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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Art & Architecture Thesaurus\AGENTS FACET\People\people\groups of people\indigenous people\

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

A notebook listing disbursements, some of which are to Native Americans, 1776

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 95.1]
Identifier: 3626.152
Description

Folder 1

Dates: 1776
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1970.92, Manuscript Collection: Robert Henry

Authorized copy of B. V. Cummins’ manuscript on the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation in Oklahoma Territory, 1900

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 118.1]
Identifier: 4027.5900
Description

Cummins, an Old Soldiers Declaratory Statement Filing Agent, offers a description of Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache lands to be opened for settlement (these lands in southwestern Oklahoma were opened by lottery June 9 to August 6, 1901). He discusses the soil, water, timber, climate, and territorial laws. He then offers to file a soldier's declaratory statement for a fee. Folder 1

Dates: 1900
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1970.116, Manuscript Collection: Kiowa Papers

C. T. Wells’ account of a trip from Mulberry, Arkansas to Arkansas City, Kansas, November 7 - 22, 1878 and June 1879

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 219.1]
Identifier: 4026.8414
Description

C. T. Wells' account of a 15-day, 375-mile trip from Mulberry, Franklin County, Arkansas to Arkansas City, Kansas, which lasted from November 7 to 22, 1878. It also contains his comments on Sun City, Kansas from June 1879. It is addressed to "[t]o [his] friend Sallie." Folder 1

Dates: November 7 - 22, 1878 and June 1879
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1964.217, Manuscript Collection: C.T. Wells

Copy of an interview of a Mataugwesauwack Indian, July 1771

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 172.1]
Identifier: 4026.5927
Description

Folder 1

Dates: July 1771
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.170, Manuscript Collection: Penobscot Questionnaire

Letter from G. Saltonstall requesting a missionary be sent to instruct the Mohegans in the Christian religion, May 31, 1716

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 191.1]
Identifier: 4026.8351
Description

Letter sent by G. Saltonstall, on behalf of the Governor and Council of the Colony of Connecticut in New England, to the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians in America. He requests that a missionary be sent to instruct the Mohegans, and the English living on lands granted by them, in the Christian religion. Typescript is available. Folder 1

Dates: May 31, 1716
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1964.189, Manuscript Collection: Gurdon Saltonstall

Letter from Thomas L. McKenney to Charles Hicks, March 29, 1825

 Item — Folder 16: [Barcode: 187.16]
Identifier: 4026.30-.1
Description

Letter from Thomas L. McKenney, Comm. of Indian Affairs, to Charles Hicks. Regarding medal for Sequoyah, care of David Brown, and President's message to Congress. Single folded sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on three pages. Folder 16

Dates: March 29, 1825
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.185, Manuscript Collection: John Ross Papers

Peace treaty between the king of Spain, the Chicacha, and the Chacta, May 14, 1792

 Item — Folder 1
Identifier: 4916.428
Description

The signers of this treaty include, but are not limited to, Colonel Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Governor of Natchez District, Fascoatura, King of the Chickasaws, and Franchimastabia, Principal Chief of Choctaw Nation. Folder 1

Dates: May 14, 1792
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.151, Manuscript Collection: Natchez Treaty

Relation du Voyage faict en l’annee 1645 au Nom du Roy au pays des Algoumequins dans la Nouvelle France ou Canada, et de la manière de vivre des Sauvages, 1645

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 4026.5259
Description Hand-bound document written in French, entitled "Relation du Voyage faict en l'annee 1645 au Nom du Roy au pays des Algoumequins dans la Nouvelle France ou Canada, et de la manière de vivre des Sauvages" (Narrative of the Voyage made in the year 1645 in the Name of the King to the country of the Algonquins in New France or Canada, and the manner of living of the savages). Thirty pages in length, signed G.H. at the end of the document. Illustrated with five pen and ink drawings....
Dates: 1645
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.3, Algonquin Manuscript

Report from a meeting of the Commissioners for Managing Indian Affairs, June 21, 1709

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 110.1]
Identifier: 4026.5899
Description

The report includes examinations of Native Americans sent to Canada as spies. Folder 1

Dates: June 21, 1709
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.108, Manuscript Collection: Indian Spies' Report

Typescript of Winthrop Sargent’s account of Native American raids in the Northwest Territory in 1791, 20th century

 Item — Folder 2: [Barcode: 192.2]
Identifier: 4026.8353
Description

Folder 2

Dates: 20th century
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.1954.190, Manuscript Collection: Winthrop Sargent

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