Series 1 -- Scrapbooks |
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Box 1 |
FF 1 |
Scrapbook 1. 186 pages, 1972-1982. This material
consists of newspaper and magazine clippings as well as
pamphlets and brochures. It documents Native American
history and culture throughout the United States,
particularly Kansas and Minnesota, as well as Native
American “attractions.” The main focus is the Mid-America
All-Indian Center (MAAIC) and the problems it has faced
as a Native American-run facility. It also includes articles
on such topics as Native American art and sculpture,
including Blackbear Bosin, sculptor of “Keeper of the
Plains” in Wichita. |
Box 1 |
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Scrapbook 2. 98 pages, 1966-1982. This material
consists of newspaper clippings, images, and pamphlets.
The main focus is the lawsuits filed by Native American
tribes against the federal government. It also includes
articles on various topics such as the Cherokee alphabet,
the Big Creek Massacre, the death of Blackbear Bosin, a
pamphlet from the Winfield Art Center, and a list of
American Indian tribes and their pronunciations. |
Box 2 |
FF 1 |
Scrapbook 3. 100 pages, 1981-1985. This material
consists of newspaper articles, particularly from Kansas
and the Southwest. It documents the continuing problems
of MAAIC and the death of its executive director, Jay
Hunter. It also includes articles on Blackbear Bosin and
subjects dealing with the Southwest, and Central and
South America. |
Box 2 |
FF 2 |
Scrapbook 4.118 pages, 1984-1988. This material
consists of newspaper articles. The main focus is Indian
gaming. It also includes articles on various topics,
including the Indian burial pits near Salina, an article on a
change of the Sedgwick County seal from General
Sedgwick to “Keeper of the Plains,” and Cherokee
leadership in Oklahoma. |
Box 3 |
FF 1 |
Scrapbook 5. 95 pages, 1987-1988. This material
consists of newspaper articles. The main focus is Native
American rights and the problems on reservations. It also
includes articles on such topics as movies and novels
about Native Americans, American Indian archaeological
sites, artist Woody Crumbo, a Peruvian “King Tut,” and an
article alleging that Geronimo’s skull was stolen by
Prescott Bush, father of President George H.W. Bush. |
Box 3 |
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Scrapbook 6. 102 pages, 1977-1989. This material
consists of newspaper clippings and images. It documents
the controversy surrounding Indian burial sites throughout
the United States. It also includes articles on such topics
as “Ad Astra,” the sculpture at the top of the Capitol Dome
in Topeka, WSU professor Donald Blakeslee’s attempt to
find the trail of the Mallet brothers, and the
sesquicentennial of the Trail of Tears. |
Box 4 |
FF 1 |
Scrapbook 7. 100 pages, 1973-1990. This material
consists of newspaper and magazine articles. The main
focus is American Indian sculpture, primarily in Kansas,
the Southwest and California. It also includes articles on
such topics as “Ad Astra,” the re-burying of the remains at
the Salina Burial Pits, and a plan to rebuild “Keeper of the
Plains” as the tallest structure in Wichita. |
Box 4 |
FF 2 |
Scrapbook 8. 82 pages, 1979-1993. This material
consists of newspaper clippings. The main focus is the
Navajos. It also includes such articles as the motion
picture “Dances With Wolves,” the Little Bighorn battlefield
and General Custer, a pit excavation near Winfield, a
Navajo-owned zoo in Arizona, and a New Mexico cave
showing that humans inhabited the Americas earlier than
previously thought. |
Box 5 |
FF 1 |
Scrapbook 9. 100 pages, 1991-1992. This material
consists of newspaper clippings. It documents a tax war
between the Kickapoo tribe and Kansas Attorney General
Bob Stephan. It also includes articles on such topics as a
local high school Native American artist, the film “Dances
With Wolves,” the renaming of Custer Battlefield to Little
Bighorn Battlefield, the 500th anniversary of Columbus
landing in the New World, the largest American Indian
populations in the United States, Canada’s giving the
Inuits about 20% of Canadian territory, and the pardoning
of two Christian missionaries who protested Georgia’s
removal