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Hist. Mss. 1-890
Anna Ruth
Ediger Baehr, 1916-1998
Poetry and
Papers, 1902-1996; including Native American book library
21 Boxes (10 Large, 1 Long Gray)
Brief
Biographical Sketch
1916 Born March 23, 1916 in Clinton, Oklahoma. Given
the name of Wo'esta (White
Buffalo Woman) by the Cheyenne congregation. She was named after the
oldest woman in the community, who was "a very good woman."
1938 August 7, 1938 Anne Ruth Ediger married Karl
Baehr in Clinton, Oklahoma.
Administrative
Information
The papers of Anna Ruth Ediger Baehr were deposited
into the Archives by Beth Bullard, a daughter, from Carlilse,
Pennsylvania, in 2002, with assistance by Ann Hostetler, Associate
Professor of English at Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana. The
Native American Book library was added in fall 2003.
Boxes #1-2 and #B-K were boxed up, with Box 1 organized and labeled by
Beth Bullard and Ann Hostetler, Summer 2002. Preliminary
Inventory listing by Dennis Stoesz, August 2002. Inventory of all
files found in boxes 1-2, plus new file labels, completed by Cathy
Hochstetler, May 19, 2003. The Native American Book library
(Boxes #3-11) were listed by a Goshen College student in fall
2003. Inventory updated to standard format by Helen Hostetler,
September 23, 2003. Boxes 12 and 13 were listed by Elizabeth
Hostetler, daughter of Ann Hostetler, for some of her research for her
poetry class, July 19, 2004. Individual file folder titles for
boxes 15-18 were listed by Krissy Moehling, spring 2005, and by Nelda
Nussbaum, June 30, 2005.
Inventory
Listing
Box 1 (Large)
1/1 Introduction to the Collection (1/1)
Includes accession record; and
publicity poster of Ann Hostetler, Ph.D., giving presentation on
“Mennonites, Indians, Poetry & Peace: Anna Ruth Ediger Baehr and
the Southern Cheyenne”, March 26, 2003, C. Henry Smith Peace Lecture,
Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana.
Biographical
Information and Awards, 1920s-2000
1/2 Photographs, 1920s-1997
1/3 Photographs of Ash Scattering of Anna Baehr, 2000
1/4 Baehr-Jones, Vanessa, “Anna Ruth Baehr,” 2 pages,
September 23, 1996, “My Great Aunt Anna Ruth...
1/5 Poetry Resume’s and C.V.’s, about 1987
1/6 Clippings, Anna Baehr, 1995-97
1/7 Women’s Day Away, 1998
1/8 Poetry Reading Flyers, 1978-85
1/9 Creative Arts Grant, 1982
Publishing
Information, 1978-98
1/10 Bibliography of Baehr’s publications, 1978-87
1/11 Notebook of submissions to publishers, 1985-89
1/12 Birnham Wood Press – Moonflowers – Publishing
and Publicity, 1996
1/13 Submissions, 1990
1/14 Calls for submission, etc., 1998
1/15 “Archives” – Poem published in Mennonite
Life, 1981
1/16 Publishers, 1985
Poetry
Correspondence, 1983-97
1/17 Poetry-related correspondence, 1987-93
1/18 Letters from readers about poems, 1990-97
1/19 American Scholar – Correspondence, 1983-1992
1/20 OLGA – Short stories:
Begins with “Jeezus! Where did he
come from? Dumb kid! ….”
O.Drucker: “Where is
he? Where is he? …”
O.Drucker: “Coffee anyone? If
there’s any water left in the kettle? …”
O.Drucker: “How long have you been
watching me, Andy? …”
Begins with “Want to stop off for a cup of coffee? …”
Talks / Essays
/ Journaling, 1940-92
1/21 Memory of Sexual Harassment at Bethel
1/22 Baptism – 1940
1/23 A Comparison of Plato’s Idea of God ….”
