Letter asking Martin Townsend to draft and present a bill to Congress providing for the education of Nez Percé prisoners at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute at government expense.
Subject (Name):
Armstrong, S. C. (Samuel Chapman), 1839-1893, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.), and Townsend, Martin I. (Martin Ingham), 1810-1903
Subject (Topic):
Nez Percé Indians--Education and Nez Percé Indians--Government relations
Holograph manuscript, with corrections and a table of contents, providing an account of Christian missionarary work among the Iroquois, Cherokees, California Indians, Eskimo, Wyandots, Objibwas and other American Indians. Includes sections on Hans Egede's work among Greenland's Eskimo population, the efforts of Presbyterians in Alaska, and the Franciscan's California missions. Includes an incomplete chapter about Richard Henry Pratt and the schools he established in St. Augustine, Florida, Virginia, and Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Description:
Margaret Winslow authored numerous young adult novels between 1875 and 1892 while living in Boston, Massachusetts and Saugerties, New York. She also published promotional stories about the American women's gospel temperance movement and the YMCA. and Purchased from Carmen D. Valentino on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2002.
Subject (Name):
Egede, Hans,--1686-1758, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.), Pratt, Richard Henry,--1840-1924, and United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)
Subject (Topic):
Cherokee Indians--Missions, Cree Indians--Missions, Eskimos--Missions--Greenland, Franciscans--California, Indians of North America--Missions, Indians of North America--Missions--California, Indians of North America--Missions--Northwest Territories, Iroquois Indians--Missions, Ojibwa Indians--Missions, Presbyterians--Missions--Alaska, and Wyandot Indians--Missions
