Collection
# I 002
Creator: U.S.
Bureau of Indian Affairs
U.S. Indian census
rolls (RG 75) on microfilm
Description: Indian census rolls,
1884‑1940 (M595, 692 rolls).
Click here for the itemized list of all of the 692
rolls. The U.S. National Archives (NARA) notes that
"These census rolls were usually submitted
each year by agents or superintendents in charge of Indian
reservations, as
required by an act of July 4, 1884 (23 Stat. 98). The data on the rolls
vary to some
extent, but usually given are the English and/or Indian name of
the person, roll number, age or date of
birth, sex, and relationship to head
of family. Beginning in 1930, the rolls also show the degree of
Indian
blood, marital status, ward status, place of residence, and sometimes other
information. For
certain years--including 1935, 1936, 1938, and
1939--only supplemental rolls of additions and
deletions were compiled. ...
There is not a census for every reservation or group of Indians for every
year. Only persons who maintained a formal affiliation with a tribe
under federal supervision are listed
on these census rolls."
Federal census records pertaining
to Navajos:
-
Albuquerque School (Pueblo and Navajo
Indians) census records, 1904-07 and 1910-11,
are on
Roll
1
(in Microfilm Drawer 3.8
in the Delaney Library at the Center of Southwest
Studies).
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Eastern Navajo census records,
1929-1935, are on Rolls 98-103 (in Microfilm Drawer 3.8).
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Hopi and Navajo Indians census records,
1930-1936, are on
Rolls 190-194 (in Microfilm
Drawer 3.11); the 1932 records on roll 192 include birth and death rolls from
1925-1931.
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Leupp (Navajo Indians) census records from 1915-17, 1920-25, 1927
and 1929-1932 are
on Rolls 249-251 (in Microfilm Drawer 3.11).
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Navajo census records, 1885, 1919,
and 1936-1937, are on Rolls 272-282 (in Microfilm Drawer
3.11 in the
Delaney Library); most of these particular records are from
1937, as itemized below:
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272 (Moqui Pueblo, or Hopi, and Navajo Indians), 1885 (with
1891 general schedule and 1898 letter)
Navajo:
273 1915 (with letters, 1919 and 1923)
274 1936 (supplements only)
275 Eastern Navajo Reservation, 1937
276 Leupp Reservation, 1937
277 Northern Navajo Reservation, 1937
Southern Navajo Reservation:
278 1937 (Arizona (pt.)
279 1937 (Arizona (pt.)
280 1937 (New Mexico and supplements)
281 Western Navajo Reservation, 1937
282 Navajo, 1938-39
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Northern Navajo census records, 1930-1935, are on Rolls 303-307 (in Microfilm Drawer
3.12 in the
Delaney Library).
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Pueblo Bonito (Navajo Indians) census records,
1909-1926, are on Rolls 401-403 (in
Microfilm Drawer 4.1)
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Pueblo Day Schools (Pueblo and Navajo Indians)
census records, 1912-1919, are on
Rolls 404-406 (in Microfilm Drawer 4.1)
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San Juan (Navajo Indians)
census records
from 1916 are included on Roll 471 in
Microfilm
Drawer 4.1, and include
letters for 1905, 1909, 1918-20, and 1922-24.
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Census records of the
Southern Navajo, 1929-1935, are on Rolls 518-531
in Microfilm
Drawer 4.2,
as itemized below:
518 1929 (transmittal letter and recapitulation)
1930 (A-G)
519 1930 (H-Z)
520 1931 (A-G)
521 1931 (H-Z and supplemental rolls)
522 1932 (A-B)
523 1932 (C-M)
524 1932 (N-Z and supplemental rolls)
525 1933 (Arizona, A-G)
526 1933 (Arizona, H-Z)
527 1933 (New Mexico and supplemental rolls)
528 1934 (Arizona, A-G)
529 1934 (Arizona, H-Z)
530 1934 (New Mexico)
531 1934-35 (supplemental rolls)
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Western Navajo census records are on
Rolls 640, which includes Hopi Indians and Navajo
and Paiute Indians for 1929), a 1905
letter, an undated Hopi census roll, 1915-20, 1922,
1923 (letter), 1924-27, 1929, and
(re: Navajo, Hopi, and Paiute Indians), on Rolls 641-645,
1930-1935 (the 1933
records on Roll 644 include birth and death rolls, 1925-33).
Collection
#s I 004 and I 005
Creator: Myra Ellen Jenkins, editor.
Spanish Archives of New Mexico on microfilm,
and Mexican Archives of New Mexico on
microfilm.
Collection
# I 011
Creator:
U.S.
Bureau of Indian Affairs
U.S. Bureau of Indian
Affairs selected records (RG 75) on microfilm
Description: Includes 9 rolls of documents
and letters received regarding the Navajo Agency,
1881‑1907.
Historical note: The Bureau of Indian
Affairs (BIA), established in 1947, was the successor to
the
Office of Indian Affairs which was created in the War Department in 1824
and transferred to the
Department of the Interior at the time of its
establishment in 1849. "The BIA is the principal bureau
responsible for
the administration of federal programs for federally recognized Indian tribes,
and for
promoting Indian self-determination. In addition, the Bureau has
a trust responsibility emanating from
treaties and other agreements with
Native groups of Indian tribes and Alaska Natives. The Assistant
Secretary-Indian Affairs administers policy for the BIA. The BIA
traditionally has been directed by a
Commissioner who was appointed by the
President; that position has not been filled since the Assistant
Secretary
position was established in 1977. The BIA web site is at:
http://www.doi.gov/bia/. "
(Source of this note: Florida State University Libraries at
http://www.fsu.edu/library/search/toolkits/indiares.shtml
viewed on
10/15/2003.)
Collection
# I 013
Creator: U.S. War Department
U.S. Secretary of War
letters relating to Indian affairs (RG
75) on microfilm
Year span of materials: 1800‑1824
Volume: 10 rolls
Description: Correspondence
to and from the Secretary of War pertaining to Indian affairs, prior to
establishment of the Bureau of Indian Affairs: outgoing correspondence,
1800‑1824 (M15, 6 rolls,
indexed) and incoming correspondence, 1800‑1823
(M271, 4 rolls).
Notes: The Secretary
of War was responsible for the conduct of the government's relations with
Indian tribes until 1824 when the Bureau of Indian Affairs was established
within the War Department.
In
1849, responsibility transferred to the new Interior Department.
Collection
# I 014
Creator: U.S. government
U.S. Indian treaties
(ratified) documents (RG 11) on microfilm
Year span of materials: 1722‑1869
Volume: 16 rolls
Description: (M668,
16 rolls) See
printed guide in manuscript collection M 129, described in I 014
collection description. For Navajo treaties, see No. 255 (Sept. 9,
1849, described on page 88 of the
printed guide).
Notes: See printed
List of Documents Concerning the Negotiation of Ratified Indian Treaties
1801‑1869 (1 vol., 175 pages) in collection M 129.
