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Alamo Navajo Oral History Project

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Identifier: MSS-563-BC
Scope and Content The Alamo Navajo Oral History Project collection consists of 23 interviews on 26 CDs with related photographs. The interviews were conducted between 1977 and 1984 with people from the Alamo Navajo Reservation in southwestern New Mexico. The interviewees include: Louise Abeyta, Narciso Abeyta, John Anderson Pino, Denny Y. Apachito, Julian Apachito, Martiano Apachito, Billy Apachito, Hattie Apachito, Helen Apachito, Ida Apachito, Bessie Field Baca, John M. Baca. Thomas Ganadonegro, John Guerro,...
Dates: 1977-1984

American Indian Oral History Collection

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Identifier: MSS-314-BC
Abstract The American Indian Oral History collection contains recorded interviews with and about Native Americans. There were 904 recordings collected by the University of New Mexico between 1967-1972. The bulk of the interviews contain oral traditions and recollections from Navajos and Pueblos. Transcripts are available for most of the recordings.
Dates: 1967-1973

Charlemaud Curtis Collection of Southwestern Music, Interviews and Programs

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Identifier: MSS-847-BC
Abstract The Curtis collection contains a wide variety of recordings including music, programs and interviews. They range from Navajo, Pueblo, Keresan, Laguna and Mescalero Apache and songs and dances, Spanish alabados, Christmas plays, and wedding dances and popular music, to Anglo American fiddle and cowboy tunes and African American gospel music. Also included are some songs from the Cheyenne and Plains Indians, the Tarahumara of Chihuahua, the Indians of Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Peru, and a...
Dates: 1960-1987

Charlotte Johnson Frisbie Collection of Navajo Music and Oral Histories

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Identifier: MU-10
Abstract This is a copy of the field recordings made by Charlotte S. Johnson on the Navajo Reservation in 1963-1965. There are large segments of Navajo dialogue with English translations. The collection contains a wide range of songs and oral histories that provide an in depth view of Navajo religion, society and history.
Dates: 1963-1965

Louise Lamphere Anthropological Collection

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Identifier: MSS-947-BC
Abstract The collection contains administrative documents, correspondence, photographs, audio recordings, oral histories, articles and research files of Louise Lamphere, a professor emerita of the University of New Mexico. She is known for her founding role in feminist anthropology.
Dates: 1960-2008; Majority of material found in 1980-2004

Navajo Uranium Miners Oral History and Photography Project

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Identifier: MSS -622-BC
Scope and Content This oral history project consists of 26 individual interviews with former uranium miners or family members of the Navajo Tribe on 26 different cassette tapes. This collection also contains 14 DVDs containing 3 interviews, scenery shots from the mines and the area where the miners lived, as well as some miscellaneous, untranscribed interviews.The interviews were conducted in either Navajo or English by Mr. Benally. Most interviews, or excerpts from them, were transcribed in both...
Dates: 1996-1998

Odd S. Halseth Collection of Native American Social Songs and Interviews

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Identifier: MU-22
Abstract This collection consists of 278 sound recordings made in 1950 and 1965. It contains social songs, dances, violin and vocal presentations, oral history interviews and commentaries about Native American customs, social life, ceremonies and rituals.
Dates: 1950-1965

Oral history interview with Richard Wetherill II

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Identifier: MSS-817-BC
Abstract The collection consists of an audio interview with Richard Wetherill II, conducted by Richard Sandlin in December 1977. The interview gives insight into the Wetherill family, relationships with the Navajo, and life in the Southwest during the early-mid 20th century.
Dates: 1977 December 1-4

Sacred Lands Project Collection

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Identifier: MSS -617-BC
Scope and Content This collection contains the research and oral histories generated by the Sacred Lands Project. The project culminated with Parlow's book, Cry Sacred Ground: Big Mountain U.S.A., which documents Navajo and Hopi resistance to the 1974 Relocation Act. The collection is divided into three overlapping series.Series I contains background to the Sacred Lands Project, along with Parlow's correspondence and field research. Her research includes field...
Dates: 1894-1988 ( bulk 1984-1988)

