pennsylvania was given to William Penn (1644-1718) in 1681 by Charles II of England in repayment of a debt owed his father, Sir Admiral William Penn (1621-1670). Under Penn's directive, Pennsylvania was settled by Quakers escaping religious torment in England and other European nations. Three generations of Penn descendents held proprietorship of the colony until the American Revolution, when the family was stripped of all but its privately held shares of land...

Cody, Iron Eyes

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Sitting Bull, 1831-1890

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Sitting Bull, also known as Tatanka Iyotake or Tatanka Iyotanka or Ta-Tanka I-Yotan, was a Native American shaman and leader of the Hunpapa Sioux. He was born in 1831 in South Dakota. He fought against the Crow Indians and was wounded in battle on several occasions. Sitting Bull greatly opposed the encroachment of the white men. He led Sioux and Cheyenne warriors against U.S. soldiers of the 7th Cavalry at the battle of Little Bighorn. After the battle, in which many were killed, Sitting Bull le...

Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960

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Alfred L. Kroeber was an anthropologist. He taught anthropology at the University of California, 1901-1946, and was curator, 1908-1925, and director, 1925-1946, of the University's anthropological museum. From the description of Yana vocabulary and grammatical notes, 1911-1912. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 86165433 Anthropologist. From the description of Anthropology : mss., 1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 85185772 A...

Boudinot, Elias C. (Elias Cornelius), 1835-1890

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Lawyer, member of congress from New Jersey. From the description of Letter, 1789 September 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122629301 Epithet: LLD, President of Congress British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000389.0x00009c ...

Columbus, Chris

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Epithet: of Genoa British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000367.0x000120 Italian explorer and navigator commissioned by Spain. Italian name was Cristoforo Colombo. Known in Spain as Cristóbal Colón. Born 1451; died 1506. From the description of Collection concerning Christopher Columbus, 1488-1515. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067622 ...

Covington, Lucy

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Black Elk, 1863-1950

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Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

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Udo Keppler was a political cartoonist for Puck Magazine, and an avid collector of Indian artifacts as well as being an Indian activist. He changed his name to Joseph Keppler, Jr. in honor of his father. He was elected honorary chief of Seneca and given the name Gyantwaka. He actively promoted Iroquois lacrosse teams, and his connections with the railroad enabled him to procure discount railroad passes for New York Indians, especially those travelling to Canada on Confederacy business. On the na...

Champlain, Samuel de, 1574-1635

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Samuel de Champlain of Brouage, cartographer, explorer, and founder of Canada. Champlain discovered Mount Desert Island in 1604. He also laid the foundation of what became the first permenent French colony in America at Quebec. "Des Sauvages" was his first book descriptive both of his voyage and of the inhabitants of the St. Lawrence Valley in 1603. From the description of Des sauvages. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 213496584 ...

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864

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Epithet: Vice-president of the American Ethnological Society British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x0000a9 Author, Indian agent and ethnologist. From the description of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft papers, 1826-1841. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418398 Henry Schoolcraft was an ethnologist, geologist, Indian agent, and glass manufacturer. From th...

Pocahontas, -1617

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Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820

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Daniel Boone (1734-1820) was a pioneer land settler, Indian fighter and he served in military and political positions in Kentucky. At the time this letter was written, he was on the verge of losing his many tracts of land because the titles were improperly entered. From the description of Letter : to Charles Yanc[e]y, Luecy [i.e. Louisa] County, 1785 May 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122602570 Indian fighter and scout. From the description of Daniel Boone pa...

Bronson, Ruth Muskrat, 1897-1982

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Ruth Muskrat Bronson (1897-1982) was a Cherokee poet, educator and Indian rights activist. Born on October 3, 1897 in White Water, Delaware Nation, Indian Territory, Bronson became the first Guidance and Placement Officer of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. She served as executive secretary for the National Congress of American Indians, which was founded in 1944, and created their legislative news service. After a decade of work in Washington, D.C., Bronson moved to Arizona. There she served as ...

Barnett, Jackson, 1856-1934

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Cochise, Apache chief, 1805?-1874

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Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900

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Ethnologist with Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, D.C., 1879-1900. Studied the Zunis. From the description of Frank Hamilton Cushing envelope to Houghton Mifflin & Co. [manuscript], [1892] Nov 14. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 648006577 Ethnologist. From the description of Letters, 1882-1893. (Southern Methodist University). WorldCat record id: 17700570 Frank Hamilton Cushing was an ethnographer and early participant observer...

Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, 16th cent.

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Explorer and Spanish colonial public official. From the description of Collection, 1536-1552. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79453480 ...