Oscar Hiram Lipps

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Oscar Hiram Lipps (1872 - 1969) worked at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, was superintendent of the Nez Perce Agency, was superintendent at the Chemawa Indian School, and was a field representative of the U. S. Indian Service. He wrote a two volume book on the Navajo. The University of Oregon has a collection of his papers.[1]

Lipps was born in Fayette, Indiana. He studied in Harriman, Tennessee (American Temperance University?).[2]

Lipps was the superintendent at the Carlisle School from July 1915 through March 1917 when he was succeeded by John Francis, Jr.[3]

Bibliography[edit]

  • The Navajos, The Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, The Torch press, 1909
  • The Navajo Volume I
  • The Navajo Volume II
  • Laws and regulations relating to Indians and their lands; compiled by Oscar H. Lipps, Lewiston Printing & Binding, Lewiston, Idaho, 1913[4]
  • The Case of the California Indians,[5] Chimewa, Oregon, School print shop, 40 pages, illustrated, 1932[6]
  • Daily Lesson Plan Book for Vocational.Instructors, 1919[7]
  • History of the Art of Weaving Among the Navajos, article published in the Red Man[8]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Archives West: Oscar Hiram Lipps papers, 1912-1939". archiveswest.orbiscascade.org.
  2. ^ http://pages.uoregon.edu/kevhat/Guide%20to%20the%20Oscar%20Hiram%20Lipps%20Papers%201912-1939.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  3. ^ Sentinel, Joseph Cress The (31 March 2019). "Tour Through Time: John Francis Jr., the last superintendent of Carlisle Indian Industrial School". The Sentinel.
  4. ^ "Catalog of Copyright Entries". 1913.
  5. ^ Lipps, Oscar Hiram (1993). "The Case of the California Indians".
  6. ^ "Western History a Check List of Recent Items Relating to California and the West". California Historical Society Quarterly. 13 (4): 407–409. 1934. doi:10.2307/25160542. JSTOR 25160542.
  7. ^ Lipps, Oscar Hiram (1919). "Daily Lesson Plan Book for Vocational Instructors".
  8. ^ "A Bibliography on the Agriculture of the American Indians". 1942.