Walter and Jean Kerr Papers, circa 1920-1993

Container Title
Series: Research
Scope and Content Note

The bulk of this series are photocopied historical documents arranged by a barcode affixed to the document. The source of most of these documents is unknown, however many likely came from the National Archives. Aside from three boxes related to the Lac Courte Oreilles, documents have an unknown order.

Witness reports include original cultural, treaty, and historical research on the Menominee. There is also a great deal of research pertaining to the Mille Lacs case. Also noteworthy are treaty files that contain related historical documents.

Box   12
Folder   48
Aboriginal claim, location of
Box   12
Folder   49
Ambiguity brief
Box   12
Folder   50
Bibliographic and reference list
Box   12
Folder   51
Bureau of Indian Affairs funding of Menominee litigation, 1996
Box   27
Folder   2
Claims, payment of 8.5 million
Box   12
Folder   52
Commercial fisheries
Box   12
Folder   53
Conveyances
Box   12
Folder   54
Correspondence
Coeur d'Alene vs. State of Idaho
Box   12
Folder   55
In the matter of the ownership of the beds and banks and all waters of all navigable water courses within the 1873 Coeur d'Alene Reservation boundary
Box   12
Folder   56
Brief, 1994
Box   12
Folder   57
Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho
Box   27
Folder   3
Court of Claims, 1941-1996
Box   12
Folder   58
Decisions, miscellaneous, 1997
Documents
Box   27
Folder   4
0001-0159
Box   27
Folder   5
0160-0388
Box   13
0389-2192
Box   14
2193-5864
Box   15
5865-9341
Box   16
9342-10099
Box   17
20001-20031
Box   18
20033-20050
Lac Courte Oreilles
Box   19
2379-4932
Box   20
6316-6576
Box   21
Serial set, 7301-8079
Box   12
Folder   59
1848 fraud
Experts
Box   12
Folder   60
Archeologists, 1996-1997
Box   12
Folder   61-62
Boggs, Deirdre
Box   27
Folder   6
Journal material Boggs delivered to Guile, 1995
Cleland, Charles
Box   22
Folder   1
A treaty history of the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin, 1996
Box   22
Folder   35
Report on the ethnohistorical basis of the hunting, fishing, and gathering rights of the Fond du Lac band of Chippewa Indians under the treaties of 1837 and 1854, 1994
Clifton, James
Box   22
Folder   2
Issues concerning Menominee Indian treaties: a preliminary report, 1996
Box   22
Folder   3
Michigan's Indians: race, tribe, interest group, ethnic group, or estate?, 1995
Box   22
Folder   4
Dorrance, James F., The Menominee Indians, 1848-1858: the making of the Menominee Reservation, 1955
Box   22
Folder   5-6
Dirst, Victoria
Box   22
Folder   7
Jekel, Andera
Kay, Jeanne
Box   22
Folder   8
Articles
Box   22
Folder   9
Co-authored with Albers, Patricia
Box   22
Folder   10
Correspondence
Box   22
Folder   11
The land of La Baye: the ecological impact of the Green Bay fur trade, 1834-1836, 1977
Box   22
Folder   12
Lawson, Mike, deposition
Box   22
Folder   13
Lund, Thomas, The Menominee treaty privilege of 1831 is not an interest in land, 1996
Box   22
Folder   14
McClurken, James M., Menominee use of natural resources in northern Wisconsin, 1996
Box   22
Folder   15
Notes and correspondence
Box   22
Folder   16
Newell, Alan
Box   22
Folder   17-18
Ourada, Patricia
Box   22
Folder   19
Overstreet, David, Overview of theoretical frameworks addressing models and probable correlates of Menominee protohistory and prehistory, 1996
Box   22
Folder   20
