Reports, 1898 - 1929

Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs (and Indian Aid Association), Miscellaneous reports, 1898-1929 (ca. 23 items) includes: undated "The Denver Platform of The Society of American Indians" [2 p.] typescript; "Indian wars and local disturbances in the United States, 1782-1898" from Office of Indian Affairs, Dept. of the Interior, 4 p. typescript 1898 group of papers labeled on back by [Wistar] "Regarding Martin J. Bentley as Special Agent?" [30 p.]; includes sworn depositions [copies] from various Native Americans re: their conversations and contact with Bentley; includes typed copy of letter to Commissioner of Indian Affairs from the Kickapoo people; typed copy of report giving details of contract entered into between Wapameepto (Big Jim)'s band of Absentee Shawnees and W.S. Field (he to act as their attorney) [8 p.] 1900 copy [1900] of "transcript prepared by the Clerk of Jay County, Indiana, of the proceedings [1891-2] in the sale of real estate belonging to the estate of James K. Riffle." [19 p.] 1902 "Friends' Associated work for Indians. An epitome and glance at present conditions." [9 p., typescript] 1907 Paper on work with Native Americans [and] Friends. Mohonk Conference, Oct. 1907. [given by E.M. Wistar] [6 p., typescript] 1908 [committee (?) report on the situation of the Kickapoo people (given before Congress?)] [37 p., typescript]; gives historical background on the Kickapoo people and goes into great detail re: schemes of Martin J. Bentley and Walter S. Fields to defraud the Kickapoo people of their land 1910 "Address of Gen. R.H. Pratt, before the Yearly meeting of the Orthodox Friends at Twelfth Street Meeting House, Philadelphia, Penna., Thursday, evening, April 21, 1910." [24 p., typescript] 1913 letter to the editor of the American Friend (a report on the 44th annual meeting) [3 p., typescript and holograph]; "Treasurer's report, Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs. 1912-1913." [2 p., typescript] 1914 speech given by Wistar at annual meeting of Indian Committee? (ms. version of same speech in folder of June 1914 letters) [3 p., typescript] 1915 report on the Ogden Land Company (and Native Americans in New York) [4 p., typescript] 1916 "Control of the New York Indians" [1 p., typescript]; "I.R.A. office report, April 6th to May 3rd, 1916" [3 p., typescript]; "Report of the Washington Agency of the Indian Rights Association, February 25, 1916." [8 p., typescript]; "Washington Agency Indian Rights Association Report, April 1, 1916." [7 p., typescript]; "Report of the Washington Agency, April 29, 1916." [7 p., typescript] 1918 "To the Associated Indian Committee." [7 p., holograph ms.] 1919 "Proceedings of the Council of the Absentee Shawnee and Kickapoo Indians. Held at the School Buil[d]ing of the Shawnee Indian School, on Monday, November 17, 1919, ..." also "Petition for resumption of the Shawnee Indian School," "Reopening of the Shawnee Indian School," "Shawnee Indian School"; "To the Associated Indian Committee:" [Wistar's last address to them as chairman of the committee, Phila., 14th 4th mo. 1919] [6 p., typescript]; "Indian School Report." [26 p., typescript]; consists of 1 p. reports on Indian Schools prepared by Edith M. Dabb, Ethel Cutler and G.E.E. Lindquist; "Mission report - Indian Reservations and Schools" consists of copies of reports from Friends' missions, forms prepared by [Y.W.C.A.?] [6 p., typescript] 1926 material related to Tunesassa School - "Report on alternative plan of work at Tunesassa," "Proposed plan of work at Tunesassa" [typescript] 1929 "October, 1929 - Mohonk - Education as a missionary project" [typed text of a paper given by Wistar at Mohonk Conference? 4 p.] Folder 3 Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs, Monthly reports from the different mission stations, 1913-1919 (ca. 60 items) These reports are typed compilations/summaries of the work at the various missions. Each report gives some news about each mission from the missionaries stationed there plus some statistical information related to meetings, Bible school classes, funerals and marriages, etc. 1913 monthly reports, includes reports for March - December 1913 [for example, the missionaries for March are as follows: W.P. and A.C. Haworth at Shawnee, Okla.; Ivey C. and Hannah I. Clark at mission to the Modoc Nation; Charles L. and Martha Wooten at mission to the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma (Bah Kho-je); J.L. and S.N. Mayo at mission to the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma; Elizabeth Test and Lina B. Lunt at mission to the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma; Austin and Irene Hatcher at mission to the Absentee Shawnee Tribe; D.A. and Hattie E. Williams at mission to the Osage (Wahzhazhe) Nation. December's report also has: Harvey and Elizabeth Wallace at Seneca; Isaac and Laura M. Frazier at Wyandotte; Ivey C. and Hannah Clark at mission to the Ottawa Tribe and Modoc Nation] 1914 monthly reports, includes reports for January - December [note: November has Clark Brown at Shawnee] 1915 monthly reports, includes reports for January - December [note: November has Frank and Allie Hatcher at mission to the Otoe-Missouria Tribe; May has the Wootens at mission to the Kickapoo Tribe] 1916 monthly reports, includes reports for February - December 1917 monthly reports, includes reports for January, March - October [note: [February] has Omar and Miriam C. Mendenhall at Wyandotte mission; July has J.F. and Mary E. Mardock and Lina B. Lunt at mission to the Iowa Tribe (Bah Kho-je)] 1918 monthly reports, includes reports for January - March, June 1919 monthly reports, includes reports for June - October [note: October has Ivey and Hannah Clark at mission to the Absentee Shawnee Tribe; June has W.O. and Adah Magner at mission to the Osage (Wahzhazhe) Nation] also: June [probably 1927] and November reports with no year given