J.W. "Duke" Wellington Papers

J.W. "Duke" Wellington Papers, 1876-1974

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Wellington, J. W. (Joseph W.)
Title: J.W. "Duke" Wellington Papers
Dates: 1876-1974
18761974
Quantity: 7.2 linear feet; 12 oversize folders
Collection Number: Collection 2029, MtBC, us (collection)
Summary: The J. W. "Duke" Wellington Papers consist of papers Wellington collected during his 32 year career in the Bureau of Indian Affairs as well as a few family papers. Papers relating to administration, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, education, government-Indian relations, Fort Belknap Reservation, Rocky Boy Reservation, Standing Rock Reservation, subject files on various tribes and issues and topics relating to American Indians as well as photographs are found in the Wellington collection.
Repository: Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections
Montana State University-Bozeman Library
Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections
P.O. Box 173320
Bozeman, MT
59717-3320
Telephone: 4069944242
Fax: 4069942851
Access Restrictions: This collection is open for research.
Languages: English
Sponsor: Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Historical NoteReturn to Top

A native of Harlotown, Montana, Joseph W. "Duke" Wellington was the son of Mr. and Mrs. LeClaire Wellington. Duke received his degree in agricultural education from Montana State University in 1929. He was the quarterback for the Bobcat football team for three years as well as being a member of the track team. From 1930 to 1936, Wellington taught vocational education and coached at Smith-Hughes. The following two years he worked on the family ranch in Harlotown. He returned to education from 1938 to 1939 teaching vocational agriculture and coaching at Broadwater County High School in Townsend, Montana. He married Mabel Morton in 1932, and they had one daughter, Barbara. In 1940, he began his 32 career in the Bureau of Indian Affairs as the agricultural instructor at Stewart Indian School at Carson City, Nevada. He then became the supervisor of livestock and farming for the BIA for 17 western states before becoming the superintendent of the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy reservations in 1947. While at Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy, Wellington emphasized strong public relations and the utilization of a natural resources program and developed a range fencing program. He moved to North Dakota seven years later and was the superintendent of the Standing Rock reservation at Fort Yates, North Dakota. After recovering from a heart attack in 1956, he became the superintendent of the Indian School at Wahpeton, North Dakota, where he stayed until he retired in 1972. In addition to his work for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Wellington was active in community affairs. He was the chairman of the United Fund, president of the Red River Bowling Association, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Elks, and various Masonic bodies including the Shrine. An avid golfer, he was director of the Bois de Sioux Golf Club. He was interested in youth activities and was a Boy Scout Committeeman as well as the director of Red River Council for Educational Television. He was a lover of Montana history and collected Indian artifacts and materials.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The J. W. "Duke" Wellington papers have been separated into 8 series based on topical and departmental divisions. Included in the collection are papers Wellington collected during his 32-year career in the Bureau of Indian Affairs as well as a few family papers. Papers relating to administration, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, education, Government-Indian relations, Fort Belknap Reservation, Rocky Boy Reservation, Standing Rock Reservation, subject files on various tribes and issues and topics relating to American Indians as well as photographs are found in the Wellington collection. Publications that Wellington collected have been removed for item level description. Folders marked with an asterisk (*) have had items removed for storage in another area.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Series 1 J. W. "Duke" Wellington, Correspondence and Personal Papers, 1935-1972

Series 2 LeClaire Wellington, Correspondence and Personal Papers, 1907-1915

Series 3 Administrative Papers, 1876-1971

Subseries 1 : W. T. Hughes, U.S. Indian Agent, Correspondence, 1876-1878

Subseries 2 : Correspondence, 1876-1971

Subseries 3 : Superintendent's Memorandums, 1947-1966

Subseries 4 : Addresses and Speeches, 1947-1970

Subseries 5 : Legal Papers, 1920-1970

Series 4 Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1940-1971

Subseries 1 : Subject Files

Subseries 2 : Conferences and Workshops, 1940-1967

Subseries 3 : Information Circulars, 1948-1952

Subseries 4 : Memorandums, 1949-1971

Subseries 5 : News Releases, 1949-1971

Subseries 6 : Orders and Reports, 1948-1956

Series 5 Education, 1941-1971

Subseries 1 : Correspondence and Memorandums, 1943-1971

Subseries 2 : Speeches and Papers, 1955-1970

Subseries 3 : Subject Files, 1941-1971

Series 6 Government-Indian Relations, 1778-1971

Series 7 Subject Files, 1895-1974

Subseries 1: General, 1929-1971

Subseries 2: Fort Belknap,1895-1954

Subseries 3: Rocky Boy, 1947-1954

Subseries 4: Standing Rock, 1913-1957

Subseries 5: Tribes, 1932-1970

Subseries 6: American Indian Issues and Topics, 1938-1971

Subseries 7: Clippings, 1947-1974

Series 8 Slide Narratives and Photographs and Paintings

Acquisition Information

J. W. "Duke" Wellington donated his papers to Special Collections in several shipments from 1973-1976. An audiocassette interview with Wellington formerly assigned collection number 1143 was added on July 12, 2017.

Processing Note

This collection was processed 2017 July 12

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series 1: J.W. "Duke" Wellington, Correspondence and Personal Papers, 1935-1972Return to Top

Wellington served as superintendent for several reservations during his career with the Bureau of Indian affairs. Included in Series 1 are awards, certificates, and clippings he collected. In addition, Series 1 contains correspondence he received while superintendent. Correspondence relating to the BIA and Wellington's work is also included in Series 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
1/1	General Correspondence	1947-1954
1/2	General Correspondence	1955-1956
1/3	General Correspondence	1957
1/4	General Correspondence	1958-1970
1/5	Correspondence Tobias Moran, 1970; Don Jensen, 1957	1970; 1957
1/6	Business Correspondence	1929; 1940-1949
1/7	Business Correspondence	1951-1954
1/8	Business Correspondence	1956-1957
1/9	Business Correspondence	1958-1959
1/10	Business Correspondence	1962-1970
1/11	Letters about his retirement	1972
1/12	Letters from Ed McGivern	1935
1/13	Letters from Ed McGivern	1938-1938; 1952
1/14	Clippings on Ed McGivern
1/16	Awards and Certificates	1959-1969
1/16	Clippings	1954-1959
1/17	Clippings	1965-1974; undated

Series 2: LeClaire Wellington, Correspondence and Personal Papers, 1907-1915Return to Top

Duke was a native of Harlotown, Montana, where his father was a rancher and his mother was postmistress. Series 2 contains business papers and correspondence regarding his parents' ranch including land sale prices in the Harlotown area, a stock certificate for the Meagher-Fergus Telephone Company, an assessment list, and a collection of postage stamps.

