Angus Pierre McDonald was the son of Hudson’s Bay Company trader Angus McDonald and a Native American wife (Okanogan tribe) that McDonald took for a year in the absence of his wife, Catherine. He was born about 1861. In his later years, along with many of his siblings, he had to fight to establish his status as a U.S. citizen in order to keep his land in Niarada, Montana, after allotment of the Flathead Reservation.
The collection consists of a single manuscript letter and a typed transcript of same. McDonald writes to the Secretary of the Interior in 1914 to argue that he is an American citizen, and therefore entitled to his homestead on the Flathead Reservation, even though he is of mixed blood. He gives details of his birth and subsequent life activities as well as arguments for his case.
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[Name of document or photograph number], Angus McDonald Letter, Archives and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana—Missoula.
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