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front "Old Indian House"
post 1847
1988.12
This daguerreotype of the Ensign John Sheldon House (1699), familiarly known as the Old Indian House in Deerfield, Massachusetts, was taken in 1848, shortly before it was torn down.
front "Indian Village, Caughnawaga"
c. 1899
1957.07
This photograph is of the village at Kahnawake (Caughnawaga), Quebec, Canada.
document Travel passport for Mercy Carter's sons
Jul 5, 1751
L01.003
This handwritten note, dated July 5, 1751, was intended to assure safe passage of two sons of Mercy Carter (captured in 1704 in Deerfield and married to a "Caugnauwaga Indian") from Albany to Norwalk, Connecticut.
Title page "A Son Of The Forest. The Experience Of William Apes, A Native Of The Forest"
1831
L01.004
William Apes wrote "A Son of the Forest," the first published autobiography by a Native American, in 1828.
Cover "Learning By Doing At Hampton"
1900
L01.005
Boarding schools like the Hampton Institute sought not merely to educate but also to indoctrinate young Native and African American students in the values and customs of white society.
front Ceremonial Moccasins
c. 1850
1982.13.33a
These are Wyandot (Huron) ceremonial moccasins created around 1850 near Niagara Falls.
front Souvenir Folder of Mohawk Trail, Mass.
c. 1915
1999.03.0038.cv
The Native American depicted on the cover of this souvenir of the Mohawk Trail (Massachusetts Route 2) was used to sell the road as a tourist attraction of the 1920s.
front Tuscarora beadwork sellers
1889-1890
1998.09.01
This is a stereopticon view of several Tuscarora (Iroquois) artisans selling their beadwork to tourists near Niagara Falls, New York, in 1889.
front Jesse Bowman, Abenaki logger and basketmaker, with daughter Marion Flora Bowman

M.12
The man and child in this picture are Jesse Bowman and his daughter Marion Flora Bowman.
Page 3 "A Visit "in the Gazette and Mercury Newspaper
Aug 29, 1837
L01.008
An item in the Greenfield newspaper of August 29, 1837, describes a visit of a group of St. Francis Indians, descendants of Eunice Williams, to a site three miles from Deerfield, Massachusetts.

 

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