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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

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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 - Ute History and Culture

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

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CSWS Archival Collections

Ute Resources

 

Below is a select list of archival collections at the Center of Southwest Studies related to Ute history and culture. Please contact the Center’s Archives Manager for information on 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 Ute people.

 

Manuscripts

 

M040

Helen Sloan Daniels papers. 31 folders of printed materials and 1 folder of photos related to the Ute people.

M060

Four Corners Environmental Research Institute (FOCERI) collection. Includes Ute environmental/land records.

M088/I047

Southwest Newspapers Collection. Includes Ignacio, Bayfield, and Southern Ute Drum.

Bayfield Blade (1960–1963, weekly, duplicate listing, merged with Ignacio Chieftain) [microfilm]
The Chieftain (1971–1973, weekly, duplicate of Ignacio Chieftain) [microfilm]
The Four Corners Chieftain (1972–1973, weekly, duplicate of Ignacio Chieftain) [microfilm]
Four Corners Motorcycle Rally (1995–1997, annually, only two issues) [print]
Ignacio Chieftain (1910–1972, weekly, gaps 1924–1926, 1932–1936. Roll #18 includes Bayfield Blade) [microfilm]
Ignacio Chieftain (1920–1939, weekly, duplicate, print form) [print]
Ignacio Chieftain & Bayfield Blade (1960–1963, weekly, formed by merger) [microfilm]
Ignacio Weekly Chieftain (1910–1973, weekly, duplicate of Ignacio Chieftain. Second set 1915–1920 also in print) [print]
Southern Ute Drum (1961–present, every other week, many gaps) [print]
Southern Ute Drum (1983–1991, every other week, filmed in reverse order) [microfilm]
Weekly Ignacio Chieftain (1910–1972, weekly, duplicate of Ignacio Chieftain) [microfilm]

M113

Ute printed materials. A collection of pamphlets, papers, records, and printed materials related to Ute peoples and communities.

M153

The Institute Club collection. Contains Ute-related content.

M211

Fort Lewis Indian School federal records. 9 folders of Southern Ute Indian Agency records, 1886-1961 (bulk 1886-1928).

M243

Virginia McConnell Simmons Ute printed materials.

Microforms

 

I002

U.S. Indian census rolls (RG 75). 1 roll; 1884-1940. Ute census records on reels 149, 330–334, 544–545, 608–615, 628.

I011

U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs selected records (RG 75). 5 rolls; 1881-1939. Includes material related to the Ute (White River, Uintah, Ouray).

I013

U.S. Secretary of War letters relating to Indian affairs (RG 75). 10 rolls; 1800-1824. Correspondence prior to establishment of BIA.

I014

U.S. Indian treaties (ratified) documents (RG 11). 16 rolls; 1722-1869. Printed guide in M129.

I015

U.S. Indian treaties (negotiated) documents (RG 75). 10 rolls; 1801-1869. Negotiations of ratified and unratified treaties.

I020

U.S. Superintendent of Indian Trade records (RG 75). 7 rolls; 1806-1824. Letters on federal Indian trade.

I021

U.S. Office of Indian Affairs records (RG 75). 1409 rolls; 1824-1960. Letters, registers, procedural issuances, special files, and reports.

I023

U.S. Interior Department territorial papers (RG 48). 1 roll; 1861-1888. Territorial records related to the Four Corners.

I024

U.S. State Department territorial papers (RG 59). 1 roll; 1859-1874. General territorial government records for Colorado.

I027

Ives Expedition records (RG 233). 1 roll; 1860. Lt. J. C. Ives exploration of the Colorado River.

I028

Hayden Survey records (RG 57). 21 rolls; 1867-1879. Geological and geographical survey.

I029

King Survey records (RG 57). 3 rolls; 1867-1881. Geological exploration of the 40th Parallel.

I030

Powell Survey records (RG 57). 10 rolls; 1869-1879. Letters to John Wesley Powell.

I031

U.S. Geological Survey records (RG 57).  29 rolls; 1879-1895. Early USGS records.

I032

John Gregory Bourke diaries. 10 rolls; 1872-1896. Includes accounts of Native Americans as recorded from Bourke’s perspective.

I035

Indian Rights Association papers. 162 rolls; 1864-1973. Legal status, laws, and correspondence.

I036

Society of American Indians papers. 10 rolls and a guide; 1906-1946. Correspondence, records, and periodicals.

I038

John Collier papers. 59 rolls; 1922-1968. Papers of Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

I039

North American Indian periodicals. 82 rolls; 1923-1981. Periodicals by and about Native Americans.

I040

Ute and other Native American records. 3 rolls; 1873-1933. Includes vocabularies, texts, and Manuelito notes.

I043

Survey of conditions of Native Americans in the U.S. 8 rolls; 1928-1943. Senate hearings reports.

I053

Southern Ute collection. 1 roll; 1899. Outgoing correspondence, Southern Ute Agency.

I055

American Indian Tribes’ major council meetings. 27 rolls; 1914-1971. Includes Ute Mountain Ute, Southern Ute, Uintah and Ouray, and joint councils.

I056

U.S. Office of the Adjutant General records (RG 94). 257 rolls; 1859-1889. Includes Ute-related reels.

I064

U.S. Office of Indian Affairs field inspections (RG 48 & 75). 60 rolls; 1873-1900. Includes Ute inspections.

I065

U.S. Superintendency of Indian Affairs records (RG 75). 309 rolls; 1813-1880. Includes Southern and New Mexico superintendencies.

I070

U.S. Office of the Adjutant General selected orders (RG 94). 1 roll; 1878-1895. Includes Fort Lewis records.

I076

Biographical and historical index of Native Americans. 1 roll; 1966. Index of chiefs, agents, events, places.

I083

Colorado revised statutes on microfiche. Includes laws and statutes pertaining to the Ute.

I099

Dissertations. 1 roll. Includes a dissertation titled White Settlements of the Ute Reservation, 1880-85.

Photographs

 

P001 Sect.IV.4

General photograph collection. Includes photographs of Ute individuals and communities.

P015-008

Dominguez–Escalante Trail route photographs. Includes Ute-related materials.

Audio

 

U012

Southern Ute oral history collection.

 

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

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