Socialist Workers Party Records, 1928-2002

Container Title
“Finals” (Envelopes 1-13)
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Envelope 1
1. Ojibwas, Members of the Algonquin Family - Languages and Origin
2. Westward Migration of the Chippewa - First Chippewa Battle on Record
3. The Chippewa and Their Geographical Distribution
4. Meaning of the Word 0jibway
5. Early Writers Differed Greatly in the Spelling of the Word 0jibway
6. Tug-waug-aun-ay, a Chippewa Chief of La Point
7. Engraved Copper-Plate of Tagwagane, Indian Chief of La Point
8. The Chippewa and the White Nations
9. Early Indian Tribes
10. Treaties
11. Treaties in Which the Chippewa Participated
12. How Much Land Did the Government Reserve for the Indians
13. A Proposed Poor Farm and Payment of $5.74 in 1905
14. The Removal Order of 1849
15. Did the Indians Have Wars Between Themselves
16. Prowess of the Chippewa as Warriors: Their Ability to Defend and Hold Territory Acquired
17. Chippewa Capture Michillimackinac
18. Honesty Among the Indians
19. Honesty of the Early Chippewa Indians
20. La Point, Seat of the Chippewa Empire (Condensed from Burnham's “Lake Superior County in History and Story”)
21. La Point in , 1835
22. Cadottes and Warrens (Also condensed from Burnham's “Lake Superior...”)
23. Chippewa Mounds, their Origin and Purpose
24. Notes concerning the Chippewa
25. Encounter between the Chippewa and the Sioux
26. Last Battle between the Sioux and the Chippewa
27. The St. Croix Valley and more about the Sioux
28. Folle Avoine
29. Chief Ya Bense and the “Lost Tribe”
30. Early Settlement of the Bad River Reservation
31. Scrip Act - Mixed Blood Chippewa Indians
32. The Bad River Reservation
33. Rivers of the Bad River Reservation
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Envelope 2
1. Early Trails and Water Routes
2. Military Road of St. Paul
3. Old-Time Chippewa Names
4. How Surnames Were Acquired by the Chippewa
5. Chippewa Names of Men (Names Common in By-Gone Days)
6. Racial Characteristics
7. How the Indians Lived Years Ago
8. The Chippewa of the Old Times
9. George Copway, an Early Chippewa Writer
10. The Origin of the Powwow Ceremonial Drum
11. The Last Great Peace Treaty between the Chippewa and the Sioux, Sept. 11, 1896
12. Colonel Cody Discusses Chippewa-Sioux Peace Treaty
13. Fiftieth Anniversary of the Signing of the Treaty of 1854
14. “Victory Celebration” of the Indian Treaty Is Proposed by John J. Doherty, Nov. 12, 1942
15. The Lost Tribe Comes into Its Own
16. World War I - Indian Preferences
17. Indians in World War I - Message Centers
18. Indians as Soldiers in World War II
19. Chippewas in World War II (This item was listed on the envelope but was missing when the microfilm was produced.)
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Envelope 3
1. Did Marquette and Allouez Visit Odanah (Red River Reservation)
2. Location of the Chapel of the Holy Spirit Erected by the Jesuit Missionary, Claude Allouez
3. The Older St. Joseph's Catholic Chapel
4. A Bishop, a Graveyard, and a Pine Tree
5. Bishop Baraga's Visit to Ontonagon
6. Cross River - Origin of the Name
7. Odanah's Sacred Mound
8. The Pictured Rock
9. Copper of the Bad River Reservation
10. Chief 0-sau-gie Built First “Ships” in City of Superior (He Was Head of Small Chippewa Band when Superior was Tiny Spot)
