Records, 1838-1901.

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Records, 1838-1901.

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Records of the Joint Committee on Indian Affairs, its predecessor, the Indian Committee (1837-1850) of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite), and the minutes (1893-1901) of the Sub-committee on Indian Concerns of the Committee on Philanthropic Labor. Also includes the letterbooks of John Saunders of Philadelphia, Secretary of the Joint Committee, and correspondence of Barclay White, Jesse W. Griest, Thomas Lightfoot, Samuel M. Janney, Levi K. Brown, Samuel Jeanes, and Albert Lamborn Green. Reports include information about the Senecas, the Otos and the Otoe Agency, the Santees and the Santee Agency, the Great Nemaha Agency, the Sauks, and the Fox.

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Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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Otoe Agency.

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892)

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After the schism of 1827/28, the Hicksite branch of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends did not appoint an Indian Committee of its own until 1837; this committee was formed primarily to protect the rights of the Senecas in New York in their dispute with the Ogden Land Company. The first Hicksite committee was laid down in 1850, with Representative Committee coordinating Indian concerns until the Yearly Meeting appointed a Joint Committee on Indian Affairs in 1869, after the proclamation of Pr...

White, Barclay, 1821-1903

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Barclay White's father, Joseph, was Josiah White's brother. Barclay White served as Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Northern Superintendency from 1871 to 1877. Service was to the Santee Sioux, Winnebagoes, Omahas, Pawnees, Iowas, Ottoes and Missourias and Sac and Foxes. White indicates that during his service, those Indian tribes were under care of the Society of Friends (v. 2, p. 72). From the description of An autobiography and family history by Barclay White, 1871-1878. (...

Santee Agency.

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Jeanes, Samuel, d. 1894.

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Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880

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Samuel M. Janney was a Virginia Quaker minister, author, educator, and reformer. In 1839 he opened a boarding school for girls in Loudoun County. He traveled widely in the ministry, meeting with other denominations as well as being immersed in the contemporary issues facing the Society of Friends. Among his activities were establishing schools for African Americans and women, creating public schools in Virginia, and the abolition of slavery. In 1869 he was appointed Superintendent of Indian Affa...

Great Nemaha Agency.

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Lightfoot, Thomas, 1821-1896

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Brown, Levi K. 1814-1899.

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Griest, Jesse W., 1837-1885

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Green, Albert Lamborn, 1845-1947

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The bulk of the correspondence in this collection is comprised of letters written to Green from Philadelphia Friends in regard to gifts in support of Indian work. Later letters written by Green describe from memory the social life and customs of the Otoe Indians. The collection has information on the Otoe language, vocabulary, etc., and also correspondence in 1934-1935 with J. Russell Hayes giving an account from memory of life among the Otoes in the 1870s. Some drawings are included. Correspond...

Saunders, John, 1814-1891

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