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Indians of North America -- Social life and customs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Albert Hamilton Black Collection

 Item
Identifier: WHC-M-1841
Scope and Contents

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Cheyenne-Arapaho tribal historian. Typescript by Mr. Black entitled "Ceremony of the Earth People" regarding the history and religious rites of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians from the time of first contact with white men through the present, and detailing the procedures of each ceremony, including peyotism.

Dates: 1985
Found in: Western History Collections / Albert Hamilton Black Collection

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
Found in: Western History Collections / WHC-P-1169, D. C. Ward Photograph Collection

Fred Lincoln Wenner Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-652
Scope and Contents

Journalist. Typescripts and manuscripts (1889-1939), and clippings (n.d.) regarding the history and settlement of Oklahoma; and correspondence (1904-1950) between Wenner and the Territorial Board for the Leasing of School Lands, of which Wenner was secretary, and with notable personalities in Oklahoma regarding Oklahoma history. Fred L. Wenner Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1887-1950
Found in: Western History Collections / Fred Lincoln Wenner Collection

Peter Perkins Pitchlynn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-M-495
Scope and Contents

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Choctaw Chief. Correspondence of Pitchlynn with prominent citizens and family members in the Choctaw Nation; personal journals (1815) and diary (1828-1832) of Pitchlynn; official reports (1825-1841) of the Choctaw Academy in Kentucky; and Pitchlynn family records (1806-1867). Also includes a signed copy of the articles of surrender and peace negotiated between the Choctaw Nation and the United States at the close of the Civil War, and extensive correspondence reflecting the state of the Choctaw Nation just prior to and during the Civil War years, with special regard to slavery. Peter Pitchlynn Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1815-1922
Found in: Western History Collections / Peter Perkins Pitchlynn Collection

Ralph Hayden Records Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-M-1832
Scope and Contents

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Professor. Magazine and journal article (1940-1968) regarding historiography; and a manuscript (n.d.) by Loban S. Records entitled "The Recollections of a Cowboy of the Seventies and Eighties" regarding the lives of cowboys and ranchers in Kansas and the Cherokee Strip of Oklahoma in the 1870's and 1880's. The manuscript includes an account of Records's participation in the Land Run of 1893. Ralph Hyden Records Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1940-1968
Found in: Western History Collections / Ralph Hayden Records Collection

School children at play at the Cache Creek Mission, Undated

 Item — Box Photo W-14, Item: 13
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
Found in: Western History Collections / WHC-P-1169, D. C. Ward Photograph Collection

School children at play at the Cache Creek Mission, Undated

 Item — Box Photo W-14, Item: 46
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
Found in: Western History Collections / WHC-P-1169, D. C. Ward Photograph Collection

St. Patrick’s Mission boys on a wagon. After the Fourth of July parade. Anadarko, Oklahoma, 1910. 2 copy prints, 5x7. Negative, 5x7., 1910

 Item — Box Photo S-23, Item: 9
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: 1910
Found in: Western History Collections / WHC-P-1146, Sooner Catholic Magazine Photograph Collection

Te Ata Fisher Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-P-1615
Scope and Contents

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Black and white original prints of Te Ata Fisher, including family scenes and studio portraits of Te Ata, along with a videotape of Te Ata's performances as a storyteller and interpreter of Indian folklore and culture. Te Ata Fisher Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1900-1938
Found in: Western History Collections / Te Ata Fisher Photograph Collection

Wichita women butchering the cattle that they have been issued The bent over woman in the foreground is holding the intestines of the animal whose bones are in front of her.  The insides of the cow have been piled up on the right side of the photograph.  There are several dogs around the body of the cow.  Grass arbors in the background., undated

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

Black and white original and copy prints of the range cattle industry in Wyoming and bauxite mining in Arkansas, along with photographs of Sioux, Apache, and Wichita Indians. The collection also includes a photograph of Covey's drawing of the Cherokee Strip Opening in 1893. Arthur S. Covey Manuscript Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated
Found in: Western History Collections / WHC-P-1557, Arthur Covey Photograph Collection
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