The University of Michigan
School of Information and University Library
Spring - Fall 2000
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Field Museum/Simms Material Date received: Donor: Tim Bernardis Accession No. Linear Ft.: 1 Restrictions: |
Copies of slides of Crow Indians; copies of b/w photos of Crow Indians; copies of Crow grammar by missionaries, correspondence, catalog cards, subject index, ethnology, |
In acid-free boxes.
Need to remove metal |
There are no originals in this collection; primary value is for student research. |
-Collection Data sheet |
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Frederick E. Hoxie Date received: 9/1/95 Donor: Frederick Hoxie Accession No. 912951 Linear Ft.: 8 Restrictions: Confidential correspondence closed to researchers during the lifetime of the donor, F. Hoxie |
Copies of field notes on Crow, 1938-39; copies of narrative materials, 1875-76-79-80; copies of materials on Crow winter camps, chief qualifications and terms, clan affiliations, Sun Dance, societies, war and rank. Starting date: 1809 Ending date: 1994 |
In acid-free boxes. Initial ordering as sent to archives has been maintained. |
The bulk of the collection is photocopies materials from other archival repositories and collections. Although most of the material can be found elsewhere, it is a good resource for local researchers. |
-Collection Data sheet -Deed of Gift -Box List |
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Heye Foundation Date received: 8/98 Donor: National Archives, Dept. of Anthropology Accession No. 110981 Linear Ft.: 4 Restrictions: Personal and research aid only. Not for publication. |
Copies of Robert Lowie notebooks on the Crow Indians (1005 pages); Copies of land documents, documents of early Crow reservation life (railroad docs., land leases). Copies of correspondence between Agency and Washington. Lowie was an early ethnographer from Washington. Notebooks are from 1907 through the 1910’s. |
In acid-free boxes Initial ordering as sent to archives has been maintained. Need metal removed. The original books with Lowie’s notes need de-acidification and repair. |
The de-acidification of the books may be an expensive process but the notes Lowie made are an important key to his thoughts and biases. |
-Collection Data sheet -Box List |
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W.P. Patrick/Dr. Mike Doss Date received: 11/3/98 Donor: W.P. Patrick/M. Doss Accession No. 1103931 Linear Ft.: 28 |
Plat books of land allotments from early 1900’s; books of maps of Crow Reservation; cash books 1877-92; early U.S. code books; 11 linear feet of papers on issues ranging from coal to construction of new hospital; items related to congressional testimony From 1877-1987 |
In acid-free boxes Initial ordering as sent to archives has been maintained Needs metal removed Some items are in very poor shape and need conservation work. Plat books are currently on floor ; need to be stored in flat boxes off floor. Should consider deacidifying the plats as well. Parts of collection need vacuuming and/or paper repair. |
This collection provides a unique window into allotment/settlement patterns, particularly for Sweetgrass County. Plat books on allotment and expenditure can be good corroborating evidence for genealogical research. Conservation of this collection will be time-consuming and very expensive. |
-Collection Data sheet |
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BIA Collection Date received: 10/20/96 Donor: Accession No. 1020961 Linear Ft.: 181 Restrictions: |
BIA administrative documents rescued from destruction by BIA. Includes records of correspondence, reports, payroll, per capita distributions, land leasing, land sales, natural resources, & other BIA functions. From 1980-1993 |
In acid-free boxes. Overall good condition. There is not a clear organizational structure to the documents. Minutes of meetings are mixed with vouchers/payment records to vendors. |
The lack of a sensible retention schedule will make processing frustrating. As the collection is so large, processing should be at the box/folder level. Since there is no obvious record ordering, processor would be aided by a sense of BIA functions. Processing could take nearly a year of staff time; however, several boxes contain materials that can obviously be de-accessioned. |
-Collection Data sheet -Box List |
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Crow Tribe Collection #2 Date received: Donor: Crow Tribe Accession No. Linear Ft.: 51 Restrictions: |
