Content Description

Contains ethnographic notes and accounts of Ina Sizer Cassidy's interactions with Native Americans in Arizona while the author was living there as well as descriptions of Hopi life. Materials are from Oraibi, Arizona in 1915 and shortly afterward. Some of the documents are copies from original Cassidy typescripts. The materials are dated between 1915-1965.

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This file contains a letter to the Honorable Commissioner of Indian Affairs from Moencopie Village, Tuba City Arizona regarding abuse of the Hopi Indians by missionaries, and their desire to retain their government agent, Mr. Byron A. Sharp, dated 1923.

Scope and Contents Contains a handwritten diary of Jacob Hamblin, with entries from June 21, 1868 to 1886. Entries relate farming conditions and crop yields in the Kanab Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, travels along Pariah River, and an account of a conference conducted by Brigham Young on April 2, 1870, dedicating a settlement in Kanab. A separate account titled, "Journal of the Moquis" dated September 28, 1869, to October 5, 1869, written by an individual other than Hamblin,...

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Contains 22 original photographic prints of Native Americans taken by Harmon Percy Marble between 1911 and 1926, when he worked for the Government Indian Service. Several different tribes are photographed including the Navajo, Menominee, and Hopi. The only state identified as the location of these photos is Arizona.