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Missionaries and Education

When Pope Alexander VI divided the New World between Spain and Portugal in 1493 and called on Spain to teach the indigenous peoples “in the Catholic faith, and train them in good morals”, he sparked a rush to Christianize the native population that would continue for centuries.

Title	Date	Document Type	Tribe / Nation

Title	Date	Document Type	Tribe / Nation
A 17th century letter of Gabriel Díaz Vara Calderón, bishop of Cuba, describing the Indians and Indian missions of Florida	20 Nov 1936	Printed Book
20 dimanche après la pentecoste [manuscript]: sur le bon usage des maladies	1808	Manuscript	Iroquois; Algonkin; Mohawk
Account book [manuscript]: Nauvoo, Ill., 1843-1869	1843-1869	Financial Record
An account of some late attempts by the correspondents of the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge, to Christianize the North American Indians	1763	Printed Book	Lenni Lanape (Delaware); Oneida
Action of the Union Debating Society of the Carlisle Indian School	1887	Printed Book	Omaha; Pueblo Indians; Pawnee; Cheyenne; Crow; Wichita; Kiowa; Winnebago; Sioux Nation; Comanche; Arapaho; Kaw; Nez Perce; Oneida; Navajo
An address delivered to the Oneida Indians, September 24, 1810, by Samuel Blatchford, D. D., together with the reply, by Christian, a chief of said nation	1810	Printed Book	Oneida
Admission del pueblo de Mission de Santo Thomas de Tucupio [manuscript]: entregado por los RR[everendos] PP[adres] Capuchinos, y su ereccion en parroquia secular. Año de 1798	1798	Official Record; Manuscript
Alaska, and missions on the north Pacific coast	1880	Printed Book
Among the Pimas, or, the mission to the Pima and Maricopa indians	1893	Printed Book	Akimel O'odham (Pima)
Anamiewinensan	1900	Printed Book	Chippewa (Ojibway)
Annual report, United States Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania	1880, 1911	Printed Book
[Autograph album] [manuscript]: Chemawa (Salem, Or.), 1888-1911	1888-1911	Manuscript	Nez Perce
Black-robes, or sketches of missions and ministers in the wilderness and on the border	1872	Printed Book
Brief account of a judicial inquiry into the case of doña Ana, accused of using witchcraft to persuade her Indian lover, don Andrés, to marry her [manuscript]: [between 1530 and 1549]	c.1530-c.1549	Manuscript
A brief narrative of the Indian charity school, in Lebanon in Connecticut, New England…	1766	Printed Book
A brief narrative of the Indian charity-school in Lebanon in Connecticut, New England…	1766	Printed Book
Carlisle (1918)	1918	Printed Book	Oneida; Osage; Shawnee; Cherokee; Stockbridge Munsee; Seneca
Carlisle and the red men of other days / by George P. Donehoo	1911	Printed Book
Carlos Montezuma: correspondence, box 1 (A-G)	1888-1936	Correspondence	Yavapai
Carlos Montezuma: correspondence, box 2 (H-O)	1888-1924	Correspondence	Yavapai
Carlos Montezuma: correspondence, box 3 (P-Z)	1889-1924	Correspondence	Yavapai
Carlos Montezuma: miscellaneous material	1889-1935	Manuscript; Newspaper; Scrapbook; Official Record; Photograph; Financial Record	Choctaw; Chippewa (Ojibway); Blackfeet
Carlos Montezuma: written works	c.1885-1915	Manuscript	Yavapai
Carte de la nouvelle decouverte que les peres Ieusuistes ont fait en l'annee 1672 et continuee par le P. Jacques Marquette de la mesme compagne…	1672-1673; c.1850	Map
