The San Juan mission to the Indians, before 1942.
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Indian Rights Association
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Zitkala is the Indian name for Gertrude Bonnin, 1876-1938. From the guide to the National Council of American Indians records, 1926-1938, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) The Indian Rights Association was organized in Philadelphia in 1882. The early leaders of the association, including Herbert Welsh, sought to protect the interests and general welfare of the Indians. Through its monitoring and lobbying activities with executive agencies and Congress, the association, in i...
Hite, Cass.
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Lewis (Cass) Hite was born on March 3, 1845, in Marion County, Illinois. He was an Utah pioneer and silver and gold prospector, laying claim to a gold mine in Glen Canyon, Utah, that later began the Glen Canyon Gold Rush. A dispute with fellow miner Adolph Kohler resulted in Kohler's death, and Hite served two years in prison for Kohler's murder. Hite was well-known to Navajo leader Hoskinini and spent most of his life exploring and prospecting in Arizona and Utah. Hite died on Febr...
Jones, Kumen, 1856-1942
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Kumen Jones was born on May 5, 1856, in Cedar City, Utah, the son of Welsh immigrants who had joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. At the age of sixteen Jones became a post carrier, delivering mail from Utah to Nevada. He later drove cattle through Zions Canyon for the C.C. Company. He was made a colonizing missionary during a Parowan Stake Church conference in 1878, and he and his wife Mary Nielson Jones joined the San Juan Expedition that left Paragonah, Utah, in 1879 to fin...
Posey, William, approximately 1863-1923
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