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Arapaho Indians

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 165 Collections and/or Records:

Kooish, mother of John Washee., Undated

 Item — Box Photo C-87, item: 260
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: Undated

Lewis Lincoln, son of Myrtle Lincoln, Pentacostal preacher, with guitar outside tent. Cantonment, OK. 1930’s., 1930-1939

 Item — Box Photo L-4, Item: 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the family of Myrtle Lincoln (Howling Buffalo) and Arapaho farmers near Cantonment, Oklahoma.

Dates: 1930-1939

Line waiting to get water at the Arapaho Sun Dance camp, 1913. Negative., 1913

 Item — Box Photo C-110, item: 2325
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: 1913

Little Bear and (Shield?), two sons of Little Raven, standing in front of log cabin. 1869. Western Oklahoma. Photographer – William Soule. Negative 5x7. Possibly as Camp Supply., 1869

 Item — Box Photo S-19, item: 21
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Kiowa-Apache, Comanche, Arapaho, Wichita, Caddo, Cheyenne, and Kiowa Indians.

Dates: 1869

Little Big Mouth, Arapaho, sitting in front of tepee. He is wearing a feathered headdress and a metal cross around his neck. Cheyenne camp? Western Oklahoma, 1869 – 1874. Photographer – William Soule. Negative 5x7., 1869-1874

 Item — Box Photo S-19, item: 15
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Kiowa-Apache, Comanche, Arapaho, Wichita, Caddo, Cheyenne, and Kiowa Indians.

Dates: 1869-1874

Little Bird and family, Southern Arapaho, beside their tepee. Negative., Undated

 Item — Box Photo C-109, item: 2317
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: Undated

Little Bird, Southern Arapaho. Full length portrait of him holding feathered lance, carrying shield. Assimilated dress. 1868. BAE., 1868

 Item — Box Photo C-84, item: 20
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: 1868

Little Chief, S. Arapaho., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-24, Item: 1486
Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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...
Dates: undated

Little Raven, Chief of the Arapahoes (lithograph)., undated

 Item — Box Photo P-24, Item: 1485
Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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...
Dates: undated

Little Raven, Head Chief of the Arapahos. Western Oklahoma, 1869 – 1874. Photographer – William Soule. Negative 5x7., 1869-1874

 Item — Box Photo S-19, item: 11
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Kiowa-Apache, Comanche, Arapaho, Wichita, Caddo, Cheyenne, and Kiowa Indians.

Dates: 1869-1874

Little Raven, Southern Arapaho chief. Two portraits of different views. Prior to 1877. Dress: assimilated. BAE., 1877

 Item — Box Photo C-84, item: 60
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: 1877

Little Raven, Southern Arapaho, or Young Crow, Hosa or Chaste, portrait, two views: front and side. He died at Cantoment, Oklahoma Territory, 1889. BAE., 1889

 Item — Box Photo C-85, item: 83
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: 1889

Mrs. C. D. Ellison Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: WHC-M-185
Scope and Contents

FULL FINDING AID (PDF)

Collector. A pamphlet entitled "Darlington, the Indian's Friend" which chronicles the life of Brinton Darlington, Cheyenne-Arapaho agent and Quaker missionary; a manuscript for a speech by Judge Edgar S. Vaught giving a brief history of Oklahoma; and a diary (1891-1893) kept by Caro Emerson while a student at Bethany College, Topeka, Kansas.

Dates: 1834-1956

Myrtle Lincoln (Howling Buffalo) at Concho Agency 1967., 1967

 Item — Box Photo L-4, Item: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the family of Myrtle Lincoln (Howling Buffalo) and Arapaho farmers near Cantonment, Oklahoma.

Dates: 1967

Nawat or Left Hand, chief of the Southern Arapaho, 1895. He is wearing a peace medal. Dress: contemporary. Portrait. BAE., 1895

 Item — Box Photo C-84, item: 32
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: 1895

Nawat or Left Hand, principle chief of the Southern Arapaho. Portrait, 1899. BAE., 1899

 Item — Box Photo C-84, item: 62
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: 1899

Nawat or Left Hand, Southern Arapaho, in contemporary dress. BAE., Undated

 Item — Box Photo C-84, item: 39
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: Undated

Noted Indian Chiefs who have visited Indian Training School: Carlisle, PA Spotted Tail, Sioux Dakota Iron Wing, Sioux Dakota American Horse, Sioux Red Shirt, Sioux White Eagle, Ponca Standing Buffalo, Ponca Poor Wolf, Mandan Son-of-the-State, Arickaree White Man, Apache Stumbling Bear, Kiowa Tso-de-ar-ko, Wichita Big Horse, Cheyenne Bob Tail, Cheyenne Man-on-the-Cloud, Cheyenne Man Wolf, Cheyenne Little Raven, Arapaho Yellow Bear, Arapaho Left Hand, Arapaho Ouray, Ute, undated

