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Woodard, Fred Barton Manuscript Collection

Coverage: 
1920–1953
Source: 
Papers, .50 foot

Description
Lawyer. Personal and business correspondence (1934–1953), mostly relating to Republican Party politics, with Hamilton Fish and John H. Kane the principal correspondents. Also included are government documents and other published materials (1920s–1940s) regarding American Indians, such as hearings before congressional committees on Indian affairs, relating to relief of needy Indians (1940); claims of the Shawnee and Delaware tribes (1920s–1936), the Yakima tribe (1939), the Snake or Paiute tribe (1940), and the Wichita and related tribes (1939); restrictions on the lands of the Quapaw Indians (1939); a report (1946) illustrating the reduction in size of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation; a proposed constitution for the Brotherhood of North American Indians; a tearsheet of a biographical sketch of Charles Journeycake, a chief of the Delaware, written by Woodard in 1943; and publications on Indian lands in general.