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Ojibwe Indians

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

Reverend Frederic Baraga papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: S2360
Abstract

The collection consists of photocopies or carbon copies of typed transcriptions. Papers are divided into three folders. Folders one and two contain correspondence from 1835 to 1847, from and pertaining to Reverend Baraga. Folder three contains Baraga's personal diary, the majority of which is written in German.

Dates: 1835-1860

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

Michael S. Bright, Sr. record book

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S3112
Abstract

The collection contains a record book of court cases of this Superior, Wisconsin, attorney who was a partner in the firm of Bright and Hayes.

Dates: 1859-1871

Paul Buffalo oral history project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S6035
Abstract

Oral history project of Dr. Timothy Roufs interviewing Paul P. Buffalo (1900-6/1977) from March 1967 – 1977. Mr. Buffalo resided at Ball Club, Minnesota, and the Leech Lake Reservation.

Dates: 1967-1977

Catholic Mission of Fond du Lac records

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S2216
Abstract

Contains materials on the history of the Catholic Mission and Catholic churches established to minister to Ojibwe people in the area of the Fond du Lac reservation near Cloquet, Minnesota. Materials were compiled by Father Alban Fruth of Holy Family Church in Cloquet in the late 1970s.

Dates: 1908-1978; Majority of material found in 1908, 1977-1978

Chief Buffalo land claims

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S3642
Abstract

The materials in this collection concern disputed claims regarding land in present day downtown Duluth, Minnesota that was initially granted to the Ojibwe Chief Buffalo.

Dates: 1883-1953

Chippewa Vocabulary card file

 Collection
Identifier: S3046
Abstract

The collection contains translations of Chippewa (Ojibwe) and English language words written on 4x6" cards arranged alphabetically.

Dates: not dated

William E. Culkin papers

 Collection
Identifier: S3048
Abstract

The collection contains correspondence, awards and certificates, lawyers' case records, news clippings, photographs, and manuscripts on local history. The collection also includes one photograph alubm of snap shots and post card photographs.

Dates: 1908-1942

Edmund F. Ely papers

 Collection
Identifier: S3045
Abstract

The collection contains correspondence, contracts and agreements, journals, transcriptions of these materials, and reference materials and photographs.

Dates: 1820-1927; Majority of material found in 1820-1904, 1927

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

Family Life and Children research resources collection

 Collection
Identifier: S6048
Abstract

The materials comprising this collection are secondary resources Dr. Carlson gathered over time to support her research, including the publication A Childhood in Minnesota : Exploring the Lives of Ojibwe and Immigrant Families, 1880s-1920s.

Dates: 1890-1990

Frank Whitebird oral history interview concerning historic resources of the Fond du Lac Reservation (Minn.), May 1, 1980

 Item — Item tapes
Scope and Contents

Two audio recordings of an interview with Frank Whitebird. The interview took place on May 1, 1980 and was conducted as a part of the Historic Resources Inventory of the Fond du Lac Reservation. An index to this interview is available.

In the intervew Frank Whitebird discussed the location of mounds, fishing camps and flint pits; fishing; names and location of villages, schools, missions, latter cemeteries, and logging railroads.

Dates: May 1, 1980

Paul B. Gaylord photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2395
Abstract

The collection contains photographs and glass plate negatives of Duluth, Minnesota taken by photographer Paul Gaylord.

Dates: 1869-1875

George A. Newton photographs

 Collection
Identifier: S2381
Abstract

The collection consists of cabinet cards and unmounted, primarily, albumen prints stamped with Newton's name or his advertisement.  It is assumed he made the photographs.

Dates: circa 1880-1900

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

Historic Resources Inventory of the Fond du Lac Reservation, Carlton and St. Louis Counties, Minnesota

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S2377
Abstract

The collection consists of a report compiled for Beck and Associates, Inc. of Duluth, Minnesota by Barbara Sommer. The purpose of the report was to identify historic sites on the Fond du Lac Reservation which is located in Carlton and St. Louis Counties near the town of Cloquet, Minnesota.

Dates: 1979-1980

Norrgard Anishinaabe Collection Waasa Inaabidaa Archives

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1378
Abstract

Contains video interviews and transcripts, scenic video footage, and dramatic re-enactment video footage for production of a six-part public television documentary about the history and culture of Anishinaabe Ojibwe people titled Waasa Inaabida: We Look In All Directions that aired in 2001.

Dates: 1999-2001

Lyman E. Nylander photograph collection

 Collection — Box Oversize
Identifier: S2420
Abstract

The Collection consists of 5x7" and 8x10" black and white silver gelatin prints exposed and printed by Mr. Nylander. The images are primarily of Duluth street scenes, buildings, churches on the Iron Range, as well as military monuments and markers in Duluth and out East.

Dates: 1950-1972

Ojibwe Census records

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S4466
Abstract The collection contains photocopied census records of the La Pointe Agency, Ashland WI, 1898-1902. Census for: Bad River, June 30, 1899; Fond du Lac, June 30, 1898; Grand Portage, June 30, 1885, 1905, June 30, 1915; Lac du Flambeau, June 30, 1899; and Red Cliff, June 30, 1899 all from microfilm number 576, 927, roll 238 of the Genealogical Society of Utah. A photocopied 1885 Minnesota State census of inhabitants of Grand Marais, Cook County, Minnesota. Source of this census on microfilm is...
Dates: 1898-1915

Sam Rapson letter

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S3674
Abstract

One letter from the Assembled Chiefs of the Tribe of the Bois Forte Ojibwe to the Rapsons who gave the Ojibwe Christmas presents.

Dates: 1910

A Rendezvous with History conference proceedings

 Collection
Identifier: S2349
Abstract

The collections consists of four audiocassettes. The recordings contain addresses delivered at the conference.

Dates: 1979

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

Zoa Grace Stephenson photograph collection

 Collection — Box SC
Identifier: S3734
Abstract

This collection is of photographs collected by Zoa Grace Stephenson. They include images of Ojibwe people from the Burntside Lake area and of their homes, canoes, and children; and other scenes of the lake.

Dates: 1907-1909

Stella Prince Stocker papers

 Collection — Item on shelf
Identifier: S3089
Abstract

The collection contains articles and music written by Stella Stocker, photographs, newspaper clippings, and two scrapbooks about her interests.

Dates: 1894-1925

Frank M. and Alice Rockwell Warren family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S6108
Abstract

The collection contains Frank M. Warren's records from the Isle Royale Citizens’ Committee 1926-1929.

Dates: 1840-1962; Majority of material found in 1909-1948