American Native Press Archives Manuscripts and Special Collections

Although the focus of the ANPA remains the collection of newspapers and periodical publications, the mission of the Archives also includes the collection of other types of published materials as well as manuscripts. These groups represent some of the fastest growing areas within the Archives.

The following list indicates manuscripts and special collections held by ANPA. For each collection that is still being processed, a brief description is provided; processed collections have their inventories posted (follow the links). As additional collections are acquired and processed, this information will be updated.

Dan Agent Collection. Full details.
AIDS in Indian Country Collection. 1.0 linear foot of materials related primarily to AIDS prevention efforts 1989-2004. Consult the archivist for additional details.
American Indian Library Association Collection.
ANPA Native Writers Chapbook Series Collection: 3 linear feet of materials relating to the publication of Blood Salt by Doris Seale (Santee/Cree), Council Decisions by Ron Wellborn (Cherokee), a motion of sudden aloneness by Lance Henson (Southern Cheyenne), The Short and the Long of It by Maurice Kenny (Mohawk), and Spider Spins between Two Worlds by Glen McGuire (Pawnee). Contents include correspondence, manuscripts in various stages of revision and copyediting, artwork, and other materials relating to the editorial and publication process.
Alice M. Azure Collection. One item, a prepublication copy of her collection of poems.
Susan M. Arkeketa Collection. Full details.
Nathan E. Bender Collection. Full details.
John D. Berry Papers. 24 linear feet of materials related to Berry's academic career and to his work in the American Indian Library Association. Full Details.
Roy Boney, Jr. Collection. 0.5 linear foot of materials related to Boney�s artistic career: his master�s thesis, storyboards and other items related to his productions of Native-language animated films, correspondence, and his comic book series. Consult the archivist for additional details.
Charles Brashear Collection. Full details.
Fuller L. Bumpers Collection. 4 linear feet related to Indian removal, history of Saline District Court of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, racial profiling of Native Americans by police, and electronic Native newsletters and newspapers. Consult the archivist for additional details.
Louis F. Burns Collection. Full details.
Art Burton Collection. 2 inches of materials, primarily copies of Burton's published articles about African Americans in Indian Territory and Oklahoma.
Cherokee Cultural Center of Houston Collection. 1.5 linear feet consisting of copies of the Cherokee Advocate newspaper from 1976 to 2004, campaign literature of candidates for the office of Principle Chief in 1975, and other items. Consult the archivist for additional details.
Cherokee Nation Collection. 3 linear feet of materials related to political and constitutional affairs in the Cherokee Nation during the past decade. Consult the archivist for additional details.
Cherokee Nation Cultural Resource Center Collection: 2 inches of materials, consisting of publications issued by the Center.
Robert J. Conley Papers. 23 linear feet of materials related to the Cherokee novelist and historian�s career, including manuscripts of his works, correspondence, public relations information about public appearances, Conley family memorabilia, photographs, career-related legal documents, and other information. Consult the archivist for additional details.
Paul DeMain Collection. 23 linear feet of material in four groups. The first relates primarily to news-gathering activities at News from Indian Country, including correspondence, legal documents, photographs, opinion pieces, newspaper clippings, and other items. The second group is papers related to DeMain's work as campaign manager for Winona LaDuke, candidate for Green Party Vice-President in 2000. The third group contains information about DeMain's work as an officer in the Native American Journalists Association and UNITY. The fourth group of materials consists of the legal papers of Attorney Kenneth Stern related to appeal from conviction in the case of United States vs. Kenneth Moses Loud Hawk et al. Consult the archivist for additional details.
Kenneth Dunn Collection. One inch of material, consisting of a manuscript of his novel.
Jack D. Filipiak Collection. Full details.
Raven Hail Collection. 0.5 linear foot of the elder Cherokee's works, either in pre-publication draft or final published form.