Catalogue and synopsis of courses, United States Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania	1915	Printed Book	Miami; Sac and Fox; Cheyenne; Winnebago; Oneida; Omaha; Chippewa (Ojibway); Huron; Ottawa; Pawnee; Crow; Oneida; Wichita; Comanche; Sioux Nation; Shawnee; Seneca; Blackfeet; Stockbridge Munsee; Tuscarora; Nez Perce; Klamath; Osage; Cayuga; Assiniboine; Lenni Lenape (Delaware); Makah; Mohawk; Yuma (Quechan); Iroquois; Apache; Potawatomi; Gros Ventre (Atsina); Mashpee Wampanoag; Abenaki; Quapaw
[Catechisms and hymns in the Potawatomi language] [manuscript]	1832	Manuscript	Potawatomi
A Christian Indian of North America; or, John Papunhand. A narrative of facts.	1830	Printed Book	Lenni Lenape (Delaware); Iroquois; Mohawk; Oneida; Onondaga; Tuscarora; Seneca; Cherokee; Ottawa; Huron; Chickasaw
Circular letter [manuscript]: Boston, [Mass.], to Josiah Cotton, Plimouth [sic], [Mass.], 1712/13 [i.e. 1713], Feb. 10	10 Feb 1713	Correspondence
Civilization of the Indian natives: or, a brief view of the friendly conduct of William Penn towards them in the early settlement of Pennsylvania...	1830	Printed Book	Seneca; Lenni Lenape (Delaware); Stockbridge Munsee; Oneida; Cayuga; Onondaga
Codex Cempoallan [manuscript]	c.1720	Manuscript; Art	Aztec
[Codex Tepotzotlán] [manuscript]	1720	Manuscript; Art	Aztec
A collection of pictures of Wampum and Implements made and used by the Iroquois Indians of New York…	02 Apr 1898	Art	Sioux Nation; Iroquois
A continuation of the narrative of the Indian charity-school, in Lebanon in Connecticut, New England…	1769	Printed Book
Copia de una carta que el P[adre] Francisco María Piccolo misionero de California escribió al P[adre] Juan Manuel de Bassaldua Rector del Colegio de Raum... [manuscript]	13 Nov 1716; 10 Jan 1717	Correspondence
Copies of documents relating to a debate over the legitimacy of a ritual dance performed by the Mexican Indians before a statue of Saint Gonçalo de Amarante in Mexico City [manuscript]	24 Feb 1816 - 22 Mar 1816	Correspondence; Official Record; Manuscript
The Dakota mission	1880	Printed Book	Dakota
Dayspring in the far West: sketches of mission-work in north-west America	1875	Printed Book
[Diary] [manuscript]: [1866-1868]	1866-1868	Diary	Seneca
Diseño ô mapa que manifiesta la Misión de S[an] to Tomás de Tucupido [cartographic material]: con la feligresía que se le ha hagregado los sitios prinsipales de ella	1791	Map
Documents concerning the petition of the residents of Malinalco to rebuild their chapel, Capilla del Calvario [manuscript]: 1752 Nov. 8-Dec. 16	08 Nov 1752 - 16 Dec 1752	Manuscript; Official Record; Correspondence
Documents concerning a petition to establish a Capuchin convent in the parish of San Mateo Jalatlaco [manuscript]: 1743-1789	1743-1789	Manuscript
Documents concerning the proposal to establish a Capuchin convent in Dolores [manuscript]: 1809 Jan. 21-1810 April 9	21 Jan 1809 - 09 Apr 1810	Manuscript; Correspondence
Documents concerning protests by Indians against the construction of two churches in Zacatlán [manuscript]: 1750 Oct. 20-1753 March 24	20 Oct 1750 - 25 March 1753	Manuscript; Official Record; Correspondence
Documents pertaining to cases heard by Bishop Zumárraga as Apostolic Inquisitor of Mexico [manuscript]: [between 1536 and 1543]	1536-1543	Official Record
E. A. Burbank collection: Vol 1	1905	Photograph	Moki; Tewa
E. A. Burbank collection: Vol 2	1905	Photograph	Moki; Tewa; Tohono O'odham (Papago); Akimel O'odham (Pima)
E. A. Burbank collection: Vol 3	1905	Photograph	Akimel O'odham (Pima); Apache; Yuma (Quechan)
E. A. Burbank collection: Vol 4	1905	Photograph	Apache; Yuma (Quechan)
E. A. Burbank collection: Vol 5	1905	Photograph	Cahuilla; Pechanga Luiseño
E. A. Burbank collection: Vol 6	1905	Photograph
E. A. Burbank collection: Vol 7	1905	Photograph	Diegueño (Tipai-Ipai); Mojave; Tule River; Paiute; Shoshone; Washoe
