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Indians of North America -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Mildred Miles Dillman papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6164
Scope and Contents

Contains various materials concerning Native American and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saint news. Includes photographs, slides, maps, postcards, sketches of various sites and Native Americans; letters, a supper report, miscellaneous notes, poems, and lists; Native American symbols sheets, articles, and newspaper clippings concerning Native Americans and Latter-Day Saints.

Dates: 1880-1975

Thales Hastings Haskell diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230343813]
Identifier: MSS 115
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of a handwritten diary written in the "Deseret Alphabet." Also included are excerpts from the journal written in the conventional English script. Haskell writes about his missionary work among the Indians primarily in Arizona.

Dates: 1859-1860

Out of obscurity into light

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197230305630]
Identifier: MSS SC 813
Scope and Contents

Typewritten manuscript. This is a history of Mormon missionary activities among "Lamanites," broadly defined as Native Americans in both North and South America and the natives in the Pacific Islands. Included is a large section of the work of Cordell M. Anderson, field director of the Foundation for Indian Development.

Dates: 1983

S. Lyman Tyler papers on church service, 1959-1968

 Series — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3 [Barcode: 31197231244846], Folder: 3-9
Identifier: UA 614 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains agendas, minutes, clippings, floor plans, and reports related to committees of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Includes information on the Church Office Building, church libraries, and educational planning. Materials date from betwen 1959 and 1968.

Dates: 1959-1968

S. Lyman Tyler papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 614
Scope and Contents Contains correspondence (1952-1976), notes, research files and newsclippings, as well as drafts of books, articles and addresses by Tyler. Also found within this collection are assorted reports, budgets, minutes of meetings and correspondence of agencies and committees on which Tyler served. These agencies and committees include the Sons of the Utah Pioneers, the BYU Library, Utah Historical Society, the BYU Institute of American Indian Studies, the University of Utah Division of...
Dates: approximately 1949-1979