MS 3967 A petition from the Hopi to the "Great Father"
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 3967
label: Local Note
content: The National Archives has several copies of this petition. One was printed in the Annual Report of Com'r. of Indian Affairs. Copy 1886-1662 dated January 10, 1886 and another copy 1886-11462, received April 28, 1886. Information John Richards, visit 11/1969.
name: label: Collector
content: Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1850-1915
topic: label: Topic
content: Federal-Indian relations -- Hopi
creator: label: Collector
content: Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1850-1915
culture: label: Culture
content: Hopi Pueblo
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Previously titled "A petition."
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS3967
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Negative microfilm reel 11.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Signed by twenty Hopi Indians (pictographic signatures), including the tribal chief, second chief, high priests, etc. written to Mrs Stevenson, requesting that she take it to the "Great Father." They ask his aid in building houses and that a school be opened in their country.