Eadle keatah toh	Jul 1880; Feb 1882	Printed Book	Sioux; Pawnee &prob others
The early Jesuit missions in North America; comp. and tr. from the letters of the French Jesuits, with notes	1845, 1866, 1873	Printed Book	Illinois; Abenaki; Iroquois; Quapaw; Natchez
Establecimiento y progresos delas misiones de la antigua California [manuscript]; y Memorias piadosas de la nacion indiana.	1800	Manuscript
The experiences of five Christian Indians, of the Pequod Tribe	1833	Printed Book	Pequod
Extract from the minutes of the yearly meeting of friends, held at Lombard street, in the city of Baltimore, 1849	1849	Printed Book	Seneca; Iroquois; Tuscarora
Extracts from the diary of the Rev. Dr. Bader, pastor of the Hebron Moravian Church near Lebanon, Pennsylvania from 1751 to 1798 [between 1910 and 1929?]	1751-1798	Diary
Facts favoring the location of a non-reservation Indian boarding school on Sec. 15-41-9 near Hayward, Wisconsin...	1899	Printed Book	Chippewa (Ojibway)
Fragmentos de la Historia de Tlaxcala de Diego Muñoz Camargo [manuscript]	1852	Manuscript	Aztec
A genuine letter from Mr. John Brainard, employed by the Scotch Society for Propagating the Gospel, a missionary to the Indians in America, and minister to a congregation of Indians…	1753	Printed Book; Correspondence
Government Indian schools	1942	Printed Book; Official Record
Grammatik der Moskito Indianer Sprache [manuscript]	c.1860-c.1879	Manuscript
Historia de las Yndias [manuscript] / por Fr. Bartolome de las Casas, obispo de Chiapas [1 of 6]	1850	Manuscript
Historia de las Yndias [manuscript] / por Fr. Bartolome de las Casas, obispo de Chiapas [2 of 6]	1850	Manuscript
Historia de las Yndias [manuscript] / por Fr. Bartolome de las Casas, obispo de Chiapas [3 of 6]	1850	Manuscript
Historia de las Yndias [manuscript] / por Fr. Bartolome de las Casas, obispo de Chiapas [4 of 6]	1850	Manuscript
Historia de las Yndias [manuscript] / por Fr. Bartolome de las Casas, obispo de Chiapas [5 of 6]	1850	Manuscript
Historia de las Yndias [manuscript] / por Fr. Bartolome de las Casas, obispo de Chiapas [6 of 6]	1850	Manuscript
An historical account of the doings and sufferings of the Christian Indians in N. England in the years 1675, 1676, 1677 [manuscript]: impartially drawn by one well acquainted with that affair and presented unto the Right Honorable the Corporation residing in London, appointed by the Kings most excellent Majesty for promoting the gospel among the Indians in America	1831	Manuscript
Historical memoirs, relating to the Housatunnuk Indians...	1753	Printed Book	Mahican; Stockbridge Munsee
Historical sketch of the missions of the American Board among the North American Indians	1876	Printed Book	Dakota
A history of congregational missions among the North American Indians... [typescript] 1917	1917	Manuscript	Cherokee; Osage; Chickasaw; Creek; Stockbridge Munsee; Pawnee; Chippewa (Ojibway); Sioux Nation; Miami; Choctaw; Seneca; Tuscarora; Dakota
A history of the Moravian mission among the Indians on the White River in Indiana	1917	Printed Book	Lenni Lenape (Delaware)
How shall the Indians be educated?	1894	Printed Book
An illustrated souvenir catalog of the Cherokee National Female Seminary, Tahlequah, Indian Territory, 1850-1906	1906	Printed Book; Tribe Record	Cherokee
In a government Indian school	1897	Printed Book	Akimel O'odham (Pima)
In the land of pretty soon	Feb-Mar 1895	Printed Book	Pueblo Indians
Inasmuch; sketches of the beginnings of the Church of England in Canada in relation to the Indian and Eskimo races	1917	Printed Book
