Box 3
Container
Contains 26 Results:
Boundary Fieldwork - Memos, reports, notes, 1952
File — Box: 3, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Memorandum to expert witnesses; Letter to Norman M. Littell (parties to the letters: VanValkenburg, Hammon, Farmer, Sleight, Vogt, Father Bernard Haile); Memo to Littell from Vogt on "Definition of the Navajo" from the St. Michaels Conference; Conference on future work; Research Plans; Vogt May 1952 Report on the Territorial Boundaries of the Navajo; Boundary Line of Former Navajo Lands; Navajo Tradition Geography Studies, Part One - by Frederick Sleight, Oct 1951 and Part Two, Dec. 1951....
Dates:
1952
Hearings - Notes, Correspondence, 1950-1951
File — Box: 3, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Mainly correspondence from Littell to Farmer, Perry, Gorman.
Dates:
1950-1951
Memorandum, Historical References, Notes, undated
File — Box: 3, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
undated
Navajo Hopi Boundaries - Notes, circa 1935
File — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Sources: Castaneda, Mathews, Whipple, Opler, Spier, Bandelier, etc. Tracing locations of Apache bands, Supai, Yavapai, Utes, Paiute, etc.
Dates:
circa 1935
Navajo Land Claim Problems - Notes, undated
File — Box: 3, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
undated
Petitions, Memos, Notes, 1951
File — Box: 3, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Hopi Tribe petition; memo of US treaty with Navajo chiefs from Connelley's history; draft of Navajo Petition dated Oct, 1949; description of photos at the SW Museum
Dates:
1951
Receipts - Land claims work, 1951-1955
File — Box: 3, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
1951-1955
Report on the Territory of the Navaho Indians, Malcolm Farmer - Preliminary, 1951
File — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
October 1951. 120 pp. World Aeronautical Maps I (sections A - D) and n (sections A - D)
Dates:
1951
Report on the Territory of the Navaho Indians, Malcolm Farmer - Final, 1951
File — Box: 3, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
120 pp.
Dates:
1951
Van Valkenburgh - "Some Historical Aspects of the Navajo Land Problem", 1941
File — Box: 3, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
90 pp., marked "original in the files of R. Young, Navajo Services, Window Rock, Arizona. Footnotes include references to "letter books", Fort Defiance, l880 – l883.
Dates:
1941
Van Valkenburgh - Summer work plan, comments/reports, Navajo boundaries, population, historical sources, 1952
File — Box: 3, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
Includes copy of Littell, Volume II; copy of Littell memorandum on Vogt Report on Farmer's study, marked "confidential"; insert of paper from 1950 (?) on Navajo Population Growth, 14001950 and estimating 80,000 Navaho by 1970; 8 pp and 2 graphs.
Dates:
1952
Farmer with Parents and Brother, 1935
File — Box: 3, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
Copies of the 95+ letters Malcolm wrote to his father (Ollef Farmer), his mother (Nellie Farmer), and his brother (Albert Farmer). Letters concern his experiences during the eight months he worked as an ethnobotanist for the Soil Conservation Service on the Navajo Indian Reservation.
Dates:
1935
Knox Patterson (attorney), 1950-1951
File — Box: 3, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Malcolm Farmer spent a lot of time among the Navaho, including as a student at the University of Arizona; Desert Laboratory, Southwest Museum, l935; Soil Conservation Service, Arizona-New Mexico, l935 on the Social and Economic Survey of the Navajo; Navajo Service, Arizona-New Mexico l938; Navajo Tribal Council – Arizona, New Mexico l950-52, as researcher and expert witness for the lands case Navajo Nation v. United State of America. He spoke of Navaho as his "second language." His letter of...
Dates:
1950-1951
Norman Littell (attorney representing the Navajo), 1950-1953
File — Box: 3, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
1950-1953
Frederick Sleight (later director of Palm Springs Museum), 1950-1953
File — Box: 3, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
Includes map, some photos. "Preliminary Sketch Map - Navajo Traditional Geography" by Frederick W. Sleight, and letter describing map - "The Hopi can put a hole in a good section of the Navajo claim as I see it"; " A definition of Navajo Sacred Places."
Dates:
1950-1953
Assorted, 1950-1953
File — Box: 3, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents
Includes 1952 letter from Sam Ahkeah, Navajo Tribe President introducing Farmer as "working for the good of the Navajo people," in "seeking to establish the original Navajo boundaries."
Dates:
1950-1953
Stephen Jett, 1964-1978
File — Box: 3, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents
"Pueblo Indian Migrations . ." AA, Vol 29, No 3 of Jan 1964. Follow up letter between Farmer and Jett in 1982 on war dogs in the mural at Canyon del Muerto. Farmer ceased his Navajo work around 1966.
Dates:
1964-1978
Navajo Nation Archaeology Department, 2001
File — Box: 3, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents
Gobernador polychrome pottery study
Dates:
2001
Agriculture - "Navajo Agricultural Origins", 1952
File — Box: 3, Folder: 20-22
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts and notes. "A comparative study of the agricultural practices of the Navaho Indians and of the surrounding groups to determine the origins of the Navaho agricultural complex." Typed, approx. 45 pp.; Expanded manuscript, no bibliog.., 29 pp. and handwritten draft stating: "material in this thesis is from three major sources: (1) field work among the Navaho in l935, l938, l950-51 and l952. (2) general anthropological observations in arid America (3) library resources.
Dates:
1952
Basketry; Clans; Chronology; Pottery Associations (Navajo) - Notes, undated
File — Box: 3, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
undated
Ceramics - Apachean ceramics, undated
File — Box: 3, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents
Includes notes on the purchase of a cooking vessel in l930 from FH Krankhite
Dates:
undated
Ceramics - "Ceramic Traditions in the Far West of North America and Enigma of Navajo Pottery," by Farmer, 1982
File — Box: 3, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
1982
Ceramics - "Ceramics of the Continental Divide of North America," by Farmer, Oct. 1990
File — Box: 3, Folder: 26-27
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
Oct. 1990
Ceramics - "Continental Divide Ceramic Tradition" and "A Western Continental Ceramic Tradition" by Farmer, 1991
File — Box: 3, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
1991