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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Public Law 86-392, 86th Congress S. 2268

Name(s): Senate
Description: An Act declaring that the United States holds title to certain land in trust for the White Mountain Apache Tribe.

Purpose of the Adjudication

Name(s): [Unknown]
Description: Document explaining water rights, the history of rights, and the different basins in Fort Apache.

QM Report, Shingle Machine En route

Date: 1881-08-08
Name(s): [Unknown]
Description: Description of features/activities found in the Central Highlands Province, such as Paleozoic rocks, Pueblo sites, crop fields, and work.

Quarterly Report of Affairs Connected with the Indians of San Carlos

Date: 1877-09-18
Name(s): Clum, John P.
Description: Letter reporting that 4,000 Indigenous peoples have been relocated so their land could be utilized for agriculture and mining.

Quartermaster Report 1879

Name(s): Kingsbury, George S.
Description: Report from Quartermaster General detailing state of exisiting buildings at camp Apache, and any repairs needed

Quartermaster's General Report 1883

Date: 1883
Description: Brief report on Fort Apache concerning building construction and smallpox outbreak

R-14 Apache Cattle King

Name(s): Maher, Raymond E.
Description: Article about Wallace Altaha, a prominent and affluent Apache rancher.

Railroad Halts Trips In White Mountains

Name(s): [Unknown]
Description: The railroad service is suspended until the forest fires have ceased.

Rain Chance Arouses Hopes on Fire Line

Name(s): Heltsley, Ernie
Description: Article discusses why Arizona was going through the worst drought and fire conditions.

Ranchers and Others

Date: 1885
Name(s): [Unknown]
Description: Several short news articles, such as a survey teams establishing a map to decrease travel time and a governor receiving photographs of deceased Apache warriors (who are referred to as murderous marauders in the article).

Range Management Plan

Name(s): [Unknown]
Description: Report about Fort Apache's geography, climate, and cattle use and population. This report is intended to improve range and livestock conditions on the reserve.

Range Management Plan and Acceptable Grazing Patterns

Description: Report containing a management plan and acceptable grazing patterns. This report needs to be approved by the council. 3 livestock spread sheets and 6 maps are attached.

Range Report

Name(s): Wyatt, Al
Description: Report providing a brief synopsis of the eroding banks and stream sedimentation issues. Such as, restoration should focus on improving basic land management practices.

Re-survey of TRS Boundary Lines

Name(s): Hunter, John G.
Description: Re-survey of old Fort Apache Military Reserve, contermporaneously referred to as Theodore Roosevelt reservation for school purposes, confirms pre-existing boundary lines as true ones; favours Apache jurisdiction.

Reality of the Cowboy

Name(s): [Unknown]
Description: In an interview a son tells his father's story of being a cowboy and rancher in Arizona in the early 20th century.