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Aaniiih includes: A'aninin, Atsina, Gros Ventre
Language:English
Date:September 9-10, 1805
Contributor:Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809
Type:Text
Genre:Journals
Extent:4 pages
Description: Minnetaree, Flathead (Tushepaw), Snake.
Collection:Lewis and Clark Journals (Mss.917.3.L58)
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Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Language:English
Date:1792-1813
Contributor:Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Subject:Medicine | Little Turtle, 1747?-1812 | Physical anthropology
Type:Text
Genre:Journals
Extent:373 p.
Description: This item primarily contains entries about prominent people (primarily accounts of their deaths) and matters pertaining to life in Philadelphia. Some Indigenous-related content includes questions for Meriwether Lewis on Indigenous physical history, medicine, morals, and religion; a meeting with Captain Wells and the Myaamia leader, Little Turtle; plus some speculations on Indigenous skin color at the equator.
Collection:Benjamin Rush commonplace book, 1792-1813 (Mss.B.R89c)
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Language:English
Date:1804
Contributor:Hunter, George, 1755-1823
Subject:Expeditions | Mounds | Warfare | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Botany | Louisiana--History | Music | Arkansas--History
Type:Text
Genre:Journals | Travel narratives
Extent:107 pages
Description: "Journal up the Red and Washita rivers, with William Dunbar, by order of the U.S. with list of common names of some of the trees and vegetables from the River Washita." No. 2 of Explorations in the Louisiana Country. Describes mounds near Natchez and on the Ouachita. Mentions Caddo trace; Captain Jacobs, a Delaware Indian; Chickasaws, Choctaws, Osages (Little Osages and Grand Osages) and Pascagoulas; warfare and raids; and the singing of a Choctaw woman mourning a child. Printed (abstract only) as Jefferson (1806). [See also Hunter journals #473, volumes 2, 3, 4, May 27, 1804-March 29, 1805.]
Collection:Mémoire sur le district du Ouachita dans la province de la Louisianne, [1803] (Mss.917.6.Ex7)
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Language:English
Date:1790-1791
Contributor:Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 | Swan, Caleb
Subject:Government relations | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Extent:1 volume, 43 p.
Description: This volume includes the report of Caleb Swan to Henry Knox, Secretary of War (1791), in which he reports contact with and observations of the Creek Indians, while acting as deputy agent to the Creek Nation.
Collection:Caleb Swan journal extracts (Mss.B.B284.d.vol.32)
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Clatsop includes: Klatsop
Language:English
Date:November 29-December 1, 1805
Contributor:Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809
Type:Text
Genre:Journals
Extent:8 pages
Description: Mentions Clatsop Indians
Collection:Lewis and Clark Journals (Mss.917.3.L58)
Language:Spanish
Date:1780-1800
Contributor:Moncroy, Francisco de Paula | Aniles, Gabriel de | Carabed, Josef Eustagius | Dios, Juan de | Laura Inga, Andres | Pannilla, Manuel | Tupacatary Inga, Julian | Tupa-Amaro Inga, Andres | Tupa-Amaro Inga, Miguel | Tupac-Amaru, José Gabriel, 1742-1781 | Segurola, Sebastián de, 1740-1789 | Losa, Esteban de
Subject:Bolivia--History | Peru--History
Type:Text
Genre:Speeches | Declarations | Proclamations | Depositions | Correspondence | Statements | Diaries | Journals
Extent:26 items
Description: Items relating to the uprising of Túpac Amaru II (José Gabriel Condorcanqui) in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru, 1781-1783. Bulk 1780-1783. Topics include the proclamation of Túpac Amaru II entitling himself Inca; the Siege of La Paz; Spanish efforts to relieve La Paz; the capture of Túpac Amaru II and his wife and family; the pardon and pension of Túpac Amaru II [as most sources indicate that he was executed in 1781, it is possible that he is here confused with others who took the name Túpac Amaru]; an affidavit given by former prisoners of Túpac Amaru II; an official copy of the sentence and execution of the indigenous leader Chabe Diego (Janos) Christoval Túpac Amaru and others; and the 1800 opinion of the Fiscal Villaba respecting the lenient and conciliatory measures to be adopted toward indigenous rebels as an alternative to persecution.