The Indian - Federal and State Responsibility	10 Aug 1915	Printed Book	Osage; Chippewa (Ojibway); Navajo; Akimel O'odham (Pima); Tohono O'odham (Papago); Mojave; Zuni; Cherokee; Creek
Indian education at Hampton and Carlisle…	1881	Printed Book	Sioux Nation; Kiowa; Comanche; Cheyenne; Arapaho; Dakota; Wichita; Seminole; Pawnee; Nez Perce; Ponca; Menominee; Ioway; Sac and Fox; Pueblo Indians; Ute
Indian education in the North West	1906	Printed Book
The Indian question…	1883	Printed Book	Yankton Sioux; Lower Brule Sioux
The Indian school at Carlisle barracks	1880	Printed Book	Apache; Sioux Nation; Kiowa; Cheyenne; Comanche
Indian school management. Reply to attacks by Captain Pratt upon the introduction of civil service reform methods.	01 Feb 1897	Printed Book
Indian sermon [manuscript]	1710	Manuscript	Massachuset
John Black, the apostle of the Red River, or how the blue banner was unfurled on Manitoba Prairies	1898	Printed Book
John K. Hillers photographs of the Zuni, Hopi and Rio Grande River pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona: Vol 2	1879-1882	Photograph	Zuni; Moki
Journal d’un voyage fait avec Mr. d’Iberville de la rade de Bilocchis dans le haut du Mississipi [manuscript]: avec un detail de tous ce qui sest fait depuis ce temps jusquau depart du vaisseau, 1700 Feb. 1-May 8 / par le R.P. Du Ru Jesuité	1700	Diary	Creek; Natchez
The journal of a two months tour in America…	1768	Printed Book	Mohawk; Lenni Lenape (Delaware)
A journal of two visits made to some nations of Indians on the west side of the River Ohio, in the years 1772 and 1773	1774	Printed Book	Shawnee; Lenni Lenape (Delaware)
Know all men by these presents that I Peter D. Littleman of the town of Stockbridge county of Calumet…	14 Aug 1848	Correspondence	Stockbridge Munsee
The latest studies on Indian reservations	1887	Printed Book	Cheyenne River Sioux; Crow Creek Sioux; Crow; Sioux Nation; Klamath; Nisqually; Skokomish; Omaha; Oglala Sioux; Rosebud Sioux; Santee Sioux; Yakama; Yankton Sioux; Winnebago
Letter [manuscript]: [Deerfield, Mass.], to the Superior of the Jesuits in the College of Quebec [Jean Baptiste de Saint Pé], [1747 Dec.]	Dec 1747	Correspondence
Letter [manuscript]: [San Xavier del Bac?], to Padre Guardián Diego Jiménez, [Querétaro, Mexico?], [ca. 1776]	c.1776	Correspondence; Manuscript	Moki; Apache
Letter [manuscript]: Augusta, N.Y., to John Tayler, Albany, N.Y., 1819 Jan. 28	28 Jan 1819	Correspondence	Mahican
Letter [manuscript]: Chicago, [Ill.], to [Edward E. Ayer, Chicago, Ill.], 1904 Jan. 23	23 Jan 1904	Correspondence
Letter [manuscript]: Chiguagua [San Felipe del Real, Mexico], to Joseph de Galvez, 1777 Oct. 26	26 Oct 1777	Correspondence	Apache; Comanche
Letter [manuscript]: Dartmouth College, [Hanover, N.H.], to Stephen Williams, Springfield, [Mass.], 1774 Nov. 12	12 Nov 1774	Correspondence
Letter [manuscript]: Fort Dummer, [Vt.], to Jonathan Ashley, Deerfield, [Mass.], 1746 June 13	13 Jun 1746	Correspondence
Letter [manuscript]: Greenville, Calif., to Dear Friend [Edward E. Ayer, Chicago, Ill.], 1916 Apr. 6	06 Apr 1916	Correspondence	Oglala Sioux
Letter [manuscript]: Housatunuck [i.e. Housatonic], [Mass.], to Reverand Nehemiah Bull, Westfield, Mass., 1734/35 Feb. 5	1734	Correspondence	Mahican
Letter [manuscript]: LM [Longmeadow, Mass.], to the Revd. Mr. J. Sergeant, 1743 Apr. 15	15 Apr 1743	Correspondence	Stockbridge Munsee
Letter [manuscript]: London, to the Hon[ora]ble the Society for Propagating of Gosple [sic] among the Indians in New England, 1745 June 17	17 Jun 1745	Correspondence
