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Village on the Wildcat: References

Primary sources

 
  • Admission of Indiana Into the Union. 14th Congress. 1st Session. Feb. 5,1816. No. 392.
  • An Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of the United States for the Year 1842. Washington. 1843. Pages 204, 205.
  • County Commissioners Records, 17 Aug. 1844, Sept. 3,1844, Richardville (Howard) County, Indiana. County Auditor's Office, Kokomo, Indiana.
  • Deed Record “A”, Page 15. Howard County Recorder’s Office. Kokomo, Indiana.
  • Deed Record “A”, Page 3. Howard County Recorder’s Office. Kokomo, Indiana.
  • Deed Record 27, Page 275. Howard County Recorder’s Office. Kokomo, Indiana.
  • Digested Summary and Alphabetical List of Private Claims Which Have Been Presented to the House of Representatives from the First to the Thirty-First Congress. Vol. III. From P to Z Inclusive. Washington. 1853.
  • General Assembly of the State of Indiana. 1835. An Act laying out all the unorganized territory to which the Indian title has been extinguished in this State, into a suitable number of counties, and for other purposes. Feb. 7,1835. 17th Session. Chapter XXV.
  • General Assembly of the State of Indiana. 1839. An Act attaching certain territory to the counties therein named, and for other purposes. Feb.16, 1839. 23rd Session. Chapter LXIII.
  • General Assembly of the State of Indiana. 1842. Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Indiana, During the Twenty-Seventh Session of the General Assembly. Petition of citizens of “Richardsville” county praying for courts in said county. Dec. 7,1842.
  • General Assembly of the State of Indiana. 1844. An Act to organize the counties of Tipton and Richardville. Jan.15, 1844. 28th Session. Chapter III.
  • General Assembly of the State of Indiana. 1844. Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Indiana, During the Twenty-Eighth Session of the General Assembly. A bill to organize the counties of Tipton and Richardville. Jan. 10, 1844. Doc. No. 334.
  • General Assembly of the State of Indiana. 1846. Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Indiana, During the Thirty-fifth Session of the General Assembly. A bill to change the name of Richardville county. Dec. 17,1846. Doc. No. 116.
  • Index to The Executive Documents, Twenty-Seventh Congress, Third Session. Doc. No. 2. No. 10. Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Samuel Burche. Washington. 1842.
  • Indiana Legislature, on Miami lands, and aid in internal improvements. SERIAL-SET-ID: 328 H.doc.214: Feb 1, 1838.
  • Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Indiana During the Thirty-First Session of the General Assembly. Letter from Gov. Whitcomb regarding Bill No. 91, "An act to fix the time of holding courts in the eighth judicial circuit.“ Indianapolis. 1846.
  • Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Indiana, During the Twenty-Seventh Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis. 1842.
  • Memorial of the Legislature of Indiana In relation to lands purchased of Miami Indians. 25th Cong. 2nd Sess. Feb.1,1838. Doc. No. 214.
  • Miami Indians. March 27, 1846. H.R. Rep. No. 480, 29 Cong., 1st Sess. (1846).
  • The Congressional Globe: New Series: Sketches of the Debates and Proceedings of the First Session of the Twenty-Ninth Congress. City of Washington. 1846. Vol. 15.
  • The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845. Vol. II. Boston. 1845.
  • Title Bond between David Foster and John Armstrong, Himelias Mendenhall, Oliver Raymond, John Moulder and Samuel H. Colip, 15 May 1844, Howard County, Indiana, Deed Book A, Page 3. County Recorder's Office, Kokomo, Indiana.
  • U.S. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Land Management. General Land Office Records. Tract Book 228. Indian Reserves. Book B1.
Miscellaneous Correspondence, Publications
 