Pentland, David, The Menominee language in comparison to English, 1996
Box   22
Folder   21
Riesberry
Box   22
Folder   22
Rosenthal, Harvey
Box   22
Folder   23
Statz, Ronald, research and deposition
Box   22
Folder   24
Sturgeon, Department of Natural Resources
Box   22
Folder   25
Vance, John
Box   22
Folder   26-27
White, Bruce, Settlement in Northeastern Wisconsin, 1820-1890, 1996
Box   22
Folder   28
Wrone, David
Box   22
Folder   29
Federal Power Act
Box   27
Folder   7
Federal Power Commission
Box   22
Folder   30-31
Hunting, fishing, and gathering
Box   27
Folder   8
Imaging
Box   22
Folder   32
Indian Claims Commission
Box   27
Folder   9
Indian Claims Commission (continued)
Box   27
Folder   10
Indian land cessions
Box   22
Folder   33
Indian Fish and Wildlife Management Act
Box   22
Folder   34
Jones report
Box   23
Folder   1
Judicial estoppel
Lac Courte Oreilles v. State of Wisconsin (74-C-313-C)
Box   23
Folder   2
Court documents related to black bear, migratory birds, and wild plants
Box   23
Folder   3
Endangered and threatened species
Box   23
Folder   4
Model off reservation conservation code, 1989
Box   23
Folder   5
Natural areas
Box   23
Folder   6
Scientific areas long-range plans, 1983
Box   23
Folder   7
Stipulation for miscellaneous species and regulatory matters
Box   23
Folder   8
Wild non-commercial plants used by the Ojibwa people, 1990
Box   27
Folder   11
Legal status research
Box   27
Folder   12
Maps
Box   28-34
Maps (continued)
Box   27
Folder   13
Maps, certified
Box   23
Folder   9
Maps, surveys
Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians v. State of Minnesota
Box   23
Folder   10
Deposition and exhibit of Nichols, John
Box   23
Folder   11-13
Supreme Court
Testimony
Box   23
Folder   14
Newell, Alan S.
Box   23
Folder   15
Squires, Rod
Box   23
Folder   16
Tanner, Helen
Box   23
Folder   17
White, Bruce M.
Witness reports
Driben, Paul
Box   23
Folder   18
The Fond du Lac band of Chippewa Indians and the Treaty with the Chippewa, 1837, 1994
Box   23
Folder   19
Revisionist history: Benjamin G. Armstrong and the Executive Order of 6 February 1850, 1994
Box   23
Folder   20
A sharp break with the past: why the Mille Lacs Band insisted on reserving a privilege to live off the land in the Treaty with the Chippewa, 1837 and agreed to abandon the chase in the Treaty with the Chippewa, 1855 , 1994
Box   23
Folder   21
Cleland, Charles, Preliminary Report of the ethnohistorical basis of the hunting, fishing, and gathering rights of the Mille Lacs Chippewa, 1994
Box   23
Folder   22
Hofsommer, Donovan, Expert witness report for landowners: John W. Thompson, Jenny Thompson, Joseph N. Karpen, Leroy Burling, Glenn E. Thompson, and gray M. Kiedrowski relevant to 1837 Mille Lacs Band treaty lawsuit, 1994
Box   23
Folder   23
Lund, Thomas, The 1837 and 1855 Chippewa treaties in the context of early American wildlife law, 1993
Box   23
Folder   24
Massmann, John, Minnesota: 1819-1860: a land and people in transition, 1994
Box   23
Folder   25
McClurken, James, The 1837 treaty of St. Peters preserving the rights of the Mille Lacs Ojibwa to hunt, fish, and gather: the effect of treaties and agreements since 1855, undated
Box   23
Folder   26
Nichols, John, the translation of key phrases in the treaties of 1837 and 1855
Box   23
Folder   27
Statz, Ronald, Research report relative to Chippewa treaties with the United States, the Executive Order of 1850, and other issues of federal Indian policy pertaining to the case of Fond du Lac v. Carlson, 1994
Box   23
Folder   28
Native American treaty and reservation rights in the Crandon project vicinity (a Foley-Lardner report), 1995
Box   23
Folder   29
Natural Resources, Department of
Box   23
Folder   30
Newspaper clippings, 1995
Oversize Folder  
Newspaper special sections, treaty rights, 1989-1990
Box   24
Folder   1
Oneida, 1996
Box   24
Folder   2
Oral history and Exxon
Oversheets (geographic data)
Box   24
Folder   3
Adams County
Box   24
Folder   4
Brown
Box   24
Folder   5
Calumet
Box   24
Folder   6
Columbia
Box   24
Folder   7
Crawford
Box   24
Folder   8
Dane
Box   24
Folder   9
Door
Box   24
Folder   10
Fond du Lac
Box   24
Folder   11
Grant
Box   24
Folder   12
Green Lake
Box   24
Folder   13
Iowa
Box   24
Folder   14
Juneau
Box   24
Folder   15
Kenosha
Box   24
Folder   16
Kewaunee
Box   24
Folder   17
Manatowoc
Box   24
Folder   18
Marinette
Box   24
Folder   19
Marquette
Box   24
Folder   20
Milwaukee
Box   24
Folder   21
Oconto
Box   24
Folder   22
Outagamie
Box   24
Folder   23
Ozaukee
Box   24
Folder   24
Portage
Box   24
Folder   25
Racine
Box   24
Folder   26
Richland
Box   24
Folder   27
Sauk
Box   24
Folder   28
Sheboygan
Box   24
Folder   29
Waushara
Box   24
Folder   30-31
Winnebago
Box   24
Folder   32
Wood
Box   24
Folder   33
Menominee County, Michigan
Box   24
Folder   34
Petitions to remain, 1996
Box   24
Folder   35
Public trust and aboriginal rights, 1994
Box   24
Folder   36
Public trust, analysis
Box   24
Folder   37
Removal act
Box   24
Folder   38
Research articles
Box   24
Folder   39
Shawano Library
Box   24
Folder   40
Sturgeon claim and knowledge of dams
Box   24
Folder   41
Sturgeon management plans
Box   24
Folder   42
Surveys, proof of
Treaties
Menomonie treaties and related documents (research book)
Box   24
Folder   43
1817
Box   24
Folder   44
1821
Box   24
Folder   45
1822
Box   24
Folder   46
1825
Box   24
Folder   47
1827
Box   25
Folder   1
1831
Box   25
Folder   2
1832
Box   25
Folder   3
1836
Box   25
Folder   4
1848
Box   25
Folder   5
1854
Box   25
Folder   6
1856
Box   25
Folder   7
Proof of facts
Box   25
Folder   8
Treaties, general files
Box   25
Folder   9
Treaty of Greenville, 1795
Box   25
Folder   10
Treaty with the Menominee, 1832
Box   25
Folder   11
Treaty with the Menominee, understanding, 1848
Box   27
Folder   14
Treaty with the Winnebago
Transcriptions
Chronological
Box   25
Folder   12
1820-1834
Box   25
Folder   13
1835-1840
Box   25
Folder   14
1841-1849
Box   25
Folder   15
, 1850
Box   25
Folder   16
1851-1857
Box   25
Folder   17
Microfilm
Box   25
Folder   18
Serial set
Box   25
Folder   19
Cyril F. Van Camp and Darlene A. Van Camp v. Menominee Enterprises Inc., 1974
Box   25
Folder   20
United States Indian Claims Commission, final report, 1978
Box   25
Folder   21
United States v. State of Washington and Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Indian Reservation, 1990
Box   26
Folder   1
University of Wisconsin research
Water
Box   27
Folder   15
Definition of navigability, federal
Box   27
Folder   16
Lac du Flambeau navigable waters
Box   27
Folder   17
Navigable waters, public trust
Box   27
Folder   18
Water law, chapter 30
Box   26
Folder   2
Wisconsin v. Joseph L. Sanapaw and William J. Gringnon, 1963
Box   26
Folder   3
Wisconsin v. Richard L. Gurnoe, 1971
Box   26
Folder   4
Wisconsin Historical Society