Letter [manuscript]: Longmeadow, [Mass.], to Stephen Williams, Stockbridge, [Mass.], 1749/50 [i.e. 1750] Jan. 17	17 Jan 1750	Correspondence	Mahican; Stockbridge Munsee
Letter [manuscript]: Lukfatu Chahta Yakne and Eagle Town, [Indian Territory], to Robert Steel, Abington, Pa., 1836 Mar. 22-29	22 Mar 1836 - 29 Mar 1836	Correspondence	Choctaw
Letter [manuscript]: Maryville, T[enn.], to Jedediah Morse, Charlesto[w]n, Mass., 1808 Dec. 17	17 Dec 1808	Correspondence	Cherokee
Letter [manuscript]: Mexico [City], to Charles V of Spain, 1537 Nov	Nov 1537	Correspondence
Letter [manuscript]: Mohegan in New London, [Conn.], to [Eleazar] Wheelock, [Lebanon, Conn.], 1767 Jan. 15	15 Jan 1767	Correspondence	Montauk; Mohegan
Letter [manuscript]: New Whatcom, Wash., to [J.C. Pilling], Director of Bureau of Ethnology, Washington, D.C., 1893 May 22	22 May 1893; 08 Apr 1893	Correspondence	Tanana; Shageluk
Letter [manuscript]: Philadelphia, [Pa.], to Jonas [i.e. Jonah] Thompson, Bristol, [Eng.], 1757 Dec. 6	06 Dec 1757	Correspondence
Letter [manuscript]: Residence de la Conception-aux-Hurons, to M. le curé de St. Martin, à Beauvais [France], 1639 May 25	25 May 1639	Correspondence	Wyandotte; Huron
Letter [manuscript]: San Xavier del Bac, to Juan Bautista de Anssa, 1768 July 29	29 July 1768	Correspondence
Letter [manuscript]: Shawonee Mission, Ind. Ter., to Rev. Francis Barker, South Hanson, Mass., 1852 June 17	17 Jun 1852	Correspondence	Shawnee
Letter [manuscript]: Society Hall, Edinburgh, to Rev. Dr. Morse, 1819 Apr. 1	01 Apr 1819	Correspondence	Stockbridge Munsee; Lenni Lenape (Delaware)
Letter [manuscript]: White Earth, [Minn.], to Miss M. M. Johnston ... League of Ascension Church, 1900 Apr. 13	13 Apr 1900	Correspondence	Minnesota Chippewa
Letter and petition [manuscript]: 1764-1775	1764-1775	Correspondence
A letter from the Revd Mr. Sergeant of Stockbridge, to Dr. Colman of Boston…	1743	Printed Book	Mahican
A letter, about the present state of Christianity, among the Christianized Indians of New-England…	1705	Printed Book
[Letter] [manuscript]: Sau[l]t Ste. Marie, Mich., to Mr. [James B.] Kirker, New York [N.Y.], 1859 Oct. 31	31 Oct 1859	Correspondence
Letters [manuscript]: 1739-1743	14 May 1739 - 24 Oct 1743	Correspondence	Shawnee; Oneida
Letters [manuscript]: 1790-1822	1790-1822	Correspondence
Letters [manuscript]: 1847-1858	1847-1858	Correspondence	Chippewa (Ojibway)
Letters [manuscript]: 1890-1892	1890-1892	Correspondence	Potawatomi
Letters [manuscript]: [New] Stockbridge and Vernon, N.Y., to Jedediah Morse, Charlstown, [Mass.] and New Haven, Conn., 1797-1821	1797-1821	Correspondence	Stockbridge Munsee
Letters [manuscript]: Albany, [N.Y.], to John Pintard, New York, [N.Y.], 1817-1818	1817-1818	Correspondence	Oneida
Letters [manuscript]: Eggharbour and Princeton [N.J.], to Eleazer Wheelock, 1767 June 23 - 1774 Apr. 22	23 Jun 1767; 22 Apr 1774	Correspondence	Catawba; Lenni Lenape (Delaware)
Letters [manuscript]: Metlakatla, B.C., 1887-1892	11 Apr 1887; 22 Jan 1892	Correspondence	Tsimshian; Kwakiutl; Haida
Letters [manuscript]: San Xavier del Bac, to Juan de Pineda, 1768 July 29-1769 July 23	29 July 1768; 21 Feb 1769; 23 July 1769	Correspondence	Apache; Akimel O'odham (Pima)
Letters [manuscript]: Shakopee, Minn., to H.M. Hitchcock, Minneapolis, Minn., 1929-1931	1929-1931	Correspondence	Sioux Nation
Letters on missions; addressed to the Protestant ministers of the British churches	1797	Printed Book
Letters regarding the Illinois Central Railroad Company [manuscript]: Chicago and Bourbonnais, Ill., 1853 Jan. 9-1929 Jan. 21	09 Jan 1853 - 21 Jan 1929	Correspondence	Potawatomi