Collection
# I 015
Creator:
U.S. Bureau
of Indian Affairs
U.S. Indian treaties
(negotiated) documents (RG 75) on microfilm
Year span of materials: 1801‑1869
Volume: 10 rolls
Description: Records on
microfilm of negotiations of ratified and unratified treaties with
various Indian
tribes. (T494,
10 rolls) See printed guide:
List of Documents Concerning the Negotiation of Ratified
Indian Treaties
1801‑1869 (1 vol., 175 pages) in collection M 129.
Notes: The U.S.
government's negotiation of formal treaties with Native Americans
followed a custom
established by the British and colonial governments. Until 1871 Senate ratification was required, and
had the same
force as agreements with any sovereign nation.
Collection
# I 020
Creator: U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Superintendent of Indian Trade
U.S. Superintendent of
Indian Trade records (RG 75) on microfilm
Year span of materials: 1806‑1824
Volume: 7 rolls
Description: Letters
received by the Superintendent, 1806‑1824 (T58, 1 roll); and copies of letters
sent, 1807‑1823 (M16, 6 rolls) to and from factories, purchasing agents and
consuls regarding the
purchase, transmittal, receipt and storage of goods.
Notes: Congress
created the Superintendency in 1806 to "purchase and take charge of all goods
intended for trade with the Indian nations, and to supervise the operation of
Government trading
houses."
See inventory in collection M 129 for more description of contents and
history. See also
the National
Archives' RG 75 inventory that accompanies collection I 011.
Collection
# I 021
Creator: U.S. Office of Indian Affairs
U.S. Office of Indian
Affairs records (RG
75) on microfilm
Year span of materials:
1824‑1960
Volume: 1,409 rolls
Description: Includes:
-- letters received by
the Office of Indian Affairs, 1824‑1881 (M234, 962
rolls);
-- register to those letters received 1824‑1880 (M18,
126 rolls);
-- letters sent by the Office, 1824‑1881 (M21,
166 rolls);
-- procedural issuances of the Office: orders and circulars,
1854‑1960 (M1121, 17 rolls);
-- special files of the Office, 1807‑1904 (M574, 85
rolls); and
-- Office report books, 1838‑1885 (M348, 53 rolls).
Notes: The letters received are a
rich source of information on: the Government's
administration of
Indian Affairs; the relations of Indians with white traders,
settlers and soldiers; and intertribal relation-
ships.
They are useful for the study of such topics as: the history of
particular tribes; the advance of
white settlement, especially west of the
Mississippi; Indian economy and culture as affected by white
encroachment; and
regional and state history in many areas of the U.S.
The register of letters
received is arranged under five subject
headings: annuity goods, centennial exhibition, miscellaneous,
schools, and
stocks. The special files
records relate mainly to claims of claims and investigations:
of traders for
goods they furnished to Indians or the Government; of attorneys for legal
fees; of both
Indians and whites for losses from depredations; and of Indians
for losses resulting from their removal
from the Eastern U.S. Also included in the special files are records of
investigations of the conduct of
employees of the Office of Indian Affairs.
See also the inventories/guides for this collection in
collection M 129 for more description of contents and history.
See also the National Archives'
RG 75 inventory that accompanies
collection I 011.
Historical note: "The Office of Indian
Affairs was created in the War Department in 1824 and
transferred to the Department of the Interior at the time of its establishment
in 1849. It became the
Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1947."
(Source of this note: Florida State University Libraries at
http://www.fsu.edu/library/search/toolkits/indiares.shtml viewed on
10/15/2003.)
Office of Indian Affairs records pertaining to
Navajos: Although part of
the Navajo Reservation
was in Colorado, the Navajo
Agency was assigned to the New Mexico Superintendency of the Office
of Indian
Affairs, so look for
records there. Rolls 551-556 (in Microfilm Drawer
6.1 in the Delaney
Library at the Center of Southwest Studies) are letters
received from the Bureau of Indian Affairs'
New Mexico Superintendency,
1862-1869, and include documents pertaining to the Bosque Redondo
Reservation
and its Indian
inhabitants.
Collection
# I 023
Creator:
U.S. Department of the Interior
U.S. Interior
Department territorial papers (RG 48) on microfilm
Year span of materials: 1850‑1914
Volume: 30 rolls
Description: Territorial
documents re: such topics as movements for separate governments of what
became the Four Corners states.
Arizona, 1868‑1913 (M429, 8 rolls); Colorado, 1861‑1888 (M431,
1 roll); New Mexico, 1851‑1914 (M364, 15 rolls).
Collection
# I 024
Creator:
U.S. Department of State
U.S. State Department
territorial papers (RG 59) on microfilm
Description: Includes general
territorial government records for Arizona, 1864‑1872 (M342, 1 roll)
and
New Mexico, 1851‑1872 (T17,
4 rolls).
Collection
# I 032
Creator: Bourke, John Gregory
John Gregory Bourke
diaries on microfilm
Year span of materials:
1872‑1896
Volume: 10 rolls
Description:
Diaries begun when Captain
Bourke was aide‑de‑camp to General Crook; full of
information regarding
Navajo, Pueblo, and Apache Indians and anthropological observations of
American Indians in Western and Southwestern U.S.
Includes a color sketch (on roll 10).
Notes: Arrangement is
chronological.
Primary subject:
Indians of North America
Secondary subject: Anthropology‑‑Southwest (U.S.)
Collection
# I 035
Creator: Indian Rights Association
Indian Rights
Association papers on microfilm
Year span of materials: 1864‑1973
Volume: 162 rolls
Description: 136 rolls of microfilm and a
printed guide (1975, 233 pages, filed in collection M
129).
Also, a less comprehensive
earlier filming of 26 rolls: 15 outgoing letterpress copybooks (1886‑1901,
roll #s 1‑10), early letters (1868‑1886, roll #12), and incoming
correspondence (1887‑1901, rolls
12‑26).
Notes: The Indian Rights Association was a
humanitarian group dedicated to influencing federal U.S.
Indian policy
and protecting Indians of the U.S., especially in the 1880s and 1890s.
The originals of
these records are at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
IRA records pertaining to Navajos: The printed
guide mentions (on page 25-26) that in August
of 1907 Matthew
Sniffen (of the
IRA Board of Directors) went to New Mexico and Arizona
to
investigate conditions
among Navajos and other tribes, and made field notes
that are particularly
insightful in terms of
conditions of Navajos who were
living off-reservation. Other field trips to New
Mexico by IRA
members
are mentioned in the overview of IRA activities in the printed guide,
especially on pages 10,
14-15, 17, 19-21, 25-28, 30, 32, 39, 41-43, 52, 54, 56-57, etc. Page 61 describes the problems the
Navajo were facing in the
1940s, and the IRA's engagement with those issues.
Primary subject: Indians of
North America‑‑Legal status, laws, etc.
Collection
# I 036
Creator: Society of American Indians
Society of American
Indians papers on microfilm
Year span of materials: 1906‑1946
Volume: 10 rolls, and 74 page guide
Description: Includes
correspondence and archival records, papers, periodicals, and newspaper
coverage of the Society of American Indians. The printed guide makes no
specific mention of "Navajo."