1/24 Sarah Released – Cheyenne reflections
1/25 Reflections on Relationship with Karl – 8/7/92
1/26 “One Woman’s Spiritual Quest” given at Jewish
Center, 1990
1/27 “Clinic Mother”
1/28 Unsent letter from 1986; Adelphi University
Support Group, 1987
1/29 “Young Lady” for Newsday’s “500 words or Less”
Notes for
Poems, 1932, 1976-97
1/30 Dragonfly Clipping (poem resource)
1/31 “These Words Are for you, Louise…” and other
early drafts
1/32 Drafts of Early Poems with notes. Includes
“Toll,” “Minuet”
1/33 Ideas for and fragments of poems and
thoughts
1/34 Notes for Poetry Collection on writing
1/35 Fragments for poetry
1/36 Notes on Poets
1/37 “They leave the festival…”
1/38 Poetry – 1972-74
1/39 Walt Whitman Heritage Lecture, 1997
1/40 Old, old poems, 1932, 1976 – 83
1/41 Versions (Collected poems from Joel)
Juvenalia
1/42 Childish Compositions
1/43 “The Curious Box”
Dreams
1/44 Poems grouped together (possibly for a reading
group?)
1/45 “Again” (Pattern)
1/46 “Augustine of Hippo”
1/47 “Betrayal”
1/48 “Brian Goes to the Fair”
1/49 “The Brooch” (“Die Brosche” – German translation)
1/50 “Calendar Leaves”
1/51 “Carriage House Revisited”
1/52 “The Cave”
1/53 “Christina” (Last finished poem)
1/54 “Cinnabar”
1/55 “The Cocktail Party”
1/56 “Do What You Really Want…”
1/57 “Elva”
1/58 “Enemies”
1/59 “Eve”
1/60 Excrement Poem (?)
1/61 “Greenhouse”
1/62 “The House”
1/63 “I understand torture…”
1/64 “I will sleep here…”
1/65 “If I Could Undo Birth”
1/66 “In Moonlight”
1/67 “Light Is the Absence of Darkness”
1/68 “Lunch with Carol”
1/69 “Melanie”
1/70 “The Monster” (“Das Ungeheuer,” German
translation)
1/71 “Mother and Daughter”
1/72 “Mother at Ninety-Seven”
1/73 “Music Makers”
1/74 “My big brother took his hoe…”
1/75 “New Lamps for Old”
1/76 “Night Thoughts”
1/77 “No, I Won’t Buy a Black Nightgown”
1/78 “No one tells you how you will hurt..”
1/79 “Peter”
1/80 Poem read at scattering of Karl’s ashes
(1992 death – ashes scattered later)
1/81 “A Poet Ages”
1/82 “Possession”
1/83 “The Price”
1/84 “Quarrel”
1/85 “Report”
1/86 “Rita”
1/87 “Sarah”
1/88 “The School Is Gone”
1/89a “Ted”
1/89b “To a Horned Toad”
1/90 “Sculptor’s Rite”
1/91 “Sheep Are Fine Lawnmowers”
1/92 “Song” (The Gallery of Your Mind)
1/93 “Stranger”
1/94 “Venice”
1/95 “Walter”
1/96 “Worm”
Moonflowers at
Dusk
1/97 Moonflowers at Dusk (a collection of poems by
Anna Ruth Ediger Baehr
1/98 “Bride”
1/99 “The Brooch”
1/100 “Carlisle School, 1890”
1/101 “Cemetery”
1/102 “Cleaning the Attic”
1/103 “Chayenne Wake, 1990”
1/104 “Conversation after a Funeral”
1/105 “Descant” (missing) (and early drafts –
“My Daughter Playing the Flute”)
1/106 “Dragonflies on Milfoil” (missing)
1/107 “Elsie”
1/108 “Forgiveness”
1/109 “The Goddess of Wild Things”
1/110 “Holding Still”
1/111 “I Am Dancing with My Mennonite Father”
1/112 “I Am Sick of Sand in my Sneakers”
1/113 “Images”
1/114 “Insulin Shock”
1/115 “The King of Sicily”
1/116 “Leah”
1/117 “Leah” (Background information for poem)
1/118 “The Mirror above the Lectern” (and “One Side
of the Rose Is Larger)
1/119 “Ritual”
1/120 “The River”
1/121 “Sculptor”
1/122 “Season” (postcard)
1/123 “Starlings”
1/124 “Storm Cave”
1/125 “Take something like a paragraph…” (and early
notes)
1/126 “Thirty thousand Feet Above the Great Lakes”
1/127 “The Unicorn”
1/128 “Vivian”
1/129 “A Walk Around the Block after a Mastectomy”
1/130 “You Took My House Apart”
Cheyenne Poems
and Talks
1/131 Bibliographic Notes, Indian Poems (missing)
1/132 SOTA (“Sota” is one poem in a
collection, “A Glimpse of Dragonflies,” which reflects the history
& culture of Southern Cheyenne Indians in Oklahoma.)
