Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

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1. Ben J. McKinney Oral Interview / 1963 February 9

   Ben J. McKinney, born in 1883, was a pioneer cattleman who owned and operated the Ventana Ranch on the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation from 1919 to the early 1930s. This collection contains a carbon transcript of a tape recording of McKinney being ...

   castanoe - 2022-07-07 11:11

2. Pedro de Arriquibar Letters

   The collection contains two holograph letters, dated Aug. 6 and Dec. 6, 1796, from Pedro de Arriquibar, chaplain of the Presidio de San Agustín del Tucson, to Bishop Fray Francisco Rouset de Jesus, Diocese of Sonora, Mexico. The letters provide a brief ...

   castanoe - 2022-07-15 12:07

3. Hopi Traditionalist Movement Papers

   The Hopi Traditionalist movement opposed policies of Hopi Tribal Council, Peabody Coal Company, Indian Claims Commission, and others which threatened traditional Hopi land and life. This collection consists of correspondence, transcripts of meetings, ...

   castanoe - 2022-07-18 13:29

4. Charles Sheldon Papers

   This collection consists chiefly of two journals and photographic materials documenting Charles Sheldon's desert bighorn sheep collecting expeditions from 1912 to 1916. The second journal also documents his studies of the Seri Indians and Tiburon ...

   castanoe - 2022-07-19 15:02

5. Guadalupe, Arizona, Townsite Papers

   This collection contains the earliest information about the founding (c. 1910) of a Yaqui Indian settlement southeast of Phoenix in Maricopa County, AZ, now a Yaqui-Mexican town. Included in this collection is a holograph and typescript (photocopy) of ...

   castanoe - 2022-07-25 12:05

6. Report of an Exploration, Written at Mission Dolores, Pimeria A

   The collection contains holograph reports of an expedition made by Eusebio Francisco Kino, a Jesuit missionary, and Father Antonio Leal into southwestern Arizona, known at the time as Pimeria Alta, in 1699. Includes extensive description of the geography, ...

   castanoe - 2022-07-25 17:02

7. Records of the Province of St. John the Baptist Franciscans

   The collection includes correspondence, financial records, official documents, reports, maps, articles, publications, photographs, postcards, and notes. The bulk of the collection is correspondence and records relating to the establishment and operation ...

   castanoe - 2022-08-01 13:31

8. Manuscripts for Publication

   Typescript drafts and galley proofs of five works mainly concerned with the late nineteenth century history of the American West. ...

   castanoe - 2022-08-05 15:32

9. United States Army, Military Division of the Missouri Correspondence

   During the time these documents were written, the Military Division of the Missouri included Texas and the Indian Territory. The 10th Cavalry, better known as the Buffalo Soldiers, was formed after the Civil War. One of the officers was Henry O. Flipper, ...

   castanoe - 2022-08-08 12:52

10. Memorias sobre las provincias del norte de Nueva Espana

    José María Cortés y de Olarte (d. 1811) was a Spanish military engineer who served in New Spain. The collection includes an early nineteenth-century copy of  Memorias sobre las provincias del norte de Nueva Espana made in Spain for Edward King, Viscount ...

    castanoe - 2022-08-08 13:00

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