Tribal organizational records of various tribal programs. For example, court reports to the chairperson listing types of crimes committed and convicted, game warden reports, commodity distributions, and branding information. From 1962 to 1990 |
In good condition. There is not a clear organizational structure; this will make processing frustrating. |
The accession of these records would have been greatly aided by a sensible retention schedule or records management structure. As they are, they lack a clear provenance. Due to the lack of order it is difficult to assess the complete breadth of the collection but it appears to give a significant slice of Crow Tribal Government of the time period covered. |
-Collection Data sheet -Box List |
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Crow Tribal Collection #1 Date received: Donor: Crow Tribe Accession No. Linear Ft.: 75 Restrictions: Must clarify legal restrictions on access. Until then, collection is closed. |
Records from the offices of tribal attorneys that reflect the case law of the Crow Tribe. Documents reflect legal work of the tribe over an extended period. Of particular interest as an aid to a complete understanding of cases the tribe has taken up against the state and federal government. From 1970’s to 1990’s |
In good condition. Needs metal and tape removed. |
During processing, a case by case order may emerge. It may be helpful to look for this structure. Some of the files seem to indicate that that attorneys may have inherited old files from pervious tribal attorneys. This collection may be important for supporting precedence cases in the future. |
-Box List |
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BIA Maps Date received: Donor: BIA, Crow Agency Accession No. Linear Ft.: 10 |
Includes 4094 aerial photo maps and negatives of the Crow Reservation. From 1961 to 1974 |
Photos are in good condition. There is no index to the maps. Need to secure flat storage |
An indexing system and/or reservation based mapping system should be created for archiving maps. May want to visit with map librarians at Bozeman or Missoula. |
-Collection Data sheet |
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Little Big Horn College Collection Date received: 1995 Donor: LBHC Accession No. Linear Ft.: 71
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College records ranging from fiscal and student data to programs and fliers. From 1980 to 1990 |
Sent to Archives in boxes. No retention schedule exists for the College’s records and, as a result, the collections are not ordered. |
What would be most helpful to this collection is the establishment of a records management system for the College that follows a records retention plan. As it is, box level description is probably acceptable for the current material. |
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Donald Parman Date received: 9/13/90 Donor: Donald Parman Accession No. 713901 Linear Ft.: 0.5 |
Photocopies and notes concerning the Crow Scandal and other events from 1905 to 1913. Also includes an essay on the Crow Scandal written in 1980. |
In acid-free boxes. Initial ordering as sent to archives maintained. Needs metal removed. |
A good annotation of the events surrounding the Scandal will help patrons access the information. |
-Collection Data sheet -Box List |
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Pretty Eagle School Date received: 6/1/93 Donor: St. Xavier Mission Accession No. 610931 Linear Ft.: 2 Restrictions: |
Collection of 65 reel to reel video tapes of elderly people taken in the early 1970’s by the school. Includes cultural stories as well as older songs and music. |
In acid-free boxes. Tapes are currently on varying length reel to reel tape. They should be transferred as soon as possible. |
Again, immediate transferring of the collection from reel to reel is recommended. If possible, written transcriptions of the tapes should be done also. This would make a good base for a Crow cultural CD. |
-Collection Data sheet -Box List |
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Smithsonian Date received: 8/6/90 Donor: Smithsonian Institute Accession No. 1107911 Linear Ft.: 0.5 Restrictions: Permission of the Smithsonian required to publish these materials |
B/W photos (slides) of Crow delegations. Also excellent pictures of Medicine Crow and Plenty Coups. Print photos of Crow Fair and other older photos of tipis.
From 1900-1992 |
In acid-free boxes. Slides are in metal boxes.