Barbara Heffington Collection. 0.5 linear foot of materials, consisting primarily of correspondence from 1989-1997, related to efforts by the Trail of Tears Commission, Inc. of Kentucky to secure federal legislation for the Trail of Tears Historic Trail and the marking of historic sites along the Cherokee removal routes through Kentucky. Consult the archivist for additional details
Lance Henson. See ANPA Native Writers Chapbook Series Collection.
Rick Heredia Collection. Full details.
Arlene Hirschfelder Collection. Full details.
Stuart Y. Hoahwah Collection. Full details.
Indian Removal Collection. 23 linear feet of material related to the removal of the Choctaws, Muscogees, Florida tribes, Chickasaws, and Cherokees in the Southeast, 1830s and 1840s, as well as removal of other peoples such as the Quapaws and Patawatomis. The collection contains both published and unpublished materials. Consult the archivist for additional details.
Ellen Johnson Collection. 2 inches of materials consisting primarily of academic and creative works.
Steven G. Jones Collection. 2 inches of materials, consisting of published academic and creative works.
Kerry Keith Collection. 0.5 linear foot of materials, relative to New Age movement and Indians through the early 1990s.
Maurice Kenny. See ANPA Native Writers Chapbook Series Collection.
Richard V. LaCourse Collection. Full details.
Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr. Papers: 100 linear feet of materials, consisting of correspondence, manuscripts, research notes, and other material related to his scholarly and academic career.
Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr. - James W. Parins Papers: 10 linear feet of materials, consisting of correspondence and manuscripts related to work done as joint authors.
Patricia A. Loew Collection. Full details.
Mary Longboat-Musser Collection. Full details.
Glen McGuire. See ANPA Native Writers Chapbook Series Collection.
James Metzger Chapbook Collection. Full details.
MIGIZI Communications, Inc. Collection. 3 linear feet of materials related to Native media, especially early Indian public radio.
Molin, Paulette Fairbanks Collection. 1 linear foot of materials relating to Indian education and Hampton University. Consult the archivist for additional details.
Native American Journalist Association Records. 81 linear feet of the organizational records of the NAJA, the largest press organization in Indian Country, whose membership includes a majority of American Indian and Alaskan Native publishers and a number of First Nations journalists from Canada. Covering the years 1984 to 1999, the papers are grouped in twelve general categories that reflect the organization structure and activities of the organization as follows: (1) Correspondence, both incoming and outgoing; (2) Board of Directors records including minutes of meetings, correspondence activities of board members, biographical sketches and resumes, and legal documents regarding incorporation and tax status; (3) Unity '94 records including correspondence, minutes of meetings, conference program plans, and other records relating to planning and evaluating Unity '94, a joint conference of NAJA and other journalists of color organizations: Asian American Journalists Association, National Association of Black Journalists, and National Association of Hispanic Journalists; (4) President's records, including correspondence, programs, committee minutes, and other records relating to the two separate terms of president Paul DeMain, editor and publisher of News from Indian Country; (5) Financial records; (6) Conference records, including correspondence, programs, planning committee records, and contracts relating to NAJA's annual conferences, 1985 through 1999; (7) Awards competition records, including journalists' entry forms, lists of winners in each category, and entries submitted in various categories in print, radio, television, and photography: issues of publications, tear sheets, audio cassettes, videocassettes, and photographs; (8) Special Projects records, including information on projects sponsored totally or in part by NAJA: high school and college journalism and media workshops, intern programs, and special awards and honors; (9) Publications of NAJA, including the organization's quarterly newsletter, press releases, brochures, and other public relations materials; (10) Membership and mail lists records; (11) Student and scholarship records, including biographical profiles samples of student writing, tear sheets of published works and information relating to scholarship and intern programs for high school and college students; (12) Miscellaneous records, including materials from other journalists associations, American Indian and Alaska native organizations, and press packets from entertainers, performers and speakers. As well as providing a history of the organization, the records document the growth of professional journalism and the burgeoning of the press in Indian Country since the early 1980s. It documents as well the movement of the tribal journalists into radio and television broadcasting and filmmaking. Contact the Archivist for further information.
