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 re: Increase annual funds to spend on services and constructions

Name(s): Davis, Charles L.
Description: Letter stating the annual income for the next fiscal year needs to be higher than the previous year because the funds are used to pay for schools, irrigation, to maintain the Agency service, and to create jobs.

Letter re: information about purchases

Name(s): Davis, Charles L.
Description: Letter stating the purchase request and the submitted purchase list has been approved.

Letter re: information concerning pastures

Name(s): Bernhard, John T.
Description: Documents about the stockings on Paceta cienega pasture.

Letter re: inspection, repairs, and additions

Name(s): Carter, William H.
Description: Letter detailing an inspection of officer buildings with recommendations for repairs and add-ons.

Letter re: insufficient field on aerial maps

Name(s): Donner, William
Description: The large scale used on the new aerial maps prevents them from being used by fire controllers due to the lack of space on the maps. As such the department is requesting a correction or they'll have to continue using the older aerial maps. Response attached: Forestry Directory writes they will not be able to update maps by the fire season.

Letter re: investigating pensions for Apache soldiers (USA)

Date: 1926-12-07
Name(s): Gatewood
Description: Apache veterans are not getting their pensions because a bill has not been passed

Letter Re: J. Head Citizenship

Date: 1898-11-30
Description: Letter describing circumstances by which Apache Justin Head qualifies for US citizenship

Letter re: justification for repairing phone lines

Name(s): [Unknown]
Description: Report discussing need to set up and repair the telephone system for the Apache people and employees in the forestry industry.

Letter re: labor and land devleopment

Date: 1938-03-30
Name(s): Donner, William
Description: Letter re: funds for Indian labor and land devleopment

Letter re: mail out small scale maps

Name(s): Donner, William
Description: Letter stating the agency is out of small scale reservation maps and needs some forwarded to them.

Letter re: mail ten prints ft apache

Name(s): Donner, William
Description: Telegram requesting ten copies of the aerial maps be mailed out. Response letter attached stating 100 copies were recently sent out.

Letter re: mammal control agreement

Name(s): Kessay, Clinton
Description: Document outlining a predator and rodent control agreement for Fort Apache, such as the timeframe, methods, and funding.

Letter re: map corrections

Name(s): Arnold, L. D.
Description: Letter requesting the surveyors to clarify the location of some places. Responses are attached.

Letter re: maps of the eastern portions of the Ft. Apache and San Carols reservations

Name(s): Wigely, F. R.
Description: Letter requesting an aerial map of eastern portion of the reserve because a sawmill may be built in that area.

Letter re: new schoolhouse at the Theodore Roosevelt School

Name(s): Meritt, E. B.
Description: Letter describing the construction of a new schoolhouse, such as the design, cost estimate, material needed, etc. And it requests the letter's recipient to provide his opinions on the subject.