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It may be well worthwhile to spend some time on identification of group shots. Also, research use of slides would benefit from an item by item description. Might also consider putting slides into mylar sleeves and into an album of some sort. |
-Collection Data sheet -Box List |
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Ellis Prentice Cole Date received: 7/4/91 Donor: Jane Cole Pine Accession No. 704911 Linear Ft.: 1 Restrictions: |
132 glass lantern slides. Range from photos taken at Crow Fair to "nature" scenes of buffalo. From 1908-1952 |
132 of the slides are in a wooden box; the remainder are wrapped in tissue. |
A very interesting collection . Images should be reproduced in a paper or slide format by a professional studio to aid in conservation of the original slides. Would make an excellent website project. Representations of beadwork may be of interest to Crow Studies students as well as other community members. |
-Collection Data sheet -Deed of Gift |
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BIA Law and Order Date received: 7/5/89 Donor: BIA Crow Agency Accession No. 705891 Linear Ft.: 1 Restrictions: |
BIA records of monthly vouchers, records of credit vouchers (welfare, Law and Order) From 1957-1961 |
Files are in folders according to department and year. Needs metal removed |
Mostly business records of minimal archival value. Because records came in a logical order, there is already some intellectual control over the collection and should probably be a low priority for processing. |
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BIA Land Leases Date received: Donor: Accession No. Linear Ft.: 7 Restrictions: Tribal use only. |
Government records of land leases for both non-Indian and Indian. From 1994 to 1996 |
In original boxes. Should be transferred to acid-free boxes and folders. |
As these are so current, one wonder if the records management at the local BIA is not somewhat suspect. It is an interesting collection—students can do comparative studies of current least practices with older lease practices identified in, for example, the Doss Collection. It has been suggested that the archives look into 638 contracting the records process at the agency. However, this would require a full-time records manager as well as significantly more storage space and other resources. |
-Collection Data sheet -Box List |
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John Pretty-On-Top Date received: 2/20/98 Donor: John Pretty-On-Top Accession No. 220981 Linear Ft.: 0.5 Restrictions: |
2 envelopes with ballots from a 1961 resolution vote on economic development; clippings concerning the return of Pretty Eagle’s remains to Montana; folder with 1937 carbon copies of tribal council minutes, resolutions, and reports; copies of 1942 annuity payroll ledger; b/w photo of Mr. Pretty-On-Top sitting on buffalo he shot. From 1908 to 1957 |
In acid-free box. Needs to be put in acid-free folders. |
Should encapsulate the photo and make user copies of carbon copies. Ballots are probably not of much use. |
-Collection Data sheet |
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Wanamaker/Dixon Expedition Date received: 3/8/89 Donor: Douglas C. McChristian, Chief Historian, Battlefield Accession No. 308891 Linear Ft.: 0.5 Restrictions: |
178 photos of Crow Indians, 1913. Many tipi shots; few "people" shots. These are copies of photos held by the Little Big Horn Battlefield archives. |
In acid-free box.
