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Collection M 061: Indian Rights Association pamphlets inventory |
This guide describes the Center of
Southwest Studies' collection of Indian Rights Association (I.R.A.) pamphlets,
in folders #s
1-171.
©1999 by Fort
Lewis College Foundation, Center of Southwest Studies account
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Introduction/ Scope and contents
M 061
Indian Rights Association pamphlets
Years: 1884-1985; bulk
1884-1934
2 linear
shelf feet (in 4 document cases) (approximately 200 items, in 171 folders)
This guide describes the Center of Southwest Studies' collection
of I.R.A. pamphlets and newsletters.
This collection contains historically significant documents reproduced in pamphlet form by the Indian Rights Association (IRA). The documents include IRA Executive Committee (later the Board of Directors) annual reports (1886-1935); records of the United States Congress pertaining to Native American issues; position papers and reports from IRA representatives; published reports, statements, and correspondence; Indian Truth, 1946-1985 (incomplete); and other circulars issued by the Association in its defense of Native Americans' rights. The documents include fifty items regarding a land controversy of 1895. Prevalent authors include:
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Samuel M. Brosius
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Philip C. Garrett
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Carl E. Grammer
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Claud F. Johnson
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Francis E. Leupp
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C. C. Painter
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H. S. Pancoast
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Matthew K. Sniffen
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Herbert Welsh
Access terms:
Indian Rights Association
Welsh, John
Indians of North America--Government relations
Indians of North America--Land tenure
Federal-Indian trust relationship
Tribal government--United States
Tribes--United States
Land tenure--United States
Related collections: Three related collections at the Center of Southwest Studies are:
- collection I 035, the Indian Rights Association papers microfilm, 1864-1973 (162 rolls) (click here for OPAC record in TALON). That collection includes 136 rolls filmed by UMI (with a printed guide dated 1975, 233 p., which is located in collection M 129), and also a less comprehensive earlier filming by the Microfilming Corporation of America of 26 rolls of 15 outgoing letterpress copybooks (1886-1901, roll #s 1-10), early letters (1868-86, roll #12), and incoming correspondence (1887-1901, roll #s 12-26). The originals of those records (approximately 250 linear feet) are at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (at the HSP site, scroll down to read the Society's description of this collection #1523), as are the papers of Herbert Welsh, who was active in the IRA (collection 702).
- collection M 121, the Theodore Hetzel papers, and
- collection P 003, the Theodore Hetzel photograph collection (Professor Hetzel was active with the IRA for many years)
Historical note
The Indian Rights Association was a humanitarian group dedicated to influencing federal U.S. Indian policy and protecting Indians of the U.S. The first meeting of the Association was held on December 15, 1882 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the home of Herbert Welsh, who served as its Executive Secretary.
“Like his friend Henry Pancoast, Welsh was what one student of Philadelphia society has referred to as a Proper Philadelphian. He was born in 1851 as the eighth child of John and Mary Lowber Welsh. John Welsh was the son of a successful Philadelphia merchant and also prospered in business. Herbert Welsh declined to follow in his father’s footsteps, and after inheriting sufficient property from his father and maternal grandfather, this enabled him to live comfortably by the standards of the upper-middle class of Philadelphia and to pursue his avocations.” (William T. Hagan, The Indian Rights Association: The Herbert Welsh years, 1882-1904, Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, 1985, page 3.)
After traveling to Dakota Territory to visit a Sioux reserve with Pancoast at the invitation of William Hobart Hare (Protestant Episcopal Church Bishop of Niobrara), Welsh returned home with a new sense of conscience from facing the harsh existence of an American Indian’s daily life. He and others who formed the IRA were determined to help improve the present and future of American Indians by fixing wrongs that they have experienced and by bringing American public support to the plight of the Indian cause.
“The early leaders of the Indian rights Association (IRA) had a twofold purpose: to protect the interests and general welfare for the Indians, and to initiate, support, or oppose government legislation and policies designed to `civilize’ the American Indian. By the term `civilize,’ the IRA in 1882 meant measures designed to educate, Christianize, make economically independent, and absorb the Indians as individuals into American society.” (Indian Rights Association Papers: A Guide to the Microfilm Edition 1864-1973, 1975, page 1.)
