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Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

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  1. Charles F. Lummis Papers

    The collection includes correspondence (1879-1928), biographical materials and memorabilia (1884-1973), photographs (1889-1928), and historical materials (1559-1932), including original and typescript historical documents mainly from Spain and California. ...

    castanoe - 2022-04-25 11:24

  2. Papers of Charles Fletcher Lummis

    Collection includes journals, correspondence, writings, notebooks, and photographs, chiefly 1890-1920, of Charles Fletcher Lummis (1859-1928), writer and librarian, mostly relating to his family and career with the Southwest Society and Los Angeles Public ...

    castanoe - 2022-04-25 11:25

  3. Memoirs of James McCarthy

    James McCarthy was a Tohono O'Odham author and World War I veteran. The collection contains holograph memoirs of James McCarthy’s experiences as a member of the Tohono O'odham on the reservation, at Indian schools, service in World War I and ...

    castanoe - 2022-06-30 15:59

  4. Collection Relating to James McCarthy

    Author James McCarthy’s autobiography A Papago Traveler: The Memories of James McCarthy was edited by John G. Westover, a military historian, and published by the University of Arizona Press in 1985 for the Sun Tracks series. The collection contains ...

    castanoe - 2022-06-30 16:02

  5. Letter from Sergeant James E. Derwent to Charles Fellows, Regarding the Death of Cochise, 1874 June 10

    The collection consists of a letter from James E. Derwent, Sergeant in Company D of the 5th United States Cavalry, to personal friend Charles Fellows discussing the death of Apache leader, Cochise, on the Chiricahua reservation. Included is the holograph ...

    castanoe - 2022-06-30 16:34

  6. Oral History Interview: St. Michael's, Ariz., with Bernard Fontana, April 1-2, 1960

    The collection contains a typescript of a tape recording between Samual E. Day, a pioneer and trading post operator in the Navajo Indian Reservation, and Bernard (Bunny) L. Fontana, a prominent anthropologist who was involved in Tohono O’odham affairs. ...

    castanoe - 2022-07-05 15:07

  7. Ben J. McKinney Oral Interview / 1963 February 9

    Ben J. McKinney, born in 1883, was a pioneer cattleman who owned and operated the Ventana Ranch on the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation from 1919 to the early 1930s. This collection contains a carbon transcript of a tape recording of McKinney being ...

    castanoe - 2022-07-07 11:11

  8. Hopi Traditionalist Movement Papers

    The Hopi Traditionalist movement opposed policies of Hopi Tribal Council, Peabody Coal Company, Indian Claims Commission, and others which threatened traditional Hopi land and life. This collection consists of correspondence, transcripts of meetings, ...

    castanoe - 2022-07-18 13:29

  9. Guadalupe, Arizona, Townsite Papers

    This collection contains the earliest information about the founding (c. 1910) of a Yaqui Indian settlement southeast of Phoenix in Maricopa County, AZ, now a Yaqui-Mexican town. Included in this collection is a holograph and typescript (photocopy) of ...

    castanoe - 2022-07-25 12:05

  10. Who Were the Big Bend Basket-Makers?

    George Castor Martin was a historical writer from Terrell Wells, TX. The collection contains a typescript about the archaeology of early native peoples in the southwest region of Texas and across the border into Coahuila, Mexico. Martin describes a ...

    castanoe - 2022-08-12 13:30

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