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In this letter to Robert Simerwell, Joseph Napoleon Bourassa, man of French and Potawatomi descent, argues that good men are needed to help Indians because "the nation for which you have labored for many years is destitute of men qualified for business and more especially at the department of Chiefs."
Creator: Bourassa, Joseph Napolean, 1810-1878
Date: March 30, 1833
Item Number: 219231
Call Number: Robert Simerwell Coll. #500, Box 2 Correspondence and reports, 1833 March-April
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 219231
Collections - Manuscript - Simerwell, Robert W.
Community Life - Religion - Missionaries
Date - 1830s - 1833
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - American Indians
People - Notable People - Simerwell, Robert
Thematic Time Period - Indian Territory, 1820 - 1854
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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