| 1 | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Protestant missionaries to the American Indians, 1787 to 1862
| | | | Dates: | 1787-1862 | | | | Abstract: | In this dissertation Berkhofer compares and contrasts the differing missionary activities of Quakers, Moravians, Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Baptists, and Methodists, to reactions among the Oneida, Seneca, Cherokee, Choctaw, Ojibwa, Sioux, Ottawa, and Nez Percé Indians. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.1157 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Baptists -- Missions. | Berkhofer, Robert Frederick, Jr. | Cherokee Indians | Choctaw Indians | Congregationalists -- Missions. | Dakota Indians | Methodists -- Missions. | Microfilm Collection | Missionaries | Moravians -- Missions. | Nez Percé Indians | Ojibwa Indians | Oneida Indians | Ottawa Indians | Presbyterians -- Missions. | Quakers -- Missions. | Seneca Indians | |
| 2 | Creator: | United Church Board for World Ministries. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Papers,1817-1883, relating to North American Indian missions
| | | | Dates: | 1817-1883 | | | | Abstract: | These papers include letters, reports, accounts, and memoranda relating to the work of the American Board of Home Missions among the Abnaki, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Dakota, Mackinaw, Maumee, Mayhaw, Ojibwa, Osage, Pawnee, Penobscot, Sioux, and Stockbridge Indians of Arkansas, New York, and Oregon. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.1223 | | | | Extent: | 64.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abenaki Indians | Accounts. | Cherokee Indians | Chickasaw Indians | Choctaw Indians | Creek Indians | Dakota Indians | Indians of North America--Missions | Memoranda. | Microfilm Collection | Ojibwa Indians | Osage Indians | Pawnee Indians | Penobscot Indians | Reports. | Stockbridge Indians | |
| 3 | Creator: | Gillespie, John D. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Miscellaneous collection on the American Indian, 1949-1961
| | | | Dates: | 1949-1961 | | | | Abstract: | This collection pertains principally to the Cherokees of North Carolina and Oklahoma and to their language, ethnography, folklore, archeology, history, music, etc. Includes Indian studies and correspondence by Gillespie, notes on Indian dances and linguistics, bibliographies, publications of the Archaeological Society of Brigham Young University, and newspaper clippings. Also comprised of materials on: Apache, Calusa, Chippewa, Choctaw, Delaware, Eskimo, Fox, Iroquois, Karankawa, Kuchin, Louchens, Mattaponi, Muskogee, Navajo, Onondaga, Pueblo, Sauk, Seminole, Seneca, Shawnee, Sioux, Slave, Timucua, Tuscarora, Tutelo, and Wyandot. Contains: Gillespie, "A grammar of western dialect of Cherokee language of the Iroquoian family," 1949-1954 (131 pages); "Miscellaneous material on the Cherokee Indians and language"; "Miscellaneous items pertaining to the American Indian." | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.G41 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Archaeological Society of Brigham Young University.. | Cherokee Indians | Cherokee dance | Cherokee language | Cheyenne Indians | Choctaw Indians | Clippings. | Gelatin silver prints | Gillespie, John D. | Indian dance--North America | Indians of North America--Languages | Indians of North America--North Carolina | Indians of North America--Oklahoma | Indians of North America--Tennessee | Junaluska, d.1858 | Maps. | Navajo Indians. | Newspaper clippings | Photomechanical prints | Photoprints. | Postcards | Pueblo Indians | Sequoyah, 1770?-1843 | Sketches. | Southeast Indians | |
| 4 | Creator: | Paulmier, Charles Francois Adrien le,chevalier d'Annemours,1742-1809. | Requires cookie* | | | | Wilson, James P.(James Patriot),1769-1830. | | | | Title: | Mémoire sur le district du Ouachita dans la province de la Louisianne, [1803]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1803 | | | | Abstract: | This item is a detailed description of the geography, population, natural resources, and agriculture of the Ouachita River area of the Louisiana Territory. Describes mounds; mentions Cataoulou Indians; also gives figures as to numbers of white and Indian hunters. These pages are a record of travel on a road built between Choctaw and Chickasaw country, with comments on the condition of Indian-white relations, the increase in white population, and Wilson's stay, at Muscle Shoals, with Cherokee chiefs Doublehead and Skiowska. Wilson finds the Indians have good farms, furnishings, fences, and stock, and one Indian runs an inn. | | | | Call #: | Mss.917.6.Ex7 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Cain, Robert H., -- tr. | Cherokee Indians | Chickasaw Indians | Choctaw Indians | Doublehead. | Exploration. | Indians of North America--Social life and customs | Louisiana -- Description and travel. | Louisiana Purchase -- Discovery and exploration. | Mines and mineral resources -- Arkansas. | Native America | Ouachita County (Ark.) -- Economic conditions -- To 1803. | Ouachita County (Ark.) -- Population -- To 1803. | Ouachita River (Ark. and La.) | Paulmier, Charles Francois Adrien le,chevalier d'Annemours,1742-1809. | Skiowska. | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | Wilson, James P.(James Patriot),1769-1830. | |
| 5 | Creator: | Hunter, George, 1755-1824 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | George Hunter Journals
| | | | Dates: | 1796-1809 | | | | Abstract: | Though less well known than their peers Lewis and Clark, William Dunbar and George Hunter played an important role in the early scientific exploration of the Louisiana Purchase. While the original goal of organizing a southern counterpart to the Corps of Discovery proved overly ambitious, Dunbar and Hunter provided important geographic information for future explorations and gave the first scientific description of the Hot Springs of Arkansas and Ouachita Mountains.