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Needs cover on pictures and ordering. |
-Collection Data sheet -Box List |
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Rattle Snake Productions Date received: Donor: Connie Poten Accession No. Linear Ft.: 42 Restrictions: Library use only |
557 reels of 16 mm film made as pre-production for the movie Contrary Warriors (1992). Films are primarily interviews with Crow Tribal members used by the director to paint a historical picture of the Crow Nation. Also paper transcripts of some of the reels. Subject matter varies but provides good description of Crow life and customs From 1983-84 (?) |
Half of collection in acid-free boxes Collection is in fairly bad shape. Some of collection has water damage and mold. |
This is an extremely valuable collection of oral history. It needs to be cleaned and transferred to video as soon as possible. Transcriptions should be done for all remaining reels. This should be a high priority for processing and would benefit from item-level description. |
-Collection Data sheet -Box List -Conservation Assessment |
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Charles Bradley Date received: 10/26/91 Donor: Charles C. Bradley, Jr. Accession No. 1026911 Linear Ft.: 1 |
Manuscript copies of Bradley’s doctoral dissertation, concerning education on the Crow Reservation 1900-1950s, and master’s thesis on the history of the Crow; books. |
Needs to be placed in acid-free folders. |
Should be described as part of the Joe Medicine Crow collection. There are 3 books within the collection that may need special attention. |
-Collection Data sheet |
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Forest Horn Date received: 11/30/89 Donor: Dewett Dillon Accession No. 110891 Linear Ft.: 5 Restrictions: |
Papers of Forest Horn’s administration. This is a varied collection of materials ranging from program and dept. memorandum to budgets and accounting information. These are not are not complete papers, but those taken from Mr. Horn’s office after he lost the election of April 1989. From 1964 to 1989 |
Needs to be placed in acid-free folders. Needs metal removed. Some files are damaged by a dark liquid. Needs cleaning prior to re-foldering. |
First step is to clean materials. Most of the collection will manage with folder level description. |
-Collection Data sheet |
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Westmoreland Date received: Donor: BIA Crow Agency Accession No. Linear Ft.: 26 Restrictions: |
Materials regarding Abasaloke Mine, Big Horn County, MT, Westmoreland Resource Inc. Includes photos, mining reports, land reclamation files, and other mine related reports. From 1960 to 1984 |
Still in original 3-ring binders Materials are in good shape. |
Invaluable resource for natural resource studies, containing important information concerning mining operations. Materials include significant number of photos that should be moved to mylar enclosed sheets and map resources that should be moved to flat files. |
-Collection Data sheet -Box List |
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Bilingual Date received: 2/19/97 Donor: Willie Stewart Accession No. 19971 Linear Ft.: 6 Restrictions: |
Working papers of LBHC Bilingual Education program, including stories and materials concerning the state of bilingual education on the Crow Reservation. From 1988-1994 |
In acid-free boxes. Needs to be put in acid-free folders. |
There are valuable materials here but also quite a bit of material that can be safely de-assessed. |
-Collection Data sheet -Box List |
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Angela Russell Date received: 2/23/98 Donor: Angela Russell Accession No. 0223981, 611991 (legislation) Linear Ft.: 7 |
Materials, mostly published, collected by attorney Russell during her work as a Big Horn County legislator. Also includes correspondence files and photos. From 1978 to 1997 |
Correspondence and other original materials need to be placed in acid-free folders. |
Should separate published materials from original papers. May not be necessary to retain all published materials. |
-Collection Data sheet -Box List |
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Crow Treaties Date received: Donor: BIA Accession No. Linear Ft.: 0.5
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Copy of Crow Treaty of 6/12/1880; 6 folders of other land docs. on tribal allotment. Census data from 1920, appears to be a copy of agency census; 1 folder of land descriptions. From 1880 to 1920 |
Materials are in poor condition. Need de-acidification and paper conservation. |
Need to mend paper. In the meantime, flattening the treaty document and placing it in mylar would be a good idea. |
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Peggy Albright Date received: 1/10/98 Donor: Peggy Albright Accession No. 110981 Liner Ft.: 4 Restrictions: For non-commercial, non-profit use only and only with the written consent of the donor |
Research notes and photocopied materials used to write book on Richard Throssel, an early photographer on the Crow Reservation; Also includes correspondence, papers, documents pertaining to grants and publication, and manuscript drafts. Also includes video tapes of Crow elders identifying photographs. Contains no original photos—these are held at the University of Wyoming and the National Archives. |
In acid-free boxes. Metals have been removed. Processing has been started. Materials have been refoldered and a folder level inventory has been produced. Location of videotapes is unclear. |
The folder level inventory provides access to all the materials in the collection, excepting the video tapes. However, a series level organizational structure under which the folders can be arranged will give a more logical and efficient order. Preliminary finding aid has been started. Scope & Content notes have been written. It may be most efficient to ask Albright to write her own provenance statement. The videotapes should be found and processed with the rest of the collection. |
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