MS 7090 Letters from George Bird Grinnell to C. Hart Merriam
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 7090
label: Local Note
content: Typescript letter signed and autograph letter signed
name: label: Creator
content: Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938
label: Correspondent
content: Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942
label: Names
content: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
topic: label: Topic
content: Federal-Indian relations -- Blackfeet
label: Topic
content: Indian interest groups -- Indian Rights Association
label: Topic
content: Federal-Indian relations -- appropriations
label: Topic
content: Federal-Indian relations -- ration cuts
label: Topic
content: Federal-Indian relations -- grazing rights
label: Topic
content: Federal-Indian relations -- agency mismanagement
label: Topic
content: Botany
label: Topic
content: Zoology -- Ornithology
label: Topic
content: Zoology
creator: label: Creator
content: Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938
label: Correspondent
content: Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942
culture: label: Culture
content: Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 200 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1878-1932
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Received from Robert Heizer, University of California, Berkeley, 7/12/24. National Anthropological Archives accession 75-1.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS7090
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Newspaper clippings
label: Type
content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: The drawings and photographs are described in an accompanying typed label as "Original illustrations for Pawnee Hero Stories by Geo. Bird Grinnell. First Edition 1889".
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Newspaper clippings
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Consists of correspondence with two newspaper clippings. Includes detailed discussion of the efforts of Grinnell and Merriam, through contacts with President Theodore Roosevelt and influential Congressmen, to bring about Federal investigation of charges of maladministration by the Indian Agent at the Blackfeet Reservation in 1903-4. It also contains accounts of actions taken to try to end practices adversely affecting Indians such as appropriation and ration cuts, grants of grazing rights to white cattlemen and reservations, and Agency mismanagement, with specific reference to the Cheyenne, the Standing Rock Dakota, and Geronimo's Apaches, as well as the Blackfeet. Other letters are concerned primarily with scientific discussions of ornithological, zoological, and botanical subjects and of conservation and the need for National Parks and National Forests.