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Language:English
Date:April 29, 1688
Contributor:Unknown
Subject:Birds | Zoology | Wampum | Material culture | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Letter from S. P., perhaps to Robert Boyle of the Royal Society for Improving Natural Knowledge. Sends dead hummingbird and a sample of Indian wampum which Indians measure by cubits, varying with each person. Original at the Royal Society of London.
Collection:Royal Society (Great Britain) miscellaneous correspondence and documents (Mss.Film.460)
Language:English | Chehalis, Lower | Quileute | Quinault | Blackfoot
Date:1925-1927
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Washington (State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Field notes | Vocabularies
Extent:1 reel
Description: These linguistic materials include field notes taken by Ronald L. Olson pertaining to the Quinault and Quileute Indians, and a vocabulary of the Blackfoot language assembled by Isaac Ingalls Stevens, as well as a comparative vocabulary of Indians of the United States. From originals in the University of Washington Libraries.
Collection:Ronald L. Olson microfilm collection, 1925-1927 (Mss.Film.1276)
Date:1744-1831
Subject:Medicine | Mexico--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms
Extent:1 reel
Description: These are files concerning the Protomedicato, which was the Board of the King's Physician, or medical court, that regulated the medical profession in the Spanish colonies. There are additional files on this topic from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma. Also included on the film are documents relating to the Hospital Real de Indios. Originals in Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City, Mexico; Universidad Nacional Autónoma, Mexico City, Mexico.
Collection:Royal Protomedicato files (Mss.H.S.Film.24,25)
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Language:Umatilla | Walla Walla | Yakama | English | Tenino | Nez Perce | Cayuse | Columbia-Wenatchi | Molala
Date:ca. 1953-1969
Contributor:Jones, Vera | Spino, Inez | Williams, Joe | Barnhart, Alice | Slickpoo, Sam | Rigsby, Bruce | Elmendorf, William W. (William Welcome), 1912- | McKay, Charles | Pond, Walter | Saluskin, Alex | Joe, Annie | Williams, Charlie | Walsh, Ed (Edward Joseph) | Winishut, Linton | Winishut, Eva | Thompson, Flora | Sohappy, Frank | Yelkes, Fred | Nanamkin, George | Conner, Gilbert | Thompson, Henry | Spino, Lillian | Shawaway, Minnie | Joe, Susie | Mitchell, Louis | Peters, May | Tias, Oswald | Guyer, Philip | Sturgis, Sam | Andrews, Tom | George, Victor | Burke, Winnie | Minthorn, Mamie | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Umtuch, Donald
Subject:Personal names | Oregon--History | Washington (State)--History | Idaho--History | Animals | Plants | Botany | Place names | Biography | Kinship | Food
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Biographies | Elicitation sessions | Field notes | Personal names | Place names | Vocabularies | Oral histories | Stories | Grammars
Extent:2 reels; 18 notebooks and ca. 380 loose pages
Description: Fieldnotes across the Plateau region, especially in Pendleton OR (near the Umatilla Reservation), Nespelem WA (in the Colville Reservation), and Toppenish WA (Yakama Reservation), between 1963 and 1969, supplemented by materials collected from other recent secondary sources. Copies held by the APS were privately microfilmed by Bruce Rigsby; the APS does not possess the originals. Notebooks 1-8 mostly represent work at and around the Umatilla Reservation in 1963, and notebooks 9-18 were recorded mostly near the Colville and Yakama reservations, 1964 onwards. The notebooks contain elicited lexica, with some texts, and details on the knowledge and use of languages by specific individuals. The loose notes at the end are mostly texts. A full inventory of the notebooks and notes, with individual contributor, place and language information, is in the collection finding aid.
Collection:Sahaptin field notes (Mss.Film.1261)
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Language:English
Date:1665-1775
Contributor:Unknown
Subject:Massachusetts--History | New York (State)--History | New England--History | Treaties | Diplomacy | Boundaries | Warfare | Government relations | Land tenure
Type:Text
Extent:3 reels
Description: Selections from 31 volumes from the Massachusetts State Archives (volumes 1-6, 13, 20-22, 25, 27-33, 35, 38A, 51-54, 74, 80, 108-109, 219, 233, 287). These materials include letters and papers from the official records of provincial Massachusetts. Many relate to the Haudenosaunee in New York, and to French activity and influence among the Indians. Contains references to the treaties at Albany with the Haudenosaunee, the western boundary of Massachusetts, the Stockbridge removal, and the sack of Deerfield by Caughnawaga Mohawks.