[Letters to F.D. Newberry] [manuscript]: Puyallup (Consolidated) Agency, Tacoma, Wash., 1889 Dec. 1-2	01 Dec 1889 - 02 Dec 1889	Correspondence
The logick primer: some logical notions to initiate the Indians in the knowledge of the rules of reason…	c.1890	Printed Book	Massachuset
Manual for the Indian school service: approved by the Secretary of the Interior July 1, 1941 / Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Education Division	1942	Printed Book; Official Record	Quapaw; Pueblo Indians
Map of Catholic missions in California and Sonora traced from a late-eighteenth-century Spanish manuscript	1798-1804; c.1908	Map	Apache; Yuma (Quechan); Akimel O'odham (Pima)
Mary and I: forty years with the Sioux	c.1887	Printed Book	Sioux Nation; Dakota; Chippewa (Ojibway)
Massacre at the Yuma Crossing: Spanish relations with the Quechans, 1779-1782	1998	Printed Book	Yuma (Quechan); Tohono O'odham (Papago); Apache; Mojave; Maricopa
The memoir of Miss Eliza McCoy	1892	Printed Book	Potawatomi; Stockbridge Munsee; Wea
Mexican rule in California 1824-1848: paper read before the Badger Club, Los Angeles, March 3rd 1909: typescript, [1909] / by H.C. Dillon, Esq	03 Mar 1909	Manuscript
Miscellaneous items relating to Iroquois culture		Manuscript	Iroquois
Mission pedagogy	1910	Printed Book
The mission play: a pageant play in three acts / by John S. McGroarty, c.1911	1911	Manuscript
Mission service for the Six Nations of Indians [manuscript]: 1893 Mar. 25	25 Mar 1893	Manuscript	Onondaga; Iroquois
Missionary work of the Women's National Indian Association, and letters of missionaries	17 Nov 1885	Printed Book	Ponca; Otoe; Dakota
Missions on Chequamegon Bay	1892	Printed Book	Chippewa (Ojibway)
Missions to the North American Indians	c.1880s	Printed Book
A narrative of the United Brethren among the Delaware & Mohegan Indians [manuscript]: from its commencement in the year 1740 to the close of the year 1808…	1820	Manuscript
[Notes and explanatory text for Grider's artwork on Iroquois Indians]		Manuscript; Art	Iroquois
Noticias de la nueva California [manuscript] [1 of 2]	1792	Manuscript
Noticias de la nueva California [manuscript] [2 of 2]	1792	Manuscript
The Oglala light: the monthly magazine printed by Indians	Dec 1913; Mar 1915; Mar 1917; Apr 1917	Printed Book	Dakota; Oglala Sioux
Our Catholic Indian missions: a paper read before the Catholic Missionary Congress, Chicago, November 16, 1908	16 Nov 1908	Printed Book
Our centennial memoir. Founding of the missions. San Francisco de Assis in its hundredth year. The celebration of its foundation. Historical reminiscences of the missions of California.	1877	Printed Book
Papers [manuscript]: 1804-1816 (bulk 1804-1810)	1804-1816	Correspondence; Manuscript; Newspaper	Mohawk; Cherokee; Iroquois
Papers, 1758-1858	1758-1858	Correspondence; Manuscript; Official Record	Menominee
Paradigma apologetico que desea persuadir ingenuo, escribiendo desapassionado la noti[ci]a de la huasteca a los VV. Sacerdotes que pueden cultivarla [manuscript]: descripcion de su paiz, y demonstracion evidente de la vanidad de el horror, que se le tiene	1746	Manuscript	Maya
[Photographs of Sioux Indians in Wyoming, Pennsylvania and South Dakota]	1868; 1893; 1948; 30 Jan 1891; 01 Jan 1891	Photograph	Sioux Nation; Dakota; Lower Brule Sioux; Oglala Sioux; Crow; Rosebud Sioux
[Photographs of Sioux Indians]	1888-1911; Jul 1911	Photograph	Oglala Sioux; Lower Brule Sioux; Sioux Nation
[Photographs of two Yanktonai Dakota men]		Photograph	Sioux Nation; Yankton Sioux
Poor Lo! Early Indian missions. A memorial.	1896	Printed Book	Cherokee; Choctaw; Seminole; Stockbridge Munsee; Lenni Lenape (Delaware); Little River Ottawa; Chippewa (Ojibway); Osage; Otoe; Omaha; Seneca-Cayuga; Shawanoe; Miami; Potawatomi; Wea
