White Mountain Apache Collection

Digitized materials from White Mountain Apache Tribe in Arizona. The collection consists primarily of US Government documents and legal documents from the Apache Tribe related to their land claims and other issues.

Contributed by John Welch, Simon Fraser University.

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Department of the Interior letter re: land use and ownership

Date: 1886-02-19
Name(s): Atkins, J.
Description: Letter stating when the White Mountain reservation was established by the US, its population, its use, and how other parties have attempted, and failed, to annex the land to procure the coal through Congress.

Department of the Interior letter re: laws prohibit annexing

Date: 1886-06-30
Name(s): Atkins, J.
Description: Letter explaining that the President is prohibited by law from annexing Indian reserves and relocating them to Indian Territory.

Department of the Interior letter re: mining and prospecting reserves

Date: 1886-03-11
Name(s): Atkins, J.
Description: Letter rejecting a request from two non-natives to prospect/mine certain areas on the White Mountain reserve.

Details of White Mountain Apache meeting

Description: Summary of a council meeting pertaining to Resolutions, house building, school programs, and business negotiations.

Diary of an Arizona Cowboy

Name(s): Smith, Phil
Description: Article providing information about the life of a cowboy through Robert Cambell's diary.

Difficulties in rendering Indian language to English text, Che de sky

Name(s): Stoover, A. L.
Description: Notes difficulties in tranlating Indian place names to written English

Discusses inspection report of the grounds and materials at TRS

Date: 1929-11-13
Description: Discusses shortcomings with TRS school buildings and facilities

Discusses inspection report of TRS

Date: 1928-12-13
Name(s): Patterson, H. F.
Description: Reviews inspection findings of buildings and facilities at TRS

Discussing Apache land use for their economy

Date: 1950-09-17
Name(s): Avery, Ben
Description: States which natural resourses and animals they use in their economy, and how those resourses are depleting

Dispute over lumber for TRS repairs

Date: 1924-06-04
Name(s): Davis, Charles L.

Distribution of Funds

Name(s): Flory, Evan
Description: Report about how the funds will be spent to maintain and repair the irrigation facilities at Fort Apache.

Draft for Internal Review

Description: A resolution draft about establishing programs to mitigate the destruction of the Apache people's cultural and archaeological resources by non-Aboriginal people.

Ecological Changes in a Ponderosa Pine Forest from Controlled Burning and Wildfire

Name(s): Wagle, R. F.
Description: Report regarding the total damages caused by the Carrizo fire (wilderness, wildlife, timber/revenue, etc), and the nature of the fire. The report also outlines a method to determine how effective control burning is at deterring forest fires.

Ecology Upper-Most In Apache's Planning

Name(s): [Unknown]
Description: Article about a project in which the Apache people improve and maintain their ecosystem.

Education - Narrative Report, Fort Apache Jurisdiction

Name(s): Peters, E
Description: Report on the state of schoolson the Fort Apache jurisdiction.