Primary subject:
Indians of North
America‑‑Societies, etc.
Secondary subject:
Indians of North America‑‑Government
relations
Collection
# I 038
Creator:
Collier, John
John Collier papers on
microfilm
Year span of materials: 1922‑1968
Volume: 59 rolls
Description: With printed guide (1 volume,
107 p., in M 129).
Microfilmed from the original papers
in the Yale University Library.
Notes: Collier (1884‑1964) was executive
secretary of the American Indian Defense Association
from 1923 until he became
Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1933 (he served
in this difficult position
through 1945 -- the longest record of tenure as
Commissioner). In 1945 he founded
the Institute for
Ethnic Affairs.
He wrote prolifically during his last years, in Taos, N.M.
Collier papers pertaining to Navajos: See Items
243-244 on Roll 8 regarding the lands controversy,
circa
1931-33, and Navajo oil leases and other matters, circa 1923-32. See
Roll 20 for articles, including
Item 308,
from Jan. 1924 Sunset Magazine
on "The Fate of the Navajos" and Item 317 from the June
1932 issue
of The
Survey on "Navajos." See Items 448-450 on Roll 28 for the
Commissioner's reports
on trading,
agriculture, and other notes and writings,
circa 1935-1939. See Item 540 on Roll 31 for
Elizabeth
Shepley Sergeant
on "Chief Dodge of the Navajos," 1935. See Item 616 on Roll 32 for
Collier's
address on Navajo stock reduction and the Soil Conservation Service,
1935. Item 545 on
Roll 39 is
correspondence re: Navajo Tribal Council,
1949. Items 871-872 on Roll 43 and Items 873-
876 at the
start of Roll 44
are Collier's records (in a series of records pertaining to his membership on
the
American
delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations)
regarding the Navajo-Hopi
rehabilitation
hearings and bills in 1948-1950 and
the history of Navajo administration and the allotment
of the
Navajo
reservation, 1955. Item 1160 on Roll 54 is pamphlets, clippings and
miscellaneous
printed
materials regarding Navajo and Hopi Indians.
Primary subject: Indians
of North America
Secondary subject: U.S.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Collection
# I 039:
North American Indians
periodicals on microfilm
Year span of materials: 1923‑1981
Volume: 82 rolls
Description: Periodicals by
and about Native Americans.
With guide (18 unbound pages, in
collection M129, the Center's finding aids).
Arrangement of the whole is by date.
Pertaining to Navajos: Navajo
Area Newsletter (Window Rock, AZ.), 1977-1981, on
Rolls 77-81;
Navajo Area Project Report (Window Rock, AZ.), 1975, on
Roll 75 Section 2; Navajo Community
College Newsletter (Chinle, AZ.),
1969-1973, on Rolls 15 and 73 Section 2; Navajo Education
Newsletter
(Window Rock, AZ.), 1974-1977, on Rolls 74-77; Office of Navajo Economic
Opportunity (Dee-Ha-Ne) (Fort Defiance, AZ.), 1972-1979, on Rolls 16,
73-79; and Rough Rock
News (Chinle, AZ.), 1966-1980, on Rolls
73-80.
Collection
# I 040
Creator: Smithsonian Institution.
Office of Anthropology.
Ute and other Indian records on
microfilm
Bureau of Anthropology
Year span of materials: 1873‑1933
Volume: 3 rolls
Description: Microfilm of the
Bureau's manuscript collection numbers 753 ‑ 4525,
incomplete.
Diverse
information collected by
John Wesley Powell et al. on (primarily) Ute
Indians, including legends, texts
collected in 1902. Manuscript #s
753‑836 (on roll #1) are comparative vocabularies of Native American
languages; various manuscript #s 838‑4525 (incomplete) are on roll 2.
Pertaining to Navajos:
Manuscript #3247 (roll 3) is 79 pages of notes of a conversation on 25
Sept.
1874 with Manuelito,
Collection
# I 043
Creator:
U.S. Senate
Survey of conditions
of the Indians in the United States on microfilm
Year span of materials: 1928‑1943
Volume: 8 rolls
Description: Senate
hearings reports. See
8-page printed guide in collection M 129.
Pertaining to Navajos: Roll 4,
Part 18 pertains to surveys done April 27-30 and May
15-20, 1931
of Navajos in the following regions: Leupp, Winslow, Fort
Defiance, Ganado, Keams Canyon (Hopi
Agency), Toreva, Araibi, Hotevilla, and
Tulsa City, Arizona, and Gallup, Fort Wingate, Crownpoint,
and Shiprock, New
Mexico. Roll 7, Part 34 pertains to the Navajo reservation boundary and
the
Pueblos of New Mexico (surveys in Gallup, Farmington, and Santa Fe, N.M.,
and Window Rock,
AZ.), March 15-28, May 14-29 and Aug. 17-30, 1936.
Primary subject: Indians of
North America‑‑Economic conditions
Secondary subject: Hearings
Collection
# I 044:
Dissertations on microfilm
Pertaining to Navajos: New Deal for
Indians by John
Freeman, 1965 (1 roll),
Nature of
Cultural Factors Affecting Success or Failure of Navajo College
Students by Elizabeth
Leighton,
1965, (1 roll), and others.
Notes: These titles, for the most part,
are cataloged in
TALON.
Volume: about 50 rolls
Primary subject: Indians of North
America‑‑History
Secondary
subject:
Southwest (U.S.)‑‑History
Collection
# I 055:
American Indian tribes major council
meetings on microfilm
Year span of materials:
1914‑1971
Volume: 27 rolls and printed guides
Description: Includes Part 1, Section 1:
1914‑1956, and Part 2, Section 1: 1957‑1971.
Arrangement is chronological. See the two-pamphlet printed guide in
collection M 129
(Center of Southwest Studies finding aids).
Navajo
Tribal Council meeting records:
Navajo Tribal Council
meeting records,
1923-1954, are
on Part I, Rolls 1 through 10, as described in detail on pages 1
ff. on the pamphlet printed guide to
Part I of the microfilm. Also
see Part II, Rolls 1
through 11 for a record of Tribal Council meetings,
Oct. 1958-Dec.
1964.
Primary subject: Indians of
North America‑‑Government relations
Secondary subject:
Indians of North
America‑‑Tribal government
Collection
# I 056
Creator:
U.S. Army. Office of
the Adjutant General
U.S. Office of the
Adjutant General records (RG
94) on microfilm
Year span of materials: 1859‑1889
Volume: 257 rolls
Description: Letters received by the
Office (Main Series/ incomplete): F 68‑G, 1859 (M567, 1
roll,
Roll #601); ca. 1861‑1870 (M619, 32 rolls, #s 195‑812); ca. 1871‑1880 (M666,
123 rolls); and
circa 1881‑1889 (M689, 101 rolls).
Also, Gen. James Wilkinson's
order book, 1796 Dec. 31-1808
March 8 (
M654, 3 rolls; rolls 1-2 are 16 mm.). The Center does not have a complete
set of each of
these NARA microfilm publications,
only a
broad selection. See also the
Center's collection I 075 for
U.S. Office of the Adjutant General
returns from
U.S. military posts.