1/133 “Christmas Eve”
1/134 “Kias” (Bear Shakes Plants)
1/135 “How is it really? What do you hear in
the drum, …”
1/136 Notes for Indian Poems, Miscellaneous, and
autobiographical talk
1/137 Cheyenne Talks and Lectures
1/138 Cheyenne Vocabulary
1/139 Cometsevah (notes describing Indian culture,
etc.)
Poetry Books
1/140a List of Books held by Anna Ruth Eidger Baehr
from her father’s (J. B. Ediger) and mother’s (Agatha Regier Ediger)
library. Books sent to Bethel College archives, and/or Judy Voth
Regehr, 2002
1/140b Arts in Academe, Publisher - University of
Wisconsin Extension Fall-Winter 1975 (does not include any poems
by Anna)
1/141 Dream’s Navel, Poems by Edmund Pennant,
inscribed “For Anne Ruth Baehr, Sister in the search, Edmund Pennant,
12-7-79”
1/142 The Wildebeest of Carmine Street, Poems by
Edmund Pennant, inscribed “For Anna Ruth – My friend. Edmund, 5/14/97.”
1/143 Journal of Mennonite Studies, 1985 (does not
include any poems by Anna)
1/144 Journal of Mennonite Studies, 1993 (does not
include any poems by Anna)
Box 2 (Large)
2/1 the American Scholar, Summer 1985 (The Mary
Elinore Smith Poetry Prize for poem, “I’m Dancing with My Mennonite
Father,” by Anna)
2/2 phoebe, Fall 1980 (Poem included by Anna, “To an
Unforgiving Offspring”)
2/3 Mennonite Mirror, March 1991 (letter by Anna in
“Your Word” column)
2/4 Ask the dreamer where night begins” by Patti
Tana, copyright 1986
(Inscribed for “Anne-Ruth”)
2/5 process, Afterflash, Portfolio of Poets,
copyright 1979 (does not include any poems by Anna)
2/6 Poems by Anne-Ruth, “Monster,” “Guests”
2/7 “Poem” by Anne-Ruth
2/8 Kansas Quarterly, 1987, Poems by Anne-Ruth,
“Monster,” Guests,” “Amish Adolescent”
2/9 Samisdat, 1980. Poem by Anne-Ruth, “The Price”
2/10 process, 1978. Poem by Anne-Ruth,
“Untitled,” “Cinnabar”
2/11 Long Island Quarterly, Fall 1990. Poems by
Anne-Ruth, “The River,” “Cemetery,” “The School Is Gone,”
“Islands Are Enough”
2/12 XANADU, 1984. Poems by Anne-Ruth, “The
Brooch,” “Dragonflies on Milfoil,”
2/13 Four Quarters, 1984. Poem by Anne-Ruth,
“Doodle of a Hermit”
2/14 West Hills Review, a Walt Whitman Journal,
1980. Poem by Anne-Ruth, “I Collect Hard Things”
2/15 Le Beacon Review, 1980-81. Poem by
Anne-Ruth, “To Rebecca, My Grandchild”
2/16 Moonflowers at Dusk, Book of Poems by Anna Ruth,
1996
2/17 eleven, 1987. Poem by Anne-Ruth,
“Possession”
2/18 XANADU, 1978. Poem by Anne-Ruth, “Venice”
2/19 buckle” 1982. Poems by Anne-Ruth, “The
Breeze at Your Iron Window,” “No, I Won’t Buy a Black Nightgown,”
“Limit”
2/20 Zephyr, 1984. Poem by Anne-Ruth, “Birthday”
2/21 Wetlands, Poems by Patti Tana. (Inscribed
for “Anne Ruth”)
2/22 Live Poets, 1991. Poem by Anne Ruth, “Nexus”
(Includes note to Anne Ruth by Editor Grace Neyssen)
2/23 Wind, 1980. Poem by Ann-Ruth, “Agatha, At
Ninety-Seven”
2/24 Spoon River Quarterly, The, 1980. Poem by
Anne-Ruth, “Going to Sleep in My Mother’s House, Alone”
2/25 New Voices, 1983. “Epilogue”
2/26 The Poetry Review, 1985. Poem by
Anne-Ruth, “Carlisle School - 1890”.
2/27 The River, Poems by Patti Tana. 1990. (Inscribed
to “Beth”) and When the Light Falls Short of the Dream, Poems by Patti
Tana. 1998.
