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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Headquarters, Dept. of Arizona, General Order # 13

Date: 1873-04-08
Name(s): [Unknown]
Description: Memo of instructions for retention of Apache scouts as a reservation police force

History of Lumbering in Arizona before World War 2

Name(s): Matheny, Robert L.
Description: Historical information regarding lumber harvesting in Arizona.

History of Reservation Boundary

Description: Document outlines the history of the definition of the Fort Apache Boundary; document post-dates Oct. 4, 1922.

History on the old headquarters at Fort Apache

Date: 1924
Name(s): [Unknown]
Description: War History of Fort Apache in the 19th century

History: Ancillary Laws and Directives

Name(s): [Unknown]
Description: Information about the former Apache military post established as Theodore Roosevelt Indian School.

Hostetler; Howard; Hoyt

Name(s): [Unknown]
Description: Document discussing several individuals.

Hotel Adams

Name(s): Cameron, Ralph H.
Description: Letter requesting permission to build a settlement on Apache reserve because it is a part of a NF. The government responded to the letter by informing the citizen the reserves have been excluded from the NF and the First Nation people have full control of their lands again, as of February 17, 1912.

House Memorial No.1: Protesting troop removal from San Carlos

Date: 1895-02-05
Name(s): Doran, Carpenter
Description: Letter from the Legislative Assembly of AZ to SoI, House of Reps, and Senate requesting troop withdrawal from San Carlos be stayed on the grounds that Apaches there are dependant on the commercial exchange of goods with the military officers stationed there.

Howard Letter re: Indian disputes

Date: 1872-08-13
Name(s): Howard, Oliver O.
Description: Letter (partial) to F A Walker (CoIA) describing various disputes arising between different Indian groups, and Americans, on the newly formed Camp Apache reservation.

Hydrology and Water resources

Name(s): Lacher, Laurel
Description: Letter explaining what requires an individual to obtain a permit before they can use pesticides.

ID Cattle Removed from Eastern Range to Restore Wetlands

Name(s): Baeza, Jo
Description: Article discussing the possibility and consequences of removing cattle from the Tribal ID Ranch because the grazing is degrading the land; this affects the watershed since additional sediments are entering the river stream.

Improvement of Conditions on Indian Reservations in Arizona

Name(s): Hayden, Carl
Description: Compilation of letters by various authors pertaining to the deteriorating conditions of the conditions and services on Fort Apache.

In the Land of the Apaches

Date: 1910-11
Name(s): Wallace, Dillon
Description: From Outing Magazine, in the Saddle and Camp in the Rockies Series

Increase trespassing fine

Name(s): Crouse, C. W.
Description: Agent requesting BIA increase the fine issued to trespassers who illegally graze their flock on the reserve.

Increasing Our Water

Name(s): [Unknown]
Description: Article detailing the successful methods Fort Apache has used on juniper eradication and controlled burning, and how these positive methods have improved runoff.