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
1/18	Correspondence	1907-1911
1/19	Correspondence	1912-1915
1/20	Business Papers	1907-1912
1/21	Land Sales, Harlotown Area
1/22	Northern Pacific Railroad Company, Land Price list for Meagher, Fergus, and Musselshell Counties	1911
1/23	U. S. Official Postal Guide	1912
1/24	Postage Stamps, western images

Series 3: Administrative Papers, 1876-1971Return to Top

As an administrator and supervisor in the BIA, Duke was responsible for the running of the office. The papers in Series 3 are the correspondence, office memorandums, addresses, speeches, and legal papers concerning the offices Wellington worked in and supervised. Also included is Series 3 are photocopies of the correspondence of Indian Agent W. T. Hughes from 1876-1878. The materials have been separated into five subseries

Container(s)	Description	Dates
	Subseries 1: W. T. Hughes, U.S. Indian Agent, Correspondence W. T. Hughes was an Indian agent at Standing Rock Agency in North Dakota. The photocopied correspondence in Series 3 are letters he wrote and received concerning the agency. Issues include budgets, overuse of food supplies, transferring Indians to the agency, and Department of the Interior information.	1876-1878
Box/Folder
1/25		November-December, 1876
1/26		January 1877
1/27		February 1877
1/28		March 1877
1/29		April 1877
1/30		May 1877
1/31		June 1877
1/32		July 1877
1/33		August 2-14, 1877
1/34		August 15-28, 1877
1/35		September 1877
1/36		December 1877
1/37		January 1878
1/38		February 1878
1/39		March 1878
1/40		April-May, 1878
1/41		June 1878
1/42		July 3-18, 1878
1/43		July 20-31, 1878
1/44		August 1878
1/45		September 1878
1/46		October 1878
1/47		November 1878
1/48		December 1878
	Subseries 2: Correspondence During his career in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Wellington was responsible for correspondence in his office. The correspondence in Series 2 cover a wide range of topics and issues Wellington faced while at Fort Belknap, Rocky Boy, Standing Rock and Wahpeton Indian School. Topics include Indian policies, reservation activities and conditions, working with tribal councils and American Indians, law and order on the reservation, and office policies and practices.	1879-1971
Box/Folder
2/1		1879-1880; 1916; 1939
2/2		1945-1947
2/3*		January-April, 1948
2/4		June-December, 1948
2/5		1949
2/6		January-June, 1950
2/7		July-November, 1950
2/8		February-June, 1951
2/9*		July-December, 1951
2/10	Georgie Blackbird, American POW in North Korea	October 1951
2/11		January-March, 1952
2/12		April- August, 1952
2/13		September-October, 1952
2/14		November-December, 1952
2/15		January-February, 1953
2/16		March-April, 1953
2/17*		May-June, 1953
2/18		July-August, 1953
2/19		September-October, 1953
2/20		November-December, 1953
2/21		January-April, 1954
2/22		May-August, 1954
2/23		September-October, 1954
2/24		November-December, 1954
2/25		January-March, 1955
2/26		April-June, 1955
2/27		August-October, 1955
2/28		November-December, 1955
2/29		January-April, 1956
2/30		August-December, 1956
2/31		1957
2/32		1958-1959
2/33		1960-1962
2/34		1964-1965
2/35		1966
2/36		1967
2/37		1968
2/38		1969
2/39		1970
2/40		March-April, 1971
2/41*		July-November, 1971
2/42		undated
	Subseries 3: Superintendent's Memorandums The Superintendent's Memorandums found in Series 3 are memos Wellington wrote concerning the various offices he supervised while in the BIA.	1947-1966
Box/Folder
2/43		1947-1949
2/44		1950
2/45		1951
2/46		January-March, 1952
2/47		April-July, 1952
2/48		November-December, 1952
2/49		February-June, 1953
2/50		August-December, 1953
2/51		1954-1955
2/52		1957; 1966
	Subseries 4: Addresses and Speeches Series 3 also contains addresses and speeches delivered on American Indian topics such as withdrawing federal supervision of the American Indian, aims and objectives of the Indian service, the outlook for the American Indian, graduation addresses at Wahpeton Indian School, individual rights of members of tribal organizations, and the American Indian way of life. The addresses and speeches have been arranged chronologically. Other speeches on education can be found in Series 5.	1947-1970
Box/Folder
3/1		1947
3/2		1948
3/3		January, 1949
3/4		April, 1949
3/5		June-November, 1949
3/6		March, 1950
3/7		August-September, 1950
3/8		1951
3/9		1952
3/10		January, 1954
3/11		May-August, 1954
3/12		1955-1956
3/13		1957-1958
3/14		1959-1960
3/15		1961-1962
3/16		1963-1964
3/17		1966
3/18		February-March, 1967
3/19		June-September 4, 1967
3/20		September 14-November, 1967
3/21		1968
3/22		March, 1969
3/23		August-September, 1969
3/24		April-July, 1970
3/25		November, 1971
3/26		undated
	Subseries 5: Legal Papers Legal papers found in Series 3 include court cases before the Claims Commission, petitions, attorney's contract, and a juvenile court case. The papers have been arranged chronologically.	1920-1970
Box/Folder
3/27		1920-1922; 1932
3/28		1949; 1951
3/29		1952
3/30		1953-1954
3/31		1957
3/32		February, 1967
3/33		November, 1967
3/34		1968; 1970
3/35		undated

Series 4: Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1876-1971Return to Top

As an employee of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Duke received paperwork concerning the philosophy and practices of the department. Included in Series 4 are handouts and programs from conferences and workshops as well as Bureau circulars such as information circulars, memorandums, news releases, orders, and reports. Subject files of various policies and general information regarding the BIA are also included. The materials have been separated into six subseries.

