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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Letter from Commissioner to Superintendent

Description: Once water from the Salt River spring will be used to irrigate lands, but Crouse suggests this divergence will affect the Apache people. This letter request Crouse to provide which Apache people will be affected.

Letter from Commissioner to Supt., Fort Apache Agency

Name(s): [Unknown]
Description: Letter informing the reader that he may no longer give lumber away to individual Apache people, it must be paid for out of the funds collected from the lumber buyers.

Letter from Crouse to Commissioner of Indian Affairs

Name(s): Crouse, C. W.
Description: Letter discussing the benefits of exploiting the reserves' grassland by both Indigenous peoples and non-natives.

Letter from Crouse to IA Commissioner

Name(s): Crouse, C. W.
Description: A letter blaming the Apache people for not being able to develop a strong farming industry on the reserve.

Letter from Department of the Interior

Name(s): Peterson
Description: Letter discussing animal stocks and irrigation practices and issues at Fort Apache.

Letter from Director to Forest Service

Date: 1908-03-03
Name(s): Newell, F. H.
Description: Letter stating areas in the White Mountain Reserve become a part of the Black Mesa NF to protect the large reservoir and wood, plus the forestry's amicable response.

Letter from Forestry Director to Fiscal Officer

Name(s): Marshall, Robert
Description: Letter stating they enclosed a copy of an agreement the two offices made in regard to making an aerial survey of Fort Apache.

Letter from Forestry Director to Fort Apache Agency

Name(s): Arnold, L. D.
Description: Letter stating the Forestry Dep is mailing aerial maps to the Fort Apache Agency, and the letter provides some info about the maps like amount and scale.

Letter from Forestry Director to SCS Director

Name(s): Marshall, Robert
Description: Letter requesting aerial maps of Fort Apache.

Letter from Forestry Director to Superintendent

Name(s): Arnold, L. D.
Description: Letter stating the Fort Apache map has not been completed because the department is missing the southern area, and they ask the recipient to check for errors and the map and correct them.

Letter from Fort Apache, to the Army-Navy Journal, 1881

Date: 1881-04-16
Name(s): [Unknown]
Description: Letter describing the facilities available to troops at Fort Apache

Letter From Fort Apache. January 19, 1896

Date: 1896-01-19
Name(s): Argus
Description: Newspaper article describes state of soliders, barracks on Fort Apache reservation

Letter from Game and Fish Department

Name(s): Shroufe, Duane L.
Description: The Department wants the Forest Service to clarify its intentions for managing the valuable old-growth resource.

Letter from Governor to Secretary of the Interior

Date: 1889-04-20
Name(s): Wolfley, Lewis
Description: Letter requesting the southern region of the San Carlos reservation which contains coal be annexed to Arizona so it may be procured due to the growing demand of fuel.

Letter from House of Representatives to Indian Affairs

Name(s): Hayden, Carl
Description: Letter requesting information about the Apache people who want the sites they are occupying set aside for their permanent use.