Grand Rapids Inter-Tribal Council Indian History Project records
Scope and Contents
Consists of grant requests, correspondence, drafts of the book, maps, printing instructions and costs, Kingman Museum project, drawings and photographs. The drafts are especially helpful in understanding the development of the book's tone, while the photographs not used in the book are also useful in understanding the history, culture and traditions of the Indian peoples of southwest Michigan.
Dates
- 1982-1985
Creator
- Grand Rapids Inter-Tribal Council (Organization)
Biographical / Historical
The Grand Rapids Inter-Tribal Council was a non-profit organization servicing the Indian people in southwestern Michigan. The Council was first organized in 1972, and covered five southwest Michigan counties with an estimated (1980) population of about 5,000. The Council sponsored programs in education, employment, nutrition, culture, substance abuse, and Indian child welfare.
The Council, recognizing that "one of the major problems of Indian people is their inability as a group to analyze their own cultural heritage. With the break-up of the extended family, the dispersal of the Indian people throughout the region and the passing away of the elders who understood and lived the culture, Indian people have lost contact with their past. This is particularly true of the youth. At the same time, the non-Indian population does not realize that there are a significant number of Indian people living in the area."
The purpose of the project was to develop a book that would describe the history and current conditions of the Indian people that inhabit southwest Michigan. The book was to assist Indian people in analyzing their own needs in relationship to their own history, culture, and traditions, while helping non-Indian people to understand Indian people.
Extent
1.17 Linear Feet (Three boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Grand Rapids Inter-Tribal Council's Indian History Project was designed to develop a publication that would describe the history and current status of Native American people living in southwestern Michigan. The result of the project was the book People Of The Three Fires : the Ottawa, the Potawatomi and Ojibway of Michigan / James A. Clifton, George Cornell, and James M. McClurken. Grand Rapids : Michigan Indian Press, 1986. This collection contains records of the project, along with 247 photographs, some of which were used in the publication.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Grand Rapids Inter-Tribal Council, accession number 1987.044
Photo Index
Apple Harvesting - 044, 046, 047, 049, 157, 163
Bait Store - 126, 139
Band - 225
Baseball Team - 053, 069, 070, 186
Basket Making - 001-024, 057, 166f, 202, 215, 239, 241, 242, 243, 244
Burt Lake (Mich.) - 182
Canoe Building - 235
Canoeing - 226
Carpenters - 043, 137
Catholic Churches - 057, 063, 131, 132,
Cemetery. Harbor springs (Mich.) - 122
Cemetery. Gogebic County (Mich.) - 204
Cemetery. Muskegon (Mich.) - 212
Chief Blackbird Home Museum - 149
Chief Petosky House - 207
Churches - 057, 063, 131, 132, 184, 189, 193
Classroom. Interior - 185
Confirmation Class - 156
Confirmation Class. Boys - 197
Confirmation Class. Girls - 196
Conservation Department - 123,130
Conservation Department officer - 129
Conservation Department Patrol - 118
Factory. Interior - 120, 143
Fish Nets - 144, 145
Fish Store - 138, 159
Fishing - 035, 117, 217, 221, 237
Fishing boat (gill netting) - 127, 141, 142, 146, 148
Funeral. Peshawbestown (Mich.) - 037
Government payment to Indians - 040, 060
Grand Traverse Band Tribal Center - 140
Harbor Springs (Mich.) school - 185
Harbor Springs (Mich.) School and Church - 057, 184
Harbor Springs (Mich.) School. Baseball Team - 186
Harbor Springs (Mich.) School. Church - 189
Harbor Springs (Mich.) school. Students - 187, 188, 190, 191, 193, 194, 195
Health Clinic - 147
Housing - 135, 170, 172, 173, 1801 199, 200, 233, 234
Housing Tract. Mt. Pleasant Reservation -135
Indian Funeral - 037, 218
Indian Housing - 135, 170, 172, 173, 180, 199, 200, 233, 234
Indian Village. Sault Ste. Marie (Mich.) - 203, 214
Logging - 059, 227
Logging. Indian crew - 039
Logging. Peeling Bark - 045
