National Anthropological Archives

MS 7090 Letters from George Bird Grinnell to C. Hart Merriam

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS7090
Creators:
Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938
Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942
Dates:
1878-1932
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
200 Pages
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Consists of correspondence with two newspaper clippings. Includes detailed discussion of the efforts of Grinnell and Merriam, through contacts with President Theodore Roosevelt and influential Congressmen, to bring about Federal investigation of charges of maladministration by the Indian Agent at the Blackfeet Reservation in 1903-4. It also contains accounts of actions taken to try to end practices adversely affecting Indians such as appropriation and ration cuts, grants of grazing rights to white cattlemen and reservations, and Agency mismanagement, with specific reference to the Cheyenne, the Standing Rock Dakota, and Geronimo's Apaches, as well as the Blackfeet. Other letters are concerned primarily with scientific discussions of ornithological, zoological, and botanical subjects and of conservation and the need for National Parks and National Forests.

Administration

Custodial History
Received from Robert Heizer, University of California, Berkeley, 7/12/24. National Anthropological Archives accession 75-1.

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 7090, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 7090

Local Note

Local Note
Typescript letter signed and autograph letter signed

Bibliography

Bibliography
The drawings and photographs are described in an accompanying typed label as "Original illustrations for Pawnee Hero Stories by Geo. Bird Grinnell. First Edition 1889".


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Federal-Indian relations -- Blackfeet Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indian interest groups -- Indian Rights Association Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Federal-Indian relations -- appropriations Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Federal-Indian relations -- ration cuts Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Federal-Indian relations -- grazing rights Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Federal-Indian relations -- agency mismanagement Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
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Zoology -- Ornithology Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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