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for Journal notes of Mildred Muriel Hart Wilson containing stories told to her by her father, Dr. Fenn J Hart, during his time as a physician and school teacher to the Akimel and Tohono O'odham (formerly known as Papago and Pima) tribes at San Xavier Mission near Tucson, AZ
Journal notes of Mildred Muriel Hart Wilson containing stories told to her by her father, Dr. Fenn J Hart, during his time as a physician and school teacher to the Akimel and Tohono O'odham (formerly known as Papago and Pima) tribes at San Xavier Mission near Tucson, AZ
Datec. 1935
MediumPaper
Dimensions9 × 4 in. (22.9 × 10.2 cm)
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Catalog number2023.3.86
DescriptionJournal notes of Mildred Muriel Hart Wilson containing stories told to her by her father, Tempe's first mayor Dr. Fenn J Hart, during his time as a physician and school teacher to the Akimel and Tohono O'odham (formerly known as Papago and Pima) tribes at San Xavier Mission near Tucson, AZ from 1884 - 1887. Muriel appears to be recounting an incident that occurred in 1885 in which a rancher named Dobson, who lived 60 miles from the Mission, had his well filled up and was accusing a local indigenous man of committing the act in retaliation for the drying up of a spring on tribal land that his people relied on for their livelihood, apparently the man and his people believed their spring dried up as a result of the rancher digging the well. The incident ended with a Judge Fitzgerald sentencing several Native Americans, their Chief, and Dr. Hart, who was also the Sub-Indian Agent for the Mission at the time, to five days in the county jail for resisting arrest by defending the accused indigenous people. The officer who was assisting rancher Dobson with arresting whatever Natives they felt were involved in the ordeal, is listed as a Sheriff Paul of Tucson, whom Dr. Hart described as a cruel man that dealt harshly with the Natives. The incident is recorded in the February 12, 1885 edition of the former Arizona newspaper, The St. John's Herald. The notes are undated, but were likely written sometime before Dr. Hart's death in 1935.Status
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