Letter Relaying Plan to Recruit from Colorado and New Mexico Tribes

Date
March 16, 1880

Letter from Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. E. Trowbridge to Rev. Sheldon Jackson informing him that plans are in motion to for Lt. Brown to travel West and secure children from the Ute, Navajo, and Pueblo Tribes. Trowbridge was responding to a recommendation from Jackson dated March 1 to recruit from the Southwest Tribes.

 

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Repository
National Archives and Records Administration
Location
RG75, Entry 96, Medical and Educational, Volume 6A, page 494
Hand-written letter on onion-skin paper