| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Preservation and civilization of the Indians: Letter from the Secretary of War, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, accompanied by a bill for the preservation and civilizaton of the Indian tribes within the United States
| | | | Creator: | United States War Dept. | | | | | McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 1785-1859 | | | | | Sequoyah, 1770?-1843 | | | | | United States Bureau of Indian Affairs. | | | | Publication: | Printed by Gales & Seaton, Washington,1826. | | | | Notes: | Imperfect: p. 13-22 wanting. "February 21, 1826. Laid before the House by the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed." Found also in Congressional series of documents, serial no. 135. Letter from Thomas L. McKenney, in charge of the Office of Indian Affairs: p. 15-21. "Cherokee alphabet, by Guess, a native": p. 22. | | | | Call #: | E93 U62P8 | | | | Extent: | 22 p. 21 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation | Indians of North America -- Government relations | Cherokee language -- Alphabet
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | An account of a plan for civilizing the North American Indians: proposed in the eighteenth century
| | | | Creator: | Hammerer, John Daniel. | | | | Publication: | Historical printing club, Brooklyn,1890. | | | | Notes: | A copy of the 2d ed. of the original, in the E. E. Ayer collection at the Newberry library, Chicago, has the following postscript printed at the end: "P. S. by the editor of this second impression. Soon after this plan was published (being in January 1765) a ship being taken up by order of the government, to convey back to America three Indians then here, leave was obtained from the Earl of Hilsborough ... for the author of this scheme to go over in the same ship with them to Virginia ... and he ... proceeded from thence overland ... to the Cherokee country; where he was when the last letters received were wrote, being the 20th of September and 10th of October 1765 ... T. C. [i.e. Thomas Crowley]" | | | | Call #: | E97 H22 | | | | Extent: | 28 p. 18 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation | Indians of North America -- Education | Cherokee Indians
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