Indians of North America -- History

Content Description The primary item in this collection is an album of vernacular photographs recording the outdoor leisure activities of an unidentified American family possibly from the Northeastern United States. None of the prints carry any identifying information, but the pictures are organized into discrete series. The most notable of these series with 143 photographs may depict a canoeing, hiking, and fishing expedition to the Canadian North. This series includes numerous images of Native American or...

Scope and Content Newspaper clippings and pamphlets concerning Potawatomies, Miamis, and other Indians of North America; an "Appeal in Behalf of the Negro and Indian Missions in the United States," signed by the Commission for the Catholic Missions among the Negroes and Indians (James Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishops Patrick J. Ryan, and John J. Kain); scattered issues of the journal Kamloops Wawa (1894-1897); five issues (1896-1898) of Anishinabe Enamiad, a Monthly Journal Devoted to the Interests of the...

Content Description One board game for two to four players, manufactured by McLoughlin Brothers of New York. Each player controls 16 wooden game pieces that are colored maroon, tan, light blue, or dark blue. The winner of the game is the first player to move all of their game pieces from their home area into the home area of another player, which, as the game rules explain “cannot be done except by occupying each one of its squares.” Players move pieces one square at a time or jump game pieces for longer moves....