Sally McClain Collection of Navajo Code Talker Interviews

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Identifier: MSS-1106-BC
Scope and Contents The collection consists of audio interviews conducted with nine Navajo Code Talkers (and the widow of Jimmy Gleason) by author Sally McClain as part of the research for her book Navajo Weapon, published in 1994. The original sixteen audio cassette tapes have been reformatted to CDs for researcher use.
Dates: 1990 - 1992

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Sound recordings 4
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Navajo Indians 2
Navajo Indians -- History 2
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Navajo Indians -- Social life and customs 2
African Americans – New Mexico – Music 1
Alamo Navajo Reservation (N.M.) 1
Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation (N.M.) 1
Christmas plays, Spanish -- New Mexico 1
Church music – Ne w Mexico – Catholic Church 1
Cochiti Indians -- Music 1
Correspondence 1
Country music – New Mexico 1
Cowboys – New Mexico -- Songs and music 1
Cry, Sacred Ground: Big Mountain U.S.A. 1
Excavations (archaeology) -- New Mexico -- Chaco Canyon 1
Factories -- New Mexico 1
Family Life 1
Feminist Anthropology 1
Fiddle tunes – New Mexico 1
Folk music – New Mexico 1
Frontier and pioneer life – New Mexico 1
Hispanic American women -- Employment -- New Mexico -- Albuquerque 1
Hogans -- Arizona 1
Hopi Indians -- Land tenure 1
Hopi Indians -- Legal status, laws, etc. 1
Hopi Indians -- Music 1
Hopi Indians -- Religion 1
Hopi Indians -- Relocation 1
Indian dance -- North America 1
Indian dance -- Southwest, New 1
Indian land transfers -- Arizona 1
Indians of North America -- Biography 1
Indians of North America -- History -- Sources 1
Indians of North America -- Kinship -- Southwest, New 1
Indians of North America -- New Mexico -- Socorro County 1
Indians of North America -- Religion 1
Indians of North America -- Relocation 1
Indians of North America -- Social life and customs 1
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Music 1
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Social life and customs 1
Industrialization 1
Jemez Indians -- Music 1
Life - Work Balance 1
Matachines (Dance) 1
Matachines (Music) 1
Mescalero Indians -- Music 1
Mexican American - Women Employment- New Mexico - Albuquerque 1
Minutes (Records) 1
Mural painting and decoration 1
Music -- New Mexico -- Albuquerque 1
Music -- New Mexico -- Chihuahua 1
Music -- New Mexico -- Clovis 1
Music -- New Mexico -- La Joya 1
Music -- New Mexico -- Portales 1
Music -- New Mexico -- Santa Rosa 1
Music – New Mexico 1
Navajo Code Talkers 1
Navajo Indians -- Economic conditions 1
Navajo Indians -- Kinship 1
Navajo Indians -- Land tenure 1
Navajo Indians -- Legal status, laws, etc. 1
Navajo Indians -- Medicine 1
Navajo Indians -- Religion 1
Navajo Indians -- Relocation 1
Navajo Indians -- Rites and ceremonies 1
Navajo Indians -- Social conditions 1
Navajo Women -- Biography 1
Navajo Women Weavers 1
Navajo children -- Education -- Navajo Indian Reservation 1
Navajo language 1
Old–Time music – New Mexico 1
Oral history interviews of the Alamo Navajo Oral History Project, 1977-1984 1
Oral history – Archival resources 1
Photographs 1
Powwows – New Mexico 1
Pueblo Indians 1
Pueblo Indians -- Music 1
Race Relations 1
Research notes 1
Single Mother 1
Songs, Spanish – New Mexico 1
Sunbelt (U.S.) 1
Transcripts 1
United States -- Armed Forces -- History 1
United States Ethnic Relations 1
United States Social Conditions 1
Uranium industry--Environmental aspects--Navajo Indian Reservation 1
Uranium miners--Health aspects 1
Women Employment - New Mexico - Albuquerque 1
Women Employment -Sunbelt States 1
Women’s Studies 1
Work and family Sunbelt States. 1
Working Mothers - New Mexico - Albuquerque 1
World War, 1939-1945--Cryptography 1
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Indian 1
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North American Indian languages 2
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Central American Indian languages 1
 
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Alamo Navajo Oral History Project 1
American Anthropological Association 1
Benally, Timothy 1
Cobos, Rubén 1
Doris Duke Foundation 1