Collection:Collection of Peruvian manuscripts, 1790-1800, 1820 (Mss.980.P75)
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Dakota includes: Dakȟóta
Language:English
Date:August 9-12, 1806
Contributor:Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809
Type:Text
Genre:Journals
Extent:7 pages
Description: Brief mention of Sioux only. Ends with Lewis being shot.
Collection:Lewis and Clark Journals (Mss.917.3.L58)
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Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:English
Date:1745
Contributor:Brainerd, David, 1718-1747
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | New Jersey--History | Missions | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Diaries | Journals | Sermons | Travel narratives
Extent:46 pages
Description: Missionary David Brainerd spent much of his life working to convert Native peoples, particularly Stockbridge and Delaware (and Susquehanna-area) Indians, to Protestant Christianity until his death of tuberculosis in 1747. This journal from 1745 recounts Brainerd's time in western Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, and his encounters with both Native Americans and settlers. The vast majority of the journal depicts Brainerd's time in the Upper Susquehanna River Valley. Brainerd's journals and autobiography were published after his death to promote missionary efforts to Native Americans. However, scholars have determined that these published accounts were largely written by Brainerd and Jonathan Edwards in 1747, when the dying Brainerd returned to New England and resided with Edwards during his final illness. They edited Brainerd's journals to make his efforts appear more successful, hoping to spur others to follow in his footsteps. The journal held at the American Philosophical Society is an original journal that was written by Brainerd during his missionary years and differs from the one published after his death by Jonathan Edwards. See the finding aid for more information about these discrepencies.
Collection:David Brainerd diary, July 14, 1745 - November 20, 1745 (Mss.B.B74j)
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Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1755-1759
Contributor:Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824 | Johnson, William, 1715-1774 | Post, Christian Frederick, 1710?-1785
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Diplomacy | Politics and government | United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 | Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 | Ohio--History
Type:Text
Genre:Treaties | Minutes | Correspondence | Journals | Travel narratives | Essays
Extent:10 items
Description: Various items relating to Delaware-Pennsylvania relations in the 1750s including the first and second treaties at Easton; five council meetings held at Philadelphia; journal of Christian Frederick Post in his journey from Philadelphia to the Ohio; Charles Thompson's "An enquiry into the causes of the alienation of the Delaware and Shawanese"; and a letter from Sir William Johnson to James Abercrombie regarding his peace with the Delawares. Individuals mentioned include Teedyuscung, Conrad Weiser, Robert Hunter Morris, Governor Denny, Benjamin Franklin, Governor Morris, Richard Peters, Iagrea, Captain Newcastle, Barbet ("a Mohock"), John Pumpshire ("Jersey Indian"), Scarroyady, Andrew Montour, Daniel Claus, George Croghan, and Indian messengers Nathanial, Zacharias, and Christian.
Collection:Manuscripts on Indian affairs (Mss.970.4.M415)
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Language:Spanish
Date:1748-1759
Contributor:Parras, Pedro José, -1788?
Subject:South America--History | Uruguay--History | Argentina--History | Paraguay--History | Missions | Jesuits | Spain--History
Type:Text
Extent:1 volume (450 pages)
Description: A travel narrative devoted in part to travels in Spain and to descriptions of Montevideo and Buenos Aires. One half of the work is the author's relation of a trip through Paraguay, visiting various mission pueblos. He provides a general description of life, education, and Christian teaching for the Indians. Includes list of Jesuits at various missions.
Collection:Diario y derrotero de los viages que ha hecho desde que salió de la Ciudad de Zaragosa en Aragón para la América, 1748-1759 (Mss.918.P24)