2/28 Dumb Beautiful Ministers, 1996. Poem by
Anna Ruth, “Cemetery”
2/29 XANADU, 1983. (Anne-Ruth, one of Editors).
No Poems by Anne-Ruth.
2/30 SYMPaTHETIC MaGIC, by Michael Blumenthal.
1980. Autographed.
2/31 riverSedge, 1982. Poems by Anne-Ruth,
“Insomnia,” and “To a Horned Toad”
2/32 Ally, 1982. Poems by Anne-Ruth,
“Betrayal,” and “Agatha, at Ninety-Three”
2/33 Raining Leaves, 1986. Poems by Anne-Ruth,
“Cycle”
Phamplet of Reception & Book Party for Raining
Leaves, May 17, 1986
2/34 The Importances of the Past, a meditation on The
authority of Tradition, by
George Allan. Inscribed to
“Anne-Ruth”
2/35 Confrontation, 1985. Poem by Anne-Ruth,
“Mother and Daughter”
2/36 Process 6, 1980. Poem by Anne-Ruth,
“Rebecca, My First Grandchild”
2/37 Menno Notes, March/April 1986, Poem by
Anne-Ruth, “I Am Dancing with My Mennonite Father”
Menno Notes, January/February 1986. (No poems
by Anne-Ruth)
2/38 Laughing Unicorn, 1980. Poem by Anne-Ruth,
“Return”
2/39 Process, 1985. (No poems by Anne-Ruth)
2/40 Quickenings, Fall/Winter, 1980. Poem by
Anne-Ruth, “To a Subway Driver”
Quickenings, Fall/Winter, 1981. Poem by
Anne-Ruth, “Void”
Quickenings, Spring 1982. Poem by Anne-Ruth,
“Flying Object”
2/41 Acceptance Notes, 1978 – 1982
2/42 Oxford Magazine, Fall/Winter, 1988. Poem
by Anne Ruth, “Summer Dance”
Boxes 3-11
(Large)
Native American
Book Library (added Fall 2003)
Handwritten lists of all the books are included in each box.
12/1 Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of
American Poetry, 1986-88 edition. Ed. Pater, Alan F. Monitor Book
Company, copyright 1988.
12/2 Listing of contents of original 5 ¼”
diskette contents, Diskette's #1-6, #10-13
Includes list of poems that have
been transferred onto the hard drive
12/3 5 ¼” diskettes 1-5 (including backup
copies)*
12/4 5 ¼” diskettes 6-11 (including backup
copies)*
12/5 5 ¼” diskettes 12-13, COO disks
(including backup copies), “dreams” disk and unlabeled disk (borrowed
by Elizabeth Smucker to ITS for reading attempt 7/19/04)*
*these diskettes were unreadable using Windows 98 Computer in
Westlawn. I am guessing they are Apple II disks not compatible
with PC. ES 7/19/04
**update April 29, 2005 / set of poems found on computer which seem to
be original, 1994-98. List of these found in file 12/2.
12/6 WBAU cassette tapes, 2/12/81: Garden City, NY;
6/30/81: Xanadu
12/7 Cassette tapes: The Poems of William Butler
Yeats, JJ Van Name’s workshop on reading poetry aloud (4/82), Charles
Fishman workshop, Westbury
Box 13
(Large) Poems and Journals
13/1 Drafts of poem “Joel”
13/2 Drafts of poem “After the Bell/The School is
Gone”
13/3 Drafts of poem “First walk around the block
after a masectomy”
13/4 Drafts of poem “Allergy/Return”
13/5 Drafts of poem “Archives”
13/6 Drafts of “Balcony poem”
13/7 Drafts of poem “The Bear”
13/8 Drafts of poem “Birthday (at 60)”
13/9 Drafts of poem “The Brooch (“small changes”)
13/10 Drafts of poem “Cinnabar”
13/11 Drafts of poem “Metamorphosis/Cycle”
13/12 Drafts of poem “Circumference”
13/13 Drafts of poem “Doodle of a Hermit”
13/14 Drafts of poem “Erosion”
