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/
Biographical Note
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.
Scope and Content Note
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.
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish
from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record,
the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The
user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the
University of Arizona, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all
claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of
copyright.
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).
Access Terms
Personal Name(s)
Montezuma, Carlos, 1866-1923 --
Archives
Pratt, Richard Henry,
1840-1924
Corporate Name(s)
Society of American Indians --
Correspondence
American Indian Association --
Correspondence
Progressive Indian Association --
Correspondence
United States Indian School (Carlisle,
Pa.)
United States. Bureau of Indian
Affairs
Subject(s)
Indians, Treatment of -- United States
Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1869-1934
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