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 raising concerns about the US use of Indian land

Date: 1910-01-12
Name(s): Crouse, C. W.
Description: Letter explaining how the Forest service's operation regarding the Apache's timberland, and Crouse propose several improvements.

Letter re: 25 half-inch maps

Name(s): Donner, William
Description: Letter requesting for additional copies of large scale maps. Response is attached.

Letter re: 50 quarter inch maps

Name(s): Donner, William
Description: Letter requesting for additional copies of small scale maps for the BIA's annual report.

Letter re: 600 cattle for the Fort Apache people

Name(s): Cormell, R. S.
Description: A letter stating more cattle needs be give to the Apache people in order to develop a productive farming industry. The government gives 1/4 a cattle to each individual.

Letter re: additional maps sent out to New Mexico Forest Service

Name(s): Donner, William
Description: Letter requesting 60 map prints be sent to the Regional Forester in Albuquerque so they may finish the work of plotting the visual and non-visible areas on the reservation.

Letter re: addressing a request for two steel lookout towers

Name(s): Murphy, D. E.
Description: Letter about a request to obtain two steel lookout towers for fire suppression.

Letter re: addressing employing Apaches for forestry relief projects

Name(s): Donner, William
Description: A forest relief project is planned on the reservation, and this letter urges BIA to give priority to Apaches and to spread the work overtime to give year-round employment.

Letter re: addressing fire protection

Name(s): Pooler, Frank C. W.
Description: Letter addressing Government agencies not complying with fire protection rules.

Letter re: addressing fire protection report

Name(s): Holtz, R. D.
Description: Letter commenting and agreeing with a report about inadequate protection against forest fires.

Letter re: addressing forest conservation

Name(s): Tinney
Description: Letter criticizing the clear cutting approval by Donner, and the importance of conservative logging.

Letter re: addressing past audits and budget analyses

Name(s): McSpadden, Ross
Description: Letter regarding McSpadden's views about the previous audits, and explaining budget concerns

Letter re: addressing sawmill rebuilding

Name(s): Treewood, Martou
Description: Letter regarding the which budget will be used to rebuild a sawmill, and a request for the proper budget report.

Letter re: addressing selling rough lumber to the open market

Name(s): Nelson, L. L.
Description: Letter responding to a request to sell rough lumber to the open market and the possible consequence of doing so.

Letter re: addressing the cost estimate

Name(s): Lawley
Description: Letter explaining the ca. 1962 budget cost estimate, costs breakdown is included.

Letter re: Addressing the irrigation section of the 1958 budget proposal

Description: Letter addressing the irrigation section of the 1958 budget proposal.