Herbert Welsh wrote in 1882, “When this work shall be completed the Indian will cease to exist as a man, apart from other men, a stumbling block in the pathway of civilization; his empty pride of separate nationality will have been destroyed, and in its place the greater blessings which he or his friends could desire will be his, - an honorable absorption into the common life of the people of the United States.” (Indian Rights Association Papers: A Guide to the Microfilm Edition 1864-1973, 1975, page 1.)
Throughout its history, the IRA was consistently successful as a lobbying group. The proficiency and commitment of its staff brought power and force to achieving IRA objectives. Investigative field trips (such as Theodore Hetzel documented in his travel journals), the long tenure of service by IRA board members and staff, and the vitality of the IRA public relations program (including the newsletter Indian Truth, which Dr. Hetzel edited for many years), gave the Association an edge in influencing federal legislation pertaining to Indian affairs. Also, “with continuous contact between the IRA employees, Indians and the Indian service staff on the reservations, the ability to research and determine the facts of a specific case through first hand investigations made it possible for IRA to quietly bring pressure upon the Commissioner of Indian Affairs or the Secretary of the Interior to make changes.” (Indian Rights Association Papers: A Guide to the Microfilm Edition 1864-1973, 1975, page 3.)
For the span of about forty years, the IRA was the organization that American Indians looked to for help and protection, and for non-American Indians it was a useful source of information. Later organizations and groups brought additional protection and help to the American Indian people, but the Indian Rights Association was the forerunner.Administrative information
Arrangement note: The Center retained the creator's original order of these slides, which is basically chronological.
Acquisition information: These printed materials were a gift to the Center of Southwest Studies from the Western History Center at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 and the Indian Rights Association, prior to 1976 (accession number 1999:03001). Issues of the Indian Truth newsletter in folders 159-171 were from the Theodore Hetzel family, accession number 1990:09001, and are duplicates of newsletters in the Theodore Hetzel papers at the Center.
Processing information: Center of Southwest Studies student archival assistant Jason Case refoldered these pamphlets in acid-free enclosures in October of 1998. Student assistant Brookes Boswell prepared the folder listing in January of 1999. Previously, each pamphlet was housed in its original acidic manila envelope which had glued to it a typed folder label. The original envelope numbering system was retained on the new folders. A third student intern, Bobbie G. James, drafted the historical note in January of 2002. This inventory was prepared by student assistant Brookes Boswell and by Todd Ellison, Certified Archivist, 1998-1999. Student assistant Rachael Black described folders 157-171 of Box 4 in July of 2006. This guide was last revised by Ellison on July 31, 2006.
Series description
Note regarding the organization of this collection: materials in this collection are arranged roughly chronologically within a single series. Because we do not expect to add to this collection, the folders are numbered in one single numbering scheme starting with 1.
A single series: Indian Rights Association printed materials, 1884-1985. In four document cases. Arrangement is chronological.
Container list
Box 1
Folder 1 Indian Rights Association constitution and bylaws, 1884.Box 2Folder 2 Indian courts bill: I. General explanations, II. Notes on different sections 1885, March 3.
Folder 3 An act to establish courts for the Indians on various reservations to extend protection of laws of the states and territories over all Indians, 1886, June 13.
Folder 4 The fourth annual report of the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association for the year ending December 14, 1886. Printed by order of the Executive Committee, Philadelphia, 1887.
Folder 5 The present condition of the Mission Indians of California: a report of a recent visit by Professor C. C. Painter, Philadelphia, 1887.
Folder 6 A brief statement of the objects, achievements, and needs of the Indian Rights Association. Philadelphia, 1887.
Folder 7 Education for Indians, by J. B. Harrison, in the Critic New York, 1887 December 24.
Folder 8 The fifth annual report of the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association for the year ending December 20, 1887. Printed by order of the Executive Committee, Philadelphia, 1888.
