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Indians of North America -- Missions

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 75 Collections and/or Records:

A forest scene showing foundation stones which are believed to have been those of a Spanish mission during the 1600’s., Undated

 Item — Box Photo T-13, item: 19
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white original prints of Mangum, Oklahoma Territory and State; and Greer County, Texas and Oklahoma Territory. also included are scenes of the range cattle industry, businesses, schools, and farming.

Dates: Undated

A group of men, Indians and whites, taken at the Cache Creek Mission, west of Apache, Oklahoma., Undated

 Item — Box Photo D-6, item: 27
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

An Indian man from Cache Creek Mountain, Undated

 Item — Box Photo W-14, Item: 24
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Indians along with scenes of the town of Apache, Oklahoma and of nearby Cache Creek Mission. D.C. Ward Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated

An Indian teepee at Cache Creek Mission, Undated

 Item — Box Photo W-14, Item: 29
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Indians along with scenes of the town of Apache, Oklahoma and of nearby Cache Creek Mission. D.C. Ward Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated

Arthur W. Evans Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-1770
Scope and Contents

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Collector. Correspondence (1906–1968); certificates (1891–1918); and news clippings (1928–1939) regarding University of Oklahoma president Arthur Grant Evans, federal funding for schools in Indian Territory, the issue of separate statehood for Oklahoma and Indian territories, and Evans’s participation in the United States’ propaganda effort in World War I; a typescript regarding the history (1816–1831) of the Presbyterian church and missions in the eastern Cherokee Nation; a diary (1887) of A. G. Evans; and original records (1830–1857) of the New Echota Church in the Cherokee Nation, as recorded by Samuel A. Worcester, church clerk. Arthur W. Evans Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1830-1968

Boys or students at Cache Creek Mission, West of Apache, Oklahoma. Negative, 5x7, Undated

 Item — Box Photo D-6, item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

Boys or students Cache Creek Mission, West of Apache, Oklahoma. 2 copies., Undated

 Item — Box Photo D-6, item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

Cache Creek Mission, built in 1892, 1892

 Item — Box Photo W-14, Item: 15
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Indians along with scenes of the town of Apache, Oklahoma and of nearby Cache Creek Mission. D.C. Ward Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1892

Cache Creek Mission ground, 1895, 1895

 Item — Box Photo W-14, Item: 33
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Indians along with scenes of the town of Apache, Oklahoma and of nearby Cache Creek Mission. D.C. Ward Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1895

Cache Creek Mission picnic, Undated

 Item — Box Photo W-14, Item: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Indians along with scenes of the town of Apache, Oklahoma and of nearby Cache Creek Mission. D.C. Ward Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated

Camp grounds at the Cache Creek Mission, Undated

 Item — Box Photo W-14, Item: 43
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Indians along with scenes of the town of Apache, Oklahoma and of nearby Cache Creek Mission. D.C. Ward Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated

Choir, St. Patrick’s Indian pupils. Dietrick’s Opera House, Anadarko, Oklahoma March 17, 1909. 2 copy prints, 5x7. Negative, 5x7., 1909 March 17

 Item — Box Photo S-23, Item: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Catholic churches, schools and monastic orders in Oklahoma. Also includes Osage and Quapaw Indians and scenes of Guthrie, Boley, Langston, Fairfax, Ardmore, Antlers and Chickasha, Oklahoma.

Dates: 1909 March 17

Comanche family group. Albert Attocknie and his wife Faye who is holding their child in her arms. Taken at Cache Creek Mission, west of Apache, Oklahoma. 2 copies. Negative, 5x7., Undated

 Item — Box Photo D-6, item: 9
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

Comanche family group. Seated is David and Choppy Poatpybitty with family taken at the Cache Creek Mission, west of Apache, Oklahoma. 2 copies. Negative, 5x7., Undated

 Item — Box Photo D-6, item: 14
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

Comanche lady and her two children taken at the Cache Creek Mission, west of Apache, Oklahoma. Lady is Choppy Poatpybitty. 2 copies. Negative, 5x7., Undated

 Item — Box Photo D-6, item: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

Comanche lady named Pomo-no-vah-ehy, wife of Henry Wallace at Cache Creek Mission, west of Apache, Oklahoma. Pomo-no-vah-ehy means “bending over while picking something.”, Undated

 Item — Box Photo D-6, item: 16
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

Comanche man, Mr. Yellowfish, his wife and child. Photo taken at Cache Creek Mission, west of Apache, Oklahoma., Undated

 Item — Box Photo D-6, item: 11
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

Comanches going to church, Undated

 Item — Box Photo W-14, Item: 20
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Indians along with scenes of the town of Apache, Oklahoma and of nearby Cache Creek Mission. D.C. Ward Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated

Congregation at the temporary building of the Walter Indian Baptist Church., undated

 Item — Box Photo G-3, Item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of Kiowa and Comanche Indians and their churches and missions, and baptismal scenes, all taken in western Oklahoma.

