{"id":"1mjjzn7","internal_id":"ec946bed-adc7-44d7-ae9e-a5a5a6fd4ec1","links":{"img_thumbnail":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/downloads/deriv/y41upib/thumb_large_2X?disposition=inline","html_self":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/1mjjzn7"},"title":"My Friend the Indian, with note","additional_title":[],"format":["text"],"genre":["Personal correspondence","Publications"],"medium":[],"extent":[],"language":["English"],"provenance":"","subject":["Waterman Haas, Phoebe, 1882-1967","Indians of North America","Dakota Indians","Sioux Nation"],"department":"Archives","series_arrangement":["Series II: Phoebe Waterman Haas Papers, 1882-2006"],"rights":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/","rights_holder":"","digitization_funder":"","file_creator":"Auerbach, Jahna","description":"Book cover of My Friend the Indian, written by James McLaughlin (1842-1923), along with a note written to Otto Haas (1872-1960), co-founder of Rohm and Haas. \n\nThe note, written presumably by a relative of Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967), explains that when Phoebe was a child, she had a Sioux nurse, whom she became close to. \n\nThe note includes outdated and harmful language describing Sioux people.  To support discoverability while using more accurate terminology, the Science History Institute has applied both local subject headings and Library of Congress subject headings in describing the Oglala people. The Library of Congress continues to use the term “Indian” in its controlled vocabulary.","description_html":"<p>Book cover of <i>My Friend the Indian</i>, written by James McLaughlin (1842-1923), along with a note written to Otto Haas (1872-1960), co-founder of Rohm and Haas. </p>\n\n<p>The note, written presumably by a relative of Phoebe Waterman Haas (1882-1967), explains that when Phoebe was a child, she had a Sioux nurse, whom she became close to. </p>\n\n<p>The note includes outdated and harmful language describing Sioux people.  To support discoverability while using more accurate terminology, the Science History Institute has applied both local subject headings and Library of Congress subject headings in describing the Oglala people. The Library of Congress continues to use the term “Indian” in its controlled vocabulary.</p>","published_at":"2026-07-31T15:57:27Z","updated_at":"2026-07-31T15:57:27Z","creator":[{"category":"addressee","value":"Haas, Otto, 1872-1960"}],"date_of_work":[{"start":"1920-12-25","start_qualifier":"","finish":"","finish_qualifier":"","note":"","formatted":"1920-Dec-25"}],"place":[{"category":"place_of_creation","value":"United States"}],"inscription":[],"related_link":[],"additional_credit":[],"physical_container":{"box":"5","folder":"2","volume":"","part":"","page":"","shelfmark":"","reel":"","formatted":"Box 5, Folder 2"}}