Container(s)	Description	Dates
	Subseries 1: Subject Files
Box/Folder
4/1	Development of the BIA and Indian Policy
4/2	Employee Bulletin	1971
4/3	Establishment
4/4	Establishment of Billings Area Office
4/5	General information
4/6	Redelegation of Authority
4/7	Ritual of Admission of Indians to Full American Citizenship
4/8	Robert Yellowtail
4/9	Weekly Activities Reports	July 1971
	Subseries 2: Conferences and Workshops Many conferences and workshops were held to discuss issues concerning the Bureau of Indian Affairs. They have been divided into general conferences, conferences for Area Directors, and Superintendents Conferences.	1940-1967
Box/Folder
4/10	Conferences and Workshops	1949
4/11	Conferences and Workshops	1950
4/12	Conferences and Workshops	1951-1952
4/13	Conferences and Workshops	1957; 1965
4/14	Conferences and Workshops	1967
4/15	Conferences and Workshops	undated
4/16	Area Directors	1952
4/17	Area Directors, summary	1954
4/18	Area Directors, exhibit A	1954
4/19	Area Directors, exhibit B	1954
4/20	Area Directors	1962; 1966
4/21	Area Directors	1967; 1971
4/22	Superintendents	1952; 1958
4/23	Superintendents	1966
	Subseries 3: Information Circulars	1948-1952
Box/Folder
4/24		1948-1949
4/25		1950-August, 1951
4/26		September-December, 1951
4/27		1952
	Subseries 4: Memorandums	1949-1971
Box/Folder
4/28		1949-1951
4/29		1952-1953
4/30		1954-1955
4/31		January-October, 1956
4/32		November, 1956
4/33		1958-1962
4/34		1964
4/35		1965
4/36		1966
4/37		February-March, 1967
4/38		May, 1967
4/39		September-December, 1967
4/40		February-May, 1968
4/41		June-December, 1968
4/42		1969
5/1		January, 1970
5/2		March-September, 1970
5/3		October-December, 1970
5/4		January-April, 1971
5/5		May, 1971
5/6		June, 1971
5/7		July-November, 1971
	Subseries 5: News Releases	1949-1971
Box/Folder
5/8		1949-1952
5/9		1953-February, 1954
5/10		May-July, 1954
5/11		1955-1956
5/12		1957
5/13		1958
5/14		January-May, 1959
5/15		June-December, 1959
5/16		1960
5/17		1961
5/18		1962
5/19		1963
5/20		1964
5/21		March-June, 1966
5/22		July-December, 1966
5/23		January-July, 1967
5/24		August-December, 1967
5/25		1968
5/26		1969
5/27		January-July, 1970
5/28		October-November, 1970
5/29	Series 4	1971
	Subseries 6: Orders and Reports	1948-1956
Box/Folder
5/30	Orders	1948-1949
5/31	Orders	1950
5/32	Reports	1954
5/33	Reports	1956

Series 5: Education, 1941-1971Return to Top

One large area of work in the BIA was education. Series 5 contains correspondence, speeches, and reports dealing with education practices and policies on various Indians reservations and the teaching of American Indian children. Also included in Series 5 are subject files dealing with educational philosophy, teaching materials, information on boarding schools, Wahpeton Indian school in North Dakota, workshop material for teachers, and newsletters and pamphlets on education.

Container(s)	Description	Dates
	Subseries 1: Correspondence and Memorandums Subseries 1 of Series 5 contains correspondence and memorandums dealing with education issues concerning American Indians and reservation schools. Many are letters Wellington wrote to various Indian agencies on the condition of their schools and farms while he was supervisor of education, livestock and dairy in the Bureau of Indian Affairs.	1943-1971
Box/Folder
6/1		December 1943-January, 1944
6/2		February- April, 1944
6/3		May-June, 1944
6/4		July 7-18, 1944
6/5*		July 22-31, 1944
6/6		August, 1944
6/7		October-December, 1944
6/8		January, 1945
6/9		February, 1945
6/10		March, 1945
6/11		April, 1945
6/12		May 3-20, 1945
6/13		May, 21-30, 1945
6/14		June, 1945
6/15		July, 1945
6/16		August-September, 1945
6/17		October, 1945
6/18		November, 1945
6/19		December, 1945
6/20*		January, 1946
6/21		February, 1946
6/22		March 1-13, 1946
6/23		March 15-28, 1946
6/24		April, 1946
6/25		May 1-14, 1946
6/26		May 15-27, 1946
6/27		June, 1946
6/28		July, 1946
6/29		August 2-14, 1946
6/30*		August 15-27, 1946
6/31		September-October, 1946
6/32		November 1946-January 1947
6/33		1965; 1969
6/34		1970-1971
6/35	Memorandums	1952-1953; 1956
6/36	Memorandums	1966-1971
	Subseries 2: Speeches and Reports Subseries 2 of Series 5 contains speeches and reports concerning American Indian education and schools.	1955-1970
Box/Folder
6/37		1955; 1959
6/38		1967
6/39		1968
6/40		1970-1971
6/41		undated
	Subseries 3: Subject Files Wellington collected many subject files on issues relating to education. Subseries 3 of Series 5 contains files on teaching American Indians, the Wahpeton Indian School, approaches to American Indian education, educational newsletters and pamphlets, boarding schools, educational philosophy, curriculum development, and teacher orientation workshops.	1952-1971
Box/Folder
6/42	Application for Federal Assistance for the Education of Children from Low-Income Families	1968
6/43	American Indian Education
6/44	American Indians in the Classroom
7/1	Bibliographies American Indians
7/2	Bibliographies Teaching Materials
7/3	Boarding Schools
7/4	Boarding Schools for American Indian Youth	1970
7/5	Boarding Schools, Effects on Indian Children Culturally and Socially
7/6	Book of American Indian Student Writing
7/7	Clippings	1952-1954; 1969
7/8	Clippings	1970-1971
7/9	Education Dialogue	1968-1969
7/10	Education Dialogue	1970-1971
7/11	Education Leadership
7/12	Index for General Manual for the Indian School Service	1941
7/13	Folklore, Legends, Poetry
7/14	Michigan Education System
7/15	New Approach to Indian Education
7/16	Newsletters	1956-1971
7/17	Pamphlets	1952-1965
7/18	Philosophy of Special Education	1971
7/19	Public School Guidelines
7/20	Report on Federal Funds for Indian Children in Public School Districts
7/21	Staff
7/22	Study of Effectiveness of Indian Education
7/23	Suggestions for Social Studies Curriculum
7/24	Supervisor of Indian Education
7/25	Supervisor of Indian Education, Papers and Statements	1948-1952; 1968
7/26	Testimony before Subcommittee on Indian Education	1969
7/27	Wahpeton School
7/28	Wahpeton School, Correspondence	1967
7/29	Wahpeton School, Teaching Objectives and Goals
7/30	Status Report, Wahpeton Indian School	1969
7/31	Wahpeton School 50th Anniversary
7/32	Turtle Mountain Chippewa Indians Teacher Resource Unit
7/33	United Tribes Education Center
7/34	Education Workshop	1958; 1970
7/35	Guidance Workshop	1959
7/36	Teacher Orientation Workshop	1966; 1968
7/37	Teacher Orientation Workshop	1969
7/38	Teacher Orientation Workshop Handouts

Series 6: Government-Indian Relations, 1778-1971Return to Top

Series 6 contains papers dealing with the relationship between the government and American Indians. Included are reports from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior during the late 1800s, treaties with various tribes, and circulars, memorandums, and correspondence regarding legal relations.

