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Box 1

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Contains 91 Results:

10. Letter G.W. Prichard, U.S. Attorney, las Vegas, N.M. to Benjamin Harris Brester., August 21, 1884

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Scope and Contents Regarding refusal of Santo Domingo Pueblo residents to accept money offered them by NM & Southern Pacific R.R. for land taken by said company.
Dates: August 21, 1884

12. Envelope (only) addressed to Hon. Pedro Sanchez, U. S. Indian agent, Santa Fe, New Mexico (1888). Mailed from Fernandez de Taos (Department of the Interior, Pueblo Indian Agency, Santa Fe, New Mexico)., September 10, 1888

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Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection contains transcriptions and translations of colonial period documents related to Pueblo and Spanish land issues and interactions between Pueblo leaders and Spanish officials. The territorial period documents are mostly original letters to and from officials from the Indian School in Santa Fe, Zuni boarding school, Pueblo Indian Agency, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, US military, and attorneys, educators and Pueblo Officials and parents of...
Dates: September 10, 1888

1. Hand written letter (17 pages) and typed transcript of letter from Mary R. Desette, Zuni Pueblo, NM to W.R. McClure, U.S. Ind. Agt., Santa Fe., Dec. 16, 1889

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Scope and Contents Desette was a teacher at Ft. Wingate boarding school. Letter discusses Desette's teaching experience. Used derogatory, negative and discriminatory language towards the Indian students and their families. Gives details about persons, witchcraft, Zuni society, religion and particularly about Zuni girl (Daisey) she took in to live with her. Similar accounts by Dessette published in "Home Mission Monthly" (July 1890).
Dates: Dec. 16, 1889

1. Governor Domingo Jironsa Petris de Crusate, El Paso del Norte: Communication regarding loyalties and interactions with Bartolo de Ojeda from Zia pueblo., Sept. 25, 1689 (original)

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Scope and Contents Translation from Spanish to English of document dated Sept. 25, 1689 by Translations Dept., Surveyor Generals Office, David Whiting. 3 pages, handwritten. Registered June 5,1856.
Dates: Sept. 25, 1689 (original)

3. Register and receipt of sale of land by Diego Padilla family, Los Padillas to Isleta Indian residents., 1750, 1751 (original)

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Scope and Contents Two separate transliterations and one English translation of document dated February 4, 1750. Receipt of full payment noted in 1751. Copy made and registered in Santa Fe, January 4, 1849 by Donaciano Vigil.
Dates: 1750, 1751 (original)

4. Juan Tafoya / Pueblo of Santa Clara Land Grants: Cover Page to Document "Exhibit A"- Claim of the Pueblo of Santa Clara, Santa Fe, July 19, 1763; Decree by Gov. Thomas Velez Cachupin that Grant of Juan and Antonio Tafoya void and given to Indians of Santa Clara, Santa Fe, August 7, 1788., 1763 - 1788 (original)

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Scope and Contents English translation and registration dated 13 December 1882. 20 pages. (Note in pencil that translation is defective.)

English translation and registration dated 13 December 1882. 20 pages. (Note in pencil that translation is defective.
Dates: 1763 - 1788 (original)

1. Ben M. Thomas, U. S. Agent Pueblo Indians, Office Pueblo Indian Agency, Territory of New Mexico, Santa Fe to Wm. Edw. P. Smith, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, D. C., March 2, 1875

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Scope and Contents Report of: troubles at Santa Clara Pueblo, school in Cochiti, disputes with Mexicans for encroachment, Laguna complaints related to grazing lands, Zuni land issues. (two pages)
Dates: March 2, 1875

2. Ben M. Thomas, U. S. Agent Pueblo Indians, Office Pueblo Indian Agency, Territory of New Mexico, Santa Fe to Wm. Edw. P. Smith, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, D. C., March 31, 1875

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Scope and Contents Report of Indians of Sandia awaiting the return of two members from Missouri State Penitentiary. Imprisoned for "robbing a mailbag found in the road." - "The example will have a good effect upon all the Indians." (2 pages)
Dates: March 31, 1875

3. Ben M. Thomas, U. S. Agent Pueblo Indians, Office Pueblo Indian Agency, Territory of New Mexico, Santa Fe to Wm. Edw. P. Smith, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, D. C., May 6, 1875

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Scope and Contents Report of complaints by northern Pueblos of Mexican encroachment ; teacher placement in San Juan Pueblo; request by "Principal" Indians to go to Washington to see the U.S. President; Taos Pueblo complaint about water, timber and grazing issues with neighboring Mexicans; objection school in Taos by Catholic Priest to; San Ildefonso school; population decrees and extinction of Pojoaque and Nambe Pueblos; land and water issues; Sandia convicts returning to New Mexico.
Dates: May 6, 1875

4. Ben M. Thomas, Bacon Springs, New Mexico to Edw. P. Smith, Commissioner of Ind. Affairs, Washington, D. C., May 31, 1875

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Scope and Contents Report of affairs of May 1875: Mentions Pueblo of Cochiti and agricultural work and complaints about trespassing by people from Peña Blanca; Jemez Pueblo and Mexican land issues; Zuni district and irrigation issues.
Dates: May 31, 1875

7. Seventh Annual Report as United States Indian Agent by Ben M. Thomas, Office of Pueblo Indian Agency, Santa Fe, NM to Commissioner of Indian Affairs., Aug. 14, 1879

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Scope and Contents Includes discussion of Pueblo history, census totals of each Pueblo including Hopi (Moqui), Pueblo political and religious structures, agriculture, schooling.
Dates: Aug. 14, 1879