subj16. Holdings Related to Native Americans

Content Description

Notes to Our Friends was an occasional publication of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries. The records include information on the UCBHM's Puerto Rican, Appalachian, and Native American ministries and consists of research notes, correspondence, and collected printed items.

Scope and Contents This 153-page scrapbook is devoted primarily to the career and professional interests of Joseph Edwin Roy. Joseph Roy served as chairman of the World's Congress on Africa at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and also as Western District Secretary for the American Missionary Association, and the scrapbook documents his career in these two capacities. Materials reflecting Joseph Roy's role as chairman of the 1893 World's Congress on Africa consist entirely of newspaper...

Scope and Contents The papers of Edward Parmelee Smith document his family, as well as his service to the U.S. Christian Commission, the American Missionary Association, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The papers are comprised almost entirely of correspondence and photographs, with a small amount of news clippings, Smith's log book for the U.S. Christian Commission, and additional documents present. The majority of the correspondence, which dates from 1818 to 1876, relates to Smith's family and...

Scope and Contents The United Church Board for Homeland Ministries (UCBHM) was an autonomous but recognized instrumentality of the United Church of Christ (UCC) that functioned as the administrative body of the United Church of Christ's home missions and services (1962-2000). The UCBHM formed in 1962 by the union of the Board of Home Missions of the Congregational Christian Churches and the Board of National Missions of the Evangelical and Reformed Church and continued the corporations and the work of...

Scope and Contents The Raymond G. von Tobel papers relate to von Tobel's career as a teacher and school administrator in Georgia and North Dakota with the American Missionary Association. The collection includes correspondence, speeches, writings, photographs, newspaper clippings, programs, and school publications. The majority of the collection pertains to von Tobel's work at Ballard Normal School in Macon, Georgia. Additional material documents his time in North Dakota teaching among the Sioux people and...