Folder 9 A rebuff from the United States government, 1888 February 16.
Folder 10 Lakota on Wiwicayungapi kte cin, 1888.
Folder 11 A greeting to educated Indians, written and translated into English by the Reverend W. J. Cleveland. A literal translation of the Dakota pamphlet Ikceozate Wicakuwapikta E Omnizize Kin ". Philadelphia, 1888.
Folder 12 The sixth annual report of the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association for the year ending December 16, 1888. Philadelphia, 1889.
Folder 12a Protest of the Indian Rights Association against the proposed removal of the Southern Ute Indians, 1890 March.
Folder 13 General circular from Herbert Welsh requesting aid in protesting the removal of the Southern Utes from their present site to the proposed new reservation in Utah. Philadelphia, 1890 February 25.
Folder 14 The present phase of the Indian question, by T. J. Morgan, Publication #10 by the Boston Indian Citizenship Committee, 1891.
Folder 15 "A contrast," from The Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minn.) Philadelphia, 1891 January 6.
Folder 16 Concerning the 1891 January 12 arrest and death of Sitting Bull, a letter from James McLaughlin, Indian Rights Agent.
Folder 17 The Sisseton Indians, by Herbert Welsh and C. C. Painter, 1891 February 5.
Folder 18 Extravagance, waste and failure of Indian education, by C. C. Painter, 1892 March 1.
Folder 19 "The case of the Southern Utes," Harpers Weekly (NY), 1892 April 2.
Folder 20 How to bring the Indian citizenship and citizenship to the Indian, by Herbert Welsh before the Society for Promoting Good Citizenship, 1892 April 9.
Folder 21 Views of the minority, submitted by Mr. Browley to the first session of the 52nd Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, part 2 of the 1205 concerning the removal of the Southern Utes, 1892 May 11.
Folder 22 General circular from Herbert Welsh concerning the removal of the Southern Utes, 1892 April 22.
Folder 23 The tenth annual report of the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association for the year ending December 15, 1892. 1893.
Folder 24 C oncerning an Indian appropriation bill, to members of the Indian Rights Association and to all who are interested in a prompt and wise solution of the Indian problem, by Herbert Welsh, 1893 February 27.
Folder 25 A protest by the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association against the passage of Senator Pettigrew's bill for the removal of the Lower Brule Indians to the Rosebud Reserve, 1893 February 27.
Folder 26 Brief statement of the nature and purpose of the Indian Rights Association with a summary of its work for the year 1892. 1893 March.
Folder 27 Cheyennes and Arapahoes revisited and a statement of their agreement and contract with attorneys, by C. C. Painter, 1893 March.
Folder 28 "A dangerous assault upon the integrity of the Civil Service law in the Indian Service," by Herbert Welsh. In two parts: 1. Trying to undo a good work from good government Washington D.C. November 15 1893. 2. The Indian Service, New York Evening Post, 1893 November 10.
Folder 29 The appointment of a first rate Indian agent by the new administration, November 25, 1893. 1893 November 25.
Folder 30 The eleventh annual report of the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association, for the year ending December 15, 1893. 1894.
Folder 31 "The Secretary on the Indian education problem: A rift in the cloud, a report of the Corresponding Secretary to the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association, including a biographical sketch of Hailmann," from the New York Tribune, 1893 December 16.
Folder 33 "Indian school welfare: signs of returning reason in the House Committee: Superintendent Hailmann and the question of economy." In two parts: 1. Suspicious economy, from the New York Evening Post. 2. Work for friends of the Indians, from the New York Times, by Herbert Welsh, 1894 April 27.
Folder 34 Concerning the investigation and conduct of Straight Head and Scarus the Head, a report to the Attorney General by Elmer S. Dundy, District Judge; A. S. Bendar, Clerk, U.S. Circuit Court, District of South Dakota; W. J. Sibbson, President and A. Richey, Secretary, Commissioners of the State Board of Charity and Corrections of the State of South Dakota; J. G. Whitlock, Notary Public, South Dakota; and Granville G. Bennett, Judge of County Court, 1895.
