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Chippewa Tribe

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

O. G. Dunckel papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00024
Scope and Contents This collections consists primarily of Civil War letters from O. G. Dunckel to his family in Michigan. Dunckel's letters describe army life and Sherman's campaigns, but he was much more concerned with family matters and the state of the farm in his absence. Also included are three letters from other members of the Price family serving with Dunckel.The collection also contains two documents. The first is a contract (1853) between Dunckel and a group of Chippewa Indians living on...
Dates: 1853 - 1865; Majority of material found within 1863 - 1865

The Ottawa and the Chippewa of Michigan census

 Collection
Identifier: c-00455
Scope and Contents

The full title of the census is "Census Roll of the Ottawa and Chippewa of Michigan by Horace B. Durant and Supplementary Census of 1909 by Durant". The information contain includes age, sex, marital status, residence and subject's status in the 1870 census.

Dates: 1909

William B. Hixson papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.249
Scope and Contents The collection consists of postcards from the turn of the twentieth century. These postcards feature photographs of Native Americans, mainly of individuals in ceremonial dress. The postcards are arranged by tribe, when known. Postcards with no known tribal affiliation are separated by the category of the picture or in some cases by the title of the postcard when there are no other similar images. There is also a letter to Hixson from George Cornell of the Michigan State University Native...
Dates: 1896 - 1983; Majority of material found within 1896 - 1906