11. Superior's Chippewa Indian Choir
12. How Old is La Point
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Envelope 4
1. A Word About Indian Trading Posts
2. Early Trade with the Indians
3. Gleanings from an Old Record
4. Fur Trade and Liquor
5. An Historical Tale: The Effects of Liquor
6. Suppression of Liquor among the Indians
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Envelope 5
1. A Word about Totems or Dodaims
2. Totems
3. Totemic Relationship
4. Respect for Dodem or Totem
5. Repairing an Insult
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Envelope 6
1. Dreams - Their Significance
2. Significance of Charcoal
3. Indian Burial Customs
4. Forgotten Graveyard Discovered
5. Spirit Bundles and Mourning Customs
6. Chippewa Indian War Bundles
7. The Burial of Joe Baker
8. The Last Tribute
9. Why Do Indians Object to Having their Dead Taken to a Morgue?
10. Indian Grave Houses
11. A Recent Feast of the Dead, November 2, 1938
12. Feast of the Bear Paw
13. Feasts of Thanksgiving
14. The Grand Medicine Council
15. The Mide Cross
16. Magic Ritual of Making Charms
17. A Grandmother's Instructions
18. Customs and Beliefs among the Indians of the L'Anse Reservation
19. Courtesy Shown to Messengers
20. Indian Divorce
21. Chippewa Weather Predictions
22. How to Find Directions in the Woods when Lost
23. Admonitions to an Indian Girl
24. Confinement among the Chippewa
25. Care of the Papoose
26. The Naming of a Child
27. Infants Given Names for Protection
28. Indian Adoptions (Copy of a Letter from the Chief of Naval Operations, Washington, Jan. 3, 1939)
29. An Indian Adoption: A Feast to Honor the Dead: A Very Live Feast for the Writer
30. Hunters' Superstitions
31. Hunting Customs
32. The Medicine Hunt
33. Rice Beads for Necklaces
34. Did the Old-Time Indians Pluck their Hair?
35. Hair Dress
36. Chippewa and Monogamy (This item was listed on the envelope but was missing when the microfilm was produced.)
37. Magic Ritual (This item was listed on the envelope but was missing when the microfilm was produced.)
38. Old Indian Dance Houses (This item was listed on the envelope but was missing when the microfilm was produced.)
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Envelope 7
1. Fishing on the Bad River Reservation in the Early Days
2. Fishing Then and Now
3. Catfish Once Abundant Here
4. Hunting and Fishing on the Bad River Reservation Today
5. Duck Hunting on the Bad River Reservation
6. Kakagon Sloughs
7. First Kill
8. Hunting Deer on the Bad River Reservation
9. Trapping
10. The Deadfall: Purpose and Method of Construction
11. Snaring Rabbits
12. The Rabbit Snare
13. An Indian Huntress
14. The Eagle Hunt
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Envelope 8
1. The Chippewa Indian Was Always Self-Supporting
2. Chippewa Dyes (Page 1 is missing)
3. The Indian as a Skilled Laborer
4. First Sawmills on the Bad River Reservation
5. Weaving: Woolen Fibres
6. Mat-weaving with Different Materials; Preparing the Ana-kunuc-kons (Bullrushes)
7. Tanning a Hide - An Actual Demonstration by Da-ba-sa-si-no-kwe (Cedar Root)
8. Farming among the Chippewa
9. Tobacco Cultivated on the Bad River Reservation
10. Picking Blueberries in Northern Michigan
11. Blueberrying Forty-Five Years Ago - Strange But True
12. Gathering Ginseng
13. Lodges
14. Fire-Making from Bewa-nug or Sa-ka-ta-gon
15. An Emergency Light
16. Torches Used by the Chippewa of Early Days
17. Birch Torch: How Made
18. Transportation of Fire or Io-ko-De
19. Birchbark Buckets Used for Cooking
20. Birchbark Buckets
21. Glue
