Your TR Source
Documents celebrating the past, present, and future of Grand Canyon National Park in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of being a national park. The importance of the Grand Canyon region to various Native American tribes, including the Havasupai, Hopi, Hualapai, Navajo, Southern Paiute, and Zuni are addressed.
1994
A timeline of the history of the Grand Canyon from prehistoric peoples to 1993.
1994
President Roosevelt speaks to citizens at the Grand Canyon, noting that this is his first visit to Arizona. He asks the citizens to preserve the Grand Canyon, commenting, “Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it; not a bit. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.” Roosevelt also offers a welcome to the Native Americans present, highlights Arizonans who participated in his regiment, and speaks of the role irrigation will play in the state’s future.
1903-05-06
Newsletter from the Champlain Society detailing their history, membership fees, and publications, including volumes already published and works to be published.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01
On the one hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Tippecanoe, Benjamin Wilson Smith publishes a sketch of the battle based on his many years of research. Smith also produces a map of the battle lines of the camp, including modern changes.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-07
Franklin William Hooper requests Theodore Roosevelt attend a meeting to establish the National Association for the Preservation of the American Indian. The association will especially seek to preserve the North American Indians in Arizona and New Mexico who live in isolation but whose traditions, arts, industries, and towns are “historic monuments of an ancient culture.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-16
Newspaper article about Commissioner of Indian Affairs Francis E. Leupp.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-28
President Roosevelt asks the Department of Justice to give special attention to the request of Commissioner of Indian Affairs Francis E. Leupp, feeling “a peculiar obligation to see that the Indians…where possible be protected by the courts.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-27
President Roosevelt tells Frank C. Frantz, Governor of Oklahoma Territory, that he cannot make the announcement that Frantz has requested, but will make every effort to prevent graft in the territory and protect Indians that need it. Roosevelt has particular affection for Oklahoma and Indian Territory.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-30
Senator Robert M. La Follette has met with Commissioner of Indian Affairs Francis E. Leupp and discussed their disagreements over a bill concerning Choctaw and Chickasaw coal lands. La Follette may support Leupp’s provisions, but he feels that the bill, leaving out any reference to the Choctaw and Chickasaw lands, should be introduced today.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-22
Cherokee Indian and attorney John M. Taylor sends President Roosevelt a silver spoon that pictures Sequoyah, the statesman who invented the Cherokee alphabet. Taylor has read Winning of the West and feels that Roosevelt has given a correct history of the North American Indian.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-22
Charles J. Bonaparte writes to President Roosevelt about law services he provided. He drafted a brief about contracts made by the former Indian Commissioner involving payments to religious schools out of Indian tribal funds. Bonaparte provides a detailed description of the circumstances involved in the situation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-28
List of major government expenditures for 1904.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904
Grenville M. Dodge tells President Roosevelt about Jim Bridger. Bridger had been a guide to the United States Government parties exploring the West during the 1850s and Dodge wants to bring recognition to his accomplishments by sharing his story.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-19
In the upper left-hand corner is a Native American man standing in a canoe with a stick with “1607” in the corner. The rest of the cartoon is a much larger President Roosevelt holding a “big stick” and standing on a battleship cruising into the “Jamestown Exposition” in 1907.
A number of expositions and fairs were held during the Theodore Roosevelt Administration. The Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, of course, is where President William McKinley was shot, leading to Roosevelt’s succession. The St. Louis World’s Fair was opened by the president by electronic signal, and only visited in late 1904, because Roosevelt did not want to appear to use a visit to the Fair as an advantage during his presidential campaign. In the last weeks of his presidency, among several national observances, Roosevelt made his way to Hardin, Kentucky, to mark the centennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth.
German Emperor William II watches as President Roosevelt—dressed in Native American attire—and William Jennings Bryan—dressed in Philippine native attire—face each other.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-15
Message given by President Roosevelt to Congress at the beginning of the second session of the Fifty-seventh Congress in which Roosevelt describes his legislative priorities for the year.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1902
Thomas Alexander Wood, Grand Commander of the Indian War Veterans, writes to Governor Roosevelt asking for help in the passage of House Bill 53 and Senate Bill 340, which would provide benefits for Veterans of the Indian Wars.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1900-02-10
N. E. Mitchell sends President Roosevelt a Navajo blanket which was “captured along with Geronimo and his band.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901
In the interior of a frontier cabin, a long table is set for a Christmas turkey dinner. Around the table are seated several people, some of whom are surprised to discover an arrow stuck in the turkey, shot by a Native standing outside the open door of the cabin.
In Puck Magazine’s holiday issues — Easter, Midsummer, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, Christmas — the publishers generally yielded space routinely reserved for political cartoons to thematic, seasonal, or purely humorous subjects.
The 1906 Christmas number was no exception, and Puck‘s Austrian import Carl Hassmann was counted on to provide superb-poster like artwork in addition to clever ideas. This center-spread cartoon, in fact, is not very clever or funny — a Native American startles Colonial revelers at dinner with an arrow aimed at the holiday turkey — but does tell us something about the times of the cartoon’s creation. The Pilgrims are rather more up-to-date than their 1600s versions, especially the women, and the Indian is not depicted as a savage but rather a friendly prankster.