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Boundary Changes on the Fond du Lac Reservation oral history interviews

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2331
Abstract In 1978 and 1979 historian Barbara Sommer interviewed residents of the Fond du Lac Reservation in Minnesota. The participants discussed and defined changes in the boundary of the Fond du Lac Reservation, MN. They also identified some changes in land use that occurred on the reservation and identified historic sites. The interviews include some spoken Ojibwe words and place names. The collection consists of audiorecordings of the interviews and one volume containing the project's final...
Dates: 1978-1979

English-Ojibwe translations

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S3647
Abstract

The collection consists of a single handwritten volume of English words and common phrases translated to Ojibwe.

Dates: 1888

Sherman Hall letters

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S3097
Abstract

The collection contains photocopies of letters written by Hall. The originals are located at the Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Dates: 1831-1833

Kate M. Harris papers

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S3626
Abstract

The collection contains letters to Kate Harris from Jennie S.S. Richardson, concerning Richardson's 1897 honeymoon trip in a birchbark canoe from Burntside Lake, near Ely, Minnesota, to Lake Agnes, in Cook County. Also included are eight photographs of the trip, William H. Richardson's pamphlet Honeymoon in a Birch-Bark Canoe describing the trip, and Kate Harris' letters to the St. Louis County Historical Society about the collection materials.

Dates: 1897-1957; Majority of material found in 1897, 1934-1935, 1956-1957

Eustache Roussain papers

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S3195
Abstract

The collection contains a letter book with 35 letters by many people.

Dates: 1859-1870

Vincent Roy letter

 Collection — Box: SC
Identifier: S3682
Abstract

The collection consists of one letter written in Ojibwe to Vincent Roy from Peter Beaver of Grand Portage, Minnesota.

Dates: 1865