Native Press History and Bibliography Collection. 17 linear feet of materials that document the history of Native American publishing from 1828 to the present. Emphasis is on the periodical press, but the collection contains significant information on Native book publishing and tribal presses. Included are publication histories of an estimated 1,500 newspapers and periodicals, including documentation of title changes, editors, and volume and issue; running notes and summaries of content during the life of the publications; inventories of titles and issues held by numerous repositories in the United States and Canada, correspondence with Native publishers, press releases, mission statements, and public relations materials issued by publishers, radio broadcasters and television and film producers; files on journalists engaged in print media and broadcasting; files on editors, photojournalists, and cartoonists; copies of published and unpublished scholarship on the Native press and files on public issues concerning Native journalists: First Amendment rights, employment opportunities in mainstream media, and bias in the publishing and broadcast industries. The Native Press History and Bibliography Collection complements the Native American Journalists Association Collection and the Leslie Newell collection. Contact the Archivist for further information.
Leslie Newell Collection. 2.75 linear feet of materials that focus exclusively on the issue of press freedom in Indian Country up to 1988 in the context of the Indian Civil Rights Act. Included are materials related to First Amendment rights and tribal publications, including surveys of tribal editors, publishers and scholars; reports of congressional hearings on Indian civil rights; research materials related to the Indian Reorganization Act constitutions and the Indian Civil Rights Act; and reprints of scholarship on First Amendment and Naive press history. Contact the Archivist for further information.
William Oandasan Collection. Full details.
Amanda Paige Collection. 1.5 linear feet of materials related to family history and genealogy and to Suzette La Flesche (Omaha), activist on behalf of Standing Bear, journalist at Wounded Knee in 1891, and columnist for the Populist Party. Consult the archivist for additional details.
James W. Parins Collection. 24 linear feet of materials consisting of manuscripts and other materials related to the author's scholarly work. See also Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr. - James Parins Papers.
Selene Phillips Collection. 1 inch of materials consisting of scholarly writing.
Richie Plass Collection. 0.75 linear foot of material related to mascots and other forms of stereotyping and correspondence and other documents related to Menominee termination during the 1950s and 1960s. Consult the archivist for additional details.
Steve Russell Collection. 1 inch of materials consisting of scholarly writing on Indians and the law.
Carol Lee Sanchez Collection. 2 linear feet of materials consisting of manuscripts of the author's several volumes of poetry.
John Sanchez Collection. 1 inch of materials consisting of scholarly writing on Indian education and media influence on Indian children.
Doris Seale. See ANPA Native Writers Chapbook Series Collection.
State of Sequoyah Collection. 1.0 linear foot of materials, consisting primarily of the Shawnee attorney�s writings on Indian law for legal journals. Consult the archivist for additional details.
Stereotypes Collection. 3 linear feet of materials related to stereotyping of American Indians in American society. The collection contains printed items such as mascot memorabilia, news clippings, advertisements, illustrations, books, and other objects from the early twentieth century to the present. Consult the archivist for additional details.
Mark Trahant Collection. 1.5 linear feet of material consisting primarily of offprints and other copies of columns and feature articles and speeches, but also includes information on Navajo Nation politics.
Dorothy Truex Collection. 9 inches of materials, relating primarily to Indian education in the early 1970s.
Ted Underwood Collection. 0.5 linear foot of materials consisting of videotapes related to contemporary Seminole society as well as materials related to the Seminole political crisis after 2000.
Robert A Warrior Collection. 2.5 linear feet of materials related to Indian activism in the 1970s as well as more than 800 news releases issued by the American Indian Press Association, 1971-1976.
Ron Wellborn. See ANPA Native Writers Chapbook Series Collection.
Tamara Williams-Long Collection. 5.0 linear feet of miscellaneous materials related to American Indian history and culture from the late twentieth century to the present. However, the major focus of the collection is the Navajo people, particularly youth and education. Consult the archivist for additional details.
Dora Young Collection. One item related to Young's tenure as Chief of the Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma.