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The majority of this collection is E.L Moulton's correspondence concerning his business affairs with the Lucia Cash Store in Lucy, New Mexico (1910), Corona Trading Company in Lincoln County, a subsidiary of Ilfeld Company (1912), and Ilfeld Company in Albuquerque (1920-1952), which includes correspondence with Max Nordhaus. There is correspondence generated from Moulton's civic obligations with the Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, New Mexico Parking Authority, Rotary Club, etc. Letters (1943-1958) from Dr. Everett B. King of the First Presbyterian Church in Albuquerque, discuss financial matters of the church. Other correspondence, postcards, birthday and holiday cards are from his sister and brothers. Clippings, publications, and pamphlets from the late 1940's concern Native American, particularly Navajo social and economic conditions. The collection includes various writings and speeches of Moulton. These include papers he presented at the Ten Dons meetings, his pamphlet on the ...

This oral history project consists of 26 individual interviews with former Navajo uranium miners or family members on 27 different cassette tapes. This collection also contains 11 video recordings containing 3 interviews, scenery shots from the mines and the area where the miners lived, as well as some miscellaneous, untranscribed interviews. Excerpts from the interviews and still, black and white photographs were compiled into a book entitled, Memories come to us in the rain and the wind: oral histories and photographs of Navajo uranium miners and their families. A copy of this book is in the collection. This project addressess the health issues such as some of the effects of prolonged exposure to radioactive uranium and the failure of health officials to educate the Navajo on safety issues and potential dangers regarding uranium. This project also shows how many Navajo miners who got cancer and other diseases from working in the mines, were not compensated

Correspondence, interviews, research notes, source materials, writings and photographs from the files of Solon Toothaker Kimball, primarily relating to his work in Ireland (1930's) and among the Navajo (1936-1942) -- Papers mainly result from Kimball's anthropological research in rural County Clare, Ireland, during the early 1930's with colleague, Conrad Arensberg, and materials from Kimball's return visit to Ireland in 1968 in preparation for a second edition of Family and community in Ireland. In addition to research notes, there are extensive newspaper clippings and census materials, as well as the theses of Kimball and Arensberg, and manuscript and printer's proof copies of their joint book. Also included are research notes and printed materials on various aspects of Navajo social and economic organization resulting from Kimball's work and research with the Soil Conservation Service at the Navajo Reservation, 1936-1942. There are personal and professional files containing ...

Depicts Navajo life in 1940

Papers, life histories, personal correspondence, field notes and miscellaneous publications relating to studies of Navajo life and social conditions of the mid-Twentieth Century. The bulk of the collection consists of the field notes kept by the Leightons and their colleagues during their studies on the Navajo Reservation in the 1940s and 1950s

The Robert W. Young papers contains 6 overlapping series. Linguistics materials relate to Navajo grammar, and include correspondence between Robert Young and William Morgan, Sr. during their collaboration on The Navajo Language: A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary (1980) and Analytical Lexicon of Navajo (1992). History/Anthropology materials chronicle early Spanish and Anglo contact in the Southwest. Themes include agriculture/hunting, dancing, kinship, place names, stars/constellations, witchcraft, and materials on peyotism by David Aberle. The Navajo Condition documents the Navajo situation, 1939-1969. Government Relations contains correspondence reflecting early U.S. Government-Navajo contact, Navajo trading, administration (including formation of the Navajo constitution), policies, withdrawal, census and contains copies of National Archives files. Legal issues such as the controversial activities of Norman Littell, Navajo General Council and Claims Attorney are also included. The ...

This collection is separated into two series that contribute to understanding the research and narrative trajectory of The Navajos and the New Deal book. As a whole, this archive offers an in-depth and critical engagement with New Deal politics and their effects on the Navajo reservation. Correspondence (1924-1974): This series consists of official correspondence from the Department of the Interior, the Office of Indian Affairs, Commissioner John Collier, Senator Dennis Chavez, J.C. Morgan, the Department of Interior Field Services, and other federal, state, and local organizations. The correspondence discusses matters of stock reduction, the New Mexico Boundary Bill relating to Navajo Reservation boundaries, education and health issues on the Navajo reservation, and protests and petitions from various Navajo tribal communities. This series is organized chronologically by year and contains two sub-series. The first sub-series is correspondence written to or by Donald Parman in ...

The collection contains photographs which depict former Navajo uranium miners from the Four Corners area and members of their families. These portraits were compiled for, and are reproduced in, "Memories Come to Us in the Rain and the Wind: Oral Histories and Photographs of Navajo Uranium Miners & Their Families." Cassette tapes and transcripts of the oral histories are available through CSWR Manuscripts

The Joseph M. Montoya Papers document Montoya's career in politics, primarily in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. The collection contains administrative files, correspondence, legislation, reports, speeches, press releases, campaign materials, and news clippings. The collection is divided into 10 overlapping series. Biographical, 1957-1964: contains biographical information about Senator Montoya. Lt. Governor, 1937-1957: contains legislation, correspondence, speeches and other administrative materials related to Montoya's tenure as New Mexico's Lt. Governor (1955-1957). U.S. House of Representatives, 1913-1966: This series is further divided into 3 subseries. Administrative primarily contains general correspondence and invitations. Correspondence contains "official" correspondence, largely issue related, but there is also a section of general correspondence within this subseries. A myriad of issues are documented through correspondence including agriculture, gas tax, ...

Original typescript with holograph corrections, written about 1950, chiefly concerning education on the Navajo Indian Reservation during the 1930s and early 1940s. Includes 7 photographs of chapter houses and Navajo in western New Mexico and east central Arizona taken in the 1930s