Letters, January-April 1912

(ca. 51 items: letters) Letters addressed to Edward M. Wistar. correspondents include: Philander and Caroline M. Blackledge; Samuel M. Brosius; Florence L. Cummings; Ira C. Deaver; Robert D. Hall; George N. Hartley; C.F. Hauke; William P. Haworth; Joseph E. McAfee; F.A. McKenzie; Neil McMillan; J.J. Mills; Warren K. Moorhead; Morton C. Pearson; H.C. Phillips; Walter Smedley; Charles Stelzle; Charles L. Thompson; Robert G. Valentine; J. Brownlee Voorhees; Charles L. White

Topics discussed include: in general, news of the various missions and the people running them, especially in the letters of William P. Haworth; continuing disagreement with Mr. Abbott re: the barn at Hillside and attempts by the committee to prove that they are entitled to the land there even though it has been sold out from under them; Clyde Likes going to mission to the Ottawa Tribe; discussion between Valentine and Moorhead re: emphasis of federal Native American policy, White Earth scandal and whether Moorhead would go public with the information; Chilocco Indian School and letters from various representatives of the Y.M.C.A.; Lake Mohonk Conferences and some proposed changes put forth by H.C. Phillips in answer to criticism of the current format and value; letters from Home Missions Council news of mission [to the Modoc Nation?], Seneca, Mo. from the Blackledges also letters addressed to: John [Haworth], from: William P. Haworth re: Hillside William P. Haworth, from: S.M. Abbott re: barn in dispute at Hillside; Edward M. Wistar re: Hillside allotment Matthew K. Sniffen, from: W.R. Johnson re: situation of Native Americans in Arizona now that it has become a state