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Box 1

 Container

Contains 63 Results:

Image of Chief with wife and children.

 Item — Container: Box 1, Folder: 2
Content Description From the Collection:

Collection of correspondence from Chief Big Eagle, chief of the Paugussett Tribal Nation of Connecticut near Trumbull, Conn. to Ken Mynenter, proprietor of the Old Indian Trading post of Claverack, N.Y.

Dates: 1980-1988

Chief to Saygo, with check for $119, stating he has a war club or two that he might want to sell., 1980

 Item — Container: Box 1, Folder: 9
Content Description From the Collection:

Collection of correspondence from Chief Big Eagle, chief of the Paugussett Tribal Nation of Connecticut near Trumbull, Conn. to Ken Mynenter, proprietor of the Old Indian Trading post of Claverack, N.Y.

Dates: 1980

Chief to Saygo regarding orders he is preparing and Martha's condition., 1981-02-20

 Item — Container: Box 1, Folder: 28
Content Description From the Collection:

Collection of correspondence from Chief Big Eagle, chief of the Paugussett Tribal Nation of Connecticut near Trumbull, Conn. to Ken Mynenter, proprietor of the Old Indian Trading post of Claverack, N.Y.

Dates: 1981-02-20

Chief to Saygo discussing the weather and the exchanging of belts and their making. Discussing how he has to go to Greenwich to talk and then talked to someone named Tez who was hosting talks. Also mentions Mag La Que's Pow Wow., 1980-06-28

 Item — Container: Box 1, Folder: 12
Content Description From the Collection:

Collection of correspondence from Chief Big Eagle, chief of the Paugussett Tribal Nation of Connecticut near Trumbull, Conn. to Ken Mynenter, proprietor of the Old Indian Trading post of Claverack, N.Y.

Dates: 1980-06-28

Chief to Saygo discussing a transaction for leggings that the Chief planned to wear to Governor Ella Grasso's funeral in full dress. Marsha is pregnant with another child and is almost 9 months into the pregnancy. Chief discusses doing paperwork for federal recognition., 1981-02-12

 Item — Container: Box 1, Folder: 26
Content Description From the Collection:

Collection of correspondence from Chief Big Eagle, chief of the Paugussett Tribal Nation of Connecticut near Trumbull, Conn. to Ken Mynenter, proprietor of the Old Indian Trading post of Claverack, N.Y.

Dates: 1981-02-12

Chief to Saygo discussing the exchange of goods, talking about a belt and backing and how quickly Saygo can produce goods. Mentions the weather and the pregnancy of Marsha and how she is getting bigger., 1981-02-16

 Item — Container: Box 1, Folder: 27
Content Description From the Collection:

Collection of correspondence from Chief Big Eagle, chief of the Paugussett Tribal Nation of Connecticut near Trumbull, Conn. to Ken Mynenter, proprietor of the Old Indian Trading post of Claverack, N.Y.

Dates: 1981-02-16

Chief to Saygo, discussing the increase in temperature outside. Mentions the baby is doing fine and that Marsha is going to have another child. The chief's mother is in the hospital with heart failure. A lot of people have been visiting, the Shermans from California and his sister from Georgia.

 Item — Container: Box 1, Folder: 3
Content Description From the Collection:

Collection of correspondence from Chief Big Eagle, chief of the Paugussett Tribal Nation of Connecticut near Trumbull, Conn. to Ken Mynenter, proprietor of the Old Indian Trading post of Claverack, N.Y.

Dates: 1980-1988

Chief to Saygo sending payment for the dress Marsha wore to a state affair with the assembly. Mentions the August Pow Wow of Mag La Que., 1981-06-19

 Item — Container: Box 1, Folder: 30
Content Description From the Collection:

Collection of correspondence from Chief Big Eagle, chief of the Paugussett Tribal Nation of Connecticut near Trumbull, Conn. to Ken Mynenter, proprietor of the Old Indian Trading post of Claverack, N.Y.

Dates: 1981-06-19