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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

Allen Cooper Papers

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Identifier: MSS-925-BC
Abstract Collection contains materials related to grassroots activism in New Mexico, the American Indian Movement, as well as national and international civil rights campaigns. The collection includes posters, flyers, articles, underground newspapers, reports, pamphlets, and clippings.
Dates: 1960-2013

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

Ann Nolan Clark Native American Education Papers

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Identifier: MSS-1011-BC
Scope and Content The collection consists of materials related to the education of Native American children, including administrative documents, curriculum materials, teacher guides, and mimeographed compilations of work written and produced by students. Most items are specific to the Southwest, with a few from the Mountain West and Great Plains. Some touch on the role and effects of World War II on native populations. Some of the curriculum texts are hand-colored by the students who used them. Ann...
Dates: 1935-1979; Majority of material found within 1942-1945

Austin A. Sam Autobiography and Houck Chapter History,

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Identifier: MSS-656-BC
Abstract The collection contains a typescript photocopy of "Sam's Story: The Autobiography of Austin A. Sam" which details the life of a Navajo Indian living in a "white environment." The collection also contains descriptive materials about the Houck Chapter of the Navajo reservation and material related to Sam's schooling and military service.
Dates: 1952-2010; Majority of material found in 1983-1992

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

Charles R. Brady Jr. Rainbow Bridge/Monument Valley Expedition Photographic Album

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Identifier: PICT-2003-015
Abstract The full hand-written title is Photographic Record of the Work and Play of the Rainbow Bridge/Monument Valley Expedition 1933. The album seems to have been compiled by Charles R. Brady Jr. Black-and-white snapshots provide a record of this scientific expedition to Utah in 1933.
Dates: 1933

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

Chinle Public School Educational Posters

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Identifier: MSS-963-OV
Abstract Educational posters of Diné (Navajo) cultural and religious emergence stories, migration and settlement history.
Dates: 2013

Clinton P. Anderson Photographs

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Identifier: PICT-000-020
Abstract Photographs related to Senator Anderson's political career. Also contains some 19th century New Mexican scenes and portraits collected by Anderson.
Dates: Majority of material found within 1946-1975; 1848-1975

Compensation for Navajo Uranium Miners collection

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Identifier: MSS-936-BC
Abstract This small collection consists of records related to compensation for Navajo uranium miners who contracted cancer and silicosis due to radiation exposure.
Dates: 1989-2004

D. M. Riordan Papers,

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Identifier: MSS-169-BC
Abstract The Riordan records include business and personal correspondence relating to Denis Mathew 'Matt' Riordan's milling and railroading businesses at Flagstaff, Arizona, in the 1880s. Additional correspondence reflects Riordan's family and personal relationships after he left Flagstaff in 1897. Some material relates to Riordan's position as the Fort Defiance Indian Agent (Navajo) from 1882-1884.
Dates: 1886-1914

David M. Brugge Papers

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Identifier: MSS-770-BC
Abstract This collection contains David Brugge's research used to assist the Navajo Nation in their land claims, in particular the case, Healing vs. Jones, resulting from the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute. There is also material on the aftermath of the court ruling including post litigation negotiations, political solution, relocation, and resistance to relocation.
Dates: 1583-2009; Majority of material found within 1952-2009

Donald L. Roberts Collection of Music of the Southwest and Mexico

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Identifier: MU-14
Abstract The collection contains recordings of Navajo, Hopi and Pueblo songs, as well as a few Apache, Ute, and Kiowa songs. A major part deals with the history and use of sand paintings, native medicine and star beliefs. There are also Matachines dances, a Los Pastores program and a concert of songs performed by the University of Chihuahua Folkloric group. The collection includes detailed explanations of the selections.
Dates: 1964-1968

Donald Lee Parman Papers

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Identifier: MSS-804-BC
Abstract This collection contains correspondence and research materials used by Donald L. Parman for his book The Navajos and the New Deal. The collection offers a grounded perspective about Navajo life during the New Deal era along with in-depth discussions about how tribal council leaders and the United States federal government worked within respectful yet contentious relationships in terms of reservation life, education and health issues, and land rights.
Dates: 1883-1994; Majority of material found within 1933-1944

E. L. Moulton Papers

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Identifier: MSS-387-BC
Abstract The majority of this collection is the business, legal, and personal correspondence of E. L. Moulton from 1910-1958.
Dates: 1910-1965; Majority of material found in 1912-1958

Eda Gordon papers

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Identifier: MSS-764-BC
Abstract This collection contains materials generated from Eda Gordon's work on behalf of Native American peoples on issues relating to energy development and exploitation on native lands, the Navajo-Hopi land dispute, and tribal sovereignty.
Dates: 1974-2002; Majority of material found within 1974-1983

Eldred R. Harrington Photograph Collection

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Identifier: PICT-000-299
Abstract This collection contains photographs of Albuquerque High students, and facilities, many landscapes, and cityscapes, and other photographs mainly dealing with education and geology.
Dates: 1930-1961

Elizabeth Willis DeHuff Pictorial Collection

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Identifier: PICT-000-099
Abstract Photographs of Hispanic and Indian peoples, landscapes, and cultural life of New Mexico from the 1920s to approximately 1945.
Dates: 1899-1945

Ellen Kemper papers concerning Navajo Hopi relocation

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Identifier: MSS-939-BC
Abstract The collection focuses on resistance and litigation in response to the forced relocation of the Navajo, pursuant to Public Law 93-531 (Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act of 1974).
Dates: 1964-1996; Majority of material found within 1986-1989

