Mormon Difficulties at Tuba City in the Hopi Country, Arizona Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MS-562
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence, legal documents, drawings, and maps from 1894-1902 regarding charges that polygamous Mormons forced Hopi Indians from land and water that they had used for years. Materials consist of 18 letters, 15 legal documents, 2 drawings and maps in a scrapbook. Names on a list of Mormons at Tuba include Ashton Nebeker, J.L. Foutz, Bishop L.D. Brinkerhoff, J.H. Lee Jr. and Sr., Henry Despain, Wm. Hunt Sr. and Jr., Fred Tanner (post master), S.B. Tanner, Earnest Lee, J.A. Allen, Steve Heward, John Tanner, Joe Tanner.
Dates
- 1894-1902
Creator
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs (Organization)
Access
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Use
Copyright has not been assigned to the Autry Museum of the American West. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Research Services and Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Autry Museum of the American West as the custodian of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Extent
0.1 Linear Feet (1 folder)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence, legal documents, drawings, and maps from 1894-1902 regarding charges that polygamous Mormons forced Hopi Indians from land and water that they had used for years.
Acquisition
Donation from Richard Van Valkenburgh, 1942 June.
Copies
Processing history
Processed by Glenna Schroeder, circa 1977-1981. Final processing and finding aid completed by Holly Rose Larson, NHPRC Processing Archivist, 2012 October 5, made possible through grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commissions (NHPRC).
- Allen, J. A.
- Brinkerhoff, L. D., Bishop
- Correspondence
- Despain, Henry
- Drawings
- Fort Defiance (Ariz.)
- Foutz, J. L.
- Heward, Steve
- Hopi Indians
- Hunt, William, Jr.
- Hunt, William, Sr.
- Indians of North America -- Arizona
- Indians, Treatment of
- Lee, Earnest
- Lee, J. H., Jr.
- Lee, J. H., Sr.
- Legal documents
- Maps
- Mormon Church -- Arizona
- Mormons -- Arizona
- Nebeker, Ashton
- Scrapbooks
- Tanner, Fred
- Tanner, Joe
- Tanner, John
- Tanner, S. B.
- Tuba City (Ariz.)
- Water rights -- Arizona
Creator
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs (Organization)
- Tanner, George S (Person)
Source
- Van Valkenburgh, Richard (Donor, Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Mormon Difficulties at Tuba City in the Hopi Country, Arizona Scrapbook
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Holly Rose Larson
- Date
- 2012 October 5
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Library and Archives at the Autry Repository