Fred Barton Woodard Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: WHC-M-680

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

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Lawyer. Personal and business correspondence (1934-1953), mostly relating to Republican Party politics. Also included are government documents and other published materials (1920's-1940's) regarding Native Americans, such as hearings before Congressional Committees on Indian Affairs relating to relief of needy Indians (1940); claims of the Shawnee and Delaware tribes (1920's-1936), the Yakima tribes (1939), the Snake or Paiute tribes (1940), and the Wichita and related tribes (1939); a report (1946) concerning the reduction in size of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation; a proposed constitution for the Brotherhood of North American Indians; and a biographical sketch of Charles Journeycake, a chief of the Delaware, written by Woodard in 1943. Fred Barton Woodard Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates

Creation: 1886-1955

Restrictions on Access

On June 26, 2023, the Western History Collections began a preservation project that has made many of its collections unavailable for a period of time. This collection is among the materials temporarily unavailable. Please contact Western History Collections if you wish to be added to a contact list to be notified when this collection becomes available.

Available for public access.