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Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Susquehannock includes: Conestoga
Piscataway includes: Conoy
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no
Language:English
Date:1725-1759
Contributor:Delaware chiefs | Logan, James, 1674-1751 | Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760 | Peters, Richard, 1704-1776 | Penn, John, 1700-1746
Subject:Land transfers | Land claims | Diplomacy | Treaties | Ohio--History | New Jersey--History | Pennsylvania--History | Murder
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Minutes | Memoranda | Accounts | Reports
Extent:27 items
Description: Correspondence and other materials relating to Indian affairs. Topics include land claims; treaties and diplomatic conferences; Indian complaints of dispossession and mistreatment; "Minguay" (Mingo?) expense of Indian diplomacy; illness and death of Allumapis; Conrad Weiser's activities in the service of the colony; Delawares and other Indians in Ohio; hanging of Indian in New Jersey; efforts to make the Haudenosaunee "overlords" of Pennsylvania's nearer Native neighbors; the Walking Purchase; Shawnees "making trouble"; fears of Indians going over to the French. Individuals mentioned include Allumapis, Christopher Pyrlaeus, Conrad Weiser, Shickellamy, Teedyuscung, Christopher Stump, Hugh Jones, Mannakahickan, Broken Thigh, Captain Newcastle, James Logan, Governor Ogle; Nutimus.
Collection:Selections from the correspondence of the Honourable James Logan, 1699-1750 (Mss.B.L82)
Language:English
Date:July 12, 1760-December 10, 1760
Contributor:Fort Pitt Quartermaster
Type:Text
Genre:Account books
Extent:1 volume
Description: Cash book of quartermaster of Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania. Receipts of payments by Horatio Gates, Robert Monckton, Sir John St. Clair, and others. There are expenditures for oats, candles, hire of horses and drivers, tobacco, rum, express riders, etc. Sundries sold to Indians; Indians buy venison; James Milwe, surgeon's mate, paid for attending sick Indians.
Collection:Burd-Shippen Papers (Mss.B.B892)
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Date:1880-1932
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Calhoun, Morgan, 1863?-1927 | West Long, Will, 1870-1947 | Mooney, James, 1861-1921 | Wolf, James | Witthoft, John
Subject:Botany | Ethnography | Medicine | Religion | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks | Diaries | Account books | Records | Ledgers | Vocabularies | Transcriptions
Extent:22 items
Description: The Frank Speck Cherokee Collection consists of diaries, accounts, and medicinal texts in Cherokee (syllabary) collected by Will West Long and Morgan Calhoun, accompanied by notes by Speck and John Witthoft. These include several diaries kept by Long (mostly 1904-1917), records of the Gadugi (a Cherokee mutual aid group), accounts, records of births and deaths at Big Cove, and material collected on Cherokee botany collected by James Mooney in 1887. Several of the items contain information on Cherokee medicine, including formulae and curing charms. Many of these items have been designated as culturally sensitive and may not be reproduced, nor photographed in the Reading Room.
Collection:Frank Gouldsmith Speck Cherokee Collection (Mss.572.97.Sp3L)
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Language:English
Date:1817-1883
Contributor:United Church Board for World Ministries
Subject:Missions | Religion | United Church Board for World Ministries
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence | Reports | Accounts | Memoranda
Extent:64 reels
Description: These papers include letters, reports, accounts, and memoranda relating to the work of the American Board of Home Missions among the Abenaki, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Dakota, Ojibwa, Miami, Osage, Pawnee, Penobscot, and Stockbridge-Munsee peoples of Arkansas, New York, and Oregon. Originals in Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Collection:Papers, 1817-1883, relating to North American Indian missions (Mss.Film.1223)
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Language:English
Date:1753-1763
Contributor:Croghan, George, 1720?-1782 | Galbreath, Bartram | Hamilton, James, 1710-1783 | Hunter, Samuel, 1732-1784 | Ourry, Captain Lewis | Sallen, E. | Shippen, Edward, 1729-1806 | Burd, James, 1726-1793 | Brown, Joseph | McCormick, Dennis | Armstrong, John, 1717-1795 | Davenport, Josiah F. | Irvine, James
Subject:United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 | Warfare | Pennsylvania--History | Diplomacy | Treaties | Fur trade
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Reports | Depositions | Memoranda | Permits | Account books
Extent:17 items
Description: Correspondence and other material relating to Pennsylvania Indian affairs during the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) era. Topics include various actions, rumors, and events during the course of the war; capture of an Indian spy; Indian attacks and reports of Indian attacks; a reward given for killing three Indians; the process of coming to peace; requests for trade goods; illegal liquor sales to Indians, especially land claims and disputes; horse theft; expenses of cutting a road; Indian battle at Murray Hill; Individuals (other than contributors) mentioned include John Sacalamus, Colonel Henry Bouquet, Sushocapee.
Collection:Burd-Shippen Papers (Mss.B.B892)
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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)