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Douglas D. Martin Collection
#002
In 2001-2002, the University Library was the recipient of the Douglas D. Martin personal library of Native American and Western Americana materials. This collection comes to the University through the efforts of Dr. Martin’s wife, Jane Martin, who wished to see this collection housed where it would be valued and of benefit to students and researchers, and also through the efforts of Chancellor of the Oregon University System, Joe Cox, who was a friend and colleague of Dr. Martin. While most of the donation consisted of monographs that were added to the Library’s holdings, the collection also included manuscript materials described within this document.
Douglas Dale Martin (1943-2000) was a historian and teacher. His undergraduate and postgraduate education was at the University of Washington, Seattle. His teaching career began at the University of Washington, Seattle (1968-69) and continued at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (1969-70) and Towson State University, Towson, Maryland (1970-2000). . Martin was a long-time member of the Western History Association, and a recognized scholar of Native American/white relations who was widely published. Dr. Martin’s areas of specialty included the socio-cultural history of the United States, the history and literature of the American frontier, American environmental history, and Indian-White relations in American history.
Dr. Martin was engaged by the Department of Justice to prepare accounts of Indian reservation history and management practices in connection with cases brought by various tribes before the U.S. Court of Claims. His report regarding the Fort Peck, Montana reservation was completed in 1979. That regarding the Fort Berthold, ND reservation was completed in 1980.
2002
Guide to Collection Contents
Douglas D. Martin Collection #002
Box 1: Fort Peck Reservation, Montana -- Research materials compiled by Douglas D. Martin
File 1: Copies of various documents and Douglas D. Martin’s notes: Irrigation issues on the Fort Peck Reservation
Item 1: Operation and Maintenance, 1923
Item 2: Sales Report
Item 3: Irrigation Report, 1916
Item 4: 1941 Pictures (no photos)
Item 5: Frazer Wolf pt. Pumping Reports, 1945
Item 6: Irrigation, 1935-45
Item 7: Irrigation, 1909
Item 8: 1922 Project History
Item 9: Water Project Income, 1918-1922
Item 10: 1923 Report
Item 11: Big Porcupue Unit, 1930-1931
Item 12: 1936 Irrigation
Item 13: Rules and Regulations, 1921
Item 14: Irrigation, 1919
Item 15: Irrigation Way pt., 1905-1906
Item 16: Irrigation, 1916
Item 17: Irrigation, 1913
Item 18: Irrigation 1910
Item 19: Poplar Creek, 1884
Item 20: United States Indian Service Letter, on irrigation of Poplar Creek, 1892
Item 21: Sprole Cattle
Item 22: Sprole Report on Livestock
Item 23: Inspector Duncan Report
Item 24: United States Indian Service Letter, on cattle and goats, 1896
Item 25: Report on sending native children to school
Item 26: Conditions at Fort Peck reserve
Item 27: United States Indian Service Letter, on funds and building school and selling reservation land,1898
Item 28: Want Cattle not Irrigation
Item 29: Indian Affairs Letter from Big Foot, Medicine Bear, Change the Crow and Black Horn, requesting cattle not irrigation for their people, 1899
Item 30: Water Rights
Item 31: United States Indian Service Letter, on protecting irrigation ditch and water rights for the reservation, 1901
Item 32: Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, letter on building irrigation ditch on reservation, 1905
Item 33: Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, letter on employing an engineer to build a dam on Poplar Creek, 1893
Item 34: United States Indian Service Letter, request for additional funding for Poplar Creek ditch, 1894
Item 35: Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, letter on how the reservation people should be treated, divided and land to be sold, 1895
Item 36: Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, letter on expenditures of irrigation canal on Poplar Creek, 1895
Item 37: Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, letter on acquiring a wooden pipe for irrigation effort on Poplar Creek, 1896
Item 38: Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, letter on keeping Civil Engineer on payroll for another year, 1897
Item 39: Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, letter on mailing a map of proposed irrigation map for reservation, 1897
