Manuscript diary in the hand of Henry Ridinger, 1878-1882. Ridinger describes his work as a herder in Colorado, landscapes and topography in Colorado, Navajo settlements, working in the hay trade, a shooting and arrest in Colorado, and his travel thr...
Description:
Henry Ridinger (1851-1938) was born in either Iowa or Illinois in 1851. His family moved to Kansas in 1857 and he left home at the age of 11, circa 1862. He worked as a cattle herder and hay farmer in Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma for several years i...
Subject (Geographic):
Colorado., Oklahoma., Oklahoma, Colorado, Indian Territory, and Kansas
Subject (Name):
Ridinger, Henry, 1851-1938. and Ridinger, Sam
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture, Cherokee Indians, Crime, Hay trade, Herders, Hunting, Indians of North America, Government relations, Jews, Navajo Indians, Osage Indians, Pawnee Indians, Ute Indians, Waco Indians, and Description and travel
The papers consist of correspondence, maps and documents relating to two delegations led by John Coffee to negotiate with the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations. The first delegation (in 1829) was to gather information on a Cherokee and Cr...
Description:
General John Coffee (1772-1833), born in Tennessee, was a delegate of the United States Government in negotiations with Indian nations of the southern states during the Andrew Jackson administration, and was a friend and business partner of President ...
Subject (Geographic):
Southern States., Cherokee Nation, and Creek Nation
Subject (Name):
Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866., Coffee, John, 1772-1833., Eaton, John., Forsyth, John., and Long, George W.
Subject (Topic):
Cherokee Indians, Government relations, Chickasaw Indians, Relocation, Chocktaw Indians, Creek Indians, Indians of North America, Indian Removal, 1813-1903, and Boundaries
The papers consist of correspondence, maps and documents relating to two delegations led by John Coffee to negotiate with the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations. The first delegation (in 1829) was to gather information on a Cherokee and Cr...
Description:
General John Coffee (1772-1833), born in Tennessee, was a delegate of the United States Government in negotiations with Indian nations of the southern states during the Andrew Jackson administration, and was a friend and business partner of President ...
Subject (Geographic):
Southern States., Cherokee Nation, and Creek Nation
Subject (Name):
Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866., Coffee, John, 1772-1833., Eaton, John., Forsyth, John., and Long, George W.
Subject (Topic):
Cherokee Indians, Government relations, Chickasaw Indians, Relocation, Chocktaw Indians, Creek Indians, Indians of North America, Indian Removal, 1813-1903, and Boundaries
The letters to John Flett, special sub-Indian agent at Wapato Lake, request information about the Indians in his area and their attitude toward the hostile Indians, and give instructions on gathering the Indians in encampments. There is a letter from ...
Description:
General Joel Palmer, first superintendent of Indian affairs for Oregon Territory.
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon
Subject (Name):
Blanchard, P. D., Flett, John, 1815-1892., Jennings, Berryman., and Palmer, Joel, 1810-1881.
An incomplete set of images from a portfolio of studio portrait photographs of Indian delegates to the United States created by the photographic studio of Alexander Gardner in Washington, D.C., for the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, England, 1872. Indi...
Description:
Photographs are mounted on boards with typescript captions and image numbers 82, 86, 94, 95, 97, 102, 106, 111, 114, 117, and 120.
Subject (Name):
Alvord, Henry E. 1844-1904. (Henry Elijah),, Antelope, Big Foot, d. 1890, Black Crow, Cayote, Chewing Elk, Esquitzchew, Gap In The Salt, Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882., Gray Leggings, Jim Comanche Indian, Knee-War-War, Blackmore Museum (Salisbury, England), and Keeche Tribe
Subject (Topic):
Arapaho Indians, Caddo Indians, Comanche Indians, Indians of North America, Government relations, Kiowa Indians, Tawakoni Indians, and Wichita Indians
Studio portrait photographs of Dakota Indian delegates to the United States created by the photographic studio of Alexander Gardner in Washington, D.C., for the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, England, 1872. The imprints for the leaves, which include th...
Description:
Title from accompanying title and contents leaves.
Publisher:
Gibson Brothers, printers
Subject (Name):
Big Foot, d. 1890, Blackmore, William, 1827-1878, Blue Horse, Cayote, Dirt Face, Ear of Corn, Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882., Hard Heart, Lone Wolf, Dakota Indian, One Afraid of the Eagle, Poor Elk, Red Cloud, 1822-1909, Red Dog, Dakota Indian, Slow Bull, Two Elks, White Hawk, and Blackmore Museum (Salisbury, England)
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians, Indians of North America, and Government relations
Studio portrait photographs of Teton Indian delegates to the United States created by the photographic studio of Alexander Gardner in Washington, D.C., for the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, England, 1872. The primarily male delegates represent the dis...
Description:
Title from accompanying title and contents leaves.
Publisher:
Gibson Brothers, Printers
Subject (Name):
Afraid of the Bear, Bears Nose, Black Eye, Black Horn, Bloody Mouth, Bull Rushes, Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882., Good Hawk, Long Fox, Lost Medicine, Many Horns, Medicine Bear, Red Lodge, Red Thunder, Skin of the Heart, Walking Crane, Whoe-A-Ke, Yellow Eagle, Simmons, A. J., and Blackmore Museum (Salisbury, England)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Government relations, and Teton Indians
Photographs of the Menominee Warrior Society armed occupation of the Alexian Brothers Novitiate, Gresham, Wisconsin, January-February 1975. Images include interiors and exteriors of the monastery, portraits of Menominee Warrior Society wearing ski ma...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Wisconsin, Shawano County., and Gresham (Wis.)
Subject (Name):
Banks, Dennis., Brando, Marlon., Luck, Owen Craig, 1947-, Simonson, Hugh., Alexian Brothers Novitiate (Gresham, Wis.), American Indian Movement., Menominee Warrior Society., and Wisconsin. National Guard.
Subject (Topic):
Indian children, Indians of North America, Menominee Indians, Government relations, Prisoners, Sheriffs, and Tlingit Indians
