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
Photographs of Dakota Indian camps and of St. Elizabeth Mission in South Dakota. Loose photographs depict camps and winter houses and families, their pets and livestock. There are several portraits of school children and students, perhaps at Hampton Institute. Some manuscript captions refer to ration distribution at Rock Creek sub-agency. One bears the caption "Tina [Lina?] Deloria St. Elizabeth's Mission." There are also views of the Grand River, the Winooskie River, and the Eagle's Nest Butte, The photograph album contains a series of images of the construction of a miniature tipi for a young child, snapshots of family groups, a tree burial, girls on horseback, and the "First Church of Flying-By.", Photographs attached to 10 leaves of lined paper are heavily annotated, and depict trips to Rosebud agency or the Rock Creek sub-agency for rations or meetings, with views of the camps made along the way, and There are two pamphlets concerning the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, one of which is from the Massachusetts Hampton Association. There is a single issue of "Talks and Thoughts of the Hampton Indian Students," dated December 1903. Two manuscript fragments appear to be notes on Indian history
Description:
Manuscript captions accompany many of the photographs. One card photograph, published by Seymour of Sioux City, Iowa, and one unmounted print of two children in cradleboards, copyright 1898 by Lee Morehouse, are present among the otherwise anonymous photographs. and With three publications concerning the Hampton Institute, ca. 1900, and two undated manuscript fragments.
Subject (Geographic):
South Dakota, St. Elizabeth's Mission, Wakpala, and Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.)
Subject (Name):
Deloria, Tina. and Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Dakota Indians, and Indian reservations
