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Collection Summary | |
Creator: | Montezuma, Carlos, 1866-1923 |
Collection Name: | Carlos Montezuma papers, |
Inclusive Dates: | 1890-1922 |
Physical Description: | 1.25 linear feet |
Abstract: | This collection includes correspondence; manuscripts of lectures, articles, and reminiscences relating to his career and relationships with the federal government, reservations, and the Carlisle Indian School; and miscellaneous medical materials. Correspondents include officials of the Society of American Indians, American Indian Association, Progressive Indian Association, Richard H. Pratt, founder of Carlisle Indian School, as well as various relatives, friends, Native Americans, patients, and government officials. |
Collection Number: | AZ 287 |
Repository: |
University of Arizona Libraries, Special
Collections University of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-621-6423 Fax: 520-621-9733 URL:http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/ |
Carlos Montezuma, whose Indian name was Wassaja, was a Yavapai Indian from central Arizona. He was captured by Pima Indians and sold to a photographer. He was educated in Arizona and New York City. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1884 and attended Chicago Medical College. Carlos Montezuma served as a reservation physician working for the Indian Services (BIA). While working on reservations he encouraged Native American children to go to school. He eventually became a Yavapai advocate for Native Americans and helped organize the Society of American Indians, a national lobbying group; and published Wassaja, a monthly indictment of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
This collection includes correspondence; manuscripts of lectures, articles, and reminiscences relating to his career and relationships with the federal government, reservations, and the Carlisle Indian School; and miscellaneous medical materials. Correspondents include officials of the Society of American Indians, American Indian Association, Progressive Indian Association, Richard H. Pratt, founder of Carlisle Indian School, as well as various relatives, friends, Native Americans, patients, and government officials.
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Related materials pertaining to Carlos Montezuma may be found in the following collections and repositories: Carlos Montezuma Papers, the Newberry Library, Chicago; Carlos Montezuma Collection, MSS-60. Arizona State University Libraries: Arizona Collection; and Carlos Montezuma papers on microfilm: inventory of collection at SW Studies Center, Fort Lewis College. University of Arizona Main Libraries also has a copy of The papers of Carlos Montezuma, M.D. [microform] : including the papers of Maria Keller Montezuma Moore and the papers of Joseph W. Latimer,(Micro- film 6709).
Carlos Montezuma papers(AZ 287). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.
Series I: Correspondence, 1899-1922 | |||||||||||
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1 | 1-4 | Correspondence: General Richard H. Pratt. , 1907-1922 | |||||||||
1 | 5 | Correspondence: General Richard H. Pratt (speeches and articles). | |||||||||
1 | 6 | Correspondence: Montezuma to General Richard H. Pratt (drafts of letters). | |||||||||
1 | 7 | Correspondence: Montezuma to various (drafts of letters). | |||||||||
1 | 8-10 | Correspondence: General. , 1899-1916 | |||||||||
Includes a letter from Alonso Stagg, University of Chicago, December 18, 1909. | |||||||||||
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2 | 1 | Correspondence: F. A. McKenzie & Arthur C. Parker, Society of American Indians. , 1904-1912 | |||||||||
2 | 2 | Correspondence: Charles E. Dagenett, American Indian Association. , 1911 | |||||||||
2 | 3 | Correspondence: August A. Breuninger, Progressive Indian Association. , 1909-1913 | |||||||||
2 | 4 | Correspondence: Cousins Richard Dickens, Charles Dickens, Mike Burns. , 1904-1912 |