Item 40: Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, letter on selling reservation land as a way to secure funding for irrigation purposes, 1898
Item 41: Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, letter on denial of irrigation expenses and equipment costs, 1898
Item 42: Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, letter on paying Native people more for repairing Poplar Creek ditch, 1898
Item 43: Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, one letter on irrigation and reservoir/dam, second on strongly compelling reservation families to farm and also on building new irrigation ditches, 1900
Item 44: Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, letter acknowledging the receipt of railroad grading plows and road scrapers, 1904
Item 45: Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, letter on the request for additional funds for lumber, 1905
Item 46: Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, letter requesting funds for hiring a civil engineer, 1905
Item 47: Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, letter requesting hiring of civil engineer and also a request to as how these new ditches will be used, 1905
Item 48: Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, letter requesting additional irrigation expenditures, 1905
Item 49: Two Maps showing Irrigated and Irrigable Land at Fort Peck
Item 50: Acres Irrigated during April 1935
Item 51: Acres Irrigated during April 1936
Item 52: Acres Irrigated during April 1937
Item 53: Acres Irrigated during April 1944
Item 54: Acres Irrigated during April 1945
Item 55: Irrigation; a series of letters discussing Tribal water rights and who owns the water, 1940-1947
Item 56: Map of Fort Peck Indian Reservation, 1947
File 2: Copies of documents, chiefly Executive Orders and Statutes (1855-1920) compiled by Douglas D. Martin with his notes providing the legal history of the Fort Peck Reservation
Item 1: Legal History of Reservation
Item 2: Kappler Voci, Agreement 1886, 261-64
Item 3: Executive Orders Relating to Indian Reserves
Item 4: From the White House about Montana Indian Reservations, Crow, Flathead and Fort Peck Proclamation , 1913 and 1917
Item 5: Executive Orders for Montana Reservations, 1871 - 1900
Item 6: Thirty – Seventh Congress. Sess. II. Ch. 75. 1862
Item 7: Forty – Second Congress. Sess. III. Ch. 279. 1873
Item 8: Forty – Fourth Congress. Sess. II. Ch. 107, 108. 1877
Item 9: Fiftieth Congress. Sess. I. Chs. 1213, 1214. 1888
Item 10: Fiftieth – Seventh Congress. Sess. I. Ch. 1093. 1902
Item 11: Fifty – Eighth Congress. Sess. II. Ch. 1774 – 1776. 1904
Item 12: Sixtieth Congress. Sess. II. Chs. 150, 160. 1909
Item 13: Sixtieth Congress. Sess. II. Ch. 263. 1909.
Item 14: Sixty – First Congress. Sess. III. Chs. 218 – 220. 1911
Item 15: Sixty – Third Congress. Sess. II. Ch. 222. 1914
Item 16: Sixty – Third Congress. Sess. II. Chs. 293, 294. 1914
Item 17: Sixty – Fourth Congress. Sess. I. Chs. 123 – 125. 1916
Item 18: Sixty –Sixth Congress. Sess. II. Ch. 75. 1920.
Item 19: Sixty – Eighth Congress. Sess. II. Chs. 325 – 327. 1925
Item 20: Chap. 561. – An act to repeal timber – culture laws, and for other purposes, 1891
File 3: Copies of various documents relating to the Presbyterian mission, school, and cemetery on the Fort Peck Reservation (1887-1903)
Item 1: Letter to Indian Affairs from U.S. Indian Agent about land claims for missionaries, 1892
Item 2: Letter claiming the worth of Presbyterian property and buildings, Submitted by George W. Wood to the office of Indian Affairs, 1887
Item 3: Letters to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs regarding reservation land use for religious purposes, 1893 – 1894
Item 4: Office of Indian Affairs, land, 1893 – 1894
Item 5: Letter to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, land use, 1894
Item 6: Letter to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, land use, 1900
Item 7: Letter granting use of 39 acres for the use by the Presbyterian church for worship and schooling of the Native people on reservation land, 1900
Item 8: Letter thanking the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for land, 1900
Item 9: Letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and attached blue prints of land granted to church, 1900
Item 10: Letter of land use, 1901
Item 11: Land Patents and Deeds for religious organizations
File 4: Copies of various documents regarding the steamer Peninah and liquor sales (1881-1882)
Item 1: Telegraph regarding liquor sales, 1881
Item 2: Telegraph regarding the steamer Peninah, 1881