The four surviving journals of George Hunter provide engaging accounts of travel in the Ohio and Mississippi Valley in 1796, 1802, and 1809, and include the most interesting record of the expedition to the Hot Springs of Arkansas in 1804-1805, complete with his detailed notes on natural history and meteorology. The volumes also contain various references to relations with the Delaware, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, and Osage Indians. The APS owns a contemporary copy of Hunter's journal (
"Journal up the Red and Washita Rivers with William Dunbar"; Mss.917.6.Ex7), from which extracts were printed in Thomas Jefferson,
Message... Communicating Discoveries Made in Exploring the Missouri (New York, 1806), and which is described by Isaac J. Cox, "An Early Explorer of the Louisiana Purchase," APS
Library Bulletin 1946: 73. The journals were edited by John F. McDermott and published in APS
Transactions 53 (1963). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.H912 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Arkansas--Description and travel | Cherokee Indians | Chickasaw Indians | Choctaw Indians | Delaware Indians | Dunbar, William, 1749-1810 | Exploration | Exploration. | Geology--Kentucky | Hot springs--Arkansas | Hunter, George H. | Hunter, George, 1755-1824 | Illinois--Description and travel--18th century | Journals (notebooks) | Kentucky--Description and travel--18th century | Louisiana Purchase--Discovery and exploration | Louisiana--Description and travel | Meteorology--Louisiana | Native America | Natural history--Louisiana | Osage Indians | Ouachita Mountains Region (Ark. And Okla.)--Discovery and exploration | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | |
| 6 | Creator: | American Philosophical Society. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | American Philosophical Society Archives
| | | | Dates: | 1743-1984 | | | | Abstract: | Founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, the American Philosophical Society was the first learned society in the United States. For over 250 years, the Society has played an important role in American cultural and intellectual life. Until the mid-nineteenth century, the Society fulfilled the role of a national academy of science, national library and museum, and even patent office. Early members of the Society included Thomas Jefferson, David Rittenhouse, Benjamin Rush, Stephen Peter Du Ponceau, George Washington, and many other figures prominent in American history.
