Indians of North America -- Government relations.

Content Description

Typescript drafts for Seeing the White Buffalo; typescript draft for The Visual Guide to Occidente Shaft Tomb Ceramic Figures plus a mock-up of the hardcover edition of Shaft Tombs and Figures in West Mexican Society: A Reassessment; and typescripts and images for Peace Medals: Negotiating Power in Early America, a Gilcrease Museum catalog with several contributors including Robert Pickering.

Typescripts, color prints of digital images, mock-up of a hardbound book.

Content Description

Official, printed treaty documents.

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents

Washakie: An Account of Indian Resistance of the Covered Wagon and Union Pacific Railroad Invasions of Their Territory: Unbound typescript with autograph revisions, corrections, and editor's marks, and additional text pasted on. Included are specimen copies of the frontispiece; title page; preliminary pages; table of contents; list of illustrations; illustrations; and bibliography; with further autograph revisions and corrections.

Scope and Contents These papers are all letters dealing chiefly with Indian affairs. In a letter written from Fort Crawford, Prairie du Chien, July 19, 1836, and addressed to Capt. William M. Boyce, U.S. Army, he remarks about the deplorable condition of the Indians, calling them ". . . miserable naked and half-starved Indians who have been driven to desperation by the most villainous acts of the greatest set of harpies that ever existed, and who have been countenanced by the govt in cheating, swindling...