National Algonquin Indian Council records

Correspondence, minutes, membership cards, printed material, and other records by or relating to the National Algonquin Indian Council (NAIC) and photograph albums and loose photographs belonging to the Perry and Farrow families of Rhode Island, 1924-1980s. Founding documents, correspondence, minutes, and treasurer's notes of the NAIC kept by secretary Annie Frances Perry Farrow, daughter of Narragansett chief Alfred C. A. Perry. Also present is a cast-iron hand-press notary seal of the NAIC. Records chronicle the membership and activities of the council as it sought to practice ancestral traditions, engage in community building, and secure equality through political action. There is also a scrapbook assembled by Barbara Farrow, containing newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, and documents acquired from her mother, Annie Frances Perry Farrow, with materials dating between the 1920s and 1980s. In addition, there are 3 photograph albums containing 118 photographs, some with manuscript captions; 3 negatives; 10 tintype photographs (2 framed); and 44 loose photographs of the Perry family and family farm as well as the Farrow family, who are of both Native American and African-American descent. There are 2 photographs of NAIC members, 1923 December 13 and circa 1920. There is also a file of research on the Fayerweather family.