The Archives of the American Philosophical Society consists of 192.25 linear feet of material, organized into thirteen record groups dating back to 1743. The Society's archives extensively documents not only the organization's historical development but also its role in American history and the history of science and technology. | | | | Call #: | APS.Archives | | | | Extent: | 192.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Adena culture--West Virginia | African American | American Philosophical Society | Astronomy--18th century | Aztecs. | Bache, A.D., (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Bache, Franklin, 1792-1864 | Bartram, Moses, d. 1791 | Bell, Whitfield J. (Whitfield Jenks) | Brown, Samuel, 1768-1805 | Cherokee Indians | Choctaw Indians | Colonial Politics | Conklin, Edwin Grant, 1863-1952 | Dercum, Francis X. , (Francis Xavier), 1856-1931 | Early National Politics | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Education | Grave Creek Mound (Marshall County, West Virginia) | Hanson, Laura E. | Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843 | Hassler, F. R, (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843 | Hays , I. Minis, (Isaac Minis), 1847-1925 | History of science and technology. | Indians of Mexico | Indians of North America--Kentucky | Indians of North America--Mississippi | Indians of North America--Northwest Coast | Indians of North America--West Virginia | Institutional Records | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Keen, William W., (William Williams), b. 1837 | Legaux, Peter,1748-1827. | Lingelbach , William E., (William Ezra), 1871-1962 | Miscellaneous | Morris, Roland Sletor, 1874-1945 | Mound builders | Native America | Native American Materials | Natural History | Natural History--18th century | Natural History--19th century | Nicola, Lewis, 1717-1807 | Patterson, , Robert M., (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854 | Patterson, Robert, 1743-1824 | Pencil works | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Plains Indians | Priestly, Joseph R. | Science and Technology | Scientific Correspondence | Shryock, Richard Harrison, 1893-1972 | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Southeast Indians | Thornton, William, 1759-1828 | United States History. | Valltravers, Johann Rodolph | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | Warden, David Baillie, 1772-1845 | Williamson, Hugh, 1735-1819 | Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818 | Wood, George Bacon, 1797-1879 | |
| 7 | Creator: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1783-1817 | | | | Abstract: | A physician, natural historian, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Smith Barton (1766-1815) was one of the central figures in Philadelphia's early national scientific establishment. Having received his medical training in European universities, Barton was appointed Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1789, lecturing on botany, materia medica, natural history. A prolific author, he established his reputation as one of the nation's preeminent botanists through his botanical text book
The Elements of Botany (1803), but his contribtions to zoology, ethnology, and medicine were equally noteworthy. Barton's monograph on the "fascinating faculty" of the rattlesnake and his efforts in historical linguistics (
New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America, 1798) were widely read, and his
Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal (1804-1809) was one of the nation's first medical journals and an important outlet for natural historical research.
The Barton Papers offer a comprehensive view of the professional work of Benjamin Smith Barton from the time of his return to the United States in 1789 until his death. The collection is divided into five series: Correspondence, Subject Files, Bound Volumes, Graphic Materials, and Printing Plates. The collection includes a particularly valuable series of botanical, medical, and natural historical drawings collected by Barton for research, reference, and publication. Among the many artists represented are William Bartram, Frederick Pursh, Pierre Turpin, and Benjamin Henry Latrobe. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B284d | | | | Extent: | 10.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Art | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Bartram's Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Bartram, William, 1739-1823 | Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809 | Botanists | Botany--Study and teaching--19th century | Botany--Virginia | Buffalo (N.Y.)--Description and travel | Business and Skilled Trades | Chemistry--18th century | Cherokee Indians | Cherokee language | Choctaw Indians | Diaries. | Drawings. | Dysentery. | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Education | Electricity--18th century | Engravings. | Ethnobotany | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Geology--18th century | Gout | Harden, Jane LeConte | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Hopkins, John Henry, 1792-1868 -- Pictorial works | Hudson River (N.Y.)--Description and travel--18th century | Indians of North America | Indians of North America--Agriculture | Indians of North America--Languages | Kaigana Indians | Kaskaskia Indians | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Mammals--Classification | Mandan Indians | Mastodons | Materia medica | Medicine | Medicine--Practice--18th century | Medicine--Study and teaching--18th century | Meteorology--United States--18th century | Meteors | Mineralogy | Native America | Natural History | Natural history--18th century | Natural history--19th century | New Jersey--Description and travel--18th century | New York (State)--Description and travel--18th century | Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)--Description and travel | Notebooks | Osage language | Pennsylvania--Description and travel--18th century | Physicians--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | Physics | Political Correspondence | Printing and Publishing | Printing plates | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 | Science and Technology | Seminole Indians | Seneca Indians | Sketchbooks | Sketches. | Tlaxcala (Mexico) | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | Turpin, P. J. F., (Pierre Jean François), 1775-1840 | Tuscarora Indians | University of Pennsylvania--Faculty | Venereal disease | Virginia--Description and travel--18th century | Watercolors | Yellow fever | Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1793 | Zoology--18th century | |