Office of the Adjutant
General pertaining to Navajos: (Please understand
that the following is a bare
selective list, especially
considering the
large volume of records stored on this number of microfilm rolls.)
File 87 N 1864 on Roll 283 of NARA Publication M
619 (in Microfilm Drawer 6.8 in the Delaney Library at the Center of Southwest
Studies) is communications relating to affairs in the Department of New
Mexico, Aug. 1863-Jan. 1864. This and the following five rolls of
microfilm that are part of M 619 include consolidated files of correspondence
regarding the Navajo Campaign and Fort Sumner at the Bosque Redondo.
File 280 N 1864 on Roll 286 of NARA Publication M
619 (in Microfilm Drawer 6.8 in the Delaney Library at the Center of Southwest
Studies) is papers relating to the procurement and issuance of commissary
stores for captive Navajo Indians in the Department of New Mexico in 1864.
File 2143 S 1865 on Roll 417 of NARA Publication
M 619 (however, the Center of Southwest Studies does not have this particular
roll) is additional records relating to the procurement and issuance of
commissary stores for captive Navajo Indians in the Department of New Mexico,
in 1865.
File 91 I 1866 on Roll 484 of NARA Publication M
619 (in Microfilm Drawer 6.8 in the Delaney Library at the Center of Southwest
Studies) is papers relating to the confinement of Navajo Indians on the Bosque
Redondo Reservation, New Mexico Territory, and the transfer of their custody
from the War Department to the Department of the Interior, 1866-67.
File 223 M 1867 on Roll 561 of NARA Publication M
619 (in Microfilm Drawer 6.8 in the Delaney Library at the Center of Southwest
Studies) is papers relating to the relocation of Navajo Indians onto a
military reservation at the Bosque Redondo, New Mexico Territory, in
1863-1867. Some of these papers relate to the cost of feeding the Navajo
during this period.
File 807 M 1868 on Roll 639 of NARA Publication M
619 (in Microfilm Drawer 6.8 in the Delaney Library at the Center of Southwest
Studies) is a report of Lt. Gen. William T. Sherman stating the reasons for
the removal of Navajo Indians from the Bosque Redondo Reservation, New Mexico
Territory, June 24, 1868.
File 4354 AGO 1875 on Roll 226 of NARA
Publication M 666 (in Microfilm Drawer 6.9 in the Delaney Library at the
Center of Southwest Studies) is correspondence relating to the removal of
Agent W. F. M Arny of the Navajo Indian Agency (Fort Defiance, Ariz.) after a
council of the principal chiefs of the Navajo nation at Fort Wingate, N.M., in
July of 1875, and the appointment of Alexander G. Irvine as his successor,
1875-76.
File 2608 AGO 1880 on Roll 560 of NARA
Publication M 666 (this roll is not owned by the Delaney Library at the Center
of Southwest Studies but is available at the National Archives) is correspondence
relating to dissatisfaction among Indians of the Navajo Agency, Arizona
Territory, with their agent, Galen Eastman; the assumption of military control
by Capt. Frank T. Bennett, 9th U.S. Cavalry, both there and at Moqui Pueblo
Agency; and the eventual reassignment of both agencies to Eastman, 1880.
File 1504 AGO 1881 on Roll 9 of NARA Publication
M 689 (in Microfilm Drawer 6.10 in the Delaney Library at the Center of
Southwest Studies) is papers relating to the mortal wounding of a Navajo
Indian in Farmington, N.M., by Frank Meyers, an outlaw, and the subsequent
investigation by Army officers that disclosed an absence of law and order in
the vicinity due to the operations of outlaw bands, Jan.-May 1881.
File 4414 AGO 1881 on Roll 41 of NARA Publication
M 689 (in Microfilm Drawer 6.10 in the Delaney Library at the Center of
Southwest Studies) is papers relating to efforts to aid Navajo and Hualpai
Indians whom Department of Arizona Army officers described as being destitute,
July 1881-Aug. 1891.
File 1513 AGO 1882 on Roll 92 of NARA Publication
M 689 (in Microfilm Drawer 6.10) is correspondence and a report of Col. G. P.
Buell relating to unrest among the Indians of the Navajo Reservation, N.M.,
including the recommendation that Indian Agent Galen Eastman be replaced for
failing to prevent incidents, Apr.-Nov. 1882.
File 827 AGO 1887 on Roll 517 of NARA Publication
M 689 (in Microfilm Drawer 6.11) is correspondence and reports relating to
problems caused by white settlers in the San Juan River country on the Navajo
Reservation in the District of New Mexico, Feb.-Nov. 1887.
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Primary subject:
Indians of North
America‑‑Government relations
Secondary subject: U.S. Army.
Office of the Adjutant General‑‑Records and correspondence
Collection
# I 059
Creator: U.S. Army.
Continental Commands
U.S. Army commands
(Army posts) records (RG
393) on microfilm
Year span of materials: 1862‑1886
Volume: 27 rolls
Description: Includes brief histories of
posts and descriptions of their records, arranged
alphabetically by the name of the fort (
T912, 1 roll).
Also, with printed guides, selected
headquarters records.
Army post records
pertaining to Navajos: Headquarters
records of Fort Sumner, N.M.,
circa 1862‑1886
(this is National Archives publication M1512, five rolls, filed in Microfilm
Drawer 7.6 in the Delaney Library).
[National Archives'
guide to]
HEADQUARTERS RECORDS
FORT SUMNER, NEW MEXICO
1862-1869
Headquarters records of
Fort Sumner, New Mexico, 1862-1869, are
reproduced on the five rolls of this microfilm publication. The
several series are part of Records of U.S. Army Continental Commands,
1821-1920, Record Group (RG) 393, and consist of letters and
endorsements sent, letters received, general and special orders issued,
proceedings of post councils of administration and boards of survey, and
records relating to Indians. Other series of post records have not
been microfilmed, either because they are fragmentary or contain little
substantive information.
History
Fort Sumner
originated with military Department o
Mexico General Order 94 of October 31, 1862, which directed the
establishment of a military post at the Bosque Redondo, on the Pecos
River, in east central New Mexico. The same order specified that
the new post be named in honor of Maj. Gen. Edwin V. Sumner, who in the
1850s commanded the 9th Military Department, predecessor of the
Department of New Mexico. Fort Sumner was first garrisoned on
November 30, 1862, by Company A, 5th U.S. Infantry, under the
command of Capt. Joseph Updegraff. Initially, Fort Sumner was
intended to furnish military protection for the farms and livestock of
settlers in the Pecos River valley, but soon after its establishment the
post acquired the additional responsibility of administering the Indian
reservation at Bosque Redondo.
