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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Subject: Allotments for Captain Chapitain Chiquito and two sons in Aravaipa Canon, Ariz.

Date: 1910-10-18
Name(s): Goodman, Charles W.
Description: Letter requesting two Apache individuals be allotted land based on past promises given to the individual's father.

Subject: Allotments to Chiquito

Name(s): Goodman, Charles W.
Description: Letter stating a land agent submitted three applications to have certain land allotted to two individuals.

Subject: Land/Water Problems - Inventories

Name(s): Jones, James H.
Description: Letter stating the band is concerned with land problems, especially along the north boundary. Additionally, the government cannot provide further assistance unless the band and superintendent state this is an urgent request.

Subject: North Boundary at Fort Apache

Name(s): Jones, James H.
Description: Memo stating the North Boundary was established by the early Army Surveys, so any boundary errors would be from that data set.

Subject: North Boundary Fort Apache Reservation

Name(s): Lee, John T.
Description: Field notes and instructions for the survey of the North Boundary of Fort Apache.

Subject: Real Property Management

Name(s): Jones, James H.
Description: Chronology of Correspondence on North Boundary at Fort Apache (north-west corner) beginning ca. 1958.

Subject: Visit of Mr. Leroy Horn

Name(s): Granfelt, Carl Eric
Description: Letter outlining the locations shown during a tour, while highlighting the trespassing issue that the tribe has been dealing with.

Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County

Name(s): Veeder, William H.
Description: Document explaining the court case between the Apache people and Arizona about the Salt River rights and water development plan.

Supt. Letter-Annuiuty Payments, Agr Issues

Date: 1928-03-21
Name(s): Donner, William
Description: Letter from Supt. To CoIA summarizes concerns brought up by Apache chiefs at Council meeting, including promises of annuity payments not yet realized, sufficient funds and education to properly practice agriculture, and encroachment on agricultural lands by TRS

Supt. Letter-Tribal Funds Payment

Name(s): Donner, William
Description: Letter addressing Supt. role in determining payments; addresses whether cash receipts for transactions using tribal funds ought to be given to Apaches

Survey of Indian Conditions Throughout the United States

Description: Subcommittee of Committee of Indian Affairs Frazier Hearings Transcripts.

Survey of White Mountain Indians Reservation

Name(s): Parker, Elmer O.
Description: Document with letters from two of the first people who surveyed Fort Apache in the 1880s discussing their field trips. Letters are handwritten.

T.E.R.O.

Description: Brochure outlining the hiring regulations that companies located on the Fort Apache reservation must adhere to

Telegram Re: Cracked Engine Drive Wheel

Date: 1891-05-21
Name(s): Mansfield
Description: Memo requesting repair form cracked engine drive wheel

Ten of Diamonds and Slaughter Permit Boundary

Name(s): Peterson
Description: Letter requesting the boundary line between two land ranges be clarified because there is a dispute in ownership.