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Scope and Contents Letter from Lucy E. Abbot of the Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Washington D.C. to Margaret Blackbird Boyd of Harbor Springs, Michigan, dated November 9, 1882. Abbot advises Boyd to write a clear statement of facts about the stealing of land from Odawa Indians at the hands of white settlers in Harbor Springs and send it to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in Washington D.C., as well as to General Charles Ewing, Catholic Commissioner in Washington, D.C. Abbot also...

Dates: 1882 November 9

Found in: University of Notre Dame Archives / Louise Obermiller and Andrew J. Blackbird Collection / Margaret Blackbird Boyd Correspondence (Accession #2023-084)

Letter from Lucy E. Abbot to Margaret Blackbird Boyd, 1885 May 16

Item — Box: CLOB 1, Folder: 10

Identifier: CLOB 1/10

Scope and Contents Letter from Lucy E. Abbot of the Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Washington D.C. to Margaret Blackbird Boyd of Harbor Springs, Michigan, dated May 16, 1885. Abbot confirms that she recently received a letter from Boyd regarding the stealing of Odawa land at the hands of white settlers in Harbor Springs, and that she gave the letter to Father Stephan, who is in charge of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions in Washington D.C. Abbot relays that Father Stephan said he...

Dates: 1885 May 16

Found in: University of Notre Dame Archives / Louise Obermiller and Andrew J. Blackbird Collection / Margaret Blackbird Boyd Correspondence (Accession #2023-084)

Letter from Lucy E. Abbot to Margaret Blackbird Boyd, 1885 September 26

Item — Box: CLOB 1, Folder: 11

Identifier: CLOB 1/11

Scope and Contents Letter from Lucy E. Abbot of the Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Washington D.C. to Margaret Blackbird Boyd of Harbor Springs, Michigan, dated September 26, 1885. Abbot encourages Boyd to gather a delegation of her Odawa people to come to Washington D.C. to visit the President [Grover Cleveland] about the stealing of their land at the hands of white settlers in Harbor Springs. Abbot expresses that President Cleveland seems to wish to do justice to the Indians. Abbot...

Dates: 1885 September 26

Found in: University of Notre Dame Archives / Louise Obermiller and Andrew J. Blackbird Collection / Margaret Blackbird Boyd Correspondence (Accession #2023-084)

Letter from Lucy E. Abbot to Margaret Blackbird Boyd, 1886 September 29

Item — Box: CLOB 1, Folder: 12

Identifier: CLOB 1/12

Scope and Contents Letter from Lucy E. Abbot of the Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Washington D.C. to Margaret Blackbird Boyd of Harbor Springs, Michigan, dated September 29, 1886. Abbot makes arrangements for Boyd to sell sweet grass to a friend named Mrs. Fuller. Abbot says she is sorry that she cannot do anything to help Boyd regarding a village tax, as Boyd’s property is subject to taxes now that she is no longer living in tribal relations to the government. Abbot says she has...

Dates: 1886 September 29

Found in: University of Notre Dame Archives / Louise Obermiller and Andrew J. Blackbird Collection / Margaret Blackbird Boyd Correspondence (Accession #2023-084)

Letter from Lucy E. Abbot to Margaret Blackbird Boyd, 1887 April 25

Item — Box: CLOB 1, Folder: 13

Identifier: CLOB 1/13

Scope and Contents Letter from Lucy E. Abbot of Washington D.C. [formerly of the Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs] to Margaret Blackbird Boyd of Harbor Springs, Michigan, dated April 25, 1887. Abbot expresses her sympathies to hear that Boyd has lost her husband and has been sick and unhappy. Abbot responds to Boyd’s complaints about taxes by explaining that the Office of Indian Affairs no longer has care of Boyd’s property, and as such, Boyd is now subject to the same property tax as white...

Dates: 1887 April 25

Found in: University of Notre Dame Archives / Louise Obermiller and Andrew J. Blackbird Collection / Margaret Blackbird Boyd Correspondence (Accession #2023-084)

Letter from John Swift, Landscape and Practical Surveyor, regarding map of Little Traverse Village, Michigan, 1894-11-27

File — Box: CLOB 1, Folder: 15

Identifier: CLOB 1/15

Scope and Contents

Includes a 1-page document with a description of a surveyed lot on letterhead for John Swift, M.S., Landscape and Practical Surveyor. The maps are undated but were presumably created around the same time as the written lot description. All materials were contained in an envelope labeled as follows: "From Franciscan Fathers, Harbor Springs, Mich. To: Large Map of Little Traverse containing names of Indians."

Dates: 1894-11-27

Found in: University of Notre Dame Archives / Louise Obermiller and Andrew J. Blackbird Collection / Louise Obermiller and Andrew J. Blackbird Materials (Accession #2023-074) / Property Records and Correspondence

Power of attorney and other notarized contracts signed between Louise Obermiller and Ojibwa and Odawa chiefs and headmen, 1896 - 1897

File — Box: CLOB 1, Folder: 16

Identifier: CLOB 1/16

Scope and Contents Retained original order of documents which were contained in a single envelope labeled "Power of Attorney, "Amable House" Band (St. Ignace), incl. John B. Shomin sig." Documents include signed contracts (power of attorney) and lists of Ottawa and Chippewa bands, chiefs, headmen, and community members from the following towns in northern Michigan: Marquette, Grand Island, Thomasville, Point Iroquois, Tahquamenon, Sault Ste. Marie, Sugar Island, Drummond Island, Les Cheneaux, Pine River (St....

Dates: 1896 - 1897