Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Pages
Place:
Iowa
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Contents: Day and his sons (Oto); copy of letter from a group of Indians (including Joseph LaFlesche) to Col. Meacham, May 8, 1879; The Orphan (Oto); Ishcinke and Heke; Mishcine wekan etawe; Utwaqe and Mishcine (Oto); The Rabbit and the Grasshoppers (Oto); The Snake and the Ring (Oto); How the Rabbit killed the Bears (Oto); an Iowa fable told by Charles Morgan's father to Mrs LaFlesche; an Oto story, told to Mrs Mary LaFlesche in her youth.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS.4800: (3.3.1) [304]
Local Note:
Old number 1411 (part)
typescript and autograph document
Other Title:
Day and his sons
The Orphan
Ishcinke and Heke
Mishcine wekan etawe
Utwaqe and Mishcine
The Rabbit and the Grasshoppers
The Snake and the Ring
How the Rabbit killed the Bears
Collection Restrictions:
The James O. Dorsey Papers are open for research. Access to the James O. Dorsey Papers requires an appointment
Manuscript 4800 James O. Dorsey papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Creation of this finding aid was funded through support from the Arcadia Fund.
Digitization and preparation of additional materials for online access has been funded also by the National Science Foundation under BCS Grant No. 1561167 and the Recovering Voices initiative at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.