To the reservation
were sent Apache and Navajo defeated in the military campaigns directed
by Brig. Gen. James H. Carleton, the Department of New Mexico commander,
and carried out by Col. Christopher (Kit) Carson. As a result of
Carson's campaign against the Mescalero Apache in south central New
Mexico (fall 1862-spring 1863), those Indians were sent to the Bosque
beginning in December 1862. Carson's subsequent campaign against
the Navajo in northeastern Arizona, begun in the summer of 1863,
resulted in their surrender following the successful Canyon de Chelly
expedition of January 1864. By the following April, over 4,000
Navajo were located at the Bosque Redondo. Eventually, over 9,000
Navajo and Apache were located there.
Fort
Sumner was the site of an experiment, designed by general Carleton, that
aimed at pacifying the Indians through acculturation. Specifically, they
were to be made self-sufficient farmers and "civilized" through
education, vocational training, and Christian instruction. The
enterprise ultimately failed for a number of reasons including poor
harvests, food shortages, bad water, disease, conflicts between the
Apache and Navajo, their resistance to cultural change, Indian raids
upon the reservation, and disputes between the War and Interior
Departments over the subsistence of the Indians. Eventually
government found it too costly to provide subsistence for the Indians,
and the experiment was terminated. The Indian reservation was
closed and sold at auction during the summer of 1868 and the Indians
returned to their traditional homeland in eastern Arizona and western
New Mexico. The military reservation was abandoned on August 31,
1869, when its garrison, Company A, 3d U.S. Cavalry, departed for Fort
Union in accordance with General Order 27 of June 29, 1869, issued by
the District of New Mexico, which had succeeded the Department in
September 1865. On March 25, 1871, the military reservation was
transferred to the Interior Department.
The bound and unbound records of Fort
Sumner were event sent to the Adjutant General's Office (AGO) in
Washington, where clerks assigned numbers to the bound volumes.
Later the volumes were rebound, upon occasion combining several old
volumes into a single volume that was given a new volume number.
In the table of contents, roll notes, and targets of this microfilm
publication, both assigned numbers appear in parentheses, the new
number, where applicable, before a diagonal line with the old number
following the diagonal line. The volume numbers outside
parentheses were added by the National Archives staff.
Series Listing
and Remarks (and hyperlinks to microfilm list)
Letters Sent
The five volumes of letters sent, and the fair copies of letters in
them, December 1862-August 1869, are arranged chronologically.
Correspondents of the post commander include the Adjutant General of the
Army and other War Department officers in Washington, the commanders of
the Department/District of New Mexico and their chief aides, officers at
the post and in the field, other post commanders in the region, Indian
agents for the Apache and Navajo, and local and federal law enforcement
officers. The letters, some of which are long narrative reports
relate to a wide variety of subjects including the arrival of captive
Apache and Navajo at the post, conditions among Indians on the
reservation, scouting and other military operations conducted against
Indians escaping from the reservation or believed to be guilty of
committing depredations against settlers, the procurement of subsistence
and other supplies, construction at the post, and routine administrative
matters affecting the post and its garrison. For the period
September 1864-June 1865, most of the letters relating to Indian affairs
were maintained in a separate series which is described below.
Letters Sent
Relating to Indian Affairs
The fair copies of letters
sent in this single volume. September 28, 1864-June 12, 1865, are
arranged chronologically. Most of these letters are
in the form of narrative reports written
to General Carleton and his staff officers at Department of New Mexico
headquarters or directives to officers at the post who were involved
with administering the reservation. Other correspondents include
the Apache Indian agent; civilians providing instruction in irrigation;
Judge T. W. Woolson, a special Indian commissioner investigating
conditions at the Bosque Redondo for the U.S. Senate; and Senator James
Harlan of Iowa, a personal friend of Brig. Gen. Marcellus M. Crocker,
who commanded Fort Sumner for several months during 1864-65. These
letters, like those in the main series of letters sent for the earlier
and subsequent periods, document the problems and policies associated
with administering the Indian reservation.
Endorsements Sent
The endorsements in these five volumes, February 1865-August
1869, are arranged chronologically. Rather than responding to a
letter received by writing another letter, the adjutant or post
commander often wrote a reply or statement on the incoming letter and
returned it to the sender or forwarded it to the appropriate officer for
action. The endorsements were normally copied into volumes along
with a summary of the contents of the letter. Notations appearing
in the left margins of pages indicate subjects of letters and names of
correspondents.
Letters and Telegrams Received
The letters and telegrams
received, November 15, 1862-July 15, 1869, are arranged chronologically.
Letters were received from many of the same correspondents to
whom communications were sent and
pertain to the same subjects. Some of the lengthier and more
substantive communications were received from the Department and
District of New Mexico and relate to general guidelines, policies, and
procedures for managing the post and Indian reservation. Letters
received from officers at the post such as William P. Calloway, the
superintendent of labor at the Navajo farms, document internal
operations and problems. Letters from officers in the field relate
to scouting expeditions, Indian engagements, reported Indian
depredations, and the surrender of bands of Navajo.
A number of the letters in this series
were forwarded to the post
headquarters by endorsement from other offices. Some of the
endorsed letters originated at Fort Sumner, and many bear file numbers
assigned by the original offices of receipt. Other letters in this
series are informational copies supplied by departmental or district
headquarters. A few of the letters received are marked "private"
or "unofficial." In addition to letters, this series also includes
reports, orders, proceedings of boards, affidavits, census enumerations
of Indians, and other types of records.
General Orders and Special Orders
The post headquarters records
of Fort Sumner include five
volumes of issuances consisting primarily of general orders and special
orders, December 1862-August 1869. General orders were used to
relay information of interest to the entire post command, including the
assumption and relinquishment of command of the post; announcements of
troop musters, inspections, guard mounts, and parades; the use of
paroles and countersigns; the observance of holidays; and the
publication of proceedings of garrison courts-martial. Special
orders were utilized to communicate instructions to individuals or small
groups about such matters as duty assignments, troop movements, and the
appointments of garrison courts-martial, post councils of
administration, and boards of survey.
The first two volumes of issuances consist
of general orders and special orders, December 1862-December 1866.
Both the volumes and the issuances they contain are arranged
chronologically. The general and special orders are numbered in
separate sequences by year. No general orders predate June 29,
1863, and no special orders postdate August 29, 1866. Beginning
November 27, 1863, and continuing through December 1864, general orders
are designated as "orders." The third volume contains general
orders, January 10, 1867-July 30, 1869, arranged by year and thereunder
numerically. The last two volumes consist of special orders,
September 1, 1866-August 30, 1869, arranged by year or time period and
thereunder numerically.
Proceedings of Post Councils of
Administration
The transcripts of the proceedings in this single volumes,
October 30, 1864-September 14, 1867, are arranged chronologically.
Post councils of administration were composed of several officers who
were directed to meet periodically for the purpose of appointing and
taxing the post sutler, fixing prices on goods sold at the post,
appointing post chaplains, and auditing the accounts of the post
treasurer. Accompanying each proceeding is a copy of the general
or special order authorizing the council to meet.
Proceedings of Boards of Survey
The transcripts of the proceedings in these
three volumes, March 26, 1863-November 27, 1868, are arranged
chronologically. Boards of survey were composed of several
officers who were directed to meet for the purpose of determining the
quality, quantity, and condition of incoming shipments of post supplies
such as public stores, subsistence stores, and quartermaster stores;
investigating the theft of government property; and making
recommendations regarding farming on the Indian reservation.
