Journeys to the Dakota, Chippewa, Kickapoo, and Shawnee
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943
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content: Aleš Hrdlička papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.29 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1916-1917
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1974-31, Series 7
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series includes photographs, anthropometric measurements, and correspondence associated with trips taken by Hrdlička in 1916 and 1917. The first, in 1916, was to the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota to study the Dakota (Sioux) Indians and then to White Earth and Leech Lake, Minnesota, to examine Chippewa. This work was done at the behest of the Department of Justice, which needed to know the degree of blood mixture with whites among the Chippewa. Hrdlička studied the Dakota, who had comparatively little mixture, as a control population. The second, in the summer of 1917, was to the Shawnee at the Shawnee Agency and the Kickapoo in McCloud, both in Oklahoma, to find pure blood samples and ascertain the physical type. Hrdlička examined more Chippewa on a trip in the fall of 1920 to settle the blood-mixture question. No information from that trip is in this series. 

More information regarding this work can be found in Series 3: Correspondence, "Department of Justice", "Justice, Department of", and "Powell, Ransom J.".