Native American
Subject
Subject Source: Gilcrease Dci Tags
Found in 6473 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript Collection: Navaho Education Release
Collection
Identifier: MC.1980.152
Manuscript Collection: Osage Council Paper
Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.162
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Written in French, this is a photostatic copy of a report of a council meeting with the "Grande Osages" at St. Louis in 1787. Auguste Chouteau, the trader, is one of the signers.
Dates:
1787
Manuscript Collection: Osage Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.163
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: An interesting item in this collection is a letter dated May 18, 1821, signed by J. C. Calhoun, appointing Nathaniel Philbrook sub-agent to the Osages on the Arkansas to serve under Governor Miller. His compensation was to be $500.00 per annum. A letter written in 1844 to Creek Agent, Captain Dawson, mentions a William Baxter who had formerly been in Josiah Gregg's employ. He relates that Francis and John (Spangaras?) found...
Dates:
1821-1948
Manuscript Collection: Parch Corn Letters
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.166
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: "Letter from an Indian" is written to Hona-ta-siski, son of Parch Corn, from his father. He tells him they will have to go West, and to be ready when the soldiers come to arrest him. The other letter is written to a Mr. Dry, and it also pertains to their removal. The first letter is "Interpreted by Prisoner Harris." Someone translated and wrote the other letter for Parch Corn also. In both letters he refers to "Little...
Dates:
circa 1830
Manuscript Collection: Pawnee Doctor's Account Book
Collection
Identifier: MC.1980.167
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Bound book listing charges to patients by date. Loose page that is a telephone bill to Dr. C.T. Seevers appears dated August 26, 1901 from the Arkansas Valley Company.
Dates:
1900-1902
Manuscript Collection: Penobscot Questionnaire
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.170
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Colonel Goldthwait, who is also referred to as "Captain", questions an Indian who says he belongs to the Mataugwesauwack Nation located beyond the "great lake, meaning Lake Superior ... towards the setting of the sun." He describes the country, the crops raised, and the kind of fowl and animals found for food. He also tells of their way of life, marriage customs, and worship- or lack of it- and various other living...
Dates:
1771
Manuscript Collection: Peter Pitchlynn
Collection
Identifier: MC.1948.175
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Peter Perkins Pitchlynn, Chief of the Choctaws, (1806-1881) was one of the persons selected by the Choctaws in 1828 to survey the southeast section of Indian Territory, the land they had chosen for their home when they were forced to leave Mississippi. Peter Pitchlynn's father was John Pitchlynn, a white man and interpreter for the United States Government, who had married a Choctaw woman of the famous Folsom family. Peter...
Dates:
1797 - 1929
Manuscript Collection: Peyote Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC.1970.172
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Smithsonian ethnologist, James Mooney, writes two letters pertaining to a bill before Congress to prohibit the use of Peyote in the Indian ceremonial dances. Most of the correspondence and printed material deal with this subject. A great many letters are between missionaries of the American Baptist Home Missionary Society and most of them feel that Mooney encourages the continued use of Peyote. They blame him for his attitude...
Dates:
1916-1960
Manuscript Collection: Rufus Cochran
Collection
Identifier: MC.1964.46
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: According to a brief notation, this small notebook contains several pages of medical formulas all written in Cherokee by Rufus Cochran (c.1844-1926). Cochran lived at Stilwell, Oklahoma. He was appointed postmaster at Cochran in the Cherokee Nation in 1896, but the order establishing this post office was rescinded January 23, 1897, and it is doubtful that the office was ever actually in operation.
Dates:
1844-1937
Manuscript Collection: Sequoyah Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.194
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Very little manuscript material remains concerning Sequoyah, also known as George Guess, (circa 1760-1843). These items consist of clippings from newspapers, excerpts from periodicals, photostats, and some material written in the syllabary, part of which has been translated into English by Levi Gritts. One photostatic letter signed by John Ross and John Drew attests that Sally Guess is the "only surviving widow of George...
Dates:
1835-1860