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Horatio O. Ladd Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3-BC
Scope and Content
This collection of 177 items, dated 1839-1932 with the bulk covering 1881-1887, focuses primarily on the Ladd family, their friends and colleagues, the Ramona School, and the University of New Mexico at Santa Fe. Ladd's autobiographical notes and diary, covering 1881-1884, concern the founding of the University of New Mexico at Santa Fe and the Ramona School. The correspondence mostly concerns raising funds for the University of New Mexico at Santa Fe, and contains letters in support of Indian...
Dates:
1879-1932 (bulk 1881-1887)
Leland Clifton Wyman Papers on Navajo Myths and Sandpaintings,
Collection
Identifier: MSS -650-BC
Abstract
The materials in this collection represent Leland Wyman's research on Navajo myths and sandpaintings. It includes source material written by Gladys Reichard, Berard Haile, and Franc Newcomb, as well as illustrations of weavings by Hasteen Klah and slides of Native American arts and crafts.
Dates:
1920-1981
Robert W. Young Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-672-BC
Abstract
This collection contains works and materials written and gathered by Robert W. Young, professor emeritus in linguistics at the University of New Mexico. Materials concern Navajo linguistics, BIA and Navajo tribal government records, customs, livestock, education, employment, natural resources, and other issues.
Dates:
1850-2003 (bulk 1823-1980)
Sally McClain Collection of Navajo Code Talker Interviews
Collection
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
University of New Mexico Navajo Reading Study Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-807-BC
Abstract
The Navajo Reading Study was conducted by the University of New Mexico and supported by grants from the Ford Foundation and contracts with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the U.S. Office of Education. The purpose of the study was to investigate the feasibility and effect of teaching Navajo children to read their own language before learning to read English.
Dates:
1940-1979; Majority of material found within 1969-1975
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- Navajo language 4
- Navajo Indians -- Education 2
- Apache languages 1
- Athapascan Indians--Languages 1
- Blessingway (Navajo rite) 1
- Education, Bilingual -- New Mexico 1
- English language -- Study and teaching -- Navajo speakers 1
- Indian children -- Southwest, New -- Education 1
- Indian termination policy 1
- Indians of North America -- Education -- New Mexico 1
- Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. 1
- Interviews 1
- Missions -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe -- Educational work 1
- Mountainway (Navajo rite) 1
- Multicultural education -- New Mexico 1
- Navajo Code Talkers 1
- Navajo Indians -- Economic conditions 1
- Navajo Indians -- Government relations 1
- Navajo Indians -- History 1
- Navajo Indians -- Land tenure 1
- Navajo Indians -- Politics and government 1
- Navajo Indians -- Religion 1
- Navajo Indians -- Rites and ceremonies 1
- Navajo Indians -- Social conditions 1
- Navajo Indians -- Social life and customs 1
- Navajo Indians--Claims 1
- Navajo Reading Study Records 1
- Navajo language -- Study and teaching 1
- Navajo mythology 1
- Oral histories 1
- Sandpaintings 1
- Santa Fe (N.M.) -- Schools -- History 1
- Slides (Photography) 1
- United States -- Armed Forces -- History 1
- World War, 1939-1945--Cryptography 1
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Indian 1 ∧ less
- Language
- Navajo; Navaho 1
- Names
- United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs 2
- Aberle, David F. (David Friend), 1918-2004 1
- Collier, John, 1884-1968 1
- Littell, Norman M. (Norman Mather), 1899-1994 1
- Newcomb, Franc Johnson 1
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