13/15 Drafts of poem “Alvaro Garcia”
13/16 Drafts of poem “The Gallery of Your Mind”
13/17 Drafts of poem “Holding Still”
13/18 Drafts of poem “Inside”
13/19 Drafts of poem “Legacy/Agatha”
13/20 Drafts of poem “Moloch, seen long ago…”
13/21 Drafts of poem “Possesion”
13/22 Drafts of poem “Reunion”
13/23 Drafts of poem “Tarantulas”
13/24 Drafts of poem “How a painter/Telling/Still
Life”
13/25 Drafts of poem “Nexus”
13/26 Drafts of poem “Dragonflies on Milfoil”
13/27 Drafts of poem “Bundle your songs/Music makers”
13/28 Drafts of poem “Bran Muffins”
13/29 Drafts of poem “Amish Youth
13/30 Drafts of poem “Summer Dance”/“Janie”
13/31 Drafts of poem “Symmetry/One side of the rose
is larger”
13/32 Drafts of poem “Still (Always) I see the
fingers”
13/33 Drafts of poem “Islands are enough”
13/34 Drafts of poem “Air” (“I swim in air”)
13/35 Drafts of poem “Cemetery/Pennsylvania cemetery”
13/36 Drafts of poem “Snow”
13/37 Drafts of poem “Vivian”
13/38 Drafts of poem “The Price”
13/39 Drafts of poem “Guests”
13/40 Drafts of poem “Someone Said” changed to
“Conversation After a Funeral”
13/41 Drafts of poem “A Poet Ages”
13/42 Drafts of poem “Dismantling a Greenhouse”
13/43 Drafts of poem “I Am Dancing with my Mennonite
Father”
13/44 Drafts of poem “The Cave”
13/45 Drafts of poem “Untitled (The perfect circle)”
13/46 Drafts of poem “The Muse”
13/47 Drafts of poem “Carlisle School”
13/48 Drafts of poem “The Small Cup of Grape Juice”
(also titled “Ritual”)
13/49 Drafts of poem “ “Eating Crow”
13/50 Drafts of poem “At a Lunch Counter
13/51 Drafts of poem “Untitled” (“The narrow bridge
shows my red clay”)
13/52 Drafts of poem “Calendar Leaves Float Down”
13/53 Drafts of poem “I Will Not Pretend
13/54 Drafts of poem “The House”
13/55 Drafts of poem “White Horse Woman”
13/56 Drafts of poem “Leah”
13/57 Drafts of poem “Risk”/“Bottle Poem”
13/58 Drafts of poem “Ghost Dance”
13/59 Drafts of poem—“seed fairy” scribbles
13/60 Drafts of poem “The Unicorn”
13/61 Drafts of poem “The Cocktail Party”
13/62 Drafts of poem “I Collect Hard Things”
13/63 Drafts of poem “Anniversary”
13/64 Drafts of poem “Brian Goes to the Fair”
13/65 Drafts of poem “Epilogue”
13/66 Drafts of poem “To an Unforgiving offspring”
(previously titled “If I Could Undo
Birth”
13/67 Drafts of poem “Ted”
13/68 Drafts of poem “Mother and Daughter”
13/69 Drafts of poem “Question”/“Did You Hear”)
13/70 Drafts of poem “Shadows”
13/71 Drafts of poem “No, I Won’t Buy a Black
Nightgown”
13/72 Drafts of poem “Season”
13/73 Drafts of poems—Miscellany as of yet
I took two folders to sort through, photocopy and return tomorrow,
7/20/04. ES.
1/2 of the box needs yet to be listed
Box 14
(Large)
Includes older files like:
“Report on the Third Point, by Anne Baehr, Teachers College, Columbia
University, January 1963”
“Early collection of poems by Anne and Karl” (includes poems by Anne
Eidger, 1930-38, and Karl Baehr, 1939-44)
And Working Files
Box 15
(Large)
15/1 Genealogy
15/2 Trafficking In Women
15/3 Work in Process (Poems)
15/4 Cheyenne
15/5 Report of meeting with Indians - 5/17/80
15/6 Misc. notes, etc.
