Letters, January-May 1899

(ca. 57 items: letters) Letters addressed to Edward M. Wistar. Correspondents include: Cyrus Beede; S.M. Brosius (Agent, Indian Rights Association); E.C. and A.D. Cook; Henry L. Dawes (Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes); Myra E. Frye; John B. Garrett; George N. Hartley; Thomas Harvey; Abbie C. Haworth; John Nicholson; Fred L. Ryon; Mary H. Shed; Jonathan M. Steere; Elizabeth Test; Eva Watson (Skiatook School reports); John M. Watson; Herbert Welsh; Francis A. White

Topics discussed include: in general, the different missions and the people stationed at each one (especially in John Nicholson's and George N. Hartley's letters); Skiatook School (Eva Watson writes that she has been there eleven years); Chippewa of Minnesota (Anishinaabe) [Minnesota Chippewa Tribe?] and lumber rights; Martin J. Bentley (Assistant-Special Indian Agent) case and Senator Quay, Commissioner [Jones] biased in favor of Bentley due to relationship with W.S. Fields; Elizabeth Test writes that Bentley is out to get the Kickapoo Tribe's land; Five Civilized Tribes Commission and proposed Cherokee Treaty which would give [all schools?] Skiatook School only four acres; smallpox among the Muscogee Nation (letters of G.N. Hartley, 2.20.1899, 3.3.1899); visit of Chippewa (Anishinaabe) people to Washington, D.C.; committee business; expenses of those in the field (who pays for what); John Nicholson letter (3.16.1899) inquires whether Wistar is familiar with inhumane treatment of convicts in Georgia under the "leasing out" system; Shawnee Mission, Tecumseh, Ok. Ter. (religious success) in letter of Fred L. Ryon (4 mo. 3, 1899); Wapameepto (Big Jim) band of Absentee Shawnee; arranging the meeting of Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs held at Baltimore, 5th mo., 1899 (program, speakers, problem of delegates not attending, etc.) also letters addressed to: Hetty B. Garrett, from: John Nicholson re: committee business Charles Rhoads, from: A.C. [Tonner], Office of Indian Affairs re: timber on land of the Chippewa of Minnesota (Anishinaabe) [Minnesota Chippewa Tribe?] Jonathan M. Steere, from: E.C. Cook re: "Uncle George"