Indians of North America -- Social life and customs
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
American Indian Oral History Collection
Collection
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
Augustine B. Stoll Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1090-SC
Abstract
The collection consists primarily of reports written by Augustine B. Stoll detailing her work as a public health nurse for the American Red Cross at Santo Domingo Pueblo and on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation in New Mexico.
Dates:
1921-1953; Majority of material found in 1922-1929
Buster Degraftenreid. Belle Kilgore, collector., 1936-1940
File
Identifier: 5-4-9 32
Scope and Contents
Describes the few days Buster lived with the Indians.
Dates:
1936-1940
Custom - Arapahoe Indian Grief. Kenneth Fordyce, collector., 1936-1940
File
Identifier: 5-4-9 22
Scope and Contents
Traditions of showing grief for those who had died.
Dates:
1936-1940
Fényes-Curtin-Paloheimo Collection
Collection
Identifier: nmsfamh0011
Abstract
This collection documents the lives of three generations of one family, grandmother, Eva Scott Muse Fényes, mother, Leonora S.M. Curtin, and daughter, Leonora Curtin Paloheimo. The personal papers of the women contain extensive correspondence, diaries, thousands of photographs, business and financial documents, travel records, scrapbooks, clippings, and ephemera.
Dates:
1847-2005
Indian - colored arrows. Kenneth Fordyce, collector., 1936-1940
File
Identifier: 5-4-9 23
Scope and Contents
Describes how colored arrows are used to identify game on a hunt.
Dates:
1936-1940
Inter-Tribal Ceremonial Association Sound Recordings of the 44th Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial
Collection
Identifier: MU-6
Scope and Content
This collection contains 36 sound tapes of ceremonial dances recorded in the field during the 44th Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial, held in Gallup, N.M., August 12-15, 1965. The tapes contain music from Native American peoples from Mexico and across the United States, including the Southwest, Plains, Pacific Coast and Southeast. Twenty eight tribes are represented in the collection which has been arranged alphabetically by tribe. Also on the tapes there are descriptions of the types of dances...
Dates:
August 12-15, 1965
Lansing B. Bloom Papers,
Collection
Identifier: MSS-110-BC
Scope and Content
The collection is divided into two series: Lansing Bloom Personal Papers/AGI Research and the John Gregory Bourke Papers. The Bloom series, which is box 1 of the collection, contains Bloom's private papers and descriptive lists of hundreds of documents pertaining to Northern Mexico, New Mexico and Southwest history from the AGI that Bloom located and copied. The numbers in the lists that he assigned to the documents also appear on the photostats of the documents themselves in the...
Dates:
1540-1946 (bulk 1870-1946)
Lucky-in-the-house. Hartley Alexander, collector., 1936-1940
File
Identifier: 5-4-9 6
Scope and Contents
Describes social life and customs of the Arikara Indians and the special role of one woman, Lucky-in-the-House. Taken from Theatre Arts Monthly, August, 1933.
Dates:
1936-1940
Robert E. Robideau American Indian Movement Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-557-BC
Scope and Content
The Robert E. Robideau papers contain reports, court documents, Freedom of Information Act released FBI files, newspaper clippings, correspondence, handwritten notes, publications, audiocassette tapes, flyers, and research files pertaining to Robideau's lifelong work as an American Indian Movement activist. The original collection is divided into 3 overlapping series. 2 more series were added in July 2011. AIM consists of 23 boxes which contain the...
Dates:
1974-2007
Shirley Hill Witt Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-591-BC
Scope and Content
The contents of this collection reflect Dr. Witt's concerns for American Indian issues. Series I contains materials that Witt collected while working as a consultant to the Potawatomie, Ottawa, and Chipewa tribes for their cases before the Indian Claims Commission (ICC). The majority of the material in this series relates to docket numbers 18e (Ottawa and Chippewa of Michigan), 18g (Red Lake Band, Chippewa), 29 (Hannahville Potawatomi), 57 (Saginaw Chippewa), 58 (Ottawa and Chippewa of...
Dates:
1610-1991
The reason Indian scouts wore long hair. Frances Totty, collector., 1936-1940
File
Identifier: 5-4-9 19
Scope and Contents
Indians feel long hair is an indication of how brave a man is and believe that a man who wears short hair is a coward.
Dates:
1936-1940
Why the Indians' hair stays black. Muriel Haskell, collector., 1936-1940
File
Identifier: 4-4-12 1
Scope and Contents
Describes the hair washing customs among the Taos Indians.
Dates:
1936-1940