Collection:Selected materials, 1665-1775, on Indian affairs (Mss.Film.642)
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Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1723-1796 and undated
Contributor:Claus, Daniel, 1727-1787 | McKee, Alexander, approximately 1735-1799 | St. Clair, Arthur, 1734-1818 | Chew, Joseph, 1720-approximately 1799 | Butler, Richard, 1743-1791 | Brant, Joseph, 1742-1807 | Simcoe, John Graves, 1752-1806 | Monckton, Robert, 1726-1782 | Burd, James, 1726-1793 | Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806 | Bouquet, Henry, 1719-1765 | Ourry, Lewis | St. Clair, John, -1767 | Hutchins, Thomas, 1730-1789 | Stanwix, John, 1690?-1766 | Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797 | Gordon, Harry, -1787 | Duquesne de Menneville, Ange, marquis, 1700-1778
Subject:United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 | Warfare | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | Government relations
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence | Reports | Government documents | Minutes | Transcripts
Extent:3 reels
Description: Selected materials on Indian affairs from the Public Archives of Canada, the Public Records Office, London, and Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, relating to the Haudenosaunee. From the Daniel Claus Papers, 1761-1796, are letters and papers on Indian affairs at Forts Pitt, Niagara, and Detroit, with letters of Dr. Alexander McKee, Arthur St. Clair, Joseph Chew, Richard Butler, Joseph Brant, and John Graves Simcoe. From the papers of Brigadier Robert Monckton, 1760-1761, are appointments, returns, reports, bills and receipts, and letters relating to Forts Pitt, Bedford, and Niagara, with letters of James Burd, Horatio Gates, Henry Bouquet, Lewis Ourry, Sir John St. Clair, Thomas Hutchins, John Stanwix, and Lord Amherst. There are also excerpts from the minutes of the Commissioners of Indian Affairs at Albany, 1723-1746; transcripts from the Public Record Office on Indians, trade, defense, 1698-1767, including names of persons naturalized in British America, 1740-61, and accounts of Lt. Col. Harry Gordon, 1756-1761, 1764-1767; Duquesne-Centrecoeur correspondence, 1752-1753, Fonds Verreau, from the Université Laval, Quebec; and, miscellaneous documents. Some of the materials pertain to the Haudenosaunee during the Revolutionary War era. All materials concern eighteenth-century Indian affairs, especially the Haudenosaunee, and to a lesser extent Algonquian Indians. Donated by historian Barbara Graymont in 1965.
Collection:Selected materials on Indian affairs, 1698-1796 (Mss.Film.426)
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Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1789-1820
Contributor:Brant, Joseph, 1742-1807 | Kirkland, Samuel, 1741-1808 | Chapin, Israel | Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 | Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 | Morris, Robert, 1734-1806 | Phelps, Oliver, 1749-1809 | Gorham, Nathaniel, 1738-1796
Subject:Indian agents | Government relations | Politics and government | Treaties | Diplomacy | Missions | New York (State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence | Memoranda | Accounts | Bills | Receipts | Government Documents and Records
Extent:1 reel
Description: These selections include letters, bills, accounts, receipts, memoranda, and official communications and documents relating to the Iroquois [Haudenosaunee] in New York State, selected from volumes 6-15 of O'Reilly's collections, "Mementos of western settlement," together with copies of documents from the American State Papers, etc. Included are letters of Phelps, Gorham, Chapin, Brant, Kirkland, Knox, Pickering, Irvine, and Morris. Many manuscripts appear to be from the papers of General Israel Chapin, an Indian agent. From originals at the New York Historical Society.
Collection:Selections from papers relating to the Six Nations, 1789-1820 (Mss.Film.639)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:circa 1800-1806
Contributor:Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835
Subject:Missions | Pennsylvania--History | New York (State)--History | Religion | Indian agents | Pennsylvania--History | Society of Friends | Government relations | Diplomacy
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Journals | Stories
Extent:2 items
Description: Materials composed by Pennsylvania Quaker missionary Halliday Jackson concerning his work with Native peoples at the turn of the nineteeth century. The first item is a manuscript dated to 1800 titled "Some account of my residence among the Indians," a continuation of another manuscript, concluding his account of a missionary stay at Tunessassa and Cornplanter's village, and his return to Pottsville, Pennsylvania, after an absence of 2 years and 2 months (Jackson departed for missionary work April 30, 1798), pages 1-30. There is also an account of a meeting between Senecas at Buffalo Creek with an Indian agent and a missionary from Massachusetts, pages 31-39; and Red Jacket's speech, May 1811, at Buffalo Creek, pages 40-43 [Donor, Elisa Schofield, 1912. See also Deardorff and Snyderman (1956): 589-592; Wallace (1952b).]. The second item is a journal dated to 1806 concerning business of the Society of Friends committee on Indian affairs, and the Indians in western Pennsylvania [Printed, Snyderman (1957)]. From originals held at the Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College. Some of these materials were printed under the title Civilization of the Indian Natives (Philadelphia, 1830) and described by George S. Snyderman, "Halliday Jackson's Journal of a Visit Paid to the Indians of New York (1806)," APS Proc. 101 (1957): 565.
Collection:Halliday Jackson journals, 1805-1806 (Mss.Film.631.631a)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1810-1814
Contributor:Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835
Subject:Missions | Pennsylvania--History | New York (State)--History | Religion | Government relations | Pennsylvania--History | Social life and customs | Diplomacy
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Drafts | Journals
Extent:2 items
Description: Materials compiled by Pennsylvania Quaker missionary Halliday Jackson. First item is titled "Civilization of the Indian tribes from the times of Penn to 1809" and consists of two drafts of a chronologically ordered account of relations between Pennsylvania Quakers and their Native neighbors, with special emphasis on the Seneca. An account of Native manners and customs is included in the first draft; a Seneca vocabulary is appended to the second draft. [See also Jackson (1830a); Snyderman (1957): 568.] The second item is a journal dated to 1814 containing "Some account of a visit paid to the Friends residing at Tunessassa and Cattaraugus and to the Indians residing at those places" and describing meetings with Indians, observations on social change resulting from missionary activities and white contact, and other references to the Native peoples of western New York [Haudenosaunee]. Originals in possession of Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Collection:Halliday Jackson journal, 1814 (Mss.Film.631b)
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Language:English
Date:August 14, 1780
Contributor:Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823
Subject:Missions | Moravians | Warfare | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 | Ohio--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Letter from Moravian missionary John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder to Daniel Brodhead concerning Shawnee Indians and the war. From original at Harvard University.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters and papers, 1789-1796 (Mss.Film.805.2)