Dan Agent Collection

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UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK

AMERICAN NATIVE PRESS ARCHIVES

DAN AGENT COLLECTION

ANPA SC 008

Last Updated:  March 2003

EXTENT

Total Boxes: 2
Other Storage Formats:  None
Linear Feet:  1.0 lin. ft.

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Provenance

Gifts from Dan Agent, 1998-2002

Ownership and Literary Rights

The Dan Agent Collection is the physical property of the American Native Press Archives, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.  Literary rights, including copyright belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns.  For further information, consult the appropriate curator.

Restrictions on Access

The Dan Agent Collection is open for research.

Citation Format

Dan Agent Collection.  American Native Press Archives.

HISTORICAL NOTE

Dan Agent worked as a writer, reporter, and photographer for the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma from 1984 to 1991, when he became a public affairs specialist at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution.   He served as Director of Public Affairs of the Cherokee Nation, from February 27, 1996, to August 15, 1997.  His responsibilities included planning and implementing of a comprehensive public affairs program for the Cherokee Nation, including publication of the Cherokee Advocate.  He was dismissed from his position by Cherokee officials because of his reporting of Cherokee political issues.  He worked briefly as a public relations official for the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe before returning to the Cherokee Advocate after the election of Chadwick Smith as Chief of the Cherokee Nation in 1999. The question of free press guarantees raised by Agent’s dismissal created dialogue that led to establishment of the Cherokee Advocate as an independent press.  The Dan Agent Collection relates primarily to the Cherokee constitutional crisis between 1996 and 1999.

DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

The Dan Agent Collection contains news clippings from northeastern Oklahoma newspapers from 1997 to 2002, related primarily to the constitutional debate in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, 1996 to 1999.  It also contains legislative acts, Constitution of Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, correspondence, and  publications by Agent related to First Amendment rights.  Materials cover the period of 1997 to 2003.

Box	Folder
Newspaper Clippings
1	Newspaper Clippings. February 1997 (9 leaves) Newspaper Clippings. March 1997 (83 leaves) Newspaper Clippings. April 1-16 1997 (81 leaves) Newspaper Clippings. April 16-31 1997 (76 leaves) Newspaper Clippings. May 1-14 1997 (84 leaves) Newspaper Clippings. May 15-31 1997 (70 leaves) Newspaper Clippings. June 1997 (91 leaves) Newspaper Clippings. July 1997 (93 leaves) Newspaper Clippings. August 1-12 1997 (96 leaves) Newspaper Clippings. August 13-15 1997 (64 leaves) Newspaper Clippings. August 15-25 1997 (62 leaves) Newspaper Clippings. August 26-31 1997 (81 leaves) Newspaper Clippings. September 1-27 1997 (99 leaves) Newspaper Clippings. October 1997 (23 leaves) Newspaper Clippings. November 1997 (37 leaves)
2	Newspaper Clippings.  December 1997 (49 leaves) Newspaper Clippings.  January 1998 (32 leaves) Newspaper Clippings.  February 1998 (62 leaves) Newspaper Clippings.  March 1998 (24 leaves) Newspaper Clippings.  April 1998 (41 leaves) Newspaper Clippings.  May 1998 (67 leaves) Newspaper Clippings.   July-August 2000 (2 leaves) Newspaper Clippings.  Winter 2001 (4 leaves) Newspaper Clippings.  Third Quarter 2002 (4 leaves)
Miscellaneous
	Agent, Dan. Vita. 1997. Correspondence. 1997-2003 Chavez, Will. Correspondence. 1998 From The Front Lines. Native American Journalists Association. 1998 Cherokee Governmental Structure 1600-Present (An Overview). 1999 An Act Establishing a Free and Independent Press for the Cherokee Nation. July 2000 An Act Relating to Freedom of Information and Rights of Privacy. July 2001 Constitution of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma (1975). 1999.

04/08/03
Prepared by Robert Webb