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Baker, Kate, Carlos Montezuma Correspondence, 1888

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Title Baker, Kate, Carlos Montezuma Correspondence, 1888

Creator Montezuma, Carlos, 1866-1923

Date 1888

Place United States

Language English

Subjects Indian activists, Indian physicians, Indians of North America, Society of American Indians, United States, United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.), Yavapai Indians

Description Mostly correspondence, but also writings, miscellaneous documents and memorabilia, clippings and photographs relating to Indian rights activist and physician Carlos Montezuma of Arizona and Chicago, Illinois.

User-Contributed Transcription 3pictures to them. They learn to speak and write pretty good English while here but when they go out of school go right back to the bush? houses and living in the sand? on Mesquite & screw beans, grass seed and what game they can get. Talking their own language and forgetting ours. Mr unclear a Agent feels confident if they had good irigating ditches on this reservation that the Indians would be self supporting in two years by U.S. has spent thousand of dollars in putting a ditch from the unclear through a part of the reservation but it was so poorly engineered that the head unclear is higher than the water and no good. U.S. has paid out a great deal of money for this reservation but the Indians have had very little good of it and contractors made their pile. for instance the house we live in is of adobe every

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Archival Collection Title Carlos Montezuma papers

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Call Number Ayer Modern MS Montezuma Box 1 Folder 9

BibID 991839828805867

Projects Tag Edward E. Ayer Digital Collection

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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