Collection M 113: Ute printed materials inventory

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Preface	Introduction/  Scope and contents	Administrative information	Historical note
		Series descriptions	Info for doing research at the Center of Southwest Studies
Contents list	Center of Southwest Studies collection inventories		Other Ute collections	Center of Southwest Studies

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Introduction/ Scope and contents

Years this material was created:  1880-2007 (bulk years: 1940-2004)

Quantity: 2 linear shelf feet (in 4.5 document cases)

This is a collection of pamphlets, papers, reports, printouts of newspaper articles, and other printed materials pertaining to Ute Indians, especially the Southern Ute Tribe.  The Center assembled these materials from disparate sources.  Highlights of the collection include letterpress copies of correspondence from the Southern Ute Agency's U.S. Indian Agent David F. Day (1896), and reports on controversy over land in the region.  The collection also includes three document cases of printed materials pertaining to (and resulting from) a ten-year study of the tri-ethnic community of Ignacio, Colorado begun in the late 1940s through University of Colorado under the direction of Omer Stewart.

Access points:
Ute Indians--History
Ute Indians--Colorado--History
Ute Mountain Indian reservation--History
Southern Ute Indians--History
Navajo Indians--Social life and customs
Indians of North America--Land tenure
Indians of North America--Government relations
Ignacio (Colo.)
Day, David F.
Stewart, Omer C.
Graves, Theodore D.
Jessor, Lee
Jessor, Richard
Hanson, Robert C.
Burns, Sam

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Administrative information

Acquisition of this collection:  These materials were donated by various donors including Tom Wiseman (accession 2001:04007) and the Fort Lewis College Office of Community Service.

About the organization of this collection:  The series and boxes are numbered consecutively.  The boxes are numbered in one single numbering scheme starting with 1.  Folder numbers start with 1 in each box.  Items within each series (e.g., correspondence, reports) and within each folder are arranged chronologically, unless noted otherwise.

Processing information:  This collection was arranged and described by Fort Lewis College archivist Todd Ellison in August, 2007.  The inventory was prepared by Ellison (last updated November 16,  2007). 

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Historical note

Click here for a brief online history pertaining to the Ute and other Native peoples of the Southwest.  See also this online bibliography of Ute histories.

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Series descriptions

Series 1:  Study of the tri-ethnic community of Ignacio, Colorado, reports, circa 1961-1986.  12 folders, in document cases 1 and 2.  Arrangement is chronological.  Books and papers pertaining to (and resulting from) a ten-year study of the tri-ethnic community of Ignacio, Colorado. The ethnic groups studied were (1) Southern Ute and Navajo (the latter, students present at the Ignacio boarding school), (2) Hispanic-Americans, and (3) Anglo-Americans.  The study was conducted through University of Colorado under the direction of Omer Stewart and was begun in the late 1940s.  Due to the nature of the report, the town of Ignacio was not mentioned often, if at all. Accession 2001:04007.  These materials were given by their authors to James Canan, then Bureau of Indian Affairs superintendent in Ignacio. Mr. Canan gave them to Mr. Tom Wiseman, longtime resident of Ignacio, in the hopes that the materials would be placed in an archival repository that could preserve them and make them available.

A list of Tri-ethnic Project PhD dissertations and MA theses written:

List prepared by Rob Yazzie on July 18, 2002, from reports in this collection, Box 1.

