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Open book Report on Indian affairs 1923

Title Report on Indian affairs 1923

Creator Otis, Joseph Edward, 1867-1959

Date 1923

Language English

Subjects Indians of North America, United States

Description Spine title.
Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)
Inscribed: Signed copy for Mr. E.E. Ayer Dec 12th 1923.
printed (without statistical tables) in: United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Some memoranda concerning American Indians. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1923.

Summary Signed typescript (carbon copy) of a December, 1923, report on U.S. Indian policy submitted to the Secretary of the Interior, Hubert Work, by Joseph E. Otis, a member of an advistory council on Indian affairs. The report is a collection and distillation of the opinions of Malcolm McDowell (journalist, banker, sociologist, and secretary to the Board of Indian Commissioners), Edward E. Ayer, Henry S. Pritchett (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching), Howel Jones (Santa Fe Pacific Railroad), and S.T. Bledsoe (Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Co.). It contends that the Indians' progression to full citizenship requires eventual removal from government dependence and offers suggestions as to how that might be accomplished. Also appendices, including McDowell's "Some memoranda concerning American Indians"; correspondence to Otis from Pritchett, Jones, and Bledsoe; and a Nov. 17, 1923, letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Charles H. Burke, to the governors of eighteen states.

Biographical/Historical Note Stockbroker and banker; president of Central Trust Co. of Illinois, 1922-1929.

Extent 1 v. (59 leaves) ; 33 cm

Format Manuscripts, Reports

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection

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Call Number Ayer MS 668

BibID 145298

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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