American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions North American Indian missions records,
Letters and other documents originating in the American Board's missions to North American Indians, including the Cherokee, Choctaw, Sioux, Dakota, Mackinaw, Maumee and other tribes.
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| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Electronic finding aid available |
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| Summary: | Letters and other documents originating in the American Board's missions to North American Indians, including the Cherokee, Choctaw, Sioux, Dakota, Mackinaw, Maumee and other tribes. |
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| Physical Description: | 40.5 linear feet (83 boxes) Research Publications Ltd. (now Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of the Gale Group) filmed a considerable part of the ABCFM collection in the early 1980s, their target being the correspondence to and from the field before 1919. For the contents of the 858 rolls of film, download the reel listing, or see the printed edition Papers of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions: Guide to the microfilm collection (1994), shelved in the Houghton Reading Room. A set of the microfilm is in Lamont Library, call number Film A467 (see HOLLIS record 1113915 ). Some papers in this series have also been microfilmed by historical societies in the states where the ABCFM Indian missions operated. |
| Finding Aid: | Electronic finding aid available Unpublished index to missionary names is also available in the Houghton Reading Room. |