15/7 For Oklahoma trip
15/8 Mennonites - Bibliography
15/9 Twelve Steps (AA)
15/10 Fragments
15/11 Garden City Community Church Directory, Garden
City, NY, 1985
15/12 1998 Callendar
15/13 Women and Religion
15/14 National League of American Pen Women (Poetry)
15/15 Amish
15/16 Mennonite Family History
15/17 Aeneid
15/18 Quotations
15/19 Humor
15/20 Helen Starr
15/21 Box by her bed when she died
15/22 Articles on Teaching
15/23 Teaching Mementoes
15/24 GERB - Obituary
15/25 GOUSSES
15/26 Wedding Announcement
15/27 AERB - Medical History
15/28 Wills of Karl & Anne - (Outdated), 1976
15/29 Passports & other documents
15/30 Birth Certificate
15/31 Anna Ediger - Certificate of Birth (copies)
15/32 Anna Ruth Edgers - Baptisimal Certificate
15/33 Anna Ruth E. Baehr - Diplomas
15/34 Anna Ruth - Academic Credentials
15/35 Anna Ruth - Graduate Credits
15/36 Anna Ruth - Writings
15/37 Background
15/38 Journal
15/39 Correspondence & Journals
15/40 Anna Ruth Ediger Bible & Autograph Book
15/41 Books: Roftüm and Mode;
Writer's Conference Notebook, Indian
Captive: The Story of
Mary Jemison
15/42 Two copies of Elementary English, with article
by Anna Ruth, pg. 413
15/43 Booklets: Process; Anne's
notebook; For My Friend; Long Island Quarterly;
Xanadu, book of poems
Family Record book, 1902-1975, by J. B. Ediger, who was married August
28, 1902.
Video (VHS) Anne-Ruth Baehr, “Inside Out” June 1987
Video (VHS) Beth Bullard, contents of her mother’s house at 218
Brompton Rd., Garden City, New York (Long Island).
Computer diskette (3 1/2”), marked “Anne Ruth’s poems, letters,
documents”
Box 16
(Large)
Baehr’s teaching materials, especially the plays she wrote, and put on
with her students. Also includes poems written by the students.
Baehr’s Inhalt [German word meaning Contents]
Includes correspondence, Baehr’s presentations and
her files on Native Americans (including some from her father’s
collection, Rev. J. B. Ediger), and files on Mennonite history and
family genealogy.
16/a Introduction to inhalt, including January 2005
Mennonite Historical Bulletin, which featured Anna Ruth, and her birth
naming story giving her a Cheyenne name
Family History
16/b Anne Ruth and Karl Baehr's 50th "Golden" Wedding
Celebration August 7, 1988. Includes an "Anniversary" poem written by
Anne Ruth for Karl, "A Golden Wedding Tribute to Anne Ruth" by Karl, a
Public Prayer written by Dr. J. Winfield Fretz for Karl and Anne Ruth's
50th Wedding anniversary, drafts of the program and reception and
newspaper clippings of the event.
16/c "Esteem Enlivened by Desire: The Ideal of
Friendship between men and women in Western Culuture" by Jean H.
Hagstrum. Published in The Key Reporter, volume XLIX, number three,
Spring 1984.
16/d Includes letters from Anne Ruth to her children
Beth and Joel (1957-1966), letters from family members and friends to
Anne Ruth and Karl, an article written by Mrs. J.B. Ediger (Anne Ruth's
mother) about her life growing up in Oklahoma and her marriage to J.B.
Ediger and their mission work among the Cheyenne. Also included is an
In Memoriam obituary on Rev. J.B. Ediger (Anne Ruth's father) featured
in The Mennonite 1954.
16/e Two articles "'Tis the Gift To Be Simple,"
(1987) and "Everything's Now Tied to Strings" (1986) and a letter to
Milly included. Both articles deal with science and nature and
physicists findings (string theory 1986 article) and the letter is
written by Anne Ruth to her dear friend and poet Milly in response to
the 1986 article, which looks for 'the search for unity of all things.'
16/f Pictures: one of Anne Ruth and a family children
potrait? No dates or names included.
16/g Genealogy: copies of hand written notes on Anne
Ruth's family tree. A letter written "A Review of the Life and Death of
Our Father (Jacob D. Ediger)" and various publications looking at how
to conduct and find genealogical records.
16/h Genealogy continued: Ediger family information.
Includes copies of a translated notebook of David Ediger (his travels
from Russia to America and so on), information on an Ediger family
reunion held July 8-10, 1994, and a "Biography of Jacob B. Ediger"
written by his granddaughter, Judy Voth, presented as a research paper
to the department of Bible and Christian Education, Bethel College
(1961). Also an article on the Ediger family reunion in 1994.
16/i Baehr Reunion: information and correspondence
regarding the Baehr reunion held August 5-7, 1988.
16/j "Ediger-Eller an der Mosel" von Alfons
Friderichs, Karl-Josef Giles und Wolfgang Wolpert.
