Warner D. Miller collection, [ca. 1930-1945].
Collection Number: 9180
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Warner D. Miller collection, [ca. 1930-1945].
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
9180
Abstract:
Notebooks, sketches, postcards, photographs, manuscripts, Indian vocabularies, poetry,
newspaper clippings, and maps. Most pertaining to mid west and northern Great Plains
Indians. There are many sketches of native plants, some of them appear to have been
copied from botanical books, but others appear to be original drawings also sketches
of land formations. Biographic and encyclopedic information on Indians and their customs.
Notes regarding places of the west he visited, cowboys, how to tie knots on the range,
Indian name origins, games. A focus on Indian legends, fables, and folklore. Maps
and information on South and North Dakota.
Creator:
Miller, Warner D.
Biddle, Nicholas, 1786-1844.
Mouse, Tom White.
Habberstad, Helen M.
Huntington Free Library
Quanitities:
2 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Warner D. Miller was an amateur ethnographer, and artist. He also was a teacher on
the Standing Rock, Cheyenne, and Rosebud Reservations in the first part of the twentieth
century. Almost immediately, he began to record the stories he heard and events he
witnessed. He was also an amateur artist, and often illustrated the legends he recounted.
Notebooks, sketches, postcards, photographs, manuscripts, Indian vocabularies, poetry,
newspaper clippings, and maps. Most pertaining to mid west and northern Great Plains
Indians. There are many sketches of native plants, some of them appear to have been
copied from botanical books, but others appear to be original drawings also sketches
of land formations. Biographic and encyclopedic information on Indians and their customs.
Notes regarding places of the west he visited, cowboys, how to tie knots on the range,
Indian name origins, games. A focus on Indian legends, fables, and folklore. Maps
and information on South and North Dakota.
Also, CD containing digital photographs of the entire collection.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Warner D. Miller Collection, #9180. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Catlin, George, 1796-1872.
Glass, Hugh, approximately 1780-approximately 1833.
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency
Lewis and Clark Expedition (Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1804-1806)..)
Places:
White River (S.D.)
Thunder Butte.
Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.)
Red Butte.
Pipestone Indian Reservation (Minn.)
Mississippi River.
Medicine Butte.
Mde Iyedan.
Lac qui Parle River (Minn.)
Iowa River (Iowa)
Eagle Nest Butte.
Subjects:
Winnebago Indians.
Dakota Indians.
Sun dance.
Knots and splices.
Indian sign language.
Indians of North America -- Languages.
Indians of North America -- Jewelry.
Indians of North America -- Games.
Indians of North America -- Folklore.
Indians of North America -- Education.
Indians of North America -- Dictionaries.
Indians of North America -- Bibliography.
Indians of North America.
Form and Genre Terms:
Postcards.
Photographs.
Paintings.
Maps.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 0 |
Collection overview and printed guide
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
American Indian Sign Language
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Battle Hill, by W. D. Miller
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
The Battle on the Ta' H Do Hu, by W. D. Miller
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Scope and Contents
Manuscript with photographs.
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Beading instructions
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Biddle accounts
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
The Boundary Line by Warner Miller
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Box 1 | Folder 7-10 |
Biographical Notes
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Misc. Biographical Notes
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Vocabulary, Sketches, stories and their Indian sources-misc. biographical notes and
historical notes
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Teaching in the Indian Country, by W.D. Miller (Standing Rock Reservation, Bullhead,
SD)
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Teaching in the Indian Country
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Catlin on Turning the Toes In. A page from history showing the injustice of war. Winnebago
Calendar. An Indians Interpretation of the Twenty-third Psalm.
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Cattle
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
A copy of a sketch by Mrs. Tom White Mouse (Mary Medicine Bear) Wood, South Dakota
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1943 |
Box 1 | Folder 14-19 |
Drawings and Sketches
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Drawing by Andrew Jacob, Ida Grove, IA.
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1938 |
Scope and Contents
Also some notes by perhaps by Jacob.
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Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Misc. Notes and Sketches
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Scope and Contents
10 pages.
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Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Drawing by Nelson Stranger Horse
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Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Notes, Sketches and Maps
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Scope and Contents
23 pages.
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Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Drawings of leaves
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Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Sketches by Miller
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Box 1 | Folder 20-23 |
Mississippi River shore lines in South Dakota-following Lewis and Clarks notes and
maps and adding maps and notes of his own
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Box 1 | Folder 24-26 |
Historic notes regarding the present city of Ida Grove, Iowa, by W.D. Miller
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Scope and Contents
Includes map of Early Sioux Village
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Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Journals with Notes, Sketches, Maps, Vocabulary, etc., by W.D. Miller
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Scope and Contents
16 journals.