Item 3: Letter stating the intention of holding steamer Peninah until Deputy arrives at reservation, 1881
File 5: Copies of articles from The North American Indian on the Sarsi and Assiniboine tribes
Item1: Pages 91 – 92, from North American Indian
Item 2: Pages 157 – 178, from North American Indian
Item 3: Pages 214 – 218, from North American Indian
File 6: Statistics on Indian population in the United States compiled by Douglas D. Martin with his notes
Item 1: Tribal Population gathered by Martin in his notes
Item 2: Stocks and Tribes, by Sex, Age, and Blood
Item 3: Marital Condition
Item 4: Marital Condition
Item 5: School Attendance of Indians 6 – 19 years old
Item 6: School Attendance of Indians 6 – 19 years old
Item 7: Illiteracy
Item 8: Illiteracy
Item 9: Inability to Speak English
Item 10: Inability to Speak English
Item 11: Indian Population in the United States 1890 - 1930
Item 12: Indian Population in the United States, 1930 and 1910
Item 13: Indian Population by Mixture of Blood, by Stock and Tribe, 1930 and 1910
Item 14: Indian Population in the United States, by five year periods, 1930
Item 15: Indian Population in the United States, by five year periods, 1930
Item 16: Indian Population in the United States, Marital Conditions, 1930
Item 17: Indian Population in the United States, Marital Conditions, 1930
Item 18: Indian Population in the United States, School Attendance
Item 19: Indian Population in the United States, Illiteracy in the Indian Population, 1930
Item 20: Indian Population in the United States, Inability to speak English, 1910
Item 21: Indian Population in the United States, Inability to speak English, 1930
Item 22: Indian Population in the United States, Composition of the Indian Population, 1930
Item 23: Indian Population in the United States, Indian Farm Operators, 1930 and 1920
Item 24: Notes on statistics by Martin
File 7: Copies of various documents: Problems with the Great Northern Railroad
Item 1: Report of commissioner of Indian Affairs
Item 2: Public – No. 52, An act granting to the Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company the right of way through Tribal Reservations
Item 3: Office of Indian Affairs: Letter regarding transportation of gravel from reservation to railway, 1891
Item 4: Office of Indian Affairs: Letter on how much gravel is being removed from reservation, 1891
Item 5: Department of the Interior: Approval of two leases on reservation, 1892
Item 6: Department of the Interior: Letter of approval of two leases on reservation, 1892
Item 7: Department of the Interior Lease: of reservation land for gravel, 1892
Item 8:United States Indian Service: Letter on lease of gravel pits on reservation land for gravel, 1892
Item 9: Department of the Interior Lease: Letter of reservation land for gravel, 1892
Item 10: United States Indian Service: Letter on how the money from lease will be divided between different tribes and paid out in form of sheep, 1893
Item 11: Department of the Interior: Letters on appraisal and use of gravel beds on reservation, 1892
Item 12: Department of the Interior: Letter regarding appraisement and right of way through reservation, 1891
Item 13: Department of the Interior: Letter on appraisal of land through several reservations, 1887
Item 14: Office of Indian Affairs: Letter on approving new maps for extension of railway through reservations, 1887
Item 15: Office of Indian Affairs: Letter acknowledging receipt of letter, 1887
Item 16: Office of Indian Affairs: Letter from First National Bank accepting appointment of appraiser, 1887
Item 17: Office of Indian Affairs: Letter acknowledging receipt of instructions for appraisers, 1887
Item 18: Office of Indian Affairs: Western Union Telegraph sent to inquire if railroad men that have begun grading were authorized to begin work before appraisement is made, 1887
Item 19: Office of Indian Affairs: Western Union Telegraphs sent regarding appraisement and right of way, 1887
Item 20: Office of Indian Affairs: Western Union Telegraphs sent to stop grading, 1887
Item 21: Office of Indian Affairs: Western Union Telegraph sent to confirm compensation has been paid, 1887
Item 22: Office of Indian Affairs: Letters acknowledging wrong doing of beginning work on reservation land before appraisal has been done, and another letter allowing this to go on despite laws broken, 1887
Item 23: Office of Indian Affairs: Letter in relation to gravel and right of way, 1888
Item 24: Office of Indian Affairs: Letters wanting to take additional gravel through the right of way law and approval of this action, 1890