Correspondence and drawings from students, business records and official correspondence accumulated by A.W. Smith while teaching in La Push, Neah Bay, and Mora, Washington (Territory and State). Significant correspondents include Myron Eells, Samuel G...
Description:
A.W. Smith was a teacher in the United States Indian School Service, and established a school in La Push, Washington Territory in 1882.
Subject (Geographic):
Washington (State), La Push (Wash.), Neah Bay (Wash.), and Mora (Wash.)
Subject (Name):
Smith, A.W. (Allison W.)
Subject (Topic):
Quileute Indians, Social life and customs, Makah Indians, Indians of North America, Children's art, Education, and Indian agents
Circa thirty letters, most autograph, signed, to George LeRoy Brown, primarily concerning his term as acting Indian agent of Pine Ridge Agency in South Dakota. Brown's dispute with writer and activist Charles Eastman is particularly well documented. B...
Description:
George LeRoy Brown (1849-1921) was acting Indian agent at the Pine Ridge Agency from 1891 to 1893, following the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890. An 1872 graduate of West Point, Brown served as professor of military science at Delaware College, later th...
Subject (Geographic):
South Dakota. and Pine Ridge (S.D.)
Subject (Name):
Brown, George LeRoy, 1849-1921., Cutcheon, Byron M., 1836-1908., Eastman, Charles A., 1858-1939., Hare, William Hobart, 1838-1909., Pratt, Richard Henry, 1840-1924., Sanford, George B. 1842-1908. (George Bliss),, Welsh, Herbert, 1851-1941., and United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency.
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians, Government relations, Indian agents, and Indian reservations
The collection consists of journals, financial documents, account books, correspondence, photographs and maps that document the professional and personal life of George W. Conover. The bulk of the material dates from the turn of the twentieth century,...
Description:
George W. Conover (1848-1936), a native of Philadelphia, was a merchant, rancher and Indian agent in southwestern Oklahoma. From 1870 to 1873 he worked at the Indian commissary at Fort Sill, after which he moved to the area of Andarko to become a ranc...
Subject (Geographic):
Oklahoma., Andarko (Okla.), Caddo County (Okla.), Indian Territory., Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indian Reservation (Okla.), Oklahoma, Wichita Reservation (Okla.), and Indian Territory
Subject (Name):
Conover, George W., 1848- and Conover, Tomasa.
Subject (Topic):
Businessmen, Caddo Indians, Comanche Indians, Delaware Indians, Indian agents, Kiowa Indians, Land settlement, Indians of North America, Ranchers, Statehood (American politics), Wichita Indians, Government relations, Land tenure, Indian reservations, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
John Owen's letterbook contains copies of his letters and documents relating to his work as a Flathead Indian agent, St. Mary's mission and Fort Owen, relations between the Indians and the Catholic missions and the white settlers, the Hudson's Bay Com...
Description:
John Owen came to the northwest in 1849 with the Oregon Rifles and became their sutler at Cantonment Loring. In 1850 he settled as a trader in Bitter Root Valley and two years later he purchased St. Mary's Mission where he built Fort Owen. He served a...
Subject (Geographic):
Indiana.
Subject (Name):
Owen, John, 1818-1889., Hudson's Bay Company., and United States. Army. Mounted Rifle Regiment.
Subject (Topic):
Cantonment Loring (Ind.), Indian agents, and Salish Indians
John Owen's letterbook contains copies of his letters and documents relating to his work as a Flathead Indian agent, St. Mary's mission and Fort Owen, relations between the Indians and the Catholic missions and the white settlers, the Hudson's Bay Com...
Description:
John Owen came to the northwest in 1849 with the Oregon Rifles and became their sutler at Cantonment Loring. In 1850 he settled as a trader in Bitter Root Valley and two years later he purchased St. Mary's Mission where he built Fort Owen. He served a...
Subject (Geographic):
Indiana.
Subject (Name):
Owen, John, 1818-1889., Hudson's Bay Company., and United States. Army. Mounted Rifle Regiment.
Subject (Topic):
Cantonment Loring (Ind.), Indian agents, and Salish Indians
