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Letter From Montezuma to Cousin Mike Burns

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.

Letter to Montezuma From Mike Burns and McDowell Leaders

ContributorsMontezuma, Carlos (Correspondent) / Burns, Michael (Correspondent) / Dickens, Geoffrey (Correspondent) / Ory, Frank (Correspondent) / Dickens, Charles (Correspondent) / Suramma, Tom (Correspondent) / Suiber, Al (Correspondent) / Mott, Harry (Correspondent) / Bennett, Joe (Correspondent) / Dickens, Richard (Correspondent) / Blake, John (Correspondent)

Created1915-01-22

Description

Mike Burns and the leaders of the McDowell community entreat Montezuma to help them stay on their land and help them go to Washington D.C. to request a dam for the irrigation of their land. They also ask him for advice about allotment.

Letter to Montezuma From the Commissioner of Indian Affairs

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.