Kiowa Indians -- Education

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Correspondence, pamphlets, and reports of various Native American projects, such as the Alaska Native Law Project, the North Slope Legal Assistance Project, the American Indian Institute, and the Alaska Legal Services Corporation. Boyce and Alice Timmons Photograph Collection also in repository.

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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.

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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.

Scope and Contents Black and white original prints, copy prints and glass plate negatives of the Apache, Comanche, Delaware, Temeculz, Kawaiisu, Creek, Umatilla, Chippewa, Paiute, Sioux, Oto, Choctaw, Pawnee, Osage, Ponca, Mohave, Kickapoo, Taos, Pueblo, Yuma, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Crow, Navajo, Kiowa, Tonkawa, Sac and Fox, Kalispel, Kutenai, Flathead, Spokan, Attu, Quileute, Seminole, Wasco, Modoc, Shasta, Yakima, Shoshoni, Kiowa-Apache, Skitswish, Cheyenne, Shawnee, Nez Perce, Arapaho, Caddo, Wichita, Yakima, Makah, and Blackfoot Indians. Also includes images of mining, the oil industry, the military, agriculture, the range cattle industry, education, and transportation in Oklahoma Territory, Oklahoma state, and Indian Territory. Scenes of the towns of McAlester, Edmond, Alva, Weatherford, Pawhuska, Clairemore, Ponca City, Purcell, Duncan, Noble, Lexington, Shawnee, Beaver. Plainview, Lavern, Henryetta, Atoka, Tahlequah, Guthrie, Tishomingo, and Eufaula are included. In addition the first year of...

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Teacher. Diaries of Battey (1872-1884) and correspondence with family members (1873-1874) regarding his experience as a teacher to Native Americans, along with a manuscript by Battey entitled "Life and Adventures of a Quaker Among the Indians." Thomas C. Battey Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Black and white original print of Thomas Battey, a Quaker missionary who supervised the Riverside Indian Boarding School and later taught among the Kiowas. Thomas C. Battey Manuscript Collection also in repository.