An account of a visit to Indian territory : Ft. Scott, Kansas

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An account of a visit to Indian territory : Ft. Scott, Kansas

1894 November 5

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A 10 page letter handwritten by Mrs. Coffin to her children about a 10 day trip she and her husband took visiting various missions in Indian Territory, dated November 5, 1894. Also includes typed copy and envelope. Their journey went through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Letter mentions having dinner with Shawnee chief Charles Blue Jacket. There is discussion of government schools; full-blooded and half-blooded Indians; how intermarriage will eventually cause the Indian race to be absorbed; the Agencies of Friends; and the Friends Mission School.

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Huntington Free Library

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Coffin, Rhoda M. (Rhoda Moorman), 1826-1909

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Rhoda M. Coffin was a Quaker active in prison reform and reform of the treatment of the insane, as well as the temperance movement. From the description of An account of a visit to Indian territory : Ft. Scott, Kansas, 1894 November 5. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64061492 ...

Friends Mission School.

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Blue Jacket, approximately 1752-

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Agencies of Friends.

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