The I-WFCAI Papers are the records of the committee as retained by Paxton Hart, chairman of this committee and of the related Menominee Indian Study Committee appointed by the AFSC and the FCL in 1958. They consist of correspondence, minutes, and miscellaneous materials related to these two committees and other groups and individuals concerned with Indian welfare; especially with Wisconsin's Menominee, Oneida, and Winnebago Indians. A few of the materials pertain to the effect on the Senecas of New York of the proposed dam on the upper Allegheny River at Kinzua, Pennsylvania.
Correspondence is separated into General; Menominee Committee; Oneida, Seneca, and Kinzua Dam; and “Winnebago Dells Servitude”; and arranged chronologically within each division.
There are copies of the minutes of one or more meetings of the following committees:
- Indian Affairs Subcommittee, Friends Committee on Legislation (California), February-April, 1959.
- Indian Affairs Committee of Friends, Committee on Legislation (California), February, 1960.
- Illinois-Wisconsin Friends Committee for American Indians, October, 1959 - April, 1960.
- Menominee Indian Tribe - Minutes of General Council, January, 1959.
- Menominee Indian Study Committee, April-July, 1959.
- United States Council on Indian Affairs, May, 1960.
Annotated copies of federal and Wisconsin state Indian legislation are arranged by legislative House, and then numerically; thus chronologically. They are concerned chiefly with federal termination policy and economic assistance to the American Indian. There are also copies of excerpts from the Congressional Record, January-April, 1960, concerning Indian legislation.
The News-Letter of the Friends Committee on Legislation and the Menominee News are arranged chronologically under each title for 1959-1960. The two issues of the News-Letter carry references to Indian legislation. The five copies of the Menominee News were published by the Menominee Indian Agency at Keshena, Wisconsin from August, 1959, through May, 1960.
Miscellaneous memoranda and reports may be found filed in chronological order, with “Menominee Committee-Miscellaneous” along with copies of the “By-Laws” and “Articles of Incorporation” of Menominee Enterprises, a “Minor's Trust Agreement”, government reports, and newspaper clippings.
There are also miscellaneous reports and reprints concerning the Oneidas and Senecas from 1956 to 1960; the Winnebagoes, 1941 to 1960; “Operation Bootstrap”, 1959; and an “Informational Kit on Relocation Services in the Greater Chicago Area,” circa 1957.
