Letters, 1900

(ca. 80 items: letters, postcard, telegrams) Letters addressed to Edward M. Wistar. Correspondents include: Samuel M. Brosius; Hetty B. Garrett; George N. Hartley; L. Ella Hartley; Abigail C. Haworth; Allen Jay; W.A. Jones (Commissioner, Office of Indian Affairs); Franklin Meredith; John Nicholson; D.A. and R.M. Outland; Eva Watson; John M. Watson; Francis A. White; Carolena M. Wood

Topics discussed include: in general, the situation of the various missions and the people running them (especially in the letters of John Nicholson and George N. Hartley); finding suitable people to fill positions at the missions; Martin J. Bentley investigation (from letters and telegrams of Samuel M. Brosius). Commissioner unhappy with Special Agent Taggart's investigation into Lee Patrick as it was favorable to Patrick and Patrick was against Bentley. Bentley and members of the Kickapoo Tribe in Washington in attempt to have Patrick removed as agent. Inspector Zevely going to Oklahoma to investigate Patrick and Bentley, Brosius urges Wistar to go out himself. Zevely works for the "Secretary" [of the Interior?] and not for the Commissioner; Skiatook School; financial matters, funding; smallpox reappears; policy of whether executive committee should purchase land; Edward M. Wistar might head west; situation of D.A. and R.M. Outland, missionaries to the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma; Scanned Image S.M. Brosius of the Indian Rights Association, to "Mr. Wistar", May 22, 1900 , presenting a status report of various tribes: Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma (Bah Kho-je), Osage (Wahzhazhe) Nation, Pueblo peoples, Shoshone people, Stockbridge-Munsee band of Mohican Indians, and Pima peoples. (approximately 390K).