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Language:English
Date:1798-1810
Contributor:Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816
Subject:Indian agents | Government relations | Diplomacy | Land claims | Land tenure | Politics and government | Agriculture | Social life and customs | Economic conditions | Surveying
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence | Speeches | Memoranda
Extent:285 pages
Description: Original in possession of Independence National Historical Park. Letter book kept by Hawkins at the Creek Agency relating to Indian affairs, including outgoing letters, memoranda, and speeches to and from the Creeks and Choctaws. Topics include an attempt to survey the St. Mary's River and Spanish-U.S. relations. Includes a "sketch" of the Indians at the Creek Agency discussing political organization, agriculture, manufacture, public establishments, and justice. Materials written variously at Fort Wilkinson, Tukabatchee, and Coweta.
Collection:Benjamin Hawkins letterbook, 1798-1810 (Mss.Film.680)
Language:English
Date:1803
Contributor:Wilson, Patrick
Subject:Expeditions | Louisiana Purchase | Louisiana--History | Economic conditions | Agriculture
Type:Text
Genre:Memoirs | Travel narratives
Extent:2 pages
Description: "Observations while passing thro' the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Cherokee nations." No. 3 in Explorations in the Louisiana Country. Reverend Patrick Wilson describes his observations while traveling on a road built between Choctaw and Chickasaw country, including the state of Native-white relations and the growing white population in the area. At Muscle Shoals, he stays with Cherokee chiefs Doublehead and Skiowska. Notes that many Native peoples have good farms, good furnishings, good fences, and good stock, and that one Native man runs an inn.
Collection:Mémoire sur le district du Ouachita dans la province de la Louisianne, [1803] (Mss.917.6.Ex7)
Culture:
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1890
Contributor:Carrington, Henry Beebee, 1824-1912
Subject:Censuses | United States--Census, 1890 | Agriculture | Population | Land tenure | Government relations | Economic conditions
Type:Text
Genre:Reports | Notes | Censuses | Government Documents and Records
Extent:1 volume (251 pages)
Description: Notes taken for the eleventh Census of the U.S., 22nd Division. It lists chiefs, crops, population, diseases, houses, other property and values of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) in New York.
Collection:Notes on the Six Nations (New York), 1890, successors to the Five Nations which once constituted the League or Confederacy of the Iriquois" [sic]...." (Mss.970.4.C23)