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
8/1	Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior, Blackfeet Agency	1855-1859
8/2		1860-1864
8/3		1865
8/4		1867-1868
8/5		1869-1872
8/6		1873-1877
8/7		1878-1881
8/8		1882-1886
8/9		1887-1890
8/10		1891-1894
8/11		1895-1897
8/12		1898-1900
8/13		1901-1906
8/14	Circulars and Memorandums	1950
8/15	Circulars and Memorandums	1951
8/16	Circulars and Memorandums	January, 1952; March, 1952
8/17	Circulars and Memorandums	April, 1952; November, 1952
8/18	Circulars and Memorandums	March-April, 1959
8/19	Circulars and Memorandums	May, 1959
8/20	Circulars and Memorandums	1960
8/21	Correspondence	1950
8/22	Correspondence	January-May, 1951
8/23	Correspondence	June 11, 1951
8/24	Correspondence	June 11-21, 1951
8/25	Correspondence	July-November, 1951
8/26	Correspondence	January-April, 1952
8/27	Correspondence	June-December, 1952
8/28	Correspondence	1953
8/29	Correspondence	1965-1966
8/30	American Indian Claims and Charters
8/31	American Indian Claims
8/32	American Indian Claims	1954
8/33	American Indian Claims	1964
8/34	Federal Government and the American Indian
8/35	Federal Government and the American Indian, Congressional Questionnaire on Administrative Practice	1969
8/36	Federal Government and the American Indian, Laws and Legislation
8/37	Federal Government and the American Indian, Richard Nixon
8/38	Federal Government and the American Indian, Clippings
8/39	State Government, Reports	1950
8/40	State Government and the American Indian
8/41	Tribal Government
8/42	Tribal Attorney, Felix S. Cohen
8/43	Tribal Council Conference, Minutes	1956
9/1	Treaties and Agreements, Comment from J. W. "Duke" Wellington
9/2	Treaties and Agreements, Delawares	1778
9/3	Treaties and Agreements, Sioux	1816; 1825; 1851
9/4	Treaties and Agreements, Sioux, Hunkpapa Band; Yanktonai Band; Upper Yanktonai Band Treaties and Agreements, Sioux, Hunkpapa Band, 1865; Yanktonai Band, 1865; Upper Yanktonai Band, 1865	1865; 1865; 1865
9/5	Treaties and Agreements, Blackfeet	1855
9/6	Treaties and Agreements, Fort Berthold	1866
9/7	Treaties and Agreements, Sioux Nation of Indians	1868
9/8	Treaties and Agreements, Crows	1868
9/9	Treaties and Agreements, Sisseton and Wahpeton Band of Sioux Indians; Wahpeton Indian School Treaties and Agreements, Sisseton and Wahpeton Band of Sioux Indians, 1872; Wahpeton Indian School, 1904-1913	1872; 1904-1913
9/10	Reports and Legal Papers	1949-1951
9/11	Reports and Legal Papers	February, 1952
9/12	Reports and Legal Papers	August 1952-1953
9/13	Reports and Legal Papers	1971

Series 7: Subject Files, 1895-1974Return to Top

Series 7 contains subject files Wellington collected on various issues dealing with American Indians and the role of the superintendent. Most of the series contains information on three of the reservations Wellington work at including Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy in Montana and Standing Rock in South Dakota. He also collected material on American Indian issues such as civil rights, culture and heritage, employment, lands, religion and legends, welfare, self-rule, unemployment, and health as well as collecting subject files on various tribes like the Apache, Blackfeet, Sioux, and Shoshone. He also collected general clippings and material on policies and information regarding American Indians. He wrote short narratives on several of these topics, giving his perspective on the issues.

