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National Anthropological Archives
MS 7090 Letters from George Bird Grinnell to C. Hart Merriam
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7090
- Creators:
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Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942
- Dates:
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1878-1932
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Physical Description:
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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
More Information
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".
Keywords
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