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Finding Aids

Center of Southwest Studies Archival Collections

 

The Center’s archival collections provide invaluable insights into the history and culture of Fort Lewis College, as well as the broader Southwest region. Our collections encompass a wide variety of materials, including letters and correspondence, photographs, slides, negatives, financial and business records, maps, audiovisual media, posters, published books and periodicals, original research data, digital files, and more. These resources are non-circulating but accessible to the broader public.

To explore our archival collections, please follow the link below. Many of the Center’s archival holdings are also cataloged at the collection level in the Fort Lewis College Library Catalog.

 

Link to Archival Database

Photo of Breanna Nez in Archives

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Archival Finding Aids

Finding aids are essential tools for exploring archival collections. They offer detailed information, including collection summaries, historical or biographical context, subject lists, and descriptions of the materials and their arrangement. Most finding aids also include a container list to help locate specific items within a collection. To learn more about using finding aids, please consult our Guide to Finding Aids

 

Our finding aids are updated on an ongoing basis. We add information to collections that are unprocessed or partially processed as we can.

Finding Aids

Research Guide - Native American History and Culture

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    Archival collections at the Center of Southwest Studies related to Native American history and culture.

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CSWS Archival Collections

Native American Resources

 

Below is a select list of archival collections at the Center of Southwest Studies related to Native American history and culture. Please contact the Center’s Archives Manager for additional resources.

Note: This guide references archival materials with titles that include wording from the original records – language that has been retained for historical accuracy. We encourage users to approach these resources critically and with the acknowledgement that many were not generated by Native American peoples.

 

Manuscripts

 

M040

Helen Sloan Daniels papers (Southwestern U.S.).

M060

Four Corners Environmental Research Institute (FOCERI) collection.

M061

Indian Rights Association pamphlets (United States).

M063

Richard Ellis papers (Southwestern U.S.).

M082

Mesa Verde (Colo.) printed materials.

M109

White House Conference on Indian Education printed materials.

M113

Ute printed materials.

M121

Theodore Hetzel papers.

M127

Myra Ellen Jenkins papers (Southwestern U.S.; especially New Mexico).

M143

Oversized photographs. Includes photographs depicting Native American individuals and communities.

M153

The Institute Club Collection.

M174

Hopi petroglyphs manuscripts.

M179

E. Reeseman Fryer papers (Southwestern U.S. and elsewhere in the world, including the Middle East).

M191

Andrew Gulliford papers (United States)..

M196

Southwest Indigenous oversize materials.

M205

Navajo Trail Association records.

M206

Navajo claims collection records compiled by Dr. John Kessell (Southwestern U.S.; especially the Four Corners region).

M211

Fort Lewis Indian School (Hesperus, CO) federal records.

M221

John Collier articles series, 1959-1960, in the Ward Shepard/ John Collier papers (digital images).

M226

Native American printed materials.

M236

United Pueblos Agency records (New Mexico and adjacent areas of Southwestern U.S.).

M241

Coloring and activity books. Includes coloring and activity books featuring Native Americans (including Ute peoples).

M243

Virginia McConnell Simmons Ute Indian Printed Materials.

M254

The Case of the Indian Trader & Investigation records.

M267

Violence Against Native Women: Research and Tribal Responses.

Microforms

 

I001

U.S. Indian census rolls (RG 75).

I002

U.S. census records on microfilm for the Four Corners States, 1850-1930; Colorado 1895 state census; and Indian census rolls, 1832-1940.

I004

Spanish Archives of New Mexico on microfilm.

I005

Mexican Archives of New Mexico on microfilm.

I011

U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs selected records.

I013

U.S. Secretary of War letters relating to Indian affairs.

I014

U.S. Indian treaties (ratified) documents.

I015

U.S. Indian treaties (negotiated) documents.

I016

U.S. Indian Trading House records (RG 75).

I017

Cherokee Indian Agency records (RG 75).

I018

Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes.

I020

U.S. Superintendent of Indian Trade records (RG 75).

I021

U.S. Office of Indian Affairs records (RG 75).

I032

John Gregory Bourke diaries on microfilm (United States).

I034

Carlos Montezuma, et al., papers on microfilm.

I035

Indian Rights Association records on microfilm (United States).

I036

Society of American Indians papers on microfilm (United States).

I039

Ute and other Native American records on microfilm.

I043

Survey of Conditions of the Indians in the U.S.

I053

Southern Ute collection.

I055

American Indian Tribes major council meetings.

I064

U.S. Office of Indian Affairs field jurisdiction inspections.

I065

U.S. Superintendency of Indian Affairs records.

I074

U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs Santa Fe Indian School records.

I076

Biographical and historical index of American Indians.

I079

Pine Ridge Indian Agency records (RG 75).

I080

Pueblo Indian Agency records (RG 75).

I087

North American Indians. Photographs on microfilm depicting Native American communities in the Southwest from the National Archives.

I088

Expert testimony before the Indian Claims Commission.

I092

American Indian Fairy Tales. Microfiche.

Photographs

 

P003

Theodore Hetzel photographs.

P028

Mesa Verde (Colo.) photographs.

P051

Tom O. and H. Lucille Kimball collection (Southwestern U.S.)..

P015-008

Dominguez–Escalante Trail route snapshot photographs

Audio

 

U005

Theodore Hetzel audio recordings.

U008

American Indian Oral History Project at the University of Utah (Duke collection), Interview Transcripts.

U016

American Indian historical research project at the University of New Mexico, interview transcripts.

U018

Andrew Gulliford oral histories (United States -- especially Colorado and the broader Southwest).

U023

Southwest sounds: audio CDs from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (Southwestern U.S.).

U0XX

Oral history interviews (Southwestern U.S.; especially the Four Corners region).

 

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Archival collections at the Center of Southwest Studies related to Native American history and culture.

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