Collection

Indigenous Peoples

Date [1735]-1980

Dimensions32.4 cm of textual records. - 4 audio discs

ClassificationCommunication Objects - Documentary Objects - Other Documents

Object NumberC303

DivisionArchives - Textual Archives

CollectionMcCord

Administrative History

Many of the documents in this collection were originally collected by M. David Ross McCord.

Scope and Content

This collection contains documents relating to various Indigenous peoples of North America, including material used by missionaries who worked with them.

It contains sound recordings, Micmac and Cree prayer books, a draft of a land grant treaty, a certificate, a diary, a manuscript book containing hymns in Algonquin, etc. There is also a manual for missionaries and transcriptions of parts of the Bible.

Several of the documents are written in indigenous languages.

Status

Not on view

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