Miami Indians
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:
Miami and Eel River Indians annuity payrolls
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: OBC066
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photostat copies of documents from the National Archives regarding annuity payments received by the Eel River Indians (1889), the Western Miami living in Kansas (1891), and the Indiana Miami (1895). The collection also includes a photostat copy of a payroll for individuals who were originally excluded, but later added to the tribal rolls in response to the June 12, 1858 appropriation act (1859).
Dates:
1859-1895
Miami County, Indiana collection
Collection — Folder S2546
Identifier: S2546
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photostatic copies of a variety of documents related to the history of Miami County, Indiana, including a January 1, 1833 letter certifying the purchase by Joseph B. Richardville, Jr. of “buildings erected for the use of the Commissioners at the late treaty held with the Miamies [sic] at the Forks of the Wabash in September 1832” and signed by Special Commissary Anthony L. Davis; receipts regarding the purchase of whisky and other items from Benbridge & Foster (June...
Dates:
1833-1925
Miami Indians annuity payrolls
Collection — Folder OBC208
Identifier: OBC208
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photostat copies of payrolls that recorded the distribution of annuity payments to the Miami Indians who were "residing East of the Mississippi" for the years 1859 and 1860. The payrolls also include separate distribution lists for the Eel River tribe members who received payments.
Dates:
1859-1860
Miami Indians census
Collection — Folder S2742
Identifier: S2742
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photostats of payment distributions regarding an annuity established under the 1840 and 1854 treaties with the Miami Indians east of the Mississippi River. The lists were kept by John A. Graham, special agent, and have columns for the names of Miami Indians and guardians receiving a per capita share of the established annuity in gold or silver currency; his or her age; sex of recipient; amount of share; amount of payments; marks or signatures; signatures of witnesses,...
Dates:
1842/10/22
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Miami Indians census
Miami Indians collection
Collection — Folder OB180
Identifier: OB180
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photostat copies of handwritten lists of English to Miami vocabulary words copied from the originals that were in the possession of Mrs. Charles A. Stockbridge of Fort Wayne, Indiana (undated) and a copy of an October 29, 1936 letter written by Amos W. Butler that supplies a brief description of the Stockbridge family. The collection also includes photostats of a "List of Persons agreed upon as Miami Indians of whole or part blood, (by the parties from the Indian...
Dates:
circa 1850, 1936, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
/
Miami Indians collection
Miami Indians emigration correspondence
Collection — Folder S2741
Identifier: S2741
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photostat documents from Department of the Interior in Indiana Territory in 1846 regarding Jean B. LaGruness of Michilimackinac trade arrangement with the Winnebago Nation of Indians and records of emigrant Miami Indians.
Dates:
1846/10/14
Miami Indians Tribe rations
Collection — Folder S2587
Identifier: S2587
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a photostat copy of a "memorandum book" which listed the amounts of rations issued to the Miami at the fork of the Wabash River in Huntington County, Indiana, November 16, 1840.
Dates:
circa 1933
Native American treaties photostat collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2202
Scope and Contents
There are three pieces of paper, all photostats, in this collection. Two photostats are of the treaty made with the Miami Indians at Sy. Mary's in Ohio on October 6, 1818. The third photostat is President John Quincy Adams' approval of the treaty, which is dated 1827. There are also oversize folders containing photostats of treaties with the Wyandot, Potawatomi, Ottawa, Chippewa, Seneca, Delaware, Miami, and Shawnee peoples ranging from 1817 to 1832 (OB179) and from 1814 to 1818...
Dates:
1814-1832, undated
Office of Indian Affairs collection
Collection
Identifier: L443
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photostats of letters copied from the records of the U.S. Office of Indian Affairs and the Office of Indian Trade housed at the National Archives. Ranging from 1815 to 1821, the bulk of the collection is correspondence sent and received by Michigan territorial governor, Lewis Cass, regarding the Michigan superintendency. Major issues discussed are the licensing of British subjects for trade with the Indians, the distribution of annuities established by Indian treaties...
Dates:
1815-1821
Otho Winger "The White Rose of the Miamis" pageant
Collection — Folder S2334
Identifier: S2334
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an original typed manuscript from Otho Winger of Manchester College, Indiana, dated October 19, 1937, regarding his pageant, "The White Rose of the Miamis, A Pageant Portraying the Remarkable Life of Frances Slocum." The collection also includes a letter to Christopher B. Coleman, director of the Indiana Historical Bureau, signed by Otho Winger, October 19, 1937, and an original playbill pamphlet of "The White Rose of the Miamis", dated September 17, 1937.
Dates:
1937