Pour le st. jour de Paques sur le mystère du jour [manuscript]	1799; 1800; 1810	Manuscript	Mohawk
[Prières, etc. en la langue Algonkin] [manuscript]: [between 1860 and 1879]	1860-1879	Manuscript
The prospects of the Indian race of America	28 Feb 1854	Printed Book	Chocktaw; Chickasaw; Cherokee
A rebuff from the United States government	c.1888	Printed Book	Dakota
Recommendations of Father Morfi concerning pacification and settlement of New Mexico [manuscript]: [between 1776 and 1778]	1776-1778	Manuscript	Apache; Comanche
Records [manuscript]: 1869-1919	1869-1919	Official Record; Manuscript
Records [manuscript]: 1869-1919	1869-1919	Official Record; Manuscript
Records [manuscript]: 1869-1919	1869-1919	Official Record; Manuscript
Records [manuscript]: 1869-1919	1869-1919	Official Record; Manuscript
Records [manuscript]: 1869-1919	1869-1919	Official Record; Manuscript
Reflections on the different states & conditions of society [manuscript]: with the outlines of a plan to ameliorate the circumstances of the Indians of North America, 1823	1823	Manuscript	Osage; Quapaw
Relación delas dos entradas que hize ala conversión de los gentiles Itzaex y Cehachez [manuscript]: yo Fr. Andres de Avendaño y Loiola predicador conventual del convto. grande de Mérida…	1696	Manuscript	Maya
Relation de ce qui s’est passé de plus remarquable aux missions des peres de la de la [sic] Compagnie de Jesus en la Nouvelle France [l]es années 1676 & 1677 [manuscript]: [c.1677]	c.1677	Travel Journal	Onondaga; Oneida; Ottawa; Abenaki; Iroquois
[Report of the Committee on a visit to the Miami of the Pottowattomi Nations in 1802]: typescript, 1929 Jan. 8	08 Jan 1929	Official Record; Manuscript	Miami
Report of a council meeting of bishops and priests in Mexico City to discuss their ministry to the Indians [manuscript]: 1539 April 27	27 Apr 1539	Manuscript
Report on missionary work / the Women's National Indian Association	Nov 1888	Printed Book	Bannock; Shoshone; Omaha
Respuesta fiscal [manuscript] / que en vista del IV concilio provincial de Mexico dio en su aprovacion Dn. Pedro de Piña y Mazo fiscal del Peru en agosto de 1774 [1 of 2]	1774	Manuscript
Respuesta fiscal [manuscript] / que en vista del IV concilio provincial de Mexico dio en su aprovacion Dn. Pedro de Piña y Mazo fiscal del Peru en agosto de 1774 [2 of 2]	1774	Manuscript
Rules for the Indian School Service / Office of Indian Affairs	1898	Printed Book; Official Record
Rules for the Indian School Service, 1913 / Department of the Interior, United States Indian Service	1913	Printed Book; Official Record
The school news	Jun 1880; Sep 1880; Oct 1880; Dec 1880; Jan 1881; Feb 1881; Mar 1881; Apr 1881; May 1881; Sep 1881; Oct 1881; Nov 1881; Dec 1881; Jan 1882; Apr 1882; Dec 1882	Printed Book; Newspaper	Cherokee; Pawnee; Sioux Nation; Ioway; Arapaho; Apache; Creek; Nez Perce; Menominee; Yankton Sioux; Kiowa; Osage; Wichita; Pueblo Indians; Navajo; Ponca
The schoolhouse farthest west: St. Lawrence Island, Alaska	1910	Printed Book	Koyuk
[Selections from the Catholic prayer book in Micmac] [manuscript]	22 Apr 1848	Manuscript	Micmac
[Sentences in French and Nipissing] [manuscript]	1750	Manuscript	Chippewa (Ojibway)
Sentences in Micmac [manuscript]: Elenu wegadigun	1847	Manuscript	Micmac
Siguense veynte y seis addiciones desta postilla [manuscript]: las quales hizo el auctor della despues de muchos años que la avía hecho, ante que se imprimiese / oquimochi huilli yn fray Bernardino de Sahagun.	1560-1579	Manuscript	Aztec