Dates: undated

Congregation of Deyo Mission., undated

 Item — Box Photo G-3, Item: 39
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of Kiowa and Comanche Indians and their churches and missions, and baptismal scenes, all taken in western Oklahoma.

Dates: undated

Construction of the Cache Creek Mission dormitory, Undated

 Item — Box Photo W-14, Item: 27
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Indians along with scenes of the town of Apache, Oklahoma and of nearby Cache Creek Mission. D.C. Ward Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: Undated

D. C. Ward Collection

 Item — Box 1
Identifier: WHC-M-1323
Scope and Contents

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Missionary. A typescript of an article (1939) regarding the history of the Cache Creek Indian Mission, located in southwestern Oklahoma, which ministered to various Plains Indian tribes. D.C. Ward Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1939

Deacons from three missions: Deyo, Post Oak and Walters., undated

 Item — Box Photo G-3, Item: 35
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of Kiowa and Comanche Indians and their churches and missions, and baptismal scenes, all taken in western Oklahoma.

Dates: undated

Division of Manuscripts Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-163
Scope and Contents FULL FINDING AID (PDF)Subject collection. Letters, reports, publications, and manuscripts reflecting the history of Oklahoma and of its American Indian tribes and nations, including correspondence (1813–1839) from U.S. government officials concerning policy toward the Indians, especially in regard to the Indian removal, and correspondence (1862) from Confederate Army officer Albert Pike in regard to Confederate States of America policy toward the Indians. Also included in this collection is a group of French colonial documents (1682–1794), along with diaries and journals (1770–1877) of travelers on the American frontier. The collection contains material on a variety of topics; researchers are urged to consult the inventory to determine the full scope of the collection’s contents. Portions of Boxes 7 and 8 of this collection are available at the OU Libraries...
Dates: 1682-1969

Drawing of the First Mission Church of Episcopal Methodism, and graves of its first missionary (Rev. John Stewart) and converts.  History of the church is on the back of the photograph showing the location of the graves and the names of the Wyandot Chiefs buried there.  Drawing shows graves in front of a small church building in Upper Sandusky, Ohio.  Church was build in 1824, with this photograph being made in 1861.  Original print, 4x6.  Photographer’s board., 1861

 Item — Box Photo W-2, item: 120
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of the towns of Guthrie, Edmond, El Reno, Oklahoma City, Perry, Kingfisher and Anadarko, Oklahoma. Scenes of farming, railroads, mining, outlaws, the U.S. Army, Boomers, the University of Oklahoma and businesses are included, along with those of Cheyenne, Shawnee, Wichita, Apache, Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Comanche, Kiowa, Pawnee, Osage, Wyandotte, Ponca, Iroquois, Seminole and Iowa Indians.

Dates: 1861

Emma H. DeKnight Collection

 Item — Box D-31
Identifier: WHC-M-969
Scope and Contents

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Teacher. A diary (1886-1892) kept by DeKnight, relating her experiences as a teacher at the Chilocco Indian School and the Otoe School at the Red Rock Indian Agency, both in Indian Territory. The primary emphasis of the diary is on the time Deknight spent among the Otos and includes a list (1887) of her Oto students.

Dates: 1886-1892

Floy Duncum Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: WHC-M-176
Scope and Contents

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Collector. Memoirs (n.d.) of James Louis Avant, relating his experiences as bailiff of the U.S. District Court for Western Arkansas at Fort Smith, and as a Disciplinarian of the Kiowa Government Schools at Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory, along with anecdotes of a hunting trip in the Kiamichi (Oklahoma) Mountains, plus two obituaries (1941) of Avant.

Dates: 1941

Folsom Training School Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-2191
Scope and Contents

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School. Business and legal records (1922-1975) of the Folsom Training School, a Methodist mission school for Indians located in Smithville, Oklahoma; Folsom Reunion Association correspondence and mailing lists (1968, 1985-1986); history of Sealey Chapel Methodist Church with announcements (1966, 1970, 1981-1986) of Folsom reunions; and an article concerning the school.

Dates: 1920-1986

Four boys or students at the Cache Creek Mission, west of Apache, Oklahoma. Comanche boy on right is Nat Perkaquanard., Undated

 Item — Box Photo D-6, item: 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of Comanche Indians at Cache Creek Mission near Apache, Oklahoma. The collection also includes photographs of a parade at Craterville Park, students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, Creek stickball players and dancers, and studio portraits of Kiowa Indians. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: Undated

Funeral of Rev. E.C. Deyo at Deyo Mission after 33 years of service at that station., undated

 Item — Box Photo G-3, Item: 9
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original prints of Kiowa and Comanche Indians and their churches and missions, and baptismal scenes, all taken in western Oklahoma.

Dates: undated