Container(s)	Description	Dates
	Subseries 1: General Wellington collected many general subject files on various issues concerning American Indians. Subseries 1 of Series 7 contains general histories and reports he collected as well as miscellaneous papers. Many of these subject files contain narratives by Wellington explaining the material as well as giving his opinion and viewpoint on the issues.
Box/Folder
8/14	American Indian Festival	1968
8/15	The Chief Clerk	1948-1952
8/16	The Chief Clerk	1953
8/17	The Chief Clerk	1954-1955
8/18	Comments on the Press, J. W. "Duke" Wellington
8/19	Commissioner's Policy Statement	1957
8/20	Delegation of Authority	1954
8/21	Department of the Interior, Manuals and Handbooks
8/22	Department of the Interior, Official Seal
8/23	Drought and Livestock
8/24	Famous Last Words (Memo from J. Milton McKee, Consultant)	1960
8/25	Field Personnel Answers to Question from Indian Service Organization	1953
8/26	General Bulletins and Releases	1968-1971
8/27	General Pamphlets
8/28	General Reports and Histories	1929
8/29	General Reports and Histories	1953
8/30	General Reports and Histories	1956; 1971
8/31	General Reports and Histories	undated
8/32	Governing Bodies of Federally Recognized Indian Groups
8/33	Indian Liquor Law
8/34	The Indian Side of Environmental Education
8/35	Incoming mail brings many weird messages
8/36	Investigation of Superintendent	1950
8/37	Dr. S. L. Lee Collection	1939
8/38	Petitions by Jesse J. Graybear	1955
8/39	Prominent American Indians
8/40	Questions about Indian Problems
8/41	A Response in Sioux to an Invitation
8/42	Submarginal Land	1952
8/43	Tribal Resolutions No. 30-53, Correspondence	1953
8/44	Withdrawl Program	1952
8/45	Withdrawl Program, Memorandums	1952-1953
	Subseries 2: Fort Belknap Wellington's first position as superintendent was at the Fort Belknap Consolidated Agency with headquarters in Harlem, Montana. Wellington oversaw both the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy Subagency. Subseries 2 of Series 7 contains subject files Wellington collected on Fort Belknap. Material on Rocky Boy are found in Subseries 3. Subject files on Fort Belknap include reports and programs regarding Fort Belknap, tribal histories and legends, and minutes from tribal and community council meetings.	1895-1954
Box/Folder
10/1	Proceedings of Councils of the Commissioners Appointed to Negotiate with the Fort Belknap Indians	1895
10/2	Issue Journal	1895
10/3	Pass or Permission Form Book	1923-1924
10/4	Assiniboine Rights on Fort Belknap Reservation	1913-1951
10/5	Acts and Resolutions regarding Fort Belknap
10/6	Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior, Fort Belknap	1870-1875
10/7	Annual Report of the Commissioner . . .	1876-1881
10/8	Annual Report of the Commissioner . . .	1882-1884
10/9	Annual Report of the Commissioner . . .	1885-1887
10/10	Annual Report of the Commissioner . . .	1888-1890
10/11	Annual Report of the Commissioner . . .	1891-1893
10/12	Annual Report of the Commissioner . . .	1894-1896
10/13	Annual Report of the Commissioner . . .	1897-1899
10/14	Annual Report of the Commissioner . . .	1900-1906
10/15	Ten Year Program
10/16	Reservation Wide Program	1941
10/17	Personnel Organization and Procedure for Reservation Program
10/18	Fort Belknap Community Rehabilitation Program	1942
10/19	Statistical Data by J. W. "Duke" Wellington
10/20	Superintendent's Duties: Fort Belknap, Classification Survey Questionnaire	1948
10/21	Brief on Fort Belknap Reservation
10/223	Fort Belknap Inspection report	1952
10/23	Report on Reservation	curca 1952
10/24	Reports	1947-1953
10/25	Fort Belknap
10/26	Fort Belknap, Calendar	1977
10/27	Correspondence and Memos	1951-1954
10/28	Department of the Interior Centennial
10/29	Dourine Infected Horses
10/30*	Fort Belknap maps
10/31	Gros Ventre, notes by Paul Plummage
10/32	Paul Plummage, Fort Belknap Superintendents, Handwritten
10/33	Paul Plummage, Fort Belknap Superintendents, Typed transcript
10/34	Sun Dance, Permission to hold ceremony	1931
10/35	Termination
10/36	Fort Belknap Consolidated Agency	1947-1949
10/37	Fort Belknap Consolidated Agency, Statistical Data Indian Service Agency	1948
10/38	Fort Belknap Consolidated Agency, Superintendent's Report
10/39	Minerva Allen, Assiniboine
10/40	Assiniboine Historical Notation
10/41	"Big Medicine of the Gros Ventres" by John Wesley Noble
10/42	Bull Lodge's Life as told by his daughter, Garter Snake Woman
10/43	Chief Medicine Pipe or Feathered Pipe
10/44	Chief Medicine Pipe (Feathered Pipe) by Garter Snake Woman
10/45	How the Gros Ventre got the Horse as told by The Boy	1942
11/1	Iron Hand Woman
11/2	Half Bear Hande Wahanksica, Kills his First Enemy by Walking Chief
11/3	History of the Assiniboine by Speak Thunder
11/4	History of the Assiniboine by Medicine Robe
11/5	The Life and Legends of Bull Lodge, Gros Ventre Medicine Man, Part I
11/6	The Life and Legends of Bull Lodge, Gros Ventre Medicine Man, Part II
11/7	The Life and Legends of Bull Lodge, Gros Ventre Medicine Man, Part III
11/8	The Life and Legends of Bull Lodge, Gros Ventre Medicine Man, Part IV
11/9	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	March 16, 1950
11/10	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	August 7, 1950
11/11	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	August 22, 1950
11/12	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	December 1950
11/13	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	January 8, 1951
11/14	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	February 1951
11/15	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	April 6-7, 1951
11/16	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	April 8-9, 1951
11/17	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	May 1951
11/18	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	June 1951
11/19	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	July 1951
11/20	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	October 1951
11/21	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	November-December 1951
11/22	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	January 1952
11/23	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	February 4, 1952
11/24	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	March 31, 1952
11/25	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	June 1952
11/26	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	August 1952
11/27	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	October 1952; February 1953
11/28	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	March 1953
11/29	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	April-June 1953
11/30	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	July 1953
11/31	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	August 1953
11/32	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	September-October 1953
11/33	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	November-December 1953
11/34	Tribal and Community Council Meeting, Minutes	February-July 1954
	Subseries 3: Rocky Boy As a subagency of the Fort Belknap Consolidated Agency, some of the information on Rocky Boy can also be found in Subseries 3. Subject files in Subseries 3 of Series 7 contains information of plans for creating the Rocky Boy reservation and the history of the agency as well as minutes from various council meetings.	1947-1954
Box/Folder
12/1	Plans for preparing a reservation
12/2	Rocky Boy Sub-Agency	1948; 1953
12/3	Questionnaire on tribal organization	1953
12/4	Brief on the Rocky Boy Reservation
12/5	Comments and Suggestions on the Development of a Program
12/6	History of the Rocky Boy Reservation
12/7	Reservation Description
12/8	Reservation, Listing of Tasks	1952
12/9	Reservation Program
12/10	Summary of Reservation Accomplishments	1952
12/11	Business Committee Minutes	1947
12/12	Conditions at Rocky Boy
12/13	Correspondence	1947; 1954
12/14*	Maps and Clippings
12/15	Memorandum of Information regarding proposed legislation
12/16	Missouri Historical Society Bulletin	1952
12/17	Missouri River Basin Project	1949
12/18	Petition and hearing to remove teachers at Parker and Haystack Schools	1948
12/19	Proposal by Planning Board to the Business Committee
12/20	Rocky Boy Tribal Council Minutes	1946-1953
12/21	A Special Meeting of the Rocky Boy Sun Dance Committee	1949
12/22	Statistical Data by J. W. "Duke" Wellington
12/23	The Lost Tribe
