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Church work with Indians -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:

Institute of American Indian Studies director records, 1959-1972

 Series
Identifier: UA 552 Series 3
Scope and Contents note

Administrative files, including correspondence and memos, meeting minutes, reports, financial information, news clippings. Materials produced by directors Paul Felt and Dale Tingey.

Dates: 1959-1972

Institute of American Indian Studies records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 552
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, minutes, brochures, news releases, maps, and surveys; financial, statistical, historical information, and annual reports. Includes information concerning Indian education, employment, alcoholism, conferences, and tribes. Also includes Brigham Young University Indian program development, campus tours, performing groups, tribal contacts, and memoranda.

Dates: 1949-1972

Institute of American Indian Studies research coordinator records, 1949-1970

 Series
Identifier: UA 552 Series 2
Scope and Contents note

Administrative files. Includes a general correspondence section, followed by a general files section (articles, research materials, department bulletins and periodicals, travel records, research surveys and articles, course materials, and students listings). Materials produced or gathered by Coordinator of Research, James R. Clark.

Dates: 1949-1970

James Russell Ivie biography

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239279984]
Identifier: MSS SC 994
Scope and Contents 5 pages of a typed transcript describing James Russell Ivie's family history and stories about his life. No author is identified. Stories include James working as the Prophet Joseph Smith's bodyguard, the rescue of Parley Pratt from jail, James's baptism into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a pioneer trek to Salt Lake City, stories about James's sons, John and Jim, stories leading pioneer groups to southern Utah, Jim starting the Walker War with Native Americans, and the...
Dates: after 1896

Office of the President general records, 1964

 Sub-Series
Identifier: UA 1086 Series 7 Sub-Series 12
Scope and Contents

Contains letters and memos on general topics such as personal correspondence of President Wilkinson and the Utah School Commission. dated 1964.

Dates: 1964

Office of the President records on Indian program, 1964

 Sub-Series
Identifier: UA 1086 Series 7 Sub-Series 13
Scope and Contents

Contains letters, memos and reports regarding the BYU Indian Program. Also contains letters about a man in Brazil with a collection of Indian artifacts. Dated 1964.

Dates: 1964

Office of the President records on Indian program, 1965

 Sub-Series
Identifier: UA 1086 Series 8 Sub-Series 11
Scope and Contents

Contains letters between President Wilkinson and heads of the Indian Program discussing operations of the program as well as coordinating visits to Indian schools. Also contains a directory of Indian students. Dated 1965.

Dates: 1965

Office of the President records on Indian Program, 1963

 Sub-Series
Identifier: UA 1086 Series 6 Sub-Series 46
Scope and Contents

Contains letters, memos, reports, article and clippings about Native Americans at BYU and in the Indian Program. Dated 1963.

Dates: 1963

Office of the President records on Indian program, 1965-1966

 Sub-Series
Identifier: UA 1086 Series 9 Sub-Series 10
Scope and Contents

Contains letters and memos about Native Americans as well as students at BYU in the Native Studies program. Also contains studies on Indian Affairs policies. Dated 1965-1966.

Dates: 1965-1966

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