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Language:English
Date:circa 1793-1819
Contributor:Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823
Subject:Diplomacy | Treaties | Indian agents | Politics and government | Government relations | United States--Politics and government | Moravians | Pennsylvania--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Microfilms | Journals | Travel narratives | Correspondence | Minutes | Engravings
Extent:1 reel
Description: This journal of Moravian missionary John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder covers travels among the Indians to a conference in Detroit in 1793. Includes a list of the names of different Indian nations in North America, their locations, and number of fighting men. Also contains miscellaneous materials: a letter from Heckewelder to Mordecai Churchman, October 5, 1819, mentioning Peter S. Du Ponceau; engraving of Heckewelder possibly from a painting at the American Philosophical Society; a 1-page letter of Maria Heckewelder to Matthew S. Henry requesting him to relinquish the volume; and some Heckewelder letters. Originals at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Collection:Journey with the commissioners to the Indian treaty (Mss.Film.805.1)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Language:English
Date:1848-2004, bulk 1961-1968
Contributor:Abler, Thomas S., (Thomas Struthers), 1941-2019
Type:Text | Still Image
Genre:Correspondence | Microfilms | Notebooks | Dissertations | Calendars | Newsletters | Reports | Field notes | Interviews
Extent:3 linear feet
Description: This collection contains documentation of the formation of the Seneca Nation of Indians in the 19th century as well as the protest to and aftermath of the construction of the Kinzua Dam that flooded Seneca land.
Collection:Thomas Abler Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.277)