E.R. Harrington Papers

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Identifier: MSS-299-BC
Abstract This collection contains items written by and about teacher Eldred R. Harrington of Albuquerque, New Mexico, as well as other memorabilia from E. R. Harrington's library and collections.
Dates: 1945-1978

Eulalia and H. Emetaz Film Collection

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Identifier: PICT-998-011
Abstract The Eulalia and H. Emetaz Film Collection consists of 9 films, dating 1928 to 1932. Six are of various areas in the American Southwest including New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. The other 3 films are of European locations.
Dates: 1926-1932

Father Agnellus Lammert Pictorial Collection

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Identifier: PICT-2002-001
Abstract This collection primarily contains photographs of church construction, church interiors, church models, religious processions and ceremonies in New Mexico. Video includes images of the 1929 plane crash on Mt. Taylor, New Mexico, California missions, priests and school children in Gallup, New Mexico. Also included are zinc halftone blocks.
Dates: 1917-1983; Majority of material found within 1928-1942

Florence Crannell Means Photograph Collection

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Identifier: PICT-2012-003
Abstract The collection consists primarily of photographs of Navajo, Hopi, and other native people and scenes in the Southwest, circa 1928-1941.
Dates: 1928-1941

Fort Wingate, New Mexico Photograph Collection

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Identifier: PICT-000-669
Abstract The collection includes snapshots of Navajo and Anglo Brownie Scout Troop led by Patricia Merrill at Fort Wingate and the Lions International Club float in a 1973 parade in Hobbs, New Mexico.
Dates: 1954-1973

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United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs 8
Collier, John, 1884-1968 5
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Martínez, María Montoya 4
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Brophy, William A. (William Aloysius), 1903-1962 2
Chavez, Dennis, 1888-1962 2
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 2
Frisbie, Charlotte Johnson 2
Gilpin, Laura, 1891-1979 2
Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial Association 2
Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942 2
Littell, Norman M. (Norman Mather), 1899-1994 2
Montoya, Joseph Manuel, 1915-1978 2
Newcomb, Franc Johnson 2
Tonantzin Land Institute 2
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. United Pueblos Agency 2
United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Navajo Agency 2
Wetherill, Marietta, 1876-1954 2
Young, Robert W., 1912-2007 2
Aberle, David F. (David Friend), 1918-2004 1
Adair, John, 1913-1997 1
Ahkeah, Sam, 1896-1967 1
Alamo Navajo Oral History Project 1
Albuquerque High School (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1
Albuquerque Public Schools 1
All Indian Pueblo Council 1
Allen, Paula Gunn, 1939-2008 1
American Anthropological Association 1
American Indian Movement 1
Anderson, Clinton Presba, 1895-1975 1
Applegate, Frank G. (Frank Guy), 1881-1931 1
Archuleta, Manuel 1
Arrowsmith, Rex 1
Austin, Mary, 1868-1934 1
Benally, Timothy 1
Bessie Lee 1
Big Mountain Weaving Project 1
Brady, Charles R. 1
Brock, Louise, 1923-2011 1
Brugge, David M. 1
Brugge, Doug 1
Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968 1
Charles Ilfeld Company 1
Chase, D. B. (Dana B.), 1848-1897 1
Clark, Ann Nolan, 1896-1995 1
Cobb, William Henry, 1859-1909 1
Cobos, Rubén 1
Cooper, Allen F. 1
Coordinación de Organizaciones y Naciones Indigenas del Continente 1
Cordell, Linda S. 1
Davis, Wyatt, 1906-1984 1
DeHuff Family 1
DeHuff, Elizabeth Willis, 1886-1983 1
Detroit Photographic Co 1
Diné Citizens against Ruining Our Environment (Organization) 1
Doris Duke Foundation 1
Edmister, Grace Thompson, 1890-1984 1
Farmer, Malcolm F. 1
Federal Writers' Project. New Mexico 1
Fred Harvey (Firm) 1
Gachupin, Juan -- interviewee 1
Gordon, Eda 1
Gross, Blackwell & Company 1
Gross, Kelly & Company, Inc 1
Hammond, George P. (George Peter), 1896-1993 1
Harjo, Joy 1
Herrera, Velino 1
Indigenous Environmental Network 1
Indigenous Peoples Alliance 1
Indigenous Women's Network 1
James, George Wharton, 1858-1923 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 1
Kabotie, Fred, 1900-1986 1
Kanesta, Elaine 1
Kemper, Ellen R. 1
Kuiper, Paul 1
Laboratory of Anthropology (Museum of New Mexico) 1
Lamphere, Louise 1
Law, Lisa 1
LeRoy King, Mary 1
Lujan, David 1
MacDonald, Peter, 1928- 1
Mansfield, Joseph K. F. (Joseph King Fenno), 1803-1862 1
Marmon, Lee 1
Martinez, Julian, -1943 1
Maude, F. H. (Frederic Hamer) 1
Mettler, Earl 1
Momaday, N. Scott, 1934- 1
Monongye, David 1
Moon, Carl, 1878-1948 1
Morris, Earl Halstead, 1889-1956 1
Moulton, E. L. (Earl Lake), 1878- 1
Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art 1
Natay, Edward Lee, -1966 1
National Indian Youth Council 1
National Lawyers Guild. Committee on Native American Struggles 1
Navajo Indian Irrigation Project (U.S.) 1
Navajo Sovereignty Project 1
New Mexico Historical Records Survey 1
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