Author	Title	Year	Institution
Langner, Thomas	Normative behavior and emotional adjustment	1963	Columbia University
Meier, Harold C.	Three ethnic groups in a southwestern community	1955	University of Colorado
Mandell, Elizabeth	Construct validation of psychometric measure of expectancy	1959	University of Colorado
Carmen, R. S.	Personality and drinking patterns among college students	1965	University of Colorado
Graves, T. D.	Time perspective and the deferred gratification pattern in a tri-ethnic community	1962	University of Pennsylvania
Grossman, P. H.	Drinking Motivation: A cluster analytic study of three samples	1965	University of Colorado
Guertin, Carol	Perceived life-chances in the opportunity structure: A study of a tri-ethnic high school	1962	University of Colorado
Kuykendall, D. L.	Frustration and attribution of blame in middle and lower class delinquents	1965	University of Colorado
Opochinsky, S.	Values, expectations, and formation of impressions	1965	University of Colorado
Rendon, G., Jr.	Voting behavior in tri-ethnic community	1962	University of Colorado
Shybut, J.	Delayed gratification: A study of its measurements and its relationship to certain behavioral, psychological, and demographic variables	1963	University of Colorado
Shybut, J.	Delay of gratification and severity of disturbance among hospitalized and psychiatric patients	1965	University of Colorado
Adler, Nathan	The perception of time as a function of a self-organization	1954	University of California, Berkeley
James, William H.	Internal versus external control of reinforcement as a basic variable in learning theory	1957	Ohio State University
McArthur, C. C.	Cultural values as factors in imaginal productions	1952	Harvard University
Meier, Dorothy, & Wendell Bell	Three ethnic groups in a Southwestern community	1955	University of Colorado
Neff, J.	Individual differences in the resistance to extinction as a function of generalized expectancy	1956	Ohio State University

Series 2:   Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, [undated; circa 1940-1960].  One card per owner.  Data on each card includes the legal description of the lot(s), its zoning, surface of the street or road, utilities at the site, category of the topography, type and use of building, number of rooms, construction data, ground plan sketch, date of construction and major alterations or additions, details of garage and minor buildings, square footage, and appraisal figures. Arrangement is by block and lot number.  These cards apparently were associated with the tri-ethnic study of Ignacio (Series 1).  34 folders, in document cases 2 and 3. 

Series 3:    Ute historical records and printed materials, 1880-2004.  20 folders, in document cases 3 and 4.  Arrangement is chronological for the most part.

Series 4:    Ute newspaper clippings by the Durango Herald, 1998-ongoing.  10 folders, in document case 5.  Arrangement is chronological.  Nearly all pertain to the Southern Ute.  One folder and a few number of the pages in the other folders in this series pertain to the Ute Mountain Ute.

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Contents list:

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Series 1: Study of the tri-ethnic community of Ignacio, Colorado, reports, circa 1961-1986 (in box #s 1-3)

Box 1: 

Folder	Title
1	Time Perspective and the Deferred Gratification Pattern in a Tri-ethnic Community/ research report #5 by Theodore D. Graves, August 1961 (284 pages plus appendices).
2	Tri-ethnic research project coding scheme, 1959-60 census, article / by James A. Clifton and B. M. Alfred, Aug. 15, 1961 (33 pages).
3	"A Social Learning Approach to Culture and Behavior," Institute of Behavioral Science publication 23/ by Richard Jessor, reprint, 1962, pages 94-114.
4	Research report #16: Expectations, values, and personal disjunctions: the development and analysis of two test procedures, by N. John Castellan, Jr., April, 1963 (31 pages plus 31 tables plus 40 pages of appendix).
5	Research report #25, being a compendium of four papers, by Richard Jessor, Robert C. Hanson, Theodore D. Graves, and Lee Jessor, presented at a conference in San Francisco Nov. 24, 1963.
6	Toward a Social Psychology of Excessive Alcohol-Use, Institute of Behavioral Science publication 46/ by Richard Jessor, reprint, 1964, pages 59-79.
7	Acculturation, Access and Alcohol in a Tri-ethnic Community/ research report #30 by Theodore D. Graves, revised Oct. 1966 (57 pages).
8	Anthropologists as expert witnesses for Indians: claims and peyote cases, article/ by Omer C. Stewart, reprint from Anthropology and the American Indian: A symposium, The Indian Historian Press (San Francisco, Calif.), 1973, pages 35-[43].
9	Society, Personality and Deviant Behavior: a study of a tri-ethnic community/ 1986, signed by the co-author Richard Jessor, who inscribed it to the donor Jim Canan.

Box 2: 

Folder	Title
1	"Annotated bibliography of research reports" / by Theodore D. Graves, director, [undated] (3 pages).
2	Subject files index as of Oct. 1, 1962 (9 pages) (2 sets).
3	Provenance and routes of entry of Tec Hispanos, map.  1 page (multiple copies).

