Mary D. Burnham papers relating to the Dakota League, 1866-1896.

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Mary D. Burnham papers relating to the Dakota League, 1866-1896.

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The papers consist of chronologically arranged letters and reports from correspondents including Mary Abbot Emery of the Women's Auxiliary, Edward C. Kemble of the Indian Commission of the Missionary Society; priests and lay League members and representatives of affiliated Episcopal churches in Massachusetts including Ellen C. Clark and Reverend Robert C. Rogers; representatives of other leagues, including the Niobrara League of New York; and missionaries to the Indians including J. A. Gilfillan at White Earth, Minnesota, Amelia Ives of Yankton Agency, Dakota Territory, Reverend Samuel Dutton Hinman, Bishop William Hobart Hare, and Clara Kerbach of Santee, Nebraska, Reverend E. A. Gooden at Oneida, Wisconsin, J. B. Wicks of Darlington, Indian Territory, and educator Richard H. Pratt at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The letters and reports describe the charitable work conducted by the League, the educational and religious training of Indians by the missionaries, and the customs and activities of the Indians. While most of the papers consist of letters written to Burnham, there is one folder of correspondence between Burnham and Richard H. Pratt dated Jan-Oct 1879, and several documents relating to John Seger's colony of Cheyenne and Arapaho in Indian Territory dated 1886 within the main run of material. Undated items are arranged alphabetically by sender following the dated items. Some dates, which appear in brackets, have been assigned based on internal evidence.

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Gilfillan, J. A. (Joseph Alexander), 1838-1913

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Pratt, Richard Henry, 1840-1924

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Richard Henry Pratt (1840-1924) was a U.S. Army officer who fought for the Union during the Civil War, served on the western frontier (to 1875), established and administered the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879-1904). He advocated fair treatment of U.S. Indians and strongly believed that through education they could be assimilated into American society. Richard Henry Pratt devoted his life to public service, beginning as a soldier in the Civil War and later fighting Indians on the fron...

Wicks, J. B.

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Rogers, Robert C., fl. 1872.

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Kemble, Edward C., fl. 1872.

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Hinman, Samuel Dutton, 1839-1890

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Samuel D. Hinman graduated from Seabury Divinity School, Faribault, Minnesota, in 1860 and was ordained by Bishop Whipple. He was a missionary at the Lower Sioux Agency, ca. 1861-ca. 1862, and left for the Dakota Territory following the Dakota Conflict of 1862. Hinman served as an Indian missionary in Dakota Territory and later in life returned to Minnesota where he served until his death in 1890. From the description of Samuel Dutton Hinman and family papers, 1870-1917, 1934. (Unkno...

Emery, Mary Abbot.

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Burnham, Mary D.

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Mary D. Burnham of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was the founder and first president (ca. 1872-1880) of the Dakota League of Massachusetts, a branch of the Women's Auxiliary of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church (later, the Women's Department of the Board of Missions). The League was founded to provide financial support, clothing, and supplies to American Indians in the Western United States through Episcopal missionaries, and to distribute pamphlets regar...

Episcopal Church. Board of Missions

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Clark, Ellen C.

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Seger, John H. (John Homer), 1846-1928

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John H. Seger was born in Geauga County, Ohio, on February 23, 1846. Shortly after his birth, the Seger family moved to Illinois and operated a tavern and hotel in Dover. He attended Dover Academy while growing up there. In 1864 John enlisted in the Union Army and seved under General Sherman until the close of the war. Following the war, Seger returned to Illinois but shortly thereafter left and was employed as a mason in the Indian Service and was assigned to the Cheyenne and Arapa...

Episcopal Church. Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society

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Hare, William Hobart, 1838-1909

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Bishop William Hobart Hare (1839-1909), known as the "Apostle to the Sioux," was appointed in 1872 Bishop of Niobrara, which was expanded and renamed the Missionary District of South Dakota. Hare continued working in Dakota unitl his death. From the description of Letter : to H. M. Teller, Secretary of the Interior / by William Hobart Hare, 1883 Aug 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702129360 Bishop of the Missionary District of Niobrara and its successor, the Missionary Dis...

Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...

Gooden, E. A.

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Kerbach, Clara.

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Dakota League (Boston, Mass.)

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Ives, Amelia.

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Niobrara League (New York, N.Y.)

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