Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

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1. The Story of Patchy

   The collection contains a typescript of an unpublished manuscript, with photographs, concerning the story of Apache May (Patchy), a young Apache girl found in May of 1896 in an abandoned Apache camp by John Slaughter, a Cochise County cattleman and former ...

   castanoe - 2020-06-09 13:54

2. Tenodor Ten Eyck Papers

   Consists mostly of diaries and biographical material relating to Tenodor Ten Eyck, from 1860-1890. The nine diaries cover different stages in his adult life; most have typed transcriptions. ...

   castanoe - 2020-06-15 15:13

3. Letterbook of Rueben Augustine Wilbur

   Rueben Augustine Wilbur was a U.S. Indian Agent for the Papago Reservation in Arizona Territory in the 1870s. The collection contains chiefly letters, from Oct. 2, 1871 to Dec. 8, 1874, addressed to his superiors in the Bureau of Indian Affairs concerning ...

   castanoe - 2020-08-06 16:16

4. Record of William Henry Corbusier, Colonel, U.S. Army Retired

   Colonel William Henry Corbusier served as a surgeon for the U.S. Army in Arizona Territories from 1872 to 1875 and from 1884 to1888. This collection contains a typescript of biographical accounts and reminiscences about events at military posts. These ...

   castanoe - 2020-08-14 11:41

5. The Navajos and the Indian Bureau

   John Henry Holst was the Supervisor of Indian Education for the U.S. Department of the Interior from 1928 to 1943. The collection contains an original typescript with holograph corrections, written in 1950, concerning chiefly concerning education on the ...

   castanoe - 2020-08-14 11:43

6. Letter Book of J. H. Stout

   Holograph, carbon letter book covering the period December 1, 1871 to March 21, 1875. Letters are from Stout chiefly to his superiors and benefactors back east and describe the needs and conditions of the people and the reservation school. ...

   castanoe - 2020-08-14 11:49

7. Papers of Berard Haile

   Correspondence, manuscripts of published and unpublished works, notes, drawings, notebooks, sermons, prayers, and historical accounts relate to Haile's study of Navajo ceremonials and the Navajo language. ...

   castanoe - 2020-08-24 10:37

8. Reports of a Land Management Survey, Navajo Indian Reservation

   The collection consists of 54 bound folders containing reports and statistics of a land management survey on the Navajo Indian Reservation, relating to the agronomy, soil and water conservation problems existing on the reservation during the 1930s. The ...

   castanoe - 2020-08-25 12:20

9. Derrotero de los Padres Fray Francisco Atanacio Domínguez, and Fr. Silvestre Vélez, de Escalante, en sus exploraciónes, desde las missiones de Zuñy del Nuevo Mexico, hasta las ymmediaciones de Monte Rey de California

   Collection includes eighteenth-century copy of the diary kept by Vélez de Escalante on his expedition with Dominguez through the four corners area of the American Southwest, July 29, 1776 to Jan. 2, 1777. Although unsuccessful in their mission to find a ...

   castanoe - 2020-08-26 10:07

10. Diario, de las ultimas peregrinaciones del Padre Fr. Francisco Garcés, hasta la provincia del Moqui, y noticias de varias nuevas naciones exparcidas hasta el Rio Colorado en California

    Francisco Tomás Hermenegildo Garcés (1738-1781) was a Spanish Franciscan missionary, explorer of the Southwest United States, and priest at San Xavier del Bac, near Tucson, AZ, beginning in 1768. Eighteenth century manuscript copy of Padre Francisco ...

    castanoe - 2020-08-26 10:12

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