  • Anson, Bert. "Chief Francis Lafontaine and the Miami Emigration from Indiana." Indiana Magazine of History. Vol. 60, No. 3 (September 1964), pp. 241-268
  • Buss, James Joseph. "Winning the West with Words: Language and Conquest in the Lower Great Lakes". University of Oklahoma Press. 2011.
  • Cady, C.W. "The Indiana Annual Register and Pocket Manual for the Year 1845." Indianapolis. 1844-45.
  • Clarke Historical Library. "The Hugh Brady Letters and the Removal of the Potawatomis." Michigan in Letters. Aug. 19, 2014.
  • Crawford, T. Hartley. Correspondence to J.R. Poinsett. "A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents". Vol. III. 1897. Dec. 29, 1840.
  • Esarey, Logan. "Internal Improvements in Early Indiana." Indiana Historical Society Publications. 1915. Volume V.
  • George Strack et al. 2011. myaamiaki aancihsaaciki. A Cultural Exploration of the Myaamia Removal Route. Miami Tribe of Oklahoma.
  • Historical Sketch in "Allen Hamilton Papers, 1814-1924, Collection Guide" (PDF). Indiana Historical Society. 1992.
  • History of Carroll County. Chicago. Kingman Brothers. 1882
  • Indiana Historical Collections. Volume XIX. "Indiana Boundaries. Territory, State, and County". Indiana Historical Bureau Reprint. Indianapolis. 1967.
  • McCafferty, Michael. Native American Place-Names of Indiana. 2008. University of Illinois Press.
  • Marriage Record of George Tumpkin and Sarah Harrison. Howard County Marriage Record Book July 1844 - July 1852. Vol. 1.
  • Personal communication with G. Porter. Doug Peconge, Assistant Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, CREO Community Programming Manager. Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. Ft. Wayne, Indiana. December 2018.
  • Personal communication with G. Porter. Dr. Cameron Shriver, Postdoctoral Fellow, Myaamia Center. Miami University. Oxford, Ohio. December 2018. March 2019.
  • Personal communication with G. Porter. George Ironstrack, Assistant Director, Director, Education Office, Myaamia Center. Miami University. Oxford, Ohio. March 2019.
  • Porter, Gil. "Chief Kokomo: Time and place". Footprints. Howard County Historical Society. May 2017.
  • Porter, Gil. "The Search for the Real Kokomo: Separating Man from Legend". Footprints. Howard County Historical Society. February 2017.
  • Rafert, Stewart. "The Miami Indians of Indiana." Indiana Historical Society. 1996.
  • Shoemaker, Scott Michael. (2011). Trickster skins: narratives of landscape, representation, and the Miami Nation. Retrieved from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy, http://hdl.handle.net/11299/113582.
  • Summary Under the Criteria and Evidence for Proposed Finding Against Federal Acknowledgment of the Miami Nation of Indians of the State of Indiana, Inc. United States Department of the Interior, Office of Federal Acknowledgement. July 12,1990.
  • Tippmann, Dani. "Tahkamwah." Honoring Mother Earth. Mihsihkinaahkwa Pow Wow 2017.
  • Warren, Stephen. "Winning the West with Words: Language and Conquest in the Lower Great Lakes (review)." The Annals of Iowa 71 (2012), 354-355.
  • Watts, Edward. "Winning the West with Words: Language and Conquest in the Lower Great Lakes (review)." Journal of the Early Republic, vol. 32 no. 3, 2012, pp. 544-547.
  • Wilson, George R. "Early Indiana Trails and Surveys". Indianapolis. 1919.
  • Winger, Otho. "The Lost Sister Among the Miamis". The Elgin Press. 1936.
  • Woolen, William Wesley. Biographical and historical sketches of early Indiana. Indianapolis. 1883.
 
Newspaper Articles
 
  • Capt. John Harrison and His Historic Home in Ervin Township. Kokomo Tribune. June 20, 1944.
  • First Election in County Had Only 24 Votes. Kokomo Daily Tribune. Oct. 21,1916.
  • Howard County Was Named for a Big Democrat. Kokomo Daily Tribune. Jan. 30, 1914.
  • Leiter, Carl. "Did Sharpie 'Skin' Foster, or Was Deal Up and Up?" Kokomo Tribune. Jan. 25, 1955.
  • Leiter, Carl. "Howard County's Name". Kokomo Morning Times. Sept. 14, 1965.
  • Leiter, Carl. "Indian Treaty of 1826 - Treaty Deliberations". Howard County Memory Website.
  • Leiter, Carl. "Numerous Indian Villages Formerly in Howard County". Kokomo Tribune. April 19, 1957.
  • Naming of Kokomo. Kokomo Daily Tribune. July 28, 1927.
  • Old Settlers' Society of Howard County, Indiana. Speeches from the Sept. 11, 1875 meeting. Kokomo Democrat. Sept.16,1875. Kokomo Saturday Tribune. Sept. 18,1875.
  • Proceedings in the Legislature. Indiana American. Brookville, Indiana. Dec. 24, 1846.
  • Untitled account. Logansport Telegraph. Jan. 20, 1844.
  • Wants Copy of License Issued in Year of 1847. Kokomo Daily Tribune. Jan. 26, 1914.