This collection provides a record of the efforts of the first organization to address Native American interests and rights, established in 1882, including its correspondence, reports, pamphlets, manuscripts, and photographs.
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Part II: The Indian Rights Association, 1882–1986 provides a record of the efforts of the first organization to address Native American interests and rights. This collection includes incoming and outgoing correspondence; organizational records; printed material (including early pamphlets and publications both by the Indian Rights Association and other American Indian and Indian-related organizations); Indian Rights Association annual reports; draft legislation; administrative files, the papers of Indian Rights Association founder Herbert Welsh, photographs (often from Western field trips), materials from the Council on Indian Affairs, and manuscripts and research notes regarding social and cultural Indian traditions.
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Indigenous Peoples of North AmericaReading Level: 1301L—+
Product Type: Primary Sources
Content Types: Manuscripts
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