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Scarce book: Report of a Visit to Some of the Tribes of Indians, Located West of the Mississippi River by John D. Lang and Samuel Taylor, Jr. First edition. NY: Press of M. Day & Co., 1843. Rebound hardcover in brown cloth boards, 5.5 x 8.5, 34 pages. Book condition: VG/None, rebound without its original brown printed wrappers and with some mottled foxing to the first few pages.
The book’s foreword reads: “The situation of the numerous Tribes of Indians now located West of the Mississippi River, having long claimed the attention of the Society of Friends, and increasingly so since their removal from their former homes, the Yearly Meetings of New England and New-York, in the year 1837, entered into a correspondence upon the subject, to ascertain in what way the efforts of Friends might be directed to their benefit. This correspondence was continued from time to time, and resulted in a proposition, that means should be taken to become more fully acquainted with their situation and necessities.
In the year 1842, our valued friends John D. Lang and Samuel Taylor, Jun., from a sense of religious duty, and with the full approbation and unity of their friends, in order to carry into effect the concern of the Yearly Meetings aforesaid, proceeded to visit many of the Tribes of Indians in their present locations. A condensed statement of the result of this visit is contained in the following pages, which after having been presented to the Yearly Meetings of Friends of New England and New-York, is now published for the information of the community generally, by the Committees appointed by the said Meetings to have charge of this concern.”
Written by Quaker ministers John D. Lang and Samuel Taylor, Jr., The Report of a Visit to Some of the Tribes of Indians, Located West of the Mississippi River recounts their 1842 mission on behalf of the New England and New York Yearly Meetings of Friends to assess the condition of Indigenous tribes forcibly relocated to trans-Mississippi regions. Traveling from Maine, they visited more than a dozen tribes—including the Shawnee, Delaware, Osage, Cherokee, Creek, and Choctaw—documenting their social, agricultural, and educational circumstances in present-day Kansas and Oklahoma. Issued at the height of post-Indian Removal resettlement, the report stands as an important primary account of Indigenous life in the immediate aftermath of the 1830s displacement.
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