Some account of the North-America Indians; their genius, characters, customs, and dispositions, towards the French and English nations…	1754	Printed Book	Creek; Mohawk; Iroquois
Some account of a visit paid to the Friends at Junesassa, and the Indians living on Allegany and Cataraugus Rivers agreeably to an appointment of the Committee on Indian affairs in the 8th month, 1806: typescript, 1929 Jan. 9	09 Jan 1806	Travel Journal; Manuscript	Seneca; Stockbridge Munsee
Some particulars relative to the continuance of the endeavours, on the part of the Society of Friends in the United States of North America, for the improvement and gradual civilization of the Indian natives	1823	Printed Book
Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School / by J.N. Choate	1902	Printed Book	Sioux Nation; Ponca; Mandan; Arikara; Apache; Kiowa; Wichita; Cheyenne; Arapaho; Ute; Navajo; Inuit; Blackfeet
Speech of Gayashuta an ancient chief of the Seneca Nation on the borders of Pennsylvania [manuscript]…	1790	Correspondence	Seneca
St. John's Mission photographs	1914-1916	Photograph	Akimel O'odham (Pima)
Storia della California	1800	Manuscript
The story of the old missions of California: their establishment, progress and decay	1769-1834, 1893	Printed Book
A succinct view of the missions established among the heathen by the church of the Brethren, or Unitas fratrum. In a letter to a friend.	1771	Printed Book	Mahikander; Lenni Lenape (Delaware); Seneca-Cayuga
Teaching the rudiments of cooking in the class room. Primary methods and outlines for the use of teachers in the Indian Schools.	1906	Printed Book; Official Record
Tentative course of study for United States Indian schools. Prepared under the direction of commissioner of Indian affairs.	1915	Printed Book; Official Record
Thomas Lee Ballenger papers: Vol 2	1872-1904	Photograph	Cherokee
Thomas Lee Ballenger papers: Vol 5	1730-1968	Manuscript; Correspondence; Official Record; Financial Record	Cherokee
Three hymns in Chinook, Tsimshian, and Salish [manuscript]: [c.1892]	c.1892	Manuscript	Chinook; Tsimshian; Salish
Thrilling adventures, travels, and explorations of Dr. Elijah White among the Rocky Mountains and in the far west…	1859	Printed Book	Warm Springs; Keyuse; Nez Perce
True stories of Indians, wild and civilized [manuscript]: told by George W. Ingalls... written by Vernille DeWitt-Warr; pen & ink sketches by Ralph du Maurier: beautifully illustrated	1915	Manuscript	Washoe; Paiute; Moki; Pueblo Indians; Creek; Seminole; Sac and Fox; Choctaw; Dakota; Sioux Nation
Two ways of treating the Indian problem. A discourse.		Printed Book
United States Indian industrial school, Carlisle, Pennsylvania	1895-1900	Printed Book; Photograph	Apache; Fort Sill Apache; Inuit; Navajo
Views of United States Indian School	1915	Printed Book; Photograph
W.H. Jackson Photocrom Print Collection Vol 1: III	1898-1906	Photograph	Taos; Moki
W.H. Jackson Photocrom Print Collection Vol 1: IV	1898-1902	Photograph
W.H. Jackson Photocrom Print Collection Vol 1: IX	1898-1906	Photograph
W.H. Jackson Photocrom Print Collection Vol 1: VII	1900	Photograph
W.H. Jackson Photocrom Print Collection Vol 1: VIII	1900-1901	Photograph
W.H. Jackson Photocrom Print Collection Vol 1: X	1900-1903	Photograph
What the government and the churches are doing for the Indians	1874	Printed Book
What will become of the Indians?	1886	Printed Book	Chippewa (Ojibway); Menominee; Dakota; Sioux Nation; Flathead; Cheyenne; Blackfeet; Osage; Potawatomi
William Bollaert’s pencil sketches of Texas [graphic] 1836-[1844]	c.1836-1844	Art; Map	Comanche; Choctaw

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