22. Name-Kwani Bigiu - Resin or Gum: Method of Securing
23. Pitch
24. Wigus
25. How Baskets Were Made by Indians
26. How Indian Cradles Were Made and Why
27. A-gim-ug - Snow Shoes
28. How the Chippewa Made Soap
29. Indian Pipes and Pipestone
30. Canoes and How Constructed
31. Dugout or Boat
32. The Construction of a Canoe at Lac du Flambeau in 1923
33. March Notes
34. Maple Sugar Industry
35. Maple Sugar Making - Later Day Process
36. How Nokomis Did It
37. Salt
38. Wild Rice - Compilation
39. Wild Rice Project, Bad River Reservation, October, 1936, Odanah
40. Wild Rice Harvest on the Bad River Reservation, Season, 1937
41. Method of Cooking by the Camp Fire
42. Primitive Way of Cooking Foods
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Envelope 9
1. Ojibwa Medicines (M.P.M. Bulletin)
2. Chippewa Appellations for Herbs and Roots
3. Chippewa Indian Remedies
4. Chippewa Remedies: Surgical
5. A Recent Initiation into the Midewiwin
6. Totem Pole Ceremony
7. Health on the Bad River Reservation and the Uses of Medicinal Herbs
8. The Odanah Indian Clinic
9. Another Indian Clinic at Odanah (Letter from J.D. Mitchell, M.D. Lac du Flambeau, Dec. 29, 1936)
10. Statement on Health Conditions at Lac du Flambeau by the Foregoing Physician
11. A Strange Premonition
12. The Indian Doctor
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Envelope 10
1. How the Chippewa of Lake Superior Dressed in the Early Days
2. How the Indians Dressed When I Was a Youth
3. Notes on Clothing
4. Chippewa Women's Costumes
5. Quill Decorations
6. Asa-kumig (Moss)
7. Ear Adornment
8. Beadwork: A White and Indian Project
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Envelope 11
1. Indians and Dice
2. The La Crosse Game
3. La Crosse Game - Legend and Ceremonies
4. Women's Game
5. Baseball Game Between Two Tribes, Chippewa vs. Winnebago
6. Chippewa Indian Dances; Introduction by Sister M. Macaria Murphy
7. Indian Dances
8. The Squaw Dance
9. Origin of the “Forty-Nine”
10. Duck Dance: A Legend “Why the Hell-Diver's Eyes Are Red”
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Envelope 12
1. The Coat of Mike Silas (A Believe It or Not Story)
2. Recollections of Early Days (George Starr)
3. Early Experience (Statement of Joseph Bell)
4. Recollections of Joseph Bell, Member of the Lost Tribe
5. Early Stories and Experiences Told to Me when a Boy (Dan Morrison)
6. Personal Reminiscences of Dan Morrison
7. My Parents: John B. Denomie and 0-musk-a-wa-si-nau-qua
8. Qui-ka-ba-no-kwe, “Dawn Woman”
9. Wasagizick, the Medicine Man
10. Trip to Canada among the Bois Fortes
11. Trip to Red Cliff for Historical Data
12. Indian's Thrilling Work of Rescue
13. A Trip of an Old Pioneer - Antoine Dennis
14. Antoine Dennis, Last of the Chippewa Mail Runners: Arthur Tenney Holbrook
15. The Little Red Dog (Indian Dyes and the Little Red Dog)
16. Mark L. Burns Wins Achievement Medal
17. American Indian Boy
18. Life History of John Condecon
19. Reverend Philip Gordon, LL.D. (Full-blooded Chippewa)
20. William Gordon (Father of the Rev. Philip Gordon)
21. Antoine Gordon, Grandfather of the Priest, Father Philip Gordon, by Sister M. Macaria Murphy
Extra (not listed but present): 22. Copper, Pigeons, and a Graveyard (Two Articles with the Title)
Extra (not listed but present): 23. The Enigma
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Envelope 13
1. Indians in the Army and Navy
2. Balloon Corps
3. The Navy
4. Aeronautics in the World War
5. Aeronautics
6. Later Enlistments
7. Oldest Soldier in Service, Kiowa Indian
8. Fifth Loan and Contributions
9. Highlights of the 32nd Division