Indians of North America -- California

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Lorenzo D. Creel Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 82-01
Abstract The Lorenzo D. Creel Papers have been divided into two major groups and into series within the groups. The first group contains Creel family items and includes correspondence, financial records, business papers, memorabilia, photographs, and books which belonged to Creel family members with the majority of the material originating from Lorenzo and his son Cecil. Three-dimensional items, which accompanied the collection, have been donated to the University of Nevada, Reno, School of Home...
Dates: 1875-1945
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department / Lorenzo D. Creel Papers

Indian Claims Commission Claims Case No. 288

 Collection
Identifier: NC443
Abstract

Consists of materials accumulated by the Washoe Tribe, their attorneys, and their expert witnesses during litigation of their case before the United States Indian Claims Commission.,Included are reports, maps, published articles, literary references, property valuations, bibliographies, petitions, treaties and abstracts, court exhibits, photographs, general Nevada state statutes and laws, correspondence, and research notes describing the tribe, their historical territory, and lifeways.

Dates: 1855-1971
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department / Indian Claims Commission Claims Case No. 288

Leta Myers Smart Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: NC949
Abstract Leta Myers Smart was a member of the Omaha Indian tribe and resident of Los Angeles, California. Collection contains letters about fraud committed against Indians in the Los Angeles area include a letter from the California Secretary of State on how to dissolve a California corporation; from legislators and librarians, thanking Smart for copies of her manuscript on Indians; from Smart to Mary Dornback about "Operation Redskin" and the Indian Center in Los Angeles; and to Jack Forbes at San...
Dates: 1964
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department / Leta Myers Smart Correspondence

Omer Call Stewart Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 86-03
Abstract

Given to the Special Collections Department by Dr. Stewart, this material relates to Pitt River Indians of California. The contents, which ranges from 1939-1980, includes U.S. government documents pertaining to the Pitt River Indians, including treaties, presidential messages, Congressional reports and messages, and reports of the Commissioners of Indian Affairs, newspaper and journal articles, and map.

Dates: 1939-1980
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department / Omer Call Stewart Papers

Washo Indians Research Papers

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Identifier: 99-20
Abstract John A. Price was a former student of anthropologist Warren d'Azevedo at the University of Utah, spent his life studying Native Americans in the western United States and Canada. Includes field and research notes on the Washo Indians residing in Nevada and California, correspondence, obituaries, reprints of Price's professional journal articles, and copies of draft manuscripts related to his Washo monographs; field maps with Luiseno Indian place names; and thesis abstract. Notes include...
Dates: 1961-1988
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department / Washo Indians Research Papers

George F. Wright Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 90-37
Abstract

These papers were created or gathered by George F. Wright in his role as attorney for the Washoe Tribe before The Indian Claims Commission. Included in the collection are correspondence, reports, testimonies, maps and records of other relevant dockets before the commission.

Dates: 1931-1973
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department / George F. Wright Papers

Yahooskin (Northern Paiute) Oral History Interviews

 Collection
Identifier: 96-24
Abstract Tim Thornes was a graduate student in Linguistics at the University of Oregon whose field work was completed among the Yahooskin of the Northern Paiute Indians in southeastern Oregon. The collection contains interviews with Irwin Weiser a Klammath Falls, Oregon, Northern Paiute Yahooskin speaker, and copies of fieldnote books by Thornes. Weiser speaks of the Yahooskin language, culture, lifeways, myths and tales, history, and relation of the Yahooskin to other southern Oregon, northern...
Dates: 1995-1996
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department / Yahooskin (Northern Paiute) Oral History Interviews