 Item — Box Photo C-71, item: 40
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of Indian students and buildings at Carlisle Indian School, Riverside Indian School, Dwight Mission, Cherokee Female Seminary, and Fort Sill Indian School and a street scene in Bluejacket, Oklahoma. Also included are photographs of Red Cloud, Quanah Parker, and Elias Cornelius Boudinot; Wichita grass houses; street scenes from Marble City, Oklahoma; and unidentified cowboys. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: undated

Noted Indian Chiefs who have visited Indian Training School: Carlisle, PA Spotted Tail, Sioux Dakota Iron Wing, Sioux Dakota American Horse, Sioux Red Shirt, Sioux White Eagle, Ponca Standing Buffalo, Ponca Poor Wolf, Mandan Son-of-the-State, Arickaree White Man, Apache Stumbling Bear, Kiowa Tso-de-ar-ko, Wichita Big Horse, Cheyenne Bob Tail, Cheyenne Man-on-the-Cloud, Cheyenne Man Wolf, Cheyenne Little Raven, Arapaho Yellow Bear, Arapaho Left Hand, Arapaho Ouray, Ute, undated

 Item — Box C-71, item: 40
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black-and-white copy prints of Indian students and buildings at Carlisle Indian School, Riverside Indian School, Dwight Mission, Cherokee Female Seminary, and Fort Sill Indian School and a street scene in Bluejacket, Oklahoma. Also included are photographs of Red Cloud, Quanah Parker, and Elias Cornelius Boudinot; Wichita grass houses; street scenes from Marble City, Oklahoma; and unidentified cowboys. Unpublished finding aid available.

Dates: undated

Oklahoma Indian Rights Association Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WHC-M-1232
Scope and Contents

FULL FINDING AID (PDF)

Correspondence, publications, reports and business records of the Oklahoma Indian Rights Association, regarding its advocacy of Indian civil rights and its involvement with various Oklahoma Indian tribes. Oklahoma Indian Rights Association Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates: 1941-1981

One Cheyenne woman and one Arapaho woman, ca. 1914. Postcard., Circa 1914

 Item — Box Photo C-110, item: 2344
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: Circa 1914

One of Myrtle Lincoln’s sons. Cantonment, OK. 1930’s., 1930-1939

 Item — Box Photo L-4, Item: 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of the family of Myrtle Lincoln (Howling Buffalo) and Arapaho farmers near Cantonment, Oklahoma.

Dates: 1930-1939

One of the Watan family. South Arapaho. Postcard., Undated

 Item — Box Photo C-107, item: 1971
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: Undated

Pat Malloy, Arapaho, in front of a brush arbor at his homesite near Geary, Oklahoma, ca. 1938 or 1939. Negative, 5 x 7. 2 copy prints., circa 1938

 Item — Box Photo F-3, Item: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Kiowa Dutch and his son, Pat Mallory.

Dates: circa 1938

Pat Malloy, Arapaho, with two horses at a fair in Enid, Oklahoma. ca. April, 1934. Negative, 5 x 7. 2 copy prints, April 1934

 Item — Box Photo F-3 , Item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white copy prints of Kiowa Dutch and his son, Pat Mallory.

Dates: April 1934

Pawnee, Aqi-henan, Southern Arapaho, was a delegate to Washington, D.C. in 1895. BAE, negative, one copy., 1895

 Item — Box Photo C-84, item: 38
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: 1895

Pencil drawing of Left Hand, Arapaho. Done by Herschel Lee, at State Museum, Denver, Colorado., Undated

 Item — Box Photo C-110, item: 2395
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: Undated

Philip Watan in his Clinton baseball uniform., Undated

 Item — Box Photo C-107, item: 1993
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Black and white original and copy prints of Comanche, Cheyenne, Cheyenne-Arapaho, Arapaho, Sac and Fox, Sioux, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Crow, Ute, Shawnee, Omaha, Pueblo, Shoshoni, Pawnee, Ponca, Assinibone, Apache, Yakima Nez Perce, Umatilla, Wichita, Osage, Potawatomi and Flathead Indians. Also included are photographs of the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars (1865-1891), Western forts and posts, the Little Big Horn battlefield, trails and settlements of the Southwest, soil conservation and dust storms, Oklahoma towns, mountain ranges and National Parks.

Dates: Undated

Photographer – Chaufty. No Neg., undated

 Item — Box Photo M-10
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Back and white original and copy prints of Watonga, Oklahoma, along with scenes of Cheyenne, Arapaho, Caddo and Creek Indians. William Houston Munger Manuscripts Collection also in repository.

Dates: undated