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ContributorsMontezuma, Carlos (Correspondent) / Burns, Michael (Correspondent)
Created1921-03-24
Description

Montezuma urges Mike Burns and the McDowell Indians to keep McDowell land and Verde River water; NOT to move to Salt River Reservation as proposed.

ContributorsMontezuma, Carlos (Correspondent) / Sloan, Thomas L. (Correspondent)
Created1920-06-25
Description

Montezuma writes to Sloan about the impact of American politics on Indians and his firm belief that Indians are increasing as a people and will someday have their own Presidential candidate: also mentions printing problems in the latest Wassaja issue.

ContributorsMontezuma, Carlos (Correspondent) / Skiuhushu, Red Fox (Correspondent)
Created1920-03-26
Description

Letter to Montezuma from the Reverend Red Fox Skiuhushu, on letterhead of his association, the American Indian Tepee Christian Mission, an "interdenominational home for Indian children while they attend public school", in White Swan, Washington. He describes his health, his subscription to Wassaja, and his opposition to the Indian Bureau.

ContributorsMontezuma, Carlos (Correspondent) / Hauke, C.F. (Correspondent)
Created1911-03-11
Description

Replying to Montezuma's earlier January letter of the same year, Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs C.F. Hauke tells Montezuma that it is in the best interests of the Fort McDowell Indians to move to the Salt River Reservation.

ContributorsMontezuma, Carlos (Correspondent) / Dickens, Charles (Correspondent)
Created1911-02-09
Description

Letter to Montezuma from his cousin Charles Dickens: Dickens complains of the nosiness of a Mr. Coe (presumably the Indian agent?) and the misplacement of an earlier letter.

ContributorsMontezuma, Carlos (Correspondent) / Ballinger, R.A. (Correspondent)
Created1911-01-30
Description

In the letter, Montezuma defends the water rights of the Fort McDowell community and the construction of a proposed dam, and states emphatically that "it is not their wish to move."

ContributorsMontezuma, Carlos (Correspondent) / Dickens, Charles (Correspondent)
Created1908-12-17
Description

Letter from cousin Charles Dickens at McDowell, Arizona, requesting monetary help for an establishment of a store on the reservation: Dickens also promises to send Montezuma some baskets.

ContributorsMontezuma, Carlos (Author)
Created1922-03
DescriptionWassaja Newsletter volume 8, number 3, published at Chicago, Illinois.
ContributorsMontezuma, Carlos (Author)
Created1920-09
DescriptionWassaja Newsletter vol 5 no. 6, published at Chicago, IL
ContributorsMontezuma, Carlos (Correspondent) / U.S. Feature Service (Correspondent)
Created1922-09-20
Description

Envelope addressed by Dr. Carlos Montezuma to the U.S. Feature Service, New York, NY. Envelope is thought to have held volume 8, issue #19 of the Wassaja Newsletter.