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Joseph N. Bourassa, a Pottawatomie Indian who signed this letter with his Indian name of Ke Kahn, wrote to Thomas N. Stinson, a Tecumseh resident and Indian trader who had been adopted by the Shawnee tribe and given the Indian name of Ne Kahn. Bourassa, an interpreter for the Pottawatomie Agency, described difficulties in finding laborers to cut the hay that he had promised to provide to Stinson.
Creator: Bourassa, Joseph Napolean, 1810-1878
Date: September 6, 1856
Item Number: 2392
Call Number: Thomas Nesbit Stinson Coll. #511 Box 1 Folder 11
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 2392
Agriculture - Crops - Hay
Business and Industry - Labor
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Fur traders
Collections - Manuscript - Stinson, Thomas Nesbit
Date - 1854-1860 - 1856
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Agencies - Indian affairs
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - American Indians - Tribes - Potawatomi
People - American Indians - Tribes - Shawnee
People - Notable Kansans - Stinson, Thomas N.
Places - Cities and towns - Tecumseh
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Places - Indian reservations - Potawatomi
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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