Snapshot photograph of Native American Bacon Rind (c.1860–1932), Osage tribal leader and keeper of traditional customs and costume. The photo depicts Bacon Rind in native..... Read More
C.A. Weslager was the dean of Delaware archaeology and regional native American history. Here, Weslager writes with authority of the Lenni Lenape, who originally settled..... Read More
The history of the Nanticoke Indians from the 19th century to modern times with scholarly insight into their interactions with non-indigenous populations throughout the centuries... Read More
Cherokee Indians. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting the Information required by a Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 2d instant, in... Read More
1853–1856 copy book kept by Quaker girls Hannah Darlington and Sarah M. Darlington of Parkerville, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The copy book collects poems and calligraphic... Read More
18th century legal memorandum, unsigned, prepared for one “Mr. Galloway” regarding a dispute over the title to 3000 acres of land purchased from Native Americans..... Read More
An extensive history of the Seminoles tribe; their origins, their complex problems in Florida, their military campaigns against their foes in Florida, their forced removal... Read More
Anthropologist and conservationist Grinnell’s ethnographical observations upon the native American Plains culture. ANB: “Becoming increasingly interested in Plains Indians, [Grinnell] made summer trips to reservations..... Read More
ALS from notable Massachusetts Indian missionary, Gideon Hawley (1727–1807) to his son-in-law, Crocker Sampson (1749–1823) of Kingston, Rhode Island. Reverend Gideon Hawley, a Connecticut native... Read More
Graff – “Browne’s report is in the form of a letter dated from San Francisco, December 4, 1857, and occupies only pages 2-13. The rest..... Read More
Field: ““This treatise, written by the celebrated advocate of the abolition of slavery, is a glowing arraignment of the government of the United States for..... Read More
First edition of an important American Civil War-time work arguing for emancipation of slaves by noted American reformer and former congressman, Robert Dale Owen (1801–1877)... Read More
A handsome example. Graff: “Battey’s experiences were among the Kiowas, principally, but he was also associated with Comanches, Apaches, Caddoes, and Kickapoos.” Boston: Lee and..... Read More
Cattle, cowboys, Hopi native Americans, and the Southwest. This book comprises letters by the deceased author published by his widow, Dorothea Townshend. In this collection... Read More
Nineteenth century reprinting of the 1788 Pennsylvania legislative act incorporating the United Brethren’s or Moravian church’s “Society for propagating the Gospel among the Heathen:” “And..... Read More
In 1838, the Cherokee Indians were forcibly relocated from the Southeastern United States along a “Trail of Tears” to a newly created Indian Territory in..... Read More
Report on three Moravian church missions to Native Americans including a brief section on their work among the Cherokee Indians of Arkansas. The German-language report... Read More
![[Photograph of Native American and Osage Chief Bacon Rind, i.e, Wah-she-hah or “Star-That-Travels”.]. Bacon Rind, c.1860–1932, “Star-That-Travels” Wah-she-hah.](/pictures/thumb/3726634_1.jpg?v=1534362431)
![The Delaware Indians. A History. [Signed by the Author]. C A. Weslager.](/images/noimage-req.png)
![The Nanticoke Indians Past and Present. [Signed by the Author]. C A. Weslager.](/pictures/thumb/3727131_1.jpg?v=1534362476)
![[18th Century Legal Memorandum concerning a Disputed “Indian Country” Land Grant in Colonial Pennsylvania]. Dr. Peter Sonmans, Joseph Jacobs, John Scull, Mr. Galloway.](/pictures/thumb/3726412_1.jpg?v=1534362373)
![[Photograph Collection Connecting the Native American Family of Jane Ross Nave, Eldest Daughter of Chief John Ross, Cherokee Nation, and the Moravian Schneller Family of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania]. Photographers.](/pictures/thumb/3724547_1.jpg?v=1550599470)
![[Cherokee Mission in Arkansas within:] Bericht der Directoren der Societät zur Ausbreitung des Evangeliums unter den Heiden. Gelesen vor der Societät bei deren jährlichen Versammlung in Bethlehem [Pennsylvania], am 5ten September 1842.](/pictures/thumb/3727790_1.jpg?v=1539123810)