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ContributorsMontezuma, Carlos (Correspondent) / Cornchief, Joe (Correspondent)
Created1920-06-15
Description

Various leaders ask Montezuma about the political status of the reservation and entreat him to protect their land and water rights.

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) / 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.

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."

ContributorsEastman, Charles Alexander (Expert) / Cloud, Henry Roe (Expert) / Montezuma, Carlos (Contributor)
Created1911-10-12
Description

Program from a Society of American Indians Conference.

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 (Correspondent) / Pratt, Richard Henry (Correspondent) / Dickens, Charles (Correspondent)
Created1901-11-02
DescriptionLetter to Dr. Montezuma- written from the San Carlos Apache Agency by his cousin Charles Dickens requesting the return of Dickens' sister from the Carlisle Indian School. Dickens asks Dr. Montezuma to intercede with Col. Pratt to do this. He also requests an accordion from the Montgomery Ward catalog.
ContributorsMorse, Theodore F., 1873-1924 (Composer) / Mahoney, Jack (Lyricist) / Theodore Morse Music Co. (Publisher)
Created1910