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Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Indian Calendars
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Box 1 | Folder 29 |
An Indian Marble Game
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Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Indian Names Origin
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Box 1 | Folder 31-35 |
Knots of the Range newspaper article by Miller
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1945 |
Scope and Contents
Includes sketches and studies of knots (used for livestock and horses) to be used
in newspaper articles.
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Box 1 | Folder 36-42 |
Indian Legends
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Scope and Contents
Includes drawings and sketches incorporated with the legends.
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Box 1 | Folder 36 |
The Spirit of Turtle Head Knoll
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Scope and Contents
41 pages.
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Box 1 | Folder 37 |
The Legend of Red Butte
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Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Legend of Rattlesnake Butte
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Scope and Contents
13 pages.
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Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Legend of Thunder Butte
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Scope and Contents
5 pages.
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Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Legend of Medicine Butte
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Scope and Contents
8 pages.
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Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Indian legends and historical stories by Warner D. Miller with illustrations by the
author
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1934-1935 |
Box 1 | Folder 40 |
Personal notes, legends, sketches, glossary of Indian tribes and misc. notes.
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Box 1 | Folder 41 |
Legend of the Red Pipestone Quarry.
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Box 1 | Folder 42 |
Legend of the Red Pipestone Quarry by Wa ya ru ge and Chief Red Thunder.
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Legends Duplicates
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Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Legends ledger with misc. notes and sketches by W.D. Miller
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Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Legends
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Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Notes regarding Indian legends by W.D. Miller
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Box 2 | Folder 5 |
The story of Mde Iyedan and how Lac Quil Parle received its name by W. D. Miller
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Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Legends of Eagle Nest Butte, Hidden Timber
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Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Stories about: Buffalo Cliff ; Hugh Glass
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Box 2 | Folder 8 |
How a little Coyote showed his friendship, Dakota (Ogalala) told by Chief of the Oglala
Sioux, American Horse, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota.
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Box 2 | Folder 9 |
The Legend of Thunder Butte by Zintkala win Bird Woman (Mrs. Belle Pretty Boy), Rosebud
Reservation, Norris, South Dakota.
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Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Indian legends by various people.
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Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Indian fables by W.D. Miller.
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Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Fables from various Indian tribes.
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Box 2 | Folder 13 |
A letter containing Indian history of Sioux and Winnebagos, from Leo C. Conn
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Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Letter from Mildred Brave Crow. Sketches from John Winter and Lowell Spotted Elk (all
Indian students of W. D. Miller.)
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Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Maps of some of South Dakotas rivers and islands.
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Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Iowa map
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Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Misc. notes, maps, etc.
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Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Sketches, notes and maps from South Dakota
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Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Tracing the course of the Iowa River: Ockeyedan-The Lookout of Iowa: The Farmer who
had his Ups and Downs
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Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Maps.
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Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Misc. notes
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Scope and Contents
116 pages.
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Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Misc. papers.
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Box 2 | Folder 23 |
Misc. notes, maps, drawings
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Box 2 | Folder 24 |
Misc. notes and newspaper articles.
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Box 2 | Folder 25 |
Newspaper articles regarding Wood and So. White River Ancient Villages.
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Box 2 | Folder 26 |
North Dakota map
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Box 2 | Folder 27 |
Notes (includes name origin of Rosebud Reservation.) Explanation of various species
of snakes.
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Box 2 | Folder 28 |
Owotanna
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Box 2 | Folder 29 |
Photographs and postcards
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Box 2 | Folder 30 |
Poetry by W. D. Miller
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Box 2 | Folder 31 |
Relics from the Dakota Diamond Jubilee, Yankton, South Dakota
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June 7-13, 1936 |
Box 2 | Folder 32 |
Selected Quotations, and misc. notes
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Box 2 | Folder 33 |
A short sketch of the White River Country of S. Dakota by W. D. Miller
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Box 2 | Folder 34 |
Storm Lake
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Box 2 | Folder 35 |
The Sun Dance by Tom White Mouse, Wood, South Dakota: How to make a Sun Dial
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Box 2 | Folder 36 |
Tourist Information regarding U.S. Highway 16 in South Dakota
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Box 2 | Folder 37 |
A true likeness of War Eagle
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Box 2 | Folder 38 |
Where an Indian Trail once crossed the Maple River by W. D. Miller
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Box 2 | Folder 39 |
Woods, South Dakota
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Box 2 | Folder 40-42 |
Indian Vocabularies (and their sources) from many important tribes of the U.S. and
Canada by Plainsman
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Box 2 | Folder 43 |
2 CD's containing digital photos of entire collection (CD-2017 & 2018)
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