Accompanying each board proceeding is a copy of or a reference to the
special order authorizing the board to meet.
Records Relating to Indians
These records are arranged by type of record and thereunder
chronologically. They include returns of Indian captives,
January-December 1865, and morning reports of Indians on the
reservations, November 1866-October 1867. Both types of records
are similar in format and show the number of Navajo and Apache present
and absent, subdivided by men, women, children, and infants; gains and
losses; and remarks explaining
changes in the number of the Indian population. Miscellaneous
Indian-related records contain information about produce raised on
Navajo and Apache farms, irrigation instruction furnished to the
Indians, and other matters relating to the administration of the
reservation.
Related Records (not in this microfilm
publication)
Additional records. of Fort Sumner in RG 393
include special orders received, March 1863-December 1865, and January
1868-August 1869; morning reports of troops, April 1863-August 1867,
and October 1868; guard duty reports, March 1863-October 1866; duty
rosters and lists of personnel, 1863-69; and miscellaneous accounts,
vouchers, receipts, and lists, 1864-69. Records of the
Department/District of New Mexico in RG 393 also relate to Fort Sumner
and the Bosque Redondo. Communications sent from
departmental/district headquarters to or relating to Fort Sumner have
been reproduced as National Archives Microfilm Publication M1072,
Letters Sent by the 9th Military Department, the Department of New
Mexico, and the District of New Mexico 1849-1890. Incoming
communications have been reproduced in two microfilm
publications, M1120, Registers of Letters Received and Letters
Received by Headquarters, Department of New Mexico 1854-1865, and
M1088, Letters Received by Headquarters, District of New Mexico
September, 1865-August 1890. In the same record group are
letters sent and received and orders issued by Kit Carson's Navajo
expedition, July 1863-May 1864. The records of the Department and
Division of the Missouri, also in RG 393, include information relating
to Fort Sumner. A small file of documents relating to the Bosque
Redondo has been microfilmed on roll 11 of M1495, "Special Files" of
Headquarters, Division of the Missouri, Relating to Military Operations
and Administration, 1863-1885.
Records of the Adjutant General's
Office, RG 94, also contain
relevant information. Consolidated files of letters relating to
the Navajo campaign and the Bosque Redondo have been reproduced on
rolls 283, 286, 484, 561, and 639 of M619, Letters Received by the
Office of the Adjutant General, Main Series, 1861-1870.
Monthly post returns of Fort Sumner, December 1862-June 1869, are
reproduced on roll 1241 of M617, Returns from U.S. Military Posts,
1800-1916. The returns contain lists of officers, civilian
employees, and military units at the post; statistical information about
the post garrison, including numbers of men present and absent; and for
some months, a "record of events" that transpired at or in the vicinity
of the post.
Among Records of the
Office of the Quartermaster General, RG 92, is a "consolidated
correspondence file" which includes individual files for Fort Sumner and
the Bosque Redondo. This correspondence relates primarily to the
procurement and issuance of Indian rations, civilian employees at the
post, the inspection of post buildings, and the final disposition of the
post and its property. Records of the Office of the Inspector
General, RG 159, include annual inspection reports of Fort Sumner for
1867 and 1868.
Additional information
pertaining to the Bosque Redondo and its Indian inhabitants can be found
among Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, RG 75. Letters
received from the Bureau's New Mexico Superintendency, 1862-69, have
been microfilmed on rolls 551-556 of M234, Letters Received by the
Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-80.
Fred Walters wrote these
introductory remarks and arranged the
records for filming.
ROLL CONTENTS
Roll Description
Dates
1 Letters Sent:
Vol. 1.007/236)
Dec. 30, 1862-Feb. 10, 1865
Vol. 2 (108/238)
Feb. 10-Nov. 9, 1865
Vol. 3 (108/239)
Nov. 10, 1865-July 30, 1866
Vol. 4 (108/240)
Aug. 1, 1866-Oct. 5, 1867
Vol. 5 (109/241)
Oct. 5, 1867-Aug. 31, 1869
Letters Sent relating to Indian Affairs:
1 vol. (106/237)
Sept. 28, 1864-June 12, 1865
2
Endorsements Sent:
Vol. 1 (108/238)
Feb. 23-Apr. 13, 1865
Vol. 2 (109/242)
Apr. 11, 1865-Jan. 5, 1866
Vol. 3 (107/243)
Jan. 5, 1866-Sept. 28, 1867
Vol. 4 (244)
Oct. 3, 1867-July 28, 1869
Vol. 5 (245)
July 31, 1869-Aug. 31, 1869
4 General Orders and Special Orders:
Vol. 1 (110/246)
Dec. 11-1862-Jan. 1, 1865
Vol. 2 (109/247)
Jan. 1, 1865-Dec. 30, 1866
General Orders:
1 vol. (111/248)
Jan. 10, 1867-July 30, 1869
Special Orders:
Vol. 1 (111/249)
Sept. 1, 1866-June 30, 1868
Vol. 2, (250)
July 1, 1868-Aug. 30, 1869
5 Proceedings of Post Councils of Administration:
1 vol. (112/258)
Oct. 30, 1864-Sept. 14, 1867
Vol. 1 (110/254)
Mar. 26, 1863-Feb. 8, 1865
Vol. 2 (111/255)
Feb. 10, 1865-June 1, 1866
Vol. 3 (112/256)
June 1, 1866-Nov. 27, 1868
Morning Reports of Indians on the Reservation:
1 vol. (114/273)
Nov. 1866-Oct. 1867
Miscellaneous Records:
1 vol. (112/261)
Sept. 1864-June 1868 |
Notes:
Pamphlet guides for the headquarters records (including the 8-page Fort
Sumner guide
reproduced above) are in the Center's manuscript collection M
129, filed under collection I 059.
See also the Center's collection I 075.
Primary subject:
Military posts‑‑United States‑‑Records and
correspondence
Secondary subject: Military posts‑‑United
States‑‑History
Collection
# I 064
Creator: U.S.
Department of the Interior
U.S. Office of Indian
Affairs field jurisdictions inspections reports (RGs
48 and
75) on microfilm
Year span of materials: 1873‑1900
Volume: 60 rolls
Description: (M1070,
60 rolls, filed in Microfilm Drawer 7.1 in the Delaney Library)
(Click here for further description of this
microfilm publication.)