Folder 35 The twelfth annual report of the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association, for the year ending December 15, 1894. 1895.
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.
Folder 37 The Attorney General and seven Indian policemen of Cheyenne River Agency: a case where to serve faithfully came near meaning the gallows, 1895 March.
Folder 38 Civil Service reform essential to a successful Indian administration, 1895 April.
Folder 39 The latest phase of the Southern Ute question, by Francis E. Leupp, 1895.
Folder 40 Ring Rule: Washington letter, February 9 1896, by Francis E. Leupp, from City and State, 1896 February 13.
Folder 41 "Held up by the Senate Indian Service, said to be suffering from petty politics, George Bird Grinnell denounces the practice which makes government appointments the prerequisites of the U.S. Senate," letter to the editor by C. B. Grinnell, in the New York Tribune, 1896 February 24.
Folder 42 On the verge of scandal: an appeal to Congress to look before it leaps the wrong way to distribute Indians' money among claimants: let each claim be scrutinized on its own merits, by Philip C. Garrett, 1896 April.
Folder 43 The Dawes Commission and the Five Civilized Tribes of Indian Territory; a report by Charles F. Meserve, President of Shaw University (Raleigh, N.C.), Philadelphia, 1896.
Folder 44 The fourteenth annual report of the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association for the year ending December 15, 1896. 1897.
Folder 45 Copy of letter to President-Elect McKinley by the Indian Rights Association, December 10, 1896, requesting retention of Dr. W. N. Hailmann as Superintendent of Indian Schools. To the Editor from Herbert Welsh, 1897 January 20.
Folder 46 "Indian school management: reply to attacks by Capt. Pratt upon the introduction of civil service reform methods," by Francis E. Leupp, 1897 January, from the New York Evening Post, 1897 February 1..
Folder 47 "Let there be no backward step; letter to members of the fifty-fourth U.S. Congress," by Francis E. Leupp and Herbert Welsh, 1897 February 20.
Folder 48 "Concerning a provision injected as a rider into the Indian appropriation bill for the coming fiscal year, letter to members of the fifty-fifth U.S. Congress," by Philip E. Garrett, President of the Indian Rights Association, and Herbert Welsh, Corresponding Secretary, 1897 February 13.
Folder 49 The importance of retaining Dr. Hailmann, Superintendent of Indian Schools, and the attack made upon him and the Indian Rights Association by Capt. Pratt, by N. Dubois Miller, Charles E. Pancoast, and Charles F. Jenkins, 1897 February 20.
Folder 50 Early Moravian Indian work, by Herbert Welsh, 1897 May. Originally published in serial form in City and State, 1896 July 30.
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.
Folder 52 (There is no folder 52.)
Folder 53 The fifteenth annual report of the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association for the year ending December 13, 1897. 1898.
Folder 54 Letter from Herbert Welsh concerning Army officers as Indian agents. 1898 February.
Folder 55 A review of the Spotted Hawk case, 1898 August.
Folder 56 The murrain of spoils in the Indian Service: a paper read at the annual meting of the National Civil Service Reform League, by Herbert Welsh, 1898 December 16.
Folder 57 The sixteenth annual report of the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association for the year ending on December 15, 1898. 1898.
Folder 58 An appeal on the behalf of the Kiowas and commanders, 1899 February 15.
Folder 59 Letter to Mr. Herbert Welsh from S. M. Brosius, May 14, 1899 concerning small pox on the Zuni Reservation. Also: letter to H. Welsh from S. M. Brosius concerning charges against acting agent Henry P. Ewing, 1899 May 1 and May 4. One two-sided sheet.
Folder 60 The urgent need of new legislation to protect the timber interests of the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota, by Herbert Welsh and S. M. Brosius, 1900 January.
Folder 61 Concerning the conviction and imprisonment of Little Whirlwind, a letter to members and friends of the Indian Rights Association from: Philip C. Garrett, President, and Herbert Welsh, Corresponding Secretary, 1901 April. Photograph included.Box 3Folder 62 The urgent case of the Mille Lac Indians, by S. M. Brosius, 1901 October.