Monument and markers - 150, 151, 152
Mt. Pleasant Indian School - 068, 069, 060, 071, 073, 074, 075, 076, 077, 078
Mt. Pleasant Indian School Band - 225
Mt. Pleasant Indian School marker - 152
Mt. Pleasant Tribal Center - 136
Museum - 149
Nimkee Memorial Health Clinic - 147
Ottawa Village, Mackinac Island (Mich.) - 065
People. Ahgoson, Robert - 208
People. Alexis, mark - 002, 003, 013, 015, 021, 022, 033
People. Antoine, George - 033
People. Assinarray, Sophie - 179, 180
People. Baby - 229
People. Bailey, Bill - 118
People. Bigboy, Robert - 224
People. Bird, Catherine - 041
People. Bird, Susan - 041
People. Blackbird, Chief - 219
People. Buffalo Bill's double - 174, 175
People. Dumaw Creek - 165
People. Group - 030, 033, 051, 056, 061, 062, 063, 072, 079, 155, 158, 160, 222, 230, 231, 025, 026
People. Hamelin, A. Jr. - 066
People. Harris, Edward W. - 029
People. John, Pope - 030
People. Joneshing family - 206
People. Kawbawgam, Charles - 210
People. Kingbird, Tom - 032
People. Mandoka family - 211
People. McSauby, Rick - 118
People. Miller, Tom - 118
People. Mo-gua-go, Chief - 232
People. Nagonsy family - 031
People. Naumke-ching-um-ie - 183
People. Neganijig, Sandy - 118
People. Ojibway - 213
People. Ottawa Chiefs - 067
People. Pamptopee, Phineas - 205, 223
People. Pay-paw-me-say, Christine - 034
People. Peshaba family - 038
People. Peshaba, Benjamin H. - 042
People. Peshaba, Lucile C. - 029
People. Pigeon, Nancy - 027
People. Pokagon, Leopold – 238
People. Sands, Gladys – 166?
People. Sands, Mary - 036
People. Sands, William - 033
People. Shabonna, Little Smoke - 248
People. Shagnava, George - 169
People. Shogoquett, Mackey - 205
People. Shopnegon family - 216, 220
People. Unidentified - 048, 128, 133, 1531 161, 168, 176, 192, 209
People. Wabigekek family - 180
People. Wabigekek, Mitchell - 1711 177
People. Wayashe, George - 052
People. Wesaw, Julia Alexis - 009F 010, 012, 018, 024
People. Wilson, James Sr. - 028
Peshawbestown Catholic Church - 063, 132
Peshawbestown Community Center Marker - 150
Peshawbestown Fish Store - 138, 159
Peshawbestown Marker - 151
Peshawbestown (Mich.) - 201
Peshawbestown School - 054
Peshawbestown Gas Station - 125
Potato Harvesting - 181
Potawatomi Village, Grand Traverse Bay (Mich.) - 064
Pow-wow - 080-116, 124, 154, 162
Quill Boxes - 247, 248
Quill Designing - 036, 240, 245, 246
Reservation Road Sign - 134
Rice Harvesting - 224
Saginaw Chippewa Campground - 121
Saginaw Chippewa Wood Products Co. - 119, 120, 143
Schools - 054, 057, 068, 069, 070, 071, 073-078, 184, 185
Snow Shoveling - 050
Soldiers - 055
Steam Tractor - 164
Stretching Rawhide - 236
Sugar Camp - 228
Sugaring - 228
Traverse city (Mich.) - 040
Tee-pee construction - 172
Tribal Center - 136, 140
Wild Rice Harvesting - 224
Processing Information
In December 1988, Catherine Baldwin asked that all of the images in Coll. 50, which has been made from her personal collection, be removed and returned to her. The Grand Rapids Public Library and the Grand River InterTribal Council complied with this request. Thus, Coll. 50, Box 2, Folder 20 and contents have been removed from this collection.
Through subsequent research, the Library was able to find other sources for some of the images previously included in 50-2-20. These later facsimiles have been processed as part of the GRPL Native American Photo Collection, Coll. 68, and are located in Box 1, folder 21 of that collection.
For those who have bibliographic references to the original Baldwin prints in 50-2-20, the following images can now be found in 68-1-21:
Baldwin No : Copy Negative number
30 : 1460
31 : 1471
32 : 1472
33 : 1463
36 :
37 : 1473
39 : 1459
40 : 1465
41 : 1455
42 : 1474
43 : 1453
44 : 1454
45 : 1456
46 : 1457
47 : 1458
51 : 1466
52 : 1461
54 : 1464
55 : 1462
56 : 1468
57 : 1467
58 : 1469
59 : 1475
60 : 1476
61 : 1477
61? : 1470
62 : 1478
- Title
- Finding aid for the Grand Rapids Inter-Tribal Council Indian history project records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- William C. Black
- Date
- September 1987
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Grand Rapids History Center Repository
Grand Rapids Public Library
111 Library Street NE
Grand Rapids Michigan 49503 USA
616-988-5497
localhis@grpl.org