Joel B. Bassett papers, 1859-1876 (bulk 1865-1868).

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Joel B. Bassett papers, 1859-1876 (bulk 1865-1868).

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Correspondence, reports, treaty drafts, payment vouchers, applications for Indian trader licenses, and similar documents relating mostly to Bassett's work while agent at the Chippewa Agency, Crow Wing, Minnesota (1865-1869). Among the more significant topics dealt with are Ojibwe chief Hole-in-the-Day, especially his 1868 murder; mixed blood (Black, Indian) guide and interpreter George Bonga; Episcopal bishop Henry B. Whipple; the 1868 treaty ceding non-reservation lands in Minnesota; Ojibwe chiefs; agency physicians; and annuity payments (1866-1869).

0.4 cu. ft. (1 box and 1 oversize folder)

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Whipple, Henry Benjamin, 1822-1901

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Clark, Edwin H., 1834-1922.

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Bonga, George, approximately 1800-1874

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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

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Hole-in-the-Day, Chief, 1828-1868

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Bassett, Joel Bean, 1816-1912.

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Bassett was born in Wolfboro, New Hampshire (March 17, 1816), the son of Daniel and Abigail Bassett. He moved to Minnesota (1852) where he worked in the lumber trade and lived in Minneapolis for the remainder of his life, except for the years 1865-1869 when he served as Indian agent at the Chippewa Agency at Crow Wing. He married Aurilia Carpenter (1857) and died in Los Angeles, California on February 1, 1912. More biographical information will be found in the first fold...

Aldrich, Cyrus, 1808-1871

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