16/k A letter from Anne Ruth to the Kauffman Museum
in North Newton, KS in regards to a gift of a leather pipe bag given to
her father (J.B.Ediger) by the Cheyenne. This pouch belongs to a
ceremonial pipe given to J.B. Ediger at the same time, and now joins
the ceremonial pipe in the museum.
16/l Two newspaper article clippings, "Choosing to
Stay in Soviet Union" and "Poland Cemeteries to Be Restored" both
articles remembering Mennonite families and history in those countries.
No dates for articles noted.
16/m Mother a folder containing Agatha R. Ediger
(Anne Ruth's mom) memorial newspaper clipping, an In Remembrance card,
a letter written by Agatha journaling her travels, "A Reminiscence of
Previous Years"--the second in a series of interviews compiled for
Centennial Year 1974, this interview is with Mrs. J.B. Ediger (aka
Agatha)
16/n Pioneer Experiences of Father, Mother and
Grandfather by C.C. Regier printed in U.S.A. 1963 a 48 pg. Book.
16/o Typed notes on Wilhelmina Mankiller, Principal
chief of the second largest Indian Nation) including his personal
history timeline and various quotations helpful in understanding him.
Also included is a couple of illustrations done by a Cherokee
artist and an Insight magazine, September 1, 1986, features a number of
articles on the "American Indian today"
16/p "How Can you Buy or Sell the Sky" an article
excerpt from an address given by Chief Seattle in 1854 to an assembly
of tribes preparing to sign treaties.
16/q "Sitting Bull and H.R. Voth" an article by Lois
Barrett printed in The Mennonite, October 11,1983 looking a dialogue
between two religions
16/r Handwritten notes on Edgar Heap of Birds,
nationally known Native American artist
16/s The Deer Creek Cite, Oklahama: A Wichita Village
Sometimes Called Ferdinandina, An Ethnohistorian's View by Mildred Mott
Wendel. Oklahoma Historical Society, Series in Anthropology, Number 5.
1981
16/t Newspaper clippings Folder 1, 1950-1985
16/u Newspaper clippings Folder 2, 1984-1985
16/v Newspaper clippings, Folder 3, 1983-1984
Box 17
(Large)
CHEYENNES
17/a Booklets on the 15th Annual and 26th Annual
American Indian Exposition held in Anadarko, Oklahoma. Includes a
letter soliciting support and money for AICH American Indian Community
House, Inc. which is trying to raise support to fund their many social
programs as well as to push for space in the Custom House Musuem. Also
includes a letter by Anne Ruth to Rosemary Richmond, Executive Director
of AICH (never sent?).
17/b Papers related to materials present on the
Plains Indians in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
17/c Anne's notes to herself re: a talk to a Thursday
luncheon group (11/81) on the Cheyennes.
17/d Copies of scanned images (pictures) on various
Indian gatherings; a 1985 Cheyenne Calendar; an Indian Affairs
newsletter December, 1962; and other articles on Native Americans.
17/e A newspaper clipping from the Daily Oklahoma,
July, 1981 "Alcoholism Takes Heavy Toll Among State Indians"
17/f Papers in Anthropology Volume 21. Number 2, Fall
1980--University of Oklahoma. Also includes a paper by John H. Moore
"Aboriginal Indian Residence Patterns Preserved in Censuses and
Allotments, " 1979.
17/g Notes made by Anne on findings in the Bethel
College Archives re: Indians
17/h Native American Art from the collection of the
Oklahoma Historical Society, 1979
17/i "Indians Desperate Over U.S. Treatment" from
Viewpoints section published by Newsday, Friday, March 9, 1984
17/j Various articles, booklets etc. on Native
American Indians
17/k "Black Kettles Last Raid--1868" by Hill P.
Wilson, published by The Osage, Dec.
1909
17/l Akwesasne
Notes
17/m C & A Tour, April 1988
17/n White CAPTIVES
17/0 Info from Census Rolls
17/p Cheyenne Stream Names
17/q Sumner
17/r SUTAI & CHEYENNE
17/s Cheyenne TIPI by W. Stanley Campbill
17/t Cheyenne tribal money
17/u Tribes of Oklahoma, Muriel Wright
17/v Washita, Battle of
17/w American Indian Monthly
17/x Misc for background
17/y ACU BLUE EAGLE
17/z Carlisle (and prisoners)
17/1 Indian Catalogs
17/2 Cumberland Country Hist. Museum
17/3 Dances
17/4 HANTA YO
17/5 Indian Voice
17/6 Indian in Literature
17/7 Mossasoit
17/8 Mormon
17/9 Museum of the American Indian
17/10 Museum of theAmerican Indian
17/11 Native American POETS
17/12 Smithsonian
17/13 THORPE, Jim
17/14 Cheyenne as TRADERS
17/15 Twenty Years Among Our Hostile Indians
17/16 Indians and Settlers, GCCC, April 29, 1988
17/17 Family & Indians from Ediger files
17/18 Petter Material : Index & some notes
17/19 Peterson (and Alvin)
17/20 Cheyenne OMENS
17/21 Scalping
17/22 SAND CREEK
17/23 C & A RUN
17/24 RISING SUN
17/25 Col. PRATT, Carlisle
17/26 OV
17/27 OV Archives
17/28 Okla. Historical Society Museum
17/29 Okla. Historical Society
17/30 Okla. Historical Society Notes
17/31 Names
17/32 Mission Statement
17/33 Missions
17/34 Misc. Cheyenne
17/35 Mennonite Indian Leaders Council
17/36 Medicine Circle (?) not authentic
17/37 LINGUISTICS
17/38 Cheyenne Language
17/39 KIAS
17/40 Hilda - interview L. Hart
17/41 Hilda on Indians
17/42 HART, L. , Why the Doctrine of Non-Resistance
Had Failed - 1961
17/43 HART, L., Brief History of G.C. Mission work,
1953
17/44 HART, Lawrence
17/45 HART, Connie - Menn. Missions, 1980
17/46 HABEGGER, Lois - Cheyenne Trails
17/47 Cheyenne Finances
17/48 EDIGERS IN OKLA
17/49 EDGAR
17/50 EARLY DAYS in C & A
17/51 DOG SOLDIERS
17/52 Dalke, 75 yrs. GC Ind. Mission in Okla. 1955
17/53 Dalke - C & A of Okla. Before missionary,
1954
17/54 Cheyenne Customs
17/55 CUSTER - sites (Tony's notes)
17/56 Custer
17/57 Cheyenne Creation Stories
17/58 Correspondence
Box 18
(Large)
Assorted papers
Includes “A Personal Sketch of Karl Baehr” (2 pages),
correspondence, 1970’s-90’s, and some working files.
18/1 Constitution - Native American
18/2 Judaism
18/3 Misc. Indian
18/4 Misc. Indian
18/5 Genealogy
18/6 Communication
18/7 Dickinson College - Poetry
18/8 Misc. Indian, incl. writings by AREB
18/9 FRIENDS WORLD COLLEGE
18/10 Misc. booklets, writings, letters
18/11 Rejection Letters from Editors
18/12 HOFSTRA , PEIR, 10/8/85
18/13 Atlantic Center for the Arts
18/14 Lists of Poems submitted by Anna
18/15 New Poems
18/16 Personal Correspondence
18/17 Study Tour
18/18 Spicher, Julia
18/19 BIO
18/20 Correspondence
18/21 Personal sketch of Karl Baehr
18/22 ARC
Correspondence
18/23 Any
18/24 Anna to Amy
18/25 Anna Ruth to family
18/26 Annie Baehr
18/27 Becky Baehr (Grandaughter)
18/28 Beth (Betsy) Bullard
18.29 Truman Bullard
18/30 Bexter Bullard
18/31 Martin Bullard
18/32 Bethel
18/33 David
18/34 Esther
18/35 Ruth
18/36 Gus
18/37 Herb & Jean
18/38 Hilda's letters
18/39 Joel Baehr
18/40 Kiar
18/41 Lois Helmus
18/42 "Pat"
18/43 Paul
18/44 Rufus & Elsa Baehr
18/45 Selma
18/46 Thomas & (?)
18/47 Tony
18/48 Unsorted
18/49 Misc. & Clippings
18/50 Cemetery Tours
18/51 Misc, unsorted
1852 Carl's Bible
Box 19 (Long
Gray)
Includes “Stitches”, by Anne Ruth Ediger (description of sewing
stitches with actual samples, pasted into a scrapbook, no date),
newspapers on Indians and Oklahoma, and some working files.
January 6, 2006 / Posted on Internet
July 11, 2005 / Last update
File: “HM1-890 Anna Ruth Ediger Baehr 1916-1998.doc”
Mennonite
Church USA Archives-Goshen, 1700 S. Main St., Goshen, Indiana 46526
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