Summary Information

Title: Carlos Montezuma Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1892-1937

Creator:

• Montezuma, Carlos, 1866-1923

Call Number: Mss 263; Micro 514

Quantity: 4.4 cubic feet (11 archives boxes) and 10 reels of microfilm (35 mm)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Carlos Montezuma, a prominent American Indian leader and physician who gained recognition for participation in the Pan-Indian movement and as an advocate of Indian assimilation. Papers include correspondence, financial records, newspaper clippings, writings and notes, and American Indian periodicals. The correspondence focuses on Montezuma's interest in the assimilation and cooperation among tribes through the Society of American Indians and his ongoing struggles with the Office of Indian Affairs. Prominent correspondents include founding members of the Society of American Indians Fayette McKenzie, Charles Alexander Eastman, Francis La Flesche, Henry Standing Bear, Thomas Sloan, and Henry Roe Cloud. The correspondence also documents differences between U.S. Indian Commissioner Francis Leupp and Richard H. Pratt, head of the U.S. Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The printed materials include published articles by Montezuma, pamphlets written by and about Indians, the publications of Indian organizations, schools, and missions, and Montezuma's magazine, Wassaja.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00263