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Culture:
Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1940
Contributor:Parish, Jasper, 1767-1836 | Newton, Dorothy May Fairbank | Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829
Subject:Indian agents | New York (State)--History | Government relations | Diplomacy | Treaties | Missions | Land tenure | Politics and government | Land claims | Land grants | United States--History--War of 1812 | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Biographies | Theses | Correspondence | Maps | Transcriptions | Reports | Instructions | Government Documents and Records
Extent:1 reel
Description: "Letters and documents relating to the government service of Jasper Parrish among the Indians of New York State," compiled and edited by Mrs. Dorothy May Fairbanks Newton, 1940. This Vassar College student thesis contains text written by Newton, transcriptions of letters to and from Parrish [aka Parish, an Indian agent and interpreter] and other documents, and 54 letters and 5 maps pertaining to Indian affairs in New York State. Newton used primary documents found in Vassar College's Jasper Parrish Papers Collection. Originals of both thesis and the primary documents it is based on are at Vassar College.
Collection:Letters and documents relating to the government service of Jasper Parrish among the Indians of New York state, 1790-1831 (Mss.Film.650)
Culture:
Susquehannock includes: Conestoga
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:October 22, 1730; November 8, 1755; July 20, 1758; 1759; February 4, 1764; August 9, 1766; February 9, 1769; February 10, 1769; October 23, 1784; March 2, 1787; 1951;
Contributor:Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820 | Johnson, William, 1715-1774 | Logan, James, 1674-1751 | Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824 | Penn, John, 1729-1795 | Penn, Thomas, 1702-1775 | Scull, William, active 1765 | Witthoft, John
Subject:Surveying | Land transfers | Land claims | Land grants | Great Britain. Treaties, etc. Six Nations, 1768 November 5 | Diplomacy | Treaties | Boundaries | Boundaries | Indian captivities | Paxton Boys | Pennsylvania--History | United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 | Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 | Excavations | Archaeology | Graves | Grave robbing
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:12 items
Description: Materials can be found in the finding aid under the specific dates listed. Mostly eighteenth-century correspondence regarding Pennsylvania Indian affairs. Topics include purchasing Indian lands; surveying Indian lands, including those acquired through the Treaty of Fort Stanwix; surveying Proprietary lands without offending Native neigbhors; settling boundaries with Native neighbors; colonists taken captive during Seven Years' War era; the Paxton Boys' rebellion, massacre at Susquehannock, and the killing of Susquehannock refugees; a 1759 list of Native groups clothed at Pittsburgh, with information about where they reside and hunt; and diplomacy (i.e., trying to secure Native allies) during Seven Years' War era. Also Witthoft's 1951 "The Pemberton Family Cemetary," containing a narrative of the excavation of cemetery at Pennsbury with burials of Pemberton family, 1683-1802 as well as a murdered Indian (before 1705) and white pauper of later date. Individuals mentioned include Scarroyady, Isaac Pemberton, Joseph Shippen, and David the Indian.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
Culture:
Zia includes: Tsʾíiyʾamʾé, Keres, Sia
Zuni includes: A:shiwi
Tigua includes: Ysleta del Sur
Tesuque includes: Tetsuge Owingeh
San Felipe includes: Katishtya, Keres
San Ildefonso includes: P'ohwhóge Owingeh
Sandia includes: Tiwa
Santa Ana includes: Keres, Dámáyàamʾèetrạ
Santa Clara includes: Kha'po Owingeh
Ohkay Owingeh includes: San Juan Pueblo
Picuris includes: Tiwa
Pojoaque includes: P'osuwaege Owingeh
Nambé includes: Nambe Owingeh
Laguna includes: Kʾáwáigamʾé, Keres, Kawaika
Kewa includes: Keres, Dîiwʾamʾé, Santo Domingo
Isleta includes: Tiwa
Jemez includes: Jemez Pueblo, Walatowa, Towa
Cochiti includes: Kotyit, Keres
Acoma includes: Áakʾùumʾé, Keres
Language:English
Date:Circa 1922-1925
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Subject:Land claims | Land grants | Politics and government | Government relations | Land tenure | New Mexico--History
Type:Text
Genre:Statements
Extent:2 pages
Description: Item VI(22D), "Miscellaneous manuscripts on the Southwest": A statement to be signed by committees opposing the Bursum Land Bill, which would have given squatters legal rights to Pueblo land.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)