| 8 | Creator: | American Philosophical Society. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1960-present | | | | Abstract: | The Phillips Fund Collection consists of materials submitted to the APS by recipients of grants from its Phillips Fund for Native American Research. The materials vary in scope, ranging from linguistics to ethnography, musicology, religion, ethnobotany, and history, and including study of Indian cultures from Canada, the United States, and Mexico. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.Am4 | | | | Extent: | 30.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Acoma language | Anthropology--History | Arapaho Indians--Music | Arapaho language | Athapascan Indians | Athapascan languages | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Cahuilla language | Carrier language | Cherokee Indians | Cherokee Indians--History | Cherokee language | Cheyenne Indians | Cheyenne language | Chickasaw Indians | Chilcotin language | Choctaw Indians | Choctaw language | Cochiti dialect | Columbia-Wenatchi language | Colville Lake (N.W.T.) | Comox language | Contact sheets | Cree language | Creek Indians | Creek Indians--History | Creek language | Dakota Indians | Dakota Indians--History | Dakota Indians--Music | Dakota language | Dance--Anthropological aspects--United States | Delaware Indians--Music | Diegueno language | Dogrib Indians | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Eskimo languages | Eskimos | Ethnobotany | Field notes. | Fort Good Hope (N.W.T.) | Fox language | Fur trade | Gelatin silver prints | Gwenhoot Indians | Haida Indians | Haida language | Haisla Indians | Hare Indians | Heiltsuk Indians--History | Hidatsa Indians | Hidatsa language | Highland Chontal language | Hopi Indians--History | Hopi dance | Hopi language | Hualapai language | Hupa language | Indian dance--Michigan | Indians of Mexico | Indians of Mexico--Mexico--Chiapas | Indians of Mexico--Oaxaca | Indians of Mexico--Religion | Indians of North America | Indians of North America--Alaska | Indians of North America--Arizona | Indians of North America--Arkansas | Indians of North America--Canada | Indians of North America--Canada, Northern--Social life and customs | Indians of North America--Michigan | Indians of North America--Minnesota | Indians of North America--Missions | Indians of North America--New York (State) | Indians of North America--Oklahoma | Indians of North America--South Dakota | Indians of North America--Wisconsin | Indians of the West Indies--Antilles, Lesser | Iowa language | Iroquois Indians--History | Iroquois Indians--Virginia | Jemez language | Karok language | Kawchottine Indians | Kawki language | Kiowa Indians | Koasati language | Kutenai language | Lacandon Indians | Little Bog Horn, Battle of, 1876 | Mackenzie River Delta (N.W.T.) | Mam language | Mandan Indians | Mandan language | Massachusett language | Matlatzinca language | Maya Indians | Mayan languages | Mazatec language | Menominee language | Michif language | Micmac Indians | Miwok language | Mixtec Indians | Mobilian trade language | Mohawk Indians | Mohawk Indians--History | Mohawk language | Munsee Indians--History | Nahuatl language | Narragansett Indians--History | Navajo Indians--History | Navajo language | Nez Perce Indians--History | Nez Percé language | Nicollet, J.N. (Joseph Nicolas), 1786-1843 | Niska language | Nootka language | Ntlakyapamuk Indians | Ntlakyapamuk language | Ojibwa Indians | Ojibwa Indians--History | Ojibwa Indians--Social life and customs | Ojibwa dance | Ojibwa language | Okanagan language | Oneida language | Onondaga language | Otomi language | Ottawa Indians--History | Paiute language | Papamiento language | Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1875-1941 | Passamaquoddy Indians | Passamaquoddy language | Pawnee Indians | Penobscot Indians--History | Penobscot language | Photographs | Photomechanical prints | Pima Bajo language | Pima language | Plains Indians | Pokomam language | Pomo language | Potawatomi language | Powhattan Indians--History | Pueblo Indians | Quileute language | Salishan languages | Sandia dialect | Seminole Indians | Seminole Indians--History | Seneca Indians--History | Seneca language | Shawnee language | Siksika Indians | Siouan languages | Sketches. | Slides. | Smallpox | Sound recordings | Southwest Indians | Spokane language | Stockbridge Indians--History | Sub-Arctic Indians | Tahltan language | Taino Indians | Teton Indians--History | Tlakluit language | Tlingit Indians | Tohono O'Odham dialect | Tolowa language | Tsimshian Indians | Tsimshian language | Tuscarora Indians--History | Wakashan language | Wasco language | Western Apache language | Wichita language | Xinca language | Yakama language | Yamasee War, 1715 | Yana language | Yavapai language | Yuchi Indians--History | Yuchi language | Yuma language | Yupik languages | Zapotec language | Zuni Indians--History | Zuni language | |
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