Alphabetical list of the names of the inspectors:
| George B. Anderson |
Clinton C. Duncan |
James McLaughlin |
William J. Pollock |
| Frank C. Armstrong |
Paul F. Faison |
John McNeil |
John B. Riley
(Supt. of Schools) |
| Eli D. Bannister |
Robert S. Gardner |
Isaac L. Mahan |
| Matthew R. Barr |
Walter H. Graves |
Edmund Mallet |
James C. Saunders |
| Cyrus Beede |
John H. Hammond |
Thomas D. Marcum |
Thomas P. Smith |
| Samuel S. Benedict |
James M. Haworth |
Benjamin H. Miller |
Morris A. Thomas |
| J. D. Bevier |
Charles H. Howard |
Charles F. Nesler |
Arthur M. Tinker |
| John W. Cadman |
William W. Junkin |
William A. Newell |
William Vandever |
| George M. Chapman |
E. C. Kemble |
John H. Oberly
(Supt.
of Schools) |
Henry Ward |
| James H. Cisney |
John Lane |
E. C. Watkins |
| J. W. Daniels |
William J. McConnell |
J. C. O'Conner |
J. George Wright |
| Andrew J. Duncan |
Province McCormick |
George R. Pearsons |
J. W. Zevely
(special inspector) |
Inspections pertaining to Navajos: See
Rolls
27 and 28
regarding
the Navajo Agency.
The following is a
list of the inspection reports on
those rolls (this list is from pages 42-43 of
the U.S. National
Archives' printed
guide to its microfilm Publication M1070).
|
Field
Jurisdiction: Moqui
Agency or Keams Canyon School (on Roll 27)
Date and No. of
Report Inspector
Feb. 2, 1887 (819)
Riley
July 5, 1889 (4048)
Armstrong
Mar. 21, 1890 (2420) Tinker
Feb. 9, 1891 (1621)
Junkin
Feb. 15, 1894 (1443) Duncan
Dec. 15, 1894 (30)
Duncan
Dec. 15, 1894 (31)
Duncan
May 8, 1896 (3181)
McCormick
May 8, 1896 (3182)
McCormick
Apr. 22, 1897 (3116) Lane
Field
Jurisdiction:
Navaho (Navajo) Agency (on Rolls 27-28)
Date and No. of
Report Inspector
Aug. 9, 1881 (2132) Haworth
July 1882 (2423)
Howard
Oct. 14, 1882 (2129) Howard
Dec. 27, 1882 (2605) Howard
Oct. 15, 1883 (4356) Howard
Nov. 29, 1883 (1403) Howard
July 23, 1884 (3444)
Ward
Apr. 16, 1885 (1976) Gardner
Nov. 30, 1885 (5732) Pearsons
Sept. 25, 1886 (5561) Gardner
Sept. 27, 1886 (5562) Gardner
Jan. 28, 1887 (685)
Riley
Feb. 5, 1887 (820)
Armstrong
Feb. 5, 1887 (821)
Armstrong
Mar. 29, 1888 (1584)
Gardner
Mar. 29, 1888 (1585)
Gardner
Sept. 20, 1888 (4748)
Marcum
Sept. 28, 1888 (4891)
Marcum
July 8, 1889 (4143)
Armstrong
Mar. 5, 1890 (2422)
Tinker
Mar. 21, 1890 (2418)
Tinker
Mar. 26, 1890 (2421)
Tinker
Mar. 29, 1890 (2419)
Tinker
Feb. 10, 1891 (1617)
Junkin
Feb. 11, 1891 (1618)
Junkin
July 21, 1891 (5764)
Gardner
July 21, 1891 (5765)
Gardner
June 16, 1892 (5145)
Tinker
June 16, 1892 (5146)
Tinker
Dec. 23, 1892 (9020)
Gardner
Nov. 9, 1893 (8554)
Faison
May 14, 1894 (3932)
Cadman
May 24, 1894 (3930)
Cadman
May 25, 1894 (3931)
Cadman
Dec. 22, 1894 (48)
Duncan
Dec. 22, 1894 (49)
Duncan
Dec. 24, 1894 (1044)
Duncan
Dec. 24, 1894 (6746)
Duncan
Dec. 25, 1894 (1045)
Duncan
June 15, 1895 (4786)
Duncan
May 9, 1896 (3183)
McCormick
May 9, 1896 (3227)
McCormick
May 9, 1896 (3228)
McCormick
May 9, 1896 (3229)
McCormick
May 9, 1896 (3230)
McCormick
Apr. 10, 1897 (2801)
Lane
Apr. 27, 1897 (3301)
Lane
Apr. 30, 1897 (3319)
Lane
Aug. 9, 1898 (4100)
McLaughlin
Aug. 15, 1898 (6111)
McLaughlin
Mar. 6, 1899 (1593)
Graves
June 12, 1899 (4316)
McLaughlin
June 13, 1899 (4314)
McLaughlin
June 21, 1899 (4381)
McLaughlin
June 22, 1899 (4514)
McLaughlin
Aug. 9, 1899 (5559)
McConnell
Aug. 14, 1899 (5680)
McConnell
Aug. 14, 1899 (5681)
McConnell
Dec. 19, 1899 (514)
Duncan
June 6, 1900 (4107)
Tinker
|
See also M1072, 7 rolls of letters sent by the
9th Military Department, the Department of New
Mexico, and the District of New
Mexico, 1849-1890 (filed in Microfilm Drawer 7.2 in the Delaney
Library).
These include communications sent from departmental/district headquarters
relating to
Fort Sumner.
See also M1120, 30 rolls of registers of letters
received and letters received by headquarters, the
Department of New Mexico,
1854-1865 (filed in Microfilm Drawer 7.3 in the Delaney Library).
These
include incoming communications to departmental headquarters relating to Fort
Sumner.
See also M1088, 65 rolls of letters received by
headquarters, District of New Mexico, Sept.
1865- Aug. 1890 (filed in
Microfilm Drawer 7.2 in the Delaney Library). These include additional
incoming communications to departmental/district headquarters relating to Fort
Sumner.
See also M1495, Roll 11, "Special Files" of
Headquarters, Division of the Missouri, relating to
military operations and
administration, 1863-1885 (filed in Microfilm Drawer 7.6 in the Delaney
Library). These include a small file of documents relating to the Bosque
Redondo and Fort Sumner.
Notes: See the printed inventory/guide for
this collection in the Center's collection M 129 for
more description of
contents and history. See also
the National Archives' RG 75 inventory that
accompanies collection I 011.
Primary subject: U.S.
Office of Indian Affairs
Secondary subject:
Indians of North America‑‑Government relations
Collection
# I 065
Creator:
U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Superintendency of Indian Affairs
U.S. Superintendency
of Indian Affairs records (RG 75) on microfilm
Year span of materials: 1813‑1880
Volume: 309 rolls
Description: Records of the Central
Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1813‑1878 (M856, 108 rolls)
and regional superintendencies, including Arizona, 1863‑1873 (M734, 8 rolls); Utah,
1853‑1873
(M834, 2 rolls), and New Mexico 1849‑1880 (T21, 30 rolls).
Notes:
Indian agents on the reservations reported to these regional
superintendents, whose field
jurisdiction was under the authority of the
central office in Washington, D.C.
Primary subject: Indians of North
America‑‑Government relations
Secondary subject:
Indian agents‑‑United States‑‑Records and
correspondence
Manuscript collections at the Center of Southwest Studies
pertaining to the Navajo:
(arrangement is alphabetical by
collection title)
Collection M
179:
E. Reeseman Fryer
papers, 1925-1991 (bulk
1945-1966); 12.5 linear shelf feet
(542 folders, in 27 document cases).
Most of the collection pertains to Mr. Fryer's career in public
service,
notably in the Southwest in the Bureau of Indian Affairs among the Navajo.
"Si" Fryer (born in 1900) served as Director of Soil Conservation Service Land
Management Operations
among the Pueblos, 1935; Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
Superintendent of the Navajo Reservation
during the New Deal under John
Collier, 1936-; BIA Superintendent for Nevada, 1948-; and BIA
Assistant
Commissioner of Indian Affairs starting in 1961. Mr. Fryer's daughter
Sue has observed that
it seems he was chosen for the BIA responsibilities in
Window Rock due to his work in soil conservation,
which was so related to the
issues of overgrazing and stock reduction in the late 1930s.
Collection M 040:
Helen Sloan Daniels collection.
Record Group 5 in this partially processed
collection is printed materials,
newspaper clippings, and Daniels's scrapbooks pertaining to Navajo
Indians.
Collection
M 061:
Indian
Rights Association pamphlets.
Includes items such as Folder 36:
"Concerning removal of Indian Affairs from
politics and the difficulty of Captain C. Williams to
obtain help from
Washington for the Navajos," from Good Government, Washington, D.C.,
1895
February 15. Also, Folder 51: Civilization's lesson to
barbarism: a dastardly outrage upon
indefensive Navajos -- can the Great
Father afford to ignore it?, by Francis E. Leupp, 1897
June.
And, Folder 86: Senate Document #118, 61st Congress, 1st
session. Navajo Indian presented
by Mr. Owen. Decision rendered by the Arizona
Supreme Court in the proceedings instituted
by the Indian Rights Association
for a writ of Habeas Corpus in the case of certain Indians
imprisoned without
a trial with accompanying papers, 1909 June 28.
Collection
M 127:
Myra Ellen
Jenkins collection.
Includes records Jenkins compiled on such
topics as (Series 4.3) Navajo and
Laguna-Acoma land grants-tenure, 1540-1992 (4 document
cases of legal and
documentary research materials and clippings on just that topic). The
collection
is a total of 56 linear shelf feet (in 113 document cases plus several
oversize boxes).
Collection
M 206:
Navajo claims collection. John
Kessell, compiler. Photocopies of historical
documents, exhibits,
files, note cards, and maps relating to Navajo land, oil and gas claims
against the
Federal Government between about 1977 and 1980. Plus, 3 document
cases of printed materials that Dr.
Kessell compiled as a researcher and as an
expert witness when he was working for the Rodey Law
Firm (Albuquerque, N.M.),
which was representing the Navajo Nation before the U.S. Indian Claims
Commission.
Collections I
047 and M 088:
Newspapers
of the Southwest.
Includes 33 microfilm rolls and
several print volumes of the Navajo Times, publication of the Navajo
Nation, 1959-1998.
Collection M
194: Nina
Heald Webber postcard collection (2,400 postcards of Southwest
Colorado).
Includes a few Navajo scenes. Most of these postcards are visible on the
Center's website,
and they are described on the web at the item level.
Collection
M 197:
Southwest historic printed
materials.
"A part of the Navajo’s mythology"
by Washington Matthews, reprint from
The American Antiquarian, April 1883. 18-page booklet.
Collection
M 121:
Theodore
Hetzel papers.
Includes thirty notebooks maintained by Theodore
Hetzel. The notebooks
(abstracted on the Center's web page) are primarily travel journals, which
describe notes from various meetings that Hetzel attended (including Navajo
reservation visits) during
the years of 1954 and 1985. Dr. Hetzel
served as a member and director of the Indian Rights
Association, a
humanitarian group dedicated to influencing federal Indian policy. A
prominent Indian
rights activist, Hetzel also served as chair of The American
Friends Service Committee's Committee
on the American Indian.
Collection
M 140: Will Evans collection.
Archival photocopies of materials loaned
for copying:
Navajo Trails newspaper column articles, diary, photo
album of Navajo portraits, and other papers.
These may only be used for research,
not commercially, and may not be published. Mr. Evans was
an Indian
trader at Shiprock from the 1890s through the 1940s.
M
206: Navajo claims collection records compiled by Dr. John
Kessell. Includes a folder
of pages that are a typed transcription of documents excerpted from the
federal records of the U.S.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs pertaining to the Navajo
Indian boarding school experience,
1871-1950.
Oral history collections at the Center of Southwest Studies on Navajo topics:
Collection U
016:
American Indian historical research project at the
University of
New Mexico
.
25 interviews by and about Navajo persons.
Collection U 008:
American Indian Oral History Project at the University of Utah: the Duke
collection.
Bound transcripts of 34 interviews, including some that are
by and about Navajo persons
who were residents of the Four Corners area and/or
Fort Lewis College students/alumni, such as
Clyde Joseph Benally, Elmer
Lincoln and Larry Tsosie. This project was part of an oral Indian
history
project of the Western History Center, University of Utah.
Collection U 004:
Southwest oral
history collection. 438 interviews,
including a fairly small
number that are by and
about Navajo persons.
Photograph
collections at the Center of Southwest Studies pertaining to the Navajo:
Collection
P 049:
Blackington Southwest photographs collection.
Includes Alton Blackington's
photos of Navajo
subjects, circa 1932-1936.
Collection P 035: Bureau of
American Ethnology Southwest Indian photograph collection.
Black and white copy prints of Ute (the vast
majority of the images), Navajo, and other Native
Americans of the Southwest.
From the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution.
Most are identified on the back, and the Center has negatives for some.
Collection P 001,
Section
IV.2
of the General Photograph Collection:
Navajo photos.
Collection P 003: Theodore
Hetzel photograph collection.
See photos of Navajo individuals in
Section
B.5.e. Related papers are in M 121.
Artifacts at
the Center of Southwest Studies pertaining to the Navajo:
Collection F 021:
The Durango Collection®.
A "woven history book" of textiles of the Southwest.
Includes exemplary
Navajo weavings from the Classic Period, from 1700-1875 (when the Navajo
primarily produced clothing for their own use) through the Transitional
Period, from 1875-1900 (when,
after the Navajo's forced exile at Bosque
Redondo, they found their herds scattered and resources
depleted, and began
experimenting with new materials and designs), to the Rug Period and the
weavings of contemporary times, where Navajo weaving has reached a worldwide
market.
Collection F 005:
O'Meara Southwest miniatures collection. Includes miniature Navajo
weavings.
Collection F 020:
Southwest art collection. Paintings, prints, drawings, etc. pertaining to
the South-
west. Includes a lithograph and a sculpture by R. C.
(Ralph Carl) Gorman and paintings by Clifford
Brycelea.
Collection F 017:
Southwest Indian tools collection. Includes Navajo weaving looms.
Collection F 014: Southwest
textiles collection. An assembled collection at the Center;
includes
additional examples of Navajo weavings.
Pathfinder #5:
Guides
to the collections at the Center of Southwest Studies
Information for doing research at the Center
of Southwest Studies