Series 2:    Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards.

Box 2 (continued):   

Folder	Title
4	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, block 1, [undated].
5	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, block 1, [undated].
6	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, block 2, [undated].
7	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, block 2, [undated].
8	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, block 3, [undated].
9	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, block 3, [undated].
10	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, block 4, [undated].
11	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, block 5, [undated].
12	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, block 6, [undated].
13	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, block 6, [undated].
14	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, block 7, [undated].
15	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, block 8, [undated].
16	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, block 9, [undated].
17	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, block 11, [undated].
18	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, block 12, [undated].
19	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, block 13, [undated].
20	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, block 14, [undated].
21	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, block 15, [undated].
22	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, block 16, [undated].
23	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, block 17, [undated].
24	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, block 18, [undated].
25	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, block 22, [undated].
26	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, rural, [undated].
27	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, rural master, [undated].  Some of these cards include a 2.5 x 2.5" b/w photo of the exterior of the building.

Box 3:   

Folder	Title
1	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, rural, Township 32, sections ____, [1949].
2	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, rural, Township 32, sections 9-18, [1949].
3	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, rural, Township 32, sections ____, [1949].
4	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, rural, Township 32, sections 17-22, [1949].
5	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, rural, Township 33, sections 6-7, [1949].
6	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, rural, Township 33, section 8, [1949].
7	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, rural, Township 33, section 17, [1949].
8	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, rural, Township 33, sections 18-29, [1949].
9	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, rural, Township 33, sections 30-34, [1949].
10	Ignacio (Colo.) real estate appraisal cards, rural, Township 34, sections 7-20, [1949].

Series 3:  Southern Ute historical records and printed materials

Box #3, continued: 

Folder	Title
11	Ouray, the Ute Indian Chief.  Article clipped from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Sept. 18, 1880. Permalife bond archival copy made in Oct. 2001.  The original of the article is attached to a pocket on the back of the frame of accession 2001:1007 (the bottom of the article was not retained by whoever was doing the clipping, before the Center obtained this).
12	U.S. Indian Agent,  Southern Ute Agency (Ignacio, Colo.), letterpress copybook of correspondence to U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Jan. 1, 1896-July 28, 1896, by David F. Day (1 volume; 279 pages).  Was water damaged; half of the pages are illegible.  This was found at the Center with a box of Western Colorado Power Company records from 1899-1919.
13	Free orchard homes in sunny Colorado: 16,000 acres of government land: first segregation of the Southern Ute Indian Reservation to be opened for entry: drawing at Ignacio, Colo., July 15, 1909 under the auspices of the State Land Board, by authority of the Department of the Interior under the terms of the Carey Act, at one dollar and seventy-five cents per acre, exclusive of water rights.  Transcribed by Fort Lewis College Professor of Anthropology Kathy Fine-Dare, 2001.

Box #4:

Folder	Title
1	Rehabilitation plan of the Southern Ute Tribe, [undated, circa 1953-1954] (111 pages; set #1).  Accession 2004:11007.1.
2	Rehabilitation plan of the Southern Ute Tribe, [undated, circa 1953-1954] (111 pages; set #2).  Accession 2004:11007.1.
3	Story of the Southern Utes / by Bob White, Information Officer, Southern Ute Tribe, Jan. 20, 1955 (30 pages).  Accession 2004:11007.1.
4	Story of the Southern Utes / by Bob White, Jan. 20, 1955 (30 pages; plus a Permalife bond archival copy made on April 15, 2003).
5	A report of the Southern Ute Tribe to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs on progress made under the Southern Ute Rehabilitation Program between June 1, 1956 and Jan. 1, 1958 /  Jan. 1, 1958 (1 volume; 72 pages).
6	Where we stand: A report by the Southern Ute Tribe to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs on the position of the Tribe at the completion of its first five years of work under the Southern Ute Rehabilitation Program /  Jan. 1, 1960 (1 volume; 78 pages; plus a Permalife bond archival copy made on April 15, 2003).
7	A short dictionary of the Southern Ute language / by James A. Goss, Aug. 1961 (22 pages; 2 sets, plus a Permalife bond archival copy made on April 15, 2003).
8	Models and Great Basin prehistory: a symposium; conference papers, edited by Don D. Fowler, Desert Research Institute Publications in the Social Sciences, No. 12, 1977 (photocopy).  The only two sections here in this folder from that publication are: "Linguistic tools for the Great Basin prehistorian" / by James A. Goss, Washington State University, pages [49]-70; "Comment on Goss' 'Linguistic tools for the Great Basin prehistorian'" / by Stephen C. Jett, University of California, Davis, pages 71-78
9	Southern Ute Indian Tribe annual wall calendars, 1985, 1998, 1999 (3 items).
10	The Ute circle of life: a guide book and companion to the Southern Ute Indian Cultural Center Museum, 1994 (1 vol., 38 pages, spiral bound).
11	Ute tourist rack cards, circa 1999-2004.  Of the Southern Ute and of the Ute Mountain Ute.
12	Ute Mountain Ute Tribe printed publicity materials, circa 1999-2003.  Includes Volume 1 of an Animas-La Plata cultural resources update, June 2003 and an undated Ute Mountain Tribal Park cover with a note "this is the cover that Tom McMurray did for us."
13	"The Yamparika -- Shoshones, Comanches, or Utes -- or does it matter?"/ by James A. Goss, in Lord O. Glemmer, et al., editors, Julian Steward and the Great Basin: the making of an anthropologist (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1999), pages 74-84 (photocopy).
14	"Rocky Mountain high culture: look, the Utes aren't marginal anymore!!!" / by James A. Goss, Professor of Anthropology, Texas Tech University, plenary paper presented at the 4th Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference, Glenwood Springs, Colo., Oct. 1, 1999, pages 1-9 (photocopy).
15	Southern Ute miscellaneous printed materials, circa 1999-2004.  Includes a Denver Post article July 4, 1999 on Southern Utes in turmoil; business card of Sean Slattery, Director of Operations, Southern Ute Indian Cultural Museum, 1999; Friends of the Southern Ute Indian Cultural Museum news and membership application circa 1990s; Southern Ute website printout about the symbolism (interpreted by Russell Box, 2004) of the tribal flag designed by Ben Watts and Stanley Reed Frost; and a typescript of a letter to the editor dated June 2004 by Orville G. Hood, "Making sense of tribal governance."
16	Leonard Cloud Burch (1933-2003) memorial programs, Aug. 4-5, 2003.
17	The Ute relationships to the lands of West Central Colorado: an ethnographic overview prepared for the U.S. Forest Service by the Office of Community Services.  This report was prepared for the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forests, revised as of August 2004, by the Office of Community Services, Fort Lewis College (Sam Burns, Research Director), through a Cooperative Agreement with the National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska, Agreement No. CA6000A9003 Modification No. 008.  Permalife bond archival copy made on Sept. 2, 2004.
18	Ute Mountain Ute Self-Reliance Project grant application for $121,070 submitted to the  U.S. Administration for Native Americans by the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Planning Office, June 4, 1987.

Series 4:  Ute newspaper articles by the Durango Herald

Box #5: 

Folder	Title
1	Southern Ute Tribe newspaper articles, Durango Herald, Dec. 1998 - Dec. 1999.
2	Southern Ute Tribe newspaper articles, Durango Herald, 2000.
3	Southern Ute Tribe newspaper articles, Durango Herald, 2001.
4	Ute Mountain Ute Tribe newspaper articles, Durango Herald, 2001.
5	Southern Ute Tribe newspaper articles, Durango Herald, 2002.
6	Southern Ute Tribe newspaper articles, Durango Herald, 2003.
7	Southern Ute Tribe newspaper articles, Durango Herald, 2004.
8	Southern Ute Tribe newspaper articles, Durango Herald, 2005.
9	Southern Ute Tribe newspaper articles, Durango Herald, 2006.
10	Southern Ute Tribe newspaper articles, Durango Herald, 2007.

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