Series II: Lectures, Speeches and Articles, ca. 1907-1919 | |||||||||||
Manuscripts: Lectures and Speeches | |||||||||||
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2 | 5 | "The Primitive Indian." , May, 1912 | |||||||||
2 | 5 | Speech about Arizona. | |||||||||
2 | 5 | "Idealists on Indian Affairs." | |||||||||
2 | 5 | "Let My People Go." , 1915 | |||||||||
2 | 5 | "Let There Be Light." | |||||||||
2 | 5 | "Mis-applied Philanthropy." | |||||||||
2 | 5 | "The Reservation System." | |||||||||
2 | 5 | "Speech-For University." | |||||||||
2 | 5 | "Visit at Adamsville." | |||||||||
2 | 5 | "Missionaries Among the Indians." (Chicago). , May 1913 | |||||||||
2 | 5 | "Columbus Conference Paper." | |||||||||
2 | 5 | "The Indian Problem." | |||||||||
Manuscripts: Carlisle Indian School and General Richard H. Pratt | |||||||||||
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2 | 6 | "Reasons for Opposing Administration." | |||||||||
2 | 6 | "Standing up for General Pratt's Dismissal, etc." | |||||||||
2 | 6 | "Kill the Indian and Save the Man." | |||||||||
2 | 6 | Criticism of Indian Arrow." (School Weekly). | |||||||||
2 | 6 | "Criticism on Sub Committee on Indian Affairs' Report to Stop Appropriation for Carlisle School." | |||||||||
2 | 6 | "Averse to Converting Carlisle School into Indian Military School." | |||||||||
2 | 6 | "Article on Carlisle School, Opposing its Removal." | |||||||||
2 | 6 | "Mal-administration of the Carlisle School." Inter Ocean. , April 20, ?? | |||||||||
2 | 6 | "Carlisle's Indian Football Eleven." Philadelphia Public Ledger, p. 8. , December 6, 1907 | |||||||||
Manuscripts: Articles | |||||||||||
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2 | 7 | "Abolish the Indian Bureau." | |||||||||
2 | 7 | "Blockades to Indian Civilization." | |||||||||
2 | 7 | "The Development of the American Indian." | |||||||||
2 | 7 | "Electing a President." | |||||||||
2 | 7 | "Everybody Comes Into the World Blank." | |||||||||
2 | 7 | "Flash Lights on the Indian Question." | |||||||||
2 | 7 | "Get Right With the Indians - Bureau System." | |||||||||
2 | 7 | "Get the Indians Out." | |||||||||
2 | 7 | "Indian Faddists." | |||||||||
2 | 8 | "Indian Ideals." (Questioned if by Carlos Montezuma). | |||||||||
2 | 8 | "The Indian of Tomorrow." | |||||||||
2 | 8 | "Missionary - not all." | |||||||||
2 | 8 | "Indian Schools." | |||||||||
2 | 8 | "Indian Superstition." | |||||||||
2 | 8 | "Indian System Error." (2 versions). | |||||||||
2 | 9 | "Indians and Indians." Published in Wassaja, vol. 1, no. 6. , September 1916 | |||||||||
2 | 9 | "The Indian's Art of Healing by Songs and Herbs." | |||||||||
2 | 9 | "Man's Inhumanity to Man." | |||||||||
2 | 9 | "Mistaken Policy." | |||||||||
2 | 9 | "National Character." Tribune. , May 1, 1909 | |||||||||
2 | 9 | "Plea for Arizona Indians." | |||||||||
2 | 9 | "Plea for the Indian - Starting with Self." | |||||||||
2 | 9 | "Plea on Behalf of the Pimas to Commissioner Sells." | |||||||||
2 | 9 | "Plea - with History of Self." | |||||||||
2 | 9 | "Review of Dr. Lydston's Book." | |||||||||
2 | 10 | "Reminiscences of Self and Indian Character." | |||||||||
2 | 10 | "Reservation Politics." | |||||||||
2 | 10 | "Spiritualism of the Indians." | |||||||||
2 | 10 | "Synopsis of Self." Review of Reviews. | |||||||||
2 | 10 | Fragments, unidentified. |
Series III: Miscellaneous Materials, ca. 1890-1913 | |||||||||||
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2 | 11 | Reminiscences. | |||||||||
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3 | 1 | Miscellaneous personal material. | |||||||||
3 | 2 | Miscellaneous Indian material. | |||||||||
3 | 3 | Miscellaneous notes for and to the Secretary of the Interior. | |||||||||
3 | 4 | Fragments, mostly personal notes on self and Indians. | |||||||||
3 | 5 | Miscellaneous medical material, including correspondence. | |||||||||
3 | 6 | Medical reprints, speeches, etc. |