	Subseries 4: Standing Rock After spending seven years as superintendent at Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy in Montana, Wellington transferred to Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota. Wellington was superintendent at Standing Rock until 1956 when he suffered a heart attack. Subject files in Subseries 4 of Series 7 contains papers from the Aberdeen Area Office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs which included Standing Rock, information on economic and social conditions on the reservation, histories and reports, fiscal problems and conditions at the Standing Rock agency jail.	1913-1957
Box/Folder
13/1	Aberdeen Area Office, Bulletins	1956-1957
13/2	Aberdeen Area Office, Employee's Newsletter	1966
13/3	Aberdeen Area Office, General Staff Meeting Minutes	1956; 1964
13/4	Aberdeen Area Office, General Staff Meeting Minutes	1965-1967
13/5	Aberdeen Area Office, General Staff Meeting Minutes	1969-1970
13/6	Aberdeen Area Office, Statistical Data	1971
13/7	Aberdeen Area Office, Weekly Report of Highlight Activities	1966
13/8	Aberdeen Area Office, Weekly Report of Highlight Activities	1967
13/9	Aberdeen Area Office, Weekly Report of Highlight Activities	1968
13/10	Aberdeen Area Office, Weekly Report of Highlight Activities	January-March 1969
13/11	Aberdeen Area Office, Weekly Report of Highlight Activities	April-June 1969
13/12	Aberdeen Area Office, Weekly Report of Highlight Activities	July-September 1969
13/13	Aberdeen Area Office, Weekly Report of Highlight Activities	October-December 1969
13/14	Aberdeen Area Office, Weekly Report of Highlight Activities	January-March 1970
13/15	Aberdeen Area Office, Weekly Report of Highlight Activities	April-June 1970
13/16	Aberdeen Area Office, Weekly Report of Highlight Activities	July-September 1970
13/17	Aberdeen Area Office, Weekly Report of Highlight Activities	October-December 1970
13/18	Aberdeen Area Office, Weekly Report of Highlight Activities	January-March 1971
13/19	Aberdeen Area Office, Weekly Report of Highlight Activities	April-June 1971
13/20	Aberdeen Area Office, Weekly Report of Highlight Activities	July-September 1971
13/21	Aberdeen Area Office, Weekly Report of Highlight Activities	October 1971-January 1972
13/22	Addresses and Speeches
13/23	Approved Permanent Positions	1955
13/24	Clippings
13/25	Condition of Agency Jail	1954-1955
13/26	Economic and Social Conditions
13/27	Evaluation of Livestock Phase of Standing Rock Rehabilitation	1967
13/28	Fiscal Problems	1954-1956
13/29	Histories and Reports
13/30	Legislative Papers
13/31	Meeting with Commissioner Emmons	1954
13/32	Memorandums	1954-1955
13/33	Minutes of Tribal Group Conference	July 1956
13/34	Plan of Operation of the Land Purchase and Adjustment Enterprise
13/35	Standing Rock Fair and Rodeo Program	1956
13/36	Standing Rock Reservation	1913
13/37	Statistical and Narrative Reports	circa 1956
13/38	Tribal Business Council Minutes
	Subseries 5: Tribes In addition to the tribes Wellington worked with as superintendent of the Fort Belknap, Rocky Boy and Standing Rock reservations, he also tried to collect information on various American Indian tribes across the United States. Subseries 5 of Series 7 contains material on tribes such as the Apache, Cherokee, Hopi, Sioux, and Blackfeet. He also collected regional material on Indian groups.	1932-1970
Box/Folder
14/1	Apache
14/2	Blackfeet
14/3	Blackfeet, Letters from Billing Area Office	1950
14/4	Cherokee
14/5	Hopi
14/6	Navajo
14/7	Sioux, Clippings and Pamphlets
14/8	Sioux, Correspondence	1954; 1969; 1971
14/9	Sioux, Flow of Funds Study for Yankton Sioux Reservation
14/10	Sioux, History of the Sioux
14/11	Sioux, Reservations Cheyenne River, Crow Creek, Fort Berthod
14/12	Sioux, Reservations Lake Traverse, Lower Brule, Pine Ridge, Rosebud
14/13	Sioux, Reservations Standing Rock, Turtle Mountain, Yankton
14/14	Sioux, The Question of the Indian Dance, Rosebud Reservation	1932
14/15	Seminole
14/16	Shoshone
14/17	Winnebago
14/18	Regional, Canada and Alaska
14/19	Proposal by Planning Board to the Business Committee	1958
14/20	Regional, The Montana and Wyoming Indian	1961
14/21	Regional, North Dakota
14/22	Regional, Indian Tribes of North America
14/23	Regional, Indian Materials Regional Collection, Bibliography, Brainerd, Minnesota	1970
	Subseries 6: American Indian Issues and Topics Subseries 6 of Series 7 contains subject files on American Indian issues and topics such as civil rights, culture and heritage, economic development, health, lands, religion, legends, self-rule, and welfare.
Box/Folder
14/24	Agricultural Extension Service	1938
14/25	Agricultural Extension Service	1954; 1961
14/26	Arts and Crafts
14/27	Battle of Little Big Horn
14/28	Biography Robert L. Bennett, Clippings	1965-1969
14/29	Biography Benjamin Reifel	1956; 1966
14/30	Civil Rights, Correspondence and Memorandums	1954-1970
14/31	Civil Rights, State v. Pepion et al.	1951
14/32	Civil Rights, "Toward Indian American Communities Without Reservations"	1971
14/33	Civil Rights, Patrick Gourneau	1959
14/34	Civil Rights, clippings	1955-1970; undated
14/35	Community Action	1967
14/36	Competency, Legislation	1949; 1968
14/37	Culture and Heritage
14/38	Culture and Heritage, Articles	1968-1973
14/39	Culture and Heritage, Newspaper clippings
15/1	Economic Development, Economic Opportunities for Indians on Northern Great Plains Reservations	1959
15/2	Economic Development, National Council on Indian Opportunity Report	1970
15/3	Economic Development, Memorandums and Clippings	1966-1971
15/4	Employment
15/5	Health, Memos and Clippings	1951-1970
15/6	Health, Report of the Indian Health Service Task Force on Alcoholism	1969
15/7	Health, Survey of Medical Care Among Upper Midwest Indians	1948
15/8	"History Makers of Montana and Wyoming" Billings Gazette	May 26, 1962
15/9	Job Corps
15/10	Lands
15/11	Lands, Allotment of Land
15/12	Lands, Allotment or Estate Record: Big White Horse
15/13	Lands, Allotment or Estate Record: Julia High Eagle
15/14	Lands, American Indians Area Land Maps
15/15	Lands, BIA, Sale of Indian Lands	1956
15/16	Lands, Clippings	1951-1956; 1961
15/17	Lands, House of Representatives, Report of Proceedings, Indian Affairs	1955
15/18	Lands, Indian Affairs
15/19	Lands, Indian Lands
15/20	Lands, Land Operations Handbook	1970
15/21	Lands, Lucien Cullen Blackfeet Reservation	1953
15/22	Lands, Lucien Cullen Blackfeet Reservation	April 1954
15/23	Lands, Lucien Cullen Blackfeet Reservation	May 1954
15/24	Lands, Memorandum on Indian Rehabilitation Funds	1949
15/25	Lands, Notices and Documents	1951-1954; undated
15/26	Lands, Range Unit Schedule, #2-5, 8
15/27	Lands, Range Unit Schedule, #9-13, 15
15/28	Lands, Range Unit Schedule, #18, 20, 22, 24, 28, 30, 41, 52, 103, 110, 112
15/29	Lands, Reports and Memos	1941-1971
15/30	Lands, Schedule of Transfers	1948
16/1	Law and Order, Correspondence and Memos	1952-1954
16/2	Law and Order, Correspondence and Memos	1966-1971
16/3	Law and Order, Circular	1948
16/4	Law and Order, Clippings
16/5	Military Service, World War II
16/6	Religion and Legends
16/7	Religion and Legends, prayers and poems
16/8	Religion and Legends, poetry, songs, and rituals
16/9	Religion and Legends, Sun Dance and Ghost Dance
16/10	Religion and Legends, Peyote
16/11	Religion and Legends, Clippings
16/12	Self-Rule
16/13	Self-Rule, Indian Preference to Conduct Self-Government
16/14	Survey of Conditions of the Indians in the US, 72nd Congress, Part 31, Montana	1934
16/15	Survey of Indian Conditions in the US, Crow Indian Reservation	1933
16/16	Termination
16/17	Unemployment
16/18	Water and Irrigation
16/19	Welfare and Poverty, Clippings
16/20	Welfare and Poverty, Correspondence and Memos	1949-1971
16/21	Welfare and Poverty, Reports	1956; 1964; 1971
16/22	Welfare and Poverty, Rise in Assistance	1949-1953
	Subseries 7: Clippings Subseries 7 of Series 7 contains clippings Wellington collected on various American Indian issues. Most are newspaper clippings. The newspaper scrapbook concentrates mainly on Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy, although also contains articles on American Indian issues and information on the Bureau of Indian Affairs.	1947-1974
Box/Folder
17/1	American Indian Movement and BIA
17/2	Crow and Piegan Remembrances of 25 Years Ago and the Indian Fight on Roberts Creek	1884
17/3	General Clippings
17/4	General Clippings	1949-1959
17/5	General Clippings	1961-1969
17/6	General Clippings	1970-1971
17/7	General Clippings	1974
17/8	General Clippings	undated
17/9	Newspaper Scrapbook	1947-1948
17/10	Newspaper Scrapbook	January-May, 1949
17/11	Newspaper Scrapbook	June-August, 1949
17/12	Newspaper Scrapbook	September-December, 1949
17/13	Political Cartoon Clippings

Series 8: Slide Narratives by J. W. "Duke" Wellington and PhotographsReturn to Top

As a superintendent, Wellington was able to witness several American Indian ceremonies and activities. Series 8 contains photographs of various celebrations at the Rocky Boy and Fort Belknap reservations including the Fool Dance, Sun Dance, and the opening of the Feathered Pipe Bundle. Wellington originally donated several slide sets of these ceremonies along with narratives to Special Collections. He wanted a copy made for himself as well as the Smithsonian. However, he was unhappy with the lack of display facilities and the appraisal price for the slides and therefore asked that all slide sets be returned to him, which the library staff did. What remains in the collection are the typed narratives Wellington wrote, intended to accompany the slide sets which are found in folders 14-22 of box 17. Wellington also wrote narratives on some of the non-ceremony photographs and are found in folder 23 in box 17. Folders that contain photographs with these narratives have been marked with a double asterisk (**). Also included in the photographs are pictures of Wellington and his father's ranch in Harlotown. Photographs of tribal herds, members of tribal councils, and American Indians are in series 8 as well. Several photographs of the 1952 flood at Fort Belknap, road damage at Rocky Boy and several accidental deaths at both reservations are also included in the series. In addition, the series contains three D. F. Barry prints. Paintings and drawing by American Indian artists George Shields of the Fort Belknap reservation and Andrew Standing Soldier, a Pine Ridge Sioux from North Dakota are also included. This grouping includes an audiocassette interview conducted by Merrill G. Burlingame with Wellington regarding this collection of his papers.

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
17/14	The Assiniboine Fool Dance
17/15	The Assiniboine Sun Dance, Fort Belknap Reservation
17/16	The Assiniboine Sun Dance and the Ceremonial Songs of First Chief	1952
17/17	Flood of the Milk River, Fort Belknap Reservation	1952
17/18	Grass Dance of the Assiniboine and Gros Ventre Tribes
17/19	Gros Ventre Flat Pipe
17/20	Opening of the Gros Ventre Feathered Pipe Bundle
17/21	Opening of the Gros Ventre Sacred Flat Bundle
17/22	Red Whip, Gros Ventre Warrior
17/23	Notes from J. W. "Duke" Wellington about photographs
17/24	Audiocassette interview with Merrill G. Burlingame	1974
18/1	Photographs #1-5 (J. W. "Duke" Wellington)
	#1. Roping calves, tribal herd	1947
	#2. Riding Morgan Stallion
	#3. Billings Area Office, BIA	1951
	#4. Billings Area Office Superintendents	1954
	#5. Wellington's retirement	1972
18/2	Photographs #6-12 (Wellington Ranch)**
	#6. LeClaire Wellington
	#7-8. Wellington's old Ford
	#9-11. Cattle
	#12. Lamb
18/3	Photographs #13-22 (Wellington Ranch)**
	#13-22. Sheep crushed in a shed cave-in	May 1937
18/4	Photographs #23-51 (Fort Belknap)**
	#23-24. Fort Belknap Consolidated Agency Staff	1948
	#25-27. Fort Belknap Tribal Council	1952
	#28-33. Fort Belknap Tribal Council no prints (negatives only)
	#34-37. Fort Belknap Tribal Council
	#38-45. Fort Belknap Tribal Council no prints (negatives only)
	#46-47. Fort Belknap Tribal Council
	#48-51. Fort Belknap Tribal Council no prints (negatives only)
18/5	Photographs #52-55 (Fort Belknap)**
	#52. The Boy	1903
	#53-54. The Boy	1937
	#55. (L-R) Bracelet, The Boy, Thick
18/6	Photographs #56-76 (Fort Belknap Flat Pipe Bundle, 1951)
	#56. Raising banner of St. Paul's Mission, Hays, MT
	#57. Banner of St. Paul's Catholic Mission
	#58. The Boy standing before the unopened flat pipe bundle
	#59. The Boy holding turtle shell
	#60. The Boy and Steve Bradley
	#61. Steve Bradley holding hides of 2 unborn buffalo calves
	#62. Altar for ceremony
	#63-64. Altar
	#65-66. Flat Pipe Bundle on ceremonial tripod near The Boy's cabin at Hays, MT
	#67. Flat Pipe Bundle
	#68-74. The Flat Pipe
	#75. The Boy and members of Flat Pipe ceremony no print (negative only)
	#76. The Boy's cabin, Hays, MT
18/7	Photographs #77-84 (Fort Belknap Fool Dance, Fort Belknap Reservation, July 1906)
	#77. Assiniboine Fool Dance Fool Dancers blowing whistle	1906
	#78. Chief of Fool Dancers and his warrior
	#79. Fool Dance warrior going out to attack dead steer
	#80. Fool Dance warrior discharging their arrows and spear at the sleeping buffalo
	#81. Fool Dancers jubilant over having killed the sleeping buffalo
	#82. Outsiders do the butchering as the Fools gloat over the choice cuts
	#83. Piece of raw liver in air tossed by Chief of Fools
	#84. Fool Dancer resting with mask on top of head
18/8	Photographs #85-92 (Fort Belknap Fool Dance, circa 1948)
	#85-90. Fool Dancers gather around steer
	#91-92. Fool Dancers singing
18/9	Photographs #93-112 (Fort Belknap Winter of 1949/50)**
	#93-97. Cattle
	#98. Loading cattle hides
	#99. Loading hides no print (negative only)
	#100-102. Plowing the road
	#103. Plowing the road
	#104-108. Plowing the road no prints, (negatives only)
	#109-111. Plowing the road
	#112. The plowed road
18/10	Photographs #113-123 (Fort Belknap Flood of 1952)**
	#113-117. Boats
	#118-123. Haystacks
18/11	Photographs #124-139 (Fort Belknap Flood of 1952)
	#124-139. Flooded homes
18/12	Photographs #140-156 (Fort Belknap Flood of 1952)
	#140-156. Aerial view of flooded homes
18/13	Photographs #157-175 (Fort Belknap Flood of 1952)
	#157-162. Aerial view of washed out roads
	#163-165. Washed out roads
	#166-175. Working on repairing washed out roads
18/14	Photographs #176-185 (Fort Belknap Tribal Herd, 1948)
	#176-179. Branding
	#180. Branding
	#181. Branding no print (negative only)
	#182-185. Castrating
18/15	Photographs #186-194 (Fort Belknap Tribal Herd, 1948)
	#186. Herd
	#187-188. Corralling the herd
	#189-193. Roping and handling calves
	#194. Three boys watching the roping
18/16	Photographs #195-209 (Fort Belknap Results of Drunken Driving, circa 1948)**
	#195. Looking south from top of hill toward car
	#196. Tread of right wheel
	#197. Bottom of hill looking north
	#198. Handkerchief on stick indicating point car jumped off embarkment
	#199. Measuring point of first impact to resting point of car
	#200. Wrecked car
	#201. Rear view of wrecked car
	#202. View of wreck from top of bridge
	#203. Charred remains of body
	#204. Remains of body of James Plaited Hair through windshield
	#205. View of the wreck
	#206. Cutting top off of car to free body
	#207. Remains of James Plaited Hair after roof taken off
	#208. Removing body of James Plaited Hair from wreck
	#209. Remains of body after removed from wreck
18/17	Photographs #210-217 (Rocky Boy)**
	#210. Fort Assiniboine
	#211-212. Range management
	#213. Tracks leading to the river death of a beaver hunter (Charlie DuBois)
	#214-216. Corpse frozen in hole he dug to reach beaver den
	#217. Corpse after it had been removed from hole
18/18	Photographs #218-224 (Rocky Boy Death in a burned house after a drinking party)**
	#218-221. Bodies of Charles Bacon and Pat Smith
	#222-223. Bodies of Charles Bacon and Pat Smith
	#224. Site of house
18/19	Photographs #225-236 (Rocky Boy Carbon Monoxide Poisoning and Stabbing Victim)**
	#225-226. Accident scene of carbon monoxide poisoning
	#227-230. Car with two corpses
	#231-232. Stabbing suspect
	#233-234. Stabbing victim, Joe Ladeau
	#235-236. Crime scene of stabbing
18/20	Photographs #237-249 (Rocky Boy)
	#237-238. Road damage along Sandy Creek Road	1953
	#239-242. Road damage along Beaver Creek Road	1953
	#243-248. Road damage along Sandy and Beaver Creek Roads	1953
	#249. Teepee at Sun Dance
18/21	Photographs #250-257 (Crow Reservation)**
	#250-252. Horse herd at roundup	1936
	#253-254. Camp with cattle in distance at roundup	1936
	#255-256. Bed wagon at roundup	1936
	#257. Buffalo herd	1942
18/22	Photographs #258-260 (D. F. Barry prints)
	#258. Steps, American Indian
	#259. American Indian travois, Red River cart in background
	#260. Lieutenant Jerome and Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce
18/23	Photographs #261-273
	#261-262. Hildegard Thompson, Director of Indian Education, Washington D.C.
	#263. Sgt. Shaw, Tail Turret Gunner in World War II, US Air Corps group photo
	#264-265. Unidentified American Indian working with machinery
	#266. Three unidentified American Indian boys
	#267. Mrs. Clara L. Burch
	#268. Colin Taylor, age 17, from England
	#269-271. City Dump Apartments, Havre, MT
	#272. Interior of city dump apartment, Havre, MT
	#273. Unidentified woman and two children in city dump apartment, Havre, MT
18/24	Photographs #274-287
	#274-277. Group of Indian boys eating ice cream at Pipestone Indian School, MN	1944
	#278-281. Group of Indian girls eating ice cream at Pipestone Indian School, MN	1944
	#282. Waiting in line for ice cream, Pipestone Indian School, MN	1944
	#283-285. Just after getting ice cream, Pipestone Indian School, MN	1944
	#286. Wellington dishing up ice cream at Pipestone Indian School, MN	1944
	#287. Morgan Stallion	1940
18/25	Photographs #288-302
	#288-291. Farmland at Fort Apache Agency, Whiteriver, AZ	1946
	#292-294. Fenced corrals on farmland at Wahpeton Indian School, ND	1946
	#295-296. Pigs on farmland at Wahpeton Indian School, ND	1946
	#297-299. Buildings on farmland at Wahpeton Indian School, ND	1946
	#300-302. Farmland at Wahpeton Indian School, ND	1946
18/26	Negatives #2, 25-37
18/27	Negatives #38-45, 48-52, 54, 57-58, 75, 85
18/28	Negatives #86-92, 98-100
18/29	Negatives #102-110, 176-180
18/30	Negatives #181-184, 186, 188-192
18/31	Negatives #193-194, 218-221, 224
Oversize/1	#303. Vidal Stump, Rocky Boy Reservation, Photo by Kimal Hanson (Photographs)
Oversize/2	#304. Pearl Raining Bird, Rocky Boy Reservation, Photo by Kimal Hanson (Photographs)
Oversize/3	#305. Hazel Big Bow and Mary Rose Alexander, Rocky Boy Reservation, Photo by Kimal Hanson (Photographs)
Oversize/4	#306. Four Souls, Rocky Boy Reservation, Photo by Kimal Hanson (Photographs)
Oversize/5	#307. Big Knife and George Watson talking in sign language, Rocky Boy Reservation, Photo by Kimal Hanson (Photographs)
Oversize/6	#308. Big Knife, Rocky Boy Reservation, Photo by Kimal Hanson (Photographs)
Oversize/7	#309. Little Bear, Chief, Rocky Boy Reservation (Photographs)
Oversize/8	#310. Mountain scene by George Shields, Standing Rock Reservation (Paintings and Drawings)
Oversize/9	#311. Two Elk Fighting by George Shields, Standing Rock Reservation (Paintings and Drawings)
Oversize/10	#312. Portrait of Spotted Tail by Andrew Standing Soldier, Pine Ridge Sioux, South Dakota (Paintings and Drawings)
Oversize/11	#313. Portrait of Red Cloud by Andrew Standing Soldier, Pine Ridge Sioux, South Dakota (Paintings and Drawings)
Oversize/12	Maps Historical map of Standing Rock Reservation; Official map of Standing Rock Reservation, Map of Fort Belknap Reservation, 1940; Land Status Map of Rocky Boy Reservation; Historical maps of Indian reservations	1940

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Indian reservations-Montana
Indian reservations-North Dakota
Indians of North America-Education-North Dakota-Wahpeton
Indians of North America-Government policy
Ranchers-Montana-Harlowton

Corporate Names

Montana State University--Bozeman-Alumni and alumnae
United States-Bureau of Indian Affairs
United States-Bureau of Indian Affairs-Officials and employees
Wahpeton Indian School (N.D.)

Geographical Names

Fort Belknap Indian Reservation (Mont.)
Rocky Boy's Reservation (Mont.)
Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.)

Other Creators

Personal Names
- Wellington, LeClaire (creator)

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