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 requesting permission to study animals on Apache land

Date: 1933-06-19
Name(s): Abbott, Clinton G.
Description: Requesting permission from a superintendant to study animals on Apache land, and a thank you letter

Letter responding to Judge King's letter

Name(s): Davis, A. P.
Description: Letter explaining the reserve land needs to be regulated by the government because over use may contribute to soil erosion, causing mud to be stored into the water system.

Letter subject: Authority to issue supplies

Name(s): Crouse, C. W.
Description: Letter requesting goods and supplies from the government to be paid to Apache peoples who worked on repairing roads and other services.

Letter subject: Authority to issue supplies to deserving Indians

Name(s): [Unknown]
Description: Letter listing some supplies that were issued to an Indigenous community.

Letter subject: Availability of "Indian Moneys, Proceeds of Labour"

Name(s): [Unknown]
Description: Letter briefly outline the policy in regard to spending funds that were collected from grazing and other sources on a reservation.

Letter subject: Cash on hand in office safe

Name(s): Noble, W. H.
Description: Letter requesting a quartermaster to explain why he keeps more than the allowed amount of cash to be stored at his post. His response is attached. He gives three explanations.

Letter subject: land allotment

Name(s): Dennett, Fred
Description: Letter requesting if the order withdrawing the land could be revoked so to allowing mining.

Letter subject: Personal

Name(s): Newell, F. H.
Description: Letter asking the department to be cautious about releasing the treeless lands from the NF for grazing purposes because without protection the grazing could disrupt the territory's water flow.

Letter subject: Repair of roads and bridges

Name(s): Crouse, C. W.
Description: Letter discussing the social, political, and economic aspects associated with building/repairing roads and bridges on the reserve.

Letter subject: Request for authority for purchases form Indians

Description: Letter requesting and providing reasons for purchasing supplies from Apache peoples.

Letter subject: survey work

Description: Letter discussing the water rights in connection with the Fort Apach reserve and the US government.

Letter summarizing the ca. 1952 balance sheet

Name(s): Gelvin, Ralph M.
Description: ca. 1952 balance sheet summary of the Fort Apache sawmill.

Letter Superintendent to Indian Affairs

Name(s): Davis, Charles L.
Description: Letter requesting two maps be compared because the boundary lines conflict.

Letter to CJ Stevens from CG Horton

Date: 1908-11-24
Name(s): Horton

Letter to SCS: Forestry and Grazing

Name(s): Zimmerman, William
Description: Letter stating the Forestry Dep should not be required to pay for more aerial surveying because the SCS was supposed to survey the entire Fort Apache reserve.