Hopi Indians

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-12-21

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Fiala, Anthony, 1869-1950

President Roosevelt returns the papers on the investigation into the affairs of the Moqui and Navajo Indian Reservation. Roosevelt agrees with Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock that the Sequoya League and Charles Fletcher Lummis should retract their charges.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-08-29

Charles Fletcher Lummis, David Starr Jordan, and others have accused Charles E. Burton, Superintendent and Special Distributing Agent of the Moquis and Navajos at Keams Canyon, Arizona, of incompetence and cruel treatment of Native Americans. President Roosevelt supports Burton’s removal and asks that Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock take up the matter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-06-22

Collection

Charles C. Myers Collection

Creation Date

Unknown

Creator(s)

Detroit Publishing Co.

Language

English

The “Book Reviews” section features three essays. In “‘The Negatives Are the Score the Prints Are the Performance,” Chris Foster examines Side Trips: The Photography of Sumner W. Matteson, 1898-1908. Foster looks at the development of photography equipment, especially Kodak cameras, notes the various locations in the American West, Mexico, and Cuba that Matteson documented, and pays particular attention to Matteson’s photographs of Native Americans and their culture. A photograph of a buffalo, a copy of which Matteson sent to President Theodore Roosevelt, accompanies the review and is the only illustration in the section.

In “A Tribute to George E. Mowry,” John Robert Greene reviews Reform and the Reformer in the Progressive Era.” Greene examines each of the essays in this tribute to George E. Mowry, a historian of the Progressive age, and finds a number of them disappointing, but he reserves special praise for an essay that provides an overview of Mowry’s career and for the transcript of an interview with Mowry from 1980.

John A. Gable reviews Peggy and Harold Samuels’s Frederic Remington: A Biography in “Remington’s West.” Gable notes the importance of Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister to forming Americans’ view of the frontier West, and he catalogs many of Remington’s illustrations, paintings, and sculptures, some of which belonged to Roosevelt. Gable pushes back against some of the criticism that the Samuels compile against Remington, and he notes Roosevelt’s admiration for the artist.

A Moki group, including the rain maker and chief, at an Indian camp that is part of the St. Louis World’s Fair.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904

This stereograph depicts a Moki corn festival at the St. Louis World’s Fair.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904

Charles Fletcher Lummis reviews the evidence and is satisfied with the investigation of the Moqui (Hopi) Indian Reservation. He is not opposed to Charles E. Burton but against Burton’s administration. The card catalog is now interested in snakes and Lummis mentions a book from before 1590 on the subject.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-09-26

Charles Fletcher Lummis appreciates Secretary Hitchcock’s courtesy in removing the Warner Ranch paragraph from the Jenkins report. However, his complaint against the paragraph was not that it was offensive but that it was false. Lummis has attempted to work with Inspector Jenkins but if Jenkins continues to scandalize the local Office of Indian Affairs and its employees he will take action.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-09-23

Charles Fletcher Lummis reports on the Moqui Indian investigation. According to Lummis, his report is less partisan, more judicial, and more truthful than the report by Inspector James E. Jenkins.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-09-19

A Sequoya League investigation of Charles E. Burton, superintendent and special distributing agent of the Navajo and Moqui (Hopi) Indians, has found that Burton has “repeatedly and flagrantly violated” service rules by flogging Native Americans. Burton also forced Native American men to cut their hair. An official government investigation found wrongdoing but could not substantiate all of the Sequoya League’s findings.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-09

Charles Fletcher Lummis writes to President Roosevelt about the Bureau of Indian Affairs investigation of its inspectors and the Moqui matter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-09-04