Folder 63 The Standing Rock Indians and the grazing leases, 1902 June.
Folder 64 The nineteenth annual report of the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association for the year ending December 6, 1901. 1902.
Folder 65 The action of the Interior Department enforcing the Standing Rock Indians to lease their lands to the cattle syndicates. 1902 May 2.
Folder 66 A new Indian policy: the red man's rights in jeopardy, by S. M. Brosius, 1902 June.
Folder 67 The twentieth annual report of the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association for the year ending in December 10, 1902. 1903.
Folder 68 "Protect Poor Lo: Something about the Indian Rights Association," 1903, from the Kansas City Journal, August 30, 1903.
Folder 69 The twenty-first annual report of the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association for the year ending December 14, 1903. 1903.
Folder 70 "A danger to be averted: need of immediate action to protect the Five Civilized Tribes and other Indians from the liquor traffic," 1904 December 17.
Folder 71 Need of protecting Indian allotments: introduction by Philip C. Garrett to members and friends. The insecurity of an allotment, by S. M. Brosius, 1904.
Folder 72 Indian trust funds for the sectarian schools: the statute prohibits application of public moneys for support of sectarian schools ignored by the government in expending Indian trust funds therefor; the Indians protest, 1905 January 12.
Folder 73 Use of Indian trust funds for support of sectarian schools, extracts from proceedings including remarks of Hon. James S. Sherman, of New York, and Hon. John H. Stevens, of Texas, in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1905 January 21.
Folder 74 Indian appropriations bill; use of Indian trust funds: extracts from the debate including remarks of Hon. J. T. Morgan of Alabama in the Senate of the U.S. February 25, 1905, together with extracts from a speech by Hon. John H. Stevens of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1905 March 3.
Folder 75 "A question of national honor: shall the government's pledge to the Five Civilized Tribes be kept?" Two items: 1. Indians and statehood, by Herbert Welsh, from the New York Evening Post, 1906 January 18. 2. A question of national honor, from The Philadelphia Public Ledger, 1906 January 22. 3. Indians and prohibition: another burning protest against violation of the national pledges to the Cherokees, Philadelphia, 1906. 4. Mr. Welsh's letter, from the Boston Herald, 1906 January 22. ,
Folder 75a A memorial of the Indian Rights Association to members of the Senate of the United States and the House of Representatives, by Matthew K. Sniffen, 1906 March 5.
Folder 76 A menace to the reindeer industry, by S. M. Brosius, 1906 April 16.
Folder 77 Bill in equity, by Samuel M. Brosius, solicitor for the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, 1906 May 11.
Folder 78 Observations among the Sioux, by M. K. Sniffen, 1906.
Folder 79 The twenty-fourth annual report of the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association for the year ending December 13, 1906. 1907.
Folder 80 In the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, April term 1907. Appeals from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in equity. Brief for Reuben Quick Bear, et. al., Charles C. Binney of counsel, 1907.
Folder 81 The twenty-fifth annual report of the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association for the year ending in December 12, 1907. 1908.
Folder 82 Report of the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Lake Mohonk Conference of Friends of the Indian and Other Dependent Peoples, [1908], reported by Miss Lillian D. Powers, 1908.
Folder 83 Concerning a letter to the members of the Senate and House of the U.S. concerning land allotments to the five civilized tribes, letter to members and friends of the Indian Rights Association from C. C. Binney, President, Indian Rights Association, 1908 March 25.
Folder 84 The twenty-sixth annual report of the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association for the year ending December 12, 1908. 1908.
Folder 85 Imprisonment without trial, by Carl E. Grammer, 1909 April 15.
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.
Folder 87 A threatened wrong to the Yuma Indians, will you help avert it? A plea for Justice for the Yuma Indians by J. M. Ocheltree, 1909 August 26.
Folder 88 Report of the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Lake Mohonk Conference of Friends of the Indians and Other Dependent Peoples, 1909 October 20-22.
Folder 89 Addresses delivered at the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Indian Rights Association, Thursday evening, December 17, 1909. 1909.
Folder 90 The twenty-seventh annual report of the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association for the year ending December 16, 1909. 1909.
Folder 91 Apache prisoners of war: Document No. 366, 61st Congress 2nd session, U.S. Senate, to the Senate of the United States, 1910 February 15 by S. M. Brosius. Presented by Mr. Owen, 1910 February 16.
Folder 92 Report of the twenty-eighth annual meeting of the Lake Mohonk Conference of Friends of the Indian and Other Dependent Peoples, 1910 October 20-22.
Folder 93 The twenty-eighth annual report of the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association for the year ending December 14, 1910. 1911.
Folder 94 Report of the twenty-ninth annual meeting of the Lake Mohonk Conference of Friends of the Indian and Other Dependent Peoples, 1911 October 18-20.
Folder 95 The twenty-ninth annual report of the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association for the year ending December 14, 1911. 1912.
Folder 97 Conserving the rights of Pima Indians of Arizona: letter and petitions with reference to conserving the rights of the Pima Indians of Arizona to the lands of their reservation and the necessary water supply for irrigation. House Document # 521, 62nd Congress 2nd session, presented by Mr. Stephens of Texas, 1912 February 8.
Folder 98 The present situation of Indian affairs, 1912 February 15.
Folder 99 Pima Indian reservation: hearing before the Committee on Indian Affairs, U.S. Senate, Sixty-second Congress 2nd session on H.R. 18244; a bill providing for the construction of irrigation works for improving the waters of the Gila River, Arizona, 1912 March 14.
Folder 100 Indian Rights Association bulletin regarding current work, 1912 May 22.
Folder 101 The record of thirty years: a brief statement of the Indian Rights Association, its objects, methods and achievements, by M. K. Sniffen, 1912 March 25.
Folder 102 Certain good deeds, by Herbert Welsh, 1912 August 22.
Folder 103 Indian appropriations bill, speech by Hon. Charles H. Burke of South Dakota on the Mott report relative to Indian Guardianship in the Probate Courts of Oklahoma in the House of Representatives, 1912 December 13.
Folder 104 The thirtieth annual report of the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association for the year ending December 12, 1912. 1912.
Folder 105 "Will make strong fight in Senate for Indian rights: friends of the red man will seek to have appropriations refused by the House restored to the bill by the upper body," from the New York Herald, 1913 January 11.
Folder 106 Midsummer progress report, by Herbert Welsh, 1913 July 24.
Folder 107 House document #1304 62nd Congress 3rd session. Memorial of the Yakima tribe of Indians, protesting against the passage of Senate Bill 6693, relating to the distribution of water for irrigation purposes, presented by Mr. Stephens of Texas, 1913 Jan. 25.
Folder 108 The thirty-first annual report of the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association for the year ending December 10, 1913. 1914.
Folder 109 Hudson stuck saving Alaska Indians: missionaries on Yukon fight with evil liquor interests, 1914 March 10.
Folder 110 The citizenship explanation, by M. K. Sniffen, 1914 January 28.
Folder 111 Responsibility for Indian management, by Carl E. Grammer, 1914 April 16.
Folder 112 A man and his opportunity, by M. K. Sniffen, 1914 May 1.
Folder 113 Irrigation of Pima lands, an appeal for prompt legislation, by S. M. Brosius, 1914 June 16.
Folder 114 The thirty-second annual report of the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association for the year ending December 10, 1914. 1914.
Folder 115 Report of the thirty-second annual meeting of the Lake Mohonk Conference on the Indian and Other Dependent Peoples, 1915 October 20-22.
Folder 116 The management of the Ute "War", by M. K. Sniffen, 1915 November 15.
Folder 117 The thirty-third annual report of the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association for the year ending December 15, 1915. 1915.
Folder 118 A threatened raid on the Crow Indian lands, by Carl E. Grammer and Herbert Welsh, 1916 January 5.
Folder 119 National protection for Oklahoma Indians: a dangerous legislation proposed affecting the Five Civilized Tribes, by Carl E. Grammer and Herbert Welsh, 1916 January 20.
Folder 120 "Care of the Five Civilized Tribes: interests of Indians in Eastern Oklahoma menaced by House bill proposing to transfer to State the Federal authority now exercised: great responsibility involved," by Francis E. Leupp, from the New York Evening Post, 1916 March 30.
Folder 121 Letter of Hon. Joseph H. Choate, relating to proposed legislation of the administration of Indian affairs, printed in the Congressional Record, 1916 April 7.
Folder 122 Threatened exploitation of Indians, by Herbert Welsh, 1916 April 20.
Folder 123 Vicious Indian legislation: a brief analysis of bills now pending in Congress that ought to be defeated, by Herbert Welsh, 1916 May 10.
Folder 124 The Johnson bill, by Carl E. Grammer and Herbert Welsh, 1916 December 1.
Folder 125 The thirty-fourth annual report of the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association for the year ending December 14, 1916. 1916.
Folder 126 Florida's obligation to the Seminole Indians, by M. K. Sniffen, 1917 February 20.
Folder 127 Concerning claims of the Seminole Indians, letter to Friends of Justice, by Herbert Welsh, 1917 February 24.
Folder 128 Florida Seminole Indians will have home at last, by Claud F. Johnson, 1917 May 14.
Folder 129 The thirty-fifth annual report of the Directors of the Indian Rights Association, Inc., for the year ending December 14, 1917. Endorsed by the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and the National Information Bureau, Inc. 1917.
Folder 130 Peyote: an insidious evil, by Herbert Welsh, 1918 June 5.
Folder 131 The thirty-sixth annual report of the Board of Directors of the Indian Rights Association, Inc., for the year ending December 12, 1918. Endorsed by the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and by the National Information Bureau, Inc.
Folder 132 What we should do for the Indian: recommendations of the Conference of the Friends of the Indian, held at Philadelphia, January 22-23, 1917, by H. S. Pancoast and M. K. Sniffen, 1919 April 14.
Folder 133 A problem "over here", by M. K. Sniffen, from The Churchman, 1919 May 10.
Folder 134 The thirty-seventh annual report of the Board of Directors of the Indian Rights Association, Inc., for the year ending December 12, 1919. Endorsed by the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and by the Information Bureau, Inc. 1919.
Folder 135 The thirty-eighth annual report of the Board of Directors of the Indian Rights Association, Inc., for the year ending December 11, 1920. Endorsed by the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and by the National Information Bureau, Inc. 1920.
Folder 136 The thirty-ninth annual report of the Board of Directors of the Indian Rights Association, Inc., for the year ending December 12, 1921. 1921.Folder 137 The fortieth annual report of the Board of Directors of the Indian Rights Association, Inc., for the year ending December 12, 1922. 1922.
Folder 138 "For the Pueblos," by Herbert Welsh, from the New York Times, 1923 January 7.
Folder 139 The forty-first annual report of the Board of Directors of the Indian Rights Association, Inc., for the year ending December 15, 1923. 1924.
Folder 140 Oklahoma's poor rich Indians: an orgy of graft and exploitation of the Five Civilized Tribes: legalized robbery, a report by Gertrude Bonnin, Charles H. Fabens, and Matthew K. Sniffen, 1924. (21 photocopy pages of the 39-page booklet which is fragile due to its advanced state of acidity)
Folder 141 The forty-second annual report of the Board of Directors of the Indian Rights Association, Inc., for the year ending December 14, 1924. 1925.
Folder 142 What shall we do with our Indians? A present day question, 1925 March 25.
Folder 143 The forty-third annual report of the Board of Directors of the Indian Rights Association, Inc., for the year ending December 15, 1925. 1926.
Folder 144 The forty-fourth annual report of the Board of Directors of the Indian Rights Association, Inc., for the year ending December 15, 1926. 1927.
Folder 145 The forty-fifth annual report of the Board of Directors of the Indian Rights Association, Inc., for the year ending December 15, 1927. 1928.
Folder 146 The forty-sixth annual report of the Board of Directors of the Indian Rights Association, Inc., for the year ending December 15, 1928. 1929.
Folder 147 The forty-seventh annual report of the Board of Directors of the Indian Rights Association, Inc., for the year ending December 15, 1929. 1930.
Folder 148 The forty-eighth annual report of the Board of Directors of the Indian Rights Association, Inc., for the year ending December 15, 1930. 1931.
Folder 149 Cooperation in Indian administration: Federal, state, county and local: four papers presented before the Committee on the American Indian of the National Conference of Social Work. 1., Analysis of the problem, by Lewis Meriam; 2. Cooperation is education, by Carson Ryan, Jr.; 3. , What is Minnesota doing?, by Blanche La On; and 4. , Indian attitudes, by Ruth Muskrat Bronson. 1931 June.
Folder 150 The forty-ninth annual report of the Board of Directors of the Indian Rights Association, Inc., for the year ending December 15, 1931. 1932.
Folder 151 The fiftieth annual report of the Board of Directors of the Indian Rights Association, Inc., for the year ending December 15, 1932. 1933.
Folder 152 The fifty-first and fifty-second annual reports of the Board of Directors of the Indian Rights Association, Inc., for the years ending December 15, 1934. 1935.
Folder 153 The Teller bill and its provisions for a reorganization of the Indian Bureau, by Francis E. Leupp, undated.
Folder 154 A message from the Indian Rights Association to the Sioux Indians, by Herbert Welsh, undated.
Folder 155 A moral citadel: a sketch of the Lake Mohonk conference, by Isabel. C. Barrows, 1911 reprint.
Folder 156 Indian Truth, published by Indian Rights Association, 1946 January - February, Vol. 23, No. 1.
Folder 157 Indian Truth, published by Indian Rights Association. 1955 - 1958, Vol. 32, No. 4; Vol. 33, Nos. 103; Vol. 34, Nos. 1-4.
Folder 158 Indian Truth, published by the Indian Rights Association, 1958 - 1960, Vol. 35, Nos. 1-4; Vol. 36, Nos. 1-4.
Folder 159 Indian Truth, published by the Indian Rights Association, 1960 Sept. - 1961, Vol. 37, Nos. 2-4; Vol. 38, Nos. 1-4.
Folder 160 Indian Truth, published by the Indian Rights Association, 1962 - 1964, Vol. 39, Nos. 1-4; Vol. 40, Nos. 1-4.
Folder 161 Indian Truth, published by the Indian Rights Association, 1964 - 1966, Vol. 41, Nos. 1-4; Vol. 42, Nos. 2-4.
Folder 162 Indian Truth, published by the Indian Rights Association, 1966 - 1967, Vol. 43, Nos. 1-4; Vol. 44, Nos. 1-4.
Folder 163 Indian Truth, published by the Indian Rights Association, 1968 - 1969, Vol. 45, Nos. 1-3; Vol. 46, Nos. 1-2.
Folder 164 Indian Truth, published by the Indian Rights Association, 1970 - 1971, Vol. 47, Nos. 1-3; Vol. 48, Nos. 1-2.
Folder 165 Indian Truth, published by the Indian Rights Association, 1972 March - 1974 May, Nos. 207-212.
Folder 166 Indian Truth, published by the Indian Rights Association, 1975 - 1977, Nos. 213-219.
Folder 167 Indian Truth, published by the Indian Rights Association, 1978 - 1979, Nos. 220-229.
Folder 168 Indian Truth, published by the Indian Rights Association, 1980, Nos. 230-236.
Folder 169 Indian Truth, published by the Indian Rights Association, 1981 - 1982, Nos. 237-241, 243, and 248.
Folder 170 Indian Truth, published by the Indian Rights Association, 1983, Nos. 249-254.
Folder 171 Indian Truth, published by the Indian Rights Association, 1984 - 1985, Nos. 256-259 and 265.
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