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Ame. American Indians and Indigenous Peoples

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Identifier: Ame
This topic covers manuscript collections by and about Indigenous peoples in the Western Hemisphere. It includes letters, artwork, photographs, documents, legal and governmental papers, research papers, and some audio oral histories.

Found in 145 Collections and/or Records:

James J. Dana papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT oversize-Ayer-MS-3003
Abstract Military commissions and appointments, 1841-1882, with some transmittal letters, and an 1890 certificate of membership in the Washington, D.C. Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Includes an 1841 Massachusetts Militia commission and nine appointments issued and signed by U.S. Presidents Pierce, Lincoln, Johnson, and Arthur, and Secretaries of War Jefferson Davis, Edwin Stanton, and Robert T. Lincoln to regular and brevet ranks in the 4th Artillery Regiment, 1855-1857, and the...
Dates: 1841-1890

James Wilkinson letters

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-982
Abstract Small collection of correspondence and a few orders written by James Wilkinson, military officer, western land speculator, and governor of Louisiana, between 1792 and 1818. The majority of the letters were written at Fort Washington and Fort Hamilton in Ohio and relate to Indian affairs and military operations in the Northwest Territory during the 1790s. The correspondents include quartermaster general Samuel Hodgdon, Pennsylvania militia officer John Armstrong, and Lieutenant William...
Dates: 1792-1818

Jane Richardson Hanks Kiowa papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Hanks
Abstract

Correspondence, field notes, and writings of anthropologist Jane Richardson Hanks, mainly documenting her 1935 graduate student field work with the Kiowa Indians in Oklahoma.

Dates: 1935-1968; Majority of material found within 1935-1940

Jefferson Columbus Davis papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3057
Abstract

Original journals, correspondence, photographs, engravings, newsclippings, together with some typed copies, documenting the career army officer's tenure as military governor of Alaska, 1867-1870, and his and his wife's tour of Mexico in 1878.

Dates: 1867-1878

John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-378
Abstract A small collection of correspondence (seven letters) written by Heckewelder from his home in Bethlehem, Pa. to three individuals between the years 1790 and 1822.,The largest group of letters were written to William Alexander, a surveyor residing in Carlisle, Pa., dated 23 March 1790 to 8 Feb. 1791. In these letters Heckewelder engages the services of Alexander to survey five warrents of land (650 acres) in eastern Ohio purchased by Heckewelder and others. He also instructs Alexander to...
Dates: 1790-1822

John Howard Payne Papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-689
Abstract

Material collected in the 1830s and 1840s by actor, playwright and editor John Howard Payne, relating to American Indians, primarily concerning the Cherokees for Payne's intended history of the Cherokee Nation. Collection consists of fourteen volumes of correspondence, manuscript notes, transcriptions, extensive historical research, memoranda, and published and unpublished documents.

Dates: 1794-1842; Majority of material found within 1825 - 1842

John K. Hillers photographs of Zuni, Hopi and Rio Grande River Pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Photographs-box-94-96
Abstract

From 1879 to 1882, John K. Hillers traveled to the Southwest with Frank Hamilton Cushing and James Stevenson under the auspices of the Bureau of American Ethnology. This collection of 72 photographic prints consists of Hillers’ photographic record of the pueblos, archeological ruins, and peoples of Arizona and New Mexico taken during this trip. These photographs are part of the Edward E. Ayer Photograph Collection.

Dates: 1879-1882

John M. Weatherwax Popol Vuh project correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Weatherwax
Abstract

Collection of correspondence related to the publication of John M. Weatherwax’s English translation of the Popol Vuh that would include water color paintings by the artist Diego Rivera. Present are four telegrams sent by Rivera from Mexico asking for more time to complete the pictures, and arranging logistics for their transfer and payment.

Dates: 1931-1975; Majority of material found within 1931 - 1933

John Norton papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT oversize-Ayer-MS-654
Abstract Schoolmaster, interpreter, Mohawk chief, army officer, and author; also known as Teyoninhokarawen. Probably born in Scotland of Cherokee and Scottish parents, Norton was adopted by the Mohawk chief, Joseph Brant, as nephew, deputy, and successor (appointed non-hereditary chief for war and diplomacy in 1799). Addresses and correspondence of John Norton, with speeches and petitions of the Grand River Indians, chiefly dating 1804-1810. Includes a contemporary copy of "The address of...
Dates: 1804-1816; Majority of material found within 1804-1810

John S. Gray research papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Gray
Abstract

Meticulous research notes, writings, and correspondence of Dr. John S. Gray, Professor of Physiology at Northwestern University and a member of the Chicago Corral of Westerners. Dr. Gray's research focuses on the American West, particularly U.S. - Indian relations.

Dates: 1942-1991

John Stands-in-Timber papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Stands-in-Timber
Abstract

Papers of the tribal historian for the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, resident of the Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Lame Deer, Montana, and author of Cheyenne Memories, published by Yale University Press. Includes the original manuscript of Cheyenne Memories, diaries, notebooks, correspondence, agency-related documents and tribal correspondence, photographs, and sermons.

Dates: 1920-1963

John Thomas Lee papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3036
Abstract Thirty letters to Wisconsin historian John Thomas Lee from various scholars, librarians and booksellers, concerning his work on a bibliography of Jonathan Carver’s Travels through the Interior parts of North America, first published in London in 1778. Also, a letter from Grace Raymond Hebard concerning 1932 publication of The Pathbreakers, and a wax impression of a seal supposedly used at the signing of the Webster-Ashburton...
Dates: 1907-1932; Majority of material found within 1907-1912

John White Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-White
Abstract

The John White Papers contain materials related to White's research on American Indian culture, customs, and history as well as linguistic research on native languages. The papers include correspondence, authored works, language samples/specimens, and storytelling materials. The papers primarily focus on the culture, customs, history, and languages of the Illiniwek tribes.

Dates: 1736-2000; Majority of material found within 1975 - 1997

John Wilson letters

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3207
Abstract Collection of correspondence (1859-1865) from Virginia City, Nevada written by or regarding John Wilson to his wife in Vermont. Wilson, a young farmer from Vermont, left his pregnant wife and sailed for the West in Sept. 1859 to seek his fortune. After his arrival in San Francisco, he headed for Virginia City crossing the Sierra Mountains on foot in May 1860. Using his income as a bartender, Wilson immediately began to stake out claims. Many of his letters give a vivid and detailed...
Dates: 1859-1865

L.A. Huffman photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Vault-oversize-Graff-2000
Abstract

Sixteen photographic portraits of Indians and photographs of scenes in the West by Huffman, a professor of journalism (University of Illinois, Northwestern University, University of Denver) and western frontier historian.

Dates: 1883-1907

Letter from Rienzi Hopkins to Steuben Jenkins, 1864 January 14 : manuscript

 Item
Identifier: Modern-MS-35
Abstract Manuscript letter written by Rienzi Hopkins, a lawyer, and former California senator, to Stueben Jenkins, a lawyer, historian, and former Pennsylvania state representative. Letter discusses some California highlights, including local elections, treasury notes, weather, visiting California, practicing law, and mining practices and regulations. He comments that the miners may begin to move towards Brigham Young's territory. Rienzi responds to Jenkins' request for "Indian relics" and will try...
Dates: January 14, 1864

Letter to Charles Alexander Eastman

 Item
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-3248
Abstract

Letter (5 pages ; 18 cm) and envelope written by Sybil Judge to Eastman when she called at the Connaught Club in London where he was staying. She offers to loan him a book The simple way or The path to virtue by Laotze. She asks that after Eastman returns to New York and is done with the book, he give it to Oskenonton to return to her. She previously loaned the book to Oskenonton and others, but they did not "see it all." She is confident that Eastman will see its value.

Dates: Apr. 5, 1928

Loren L. Williams journals

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-folio-Graff-4683
Abstract

The journal covers the Loren L. Williams's activities as an officer during the Civil War, active in the West, and subsequent activities as a pioneer in the development of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Details of wars with the Western Indians are also included.

Dates: 1851-1880

Loretta Fowler research papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Fowler
Abstract Fieldnotes, interview transcripts and some recordings, research notes, project files, and background research compiled by retired University of Oklahoma anthropologist Loretta Fowler, who focused her studies on the Arapaho of Wyoming, Gros Ventre and Assiniboine of Montana, Arapaho and Cheyenne of Oklahoma, other Plains reservations, Shinnecock of Long Island, and Oaxaca, Mexico. In addition to extensive material on the Cheyenne and Arapaho, there are also interviews and or fieldnotes from...
Dates: 1890-2004; Majority of material found within 1968 - 2004

Louis McLane Hamilton collection

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-356
Abstract Correspondence, extracts of reports, printed obituaries and resolutions, newspaper clippings, 1867-1867, possibly collected by Benson John Lossing, concerning the life of Capt. Louis McLane Hamilton and his death at the Battle of Washita. Includes correspondence of Philip Hamilton (father) to Lossing, and Robert Mayhew West (forwarding copy of 7th Cavalry resolution on Hamilton's death to the Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle); ms. extracts from Custer's July 6, 1867, order praising Hamilton's...
Dates: 1867-1869

[Mexican Watercolors]

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT.oversize-Ayer-Art-Seymour
Abstract

Collection of seven watercolors and one drawing of the ancient Maya cities of Chichén Itzá and Uxmal, both located in the Yucatán Peninsula region of southeastern Mexico, by the artist Ralph Fletcher Seymour. These watercolors provide detailed depictions of the buildings found within these ancient Maya sites.

Dates: approximately 1909

Michael Scullin American Indian rights collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Scullin
Abstract Collection of Michael Scullin, retired professor at Minnesota State University, Mankato, contains mainly materials relating to the contemporary Indian rights movement. There are photocopied newspaper clippings from the Minneapolis Tribune and The Free Press (Mankato), pertaining to AIM and the Wounded Knee occupation; audio tapes (with digital copies) of an Indian Education Conference, and the American Indian Movement on Urban Indians; recorded music from the Rosebud Reservation,...
Dates: 1951-1987; Majority of material found within 1970-1980

[Monroe Frederick Paintings and Drawings]

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-oversize-Ayer-Art.Frederick
Abstract

Three oil on canvas paintings and twelve watercolor drawings on paper of various sizes housed in one green portfolio and two red clamshell boxes. Paintings and drawings are attributed to Monroe Quamahongiva Frederick, a Hopi artist. Tribes depicted include the Navajo, Crow, and Hopi. Subjects of paintings include American Indian portraits, pueblos, the southwest, dress, and copies of work by E. Irving Crouse and Elbridge Ayer Burbank.

Dates: approximately 1910-1920

Murray L. Wax papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Wax
Abstract

Fieldwork and correspondence of anthropologist-sociologist Murray L. Wax, primarily between 1962 and 1969. Also copies of published articles and unpublished papers by other anthropologists, newspaper clips, and serials pertaining to Native Americans; field notes of Rosalie Hankey (later Rosalie Wax) from Japanese relocation camp at Tule Lake, 1944-45.

Dates: 1944-1989; Majority of material found within 1962-1969

Native Americans in Film collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-NAIF
Abstract

Collection of movie scripts featuring Native American themes, characters, and actors, augmented by a variety of visual materials. Consists of over 300 items including scripts, press and promotional booklets, lobby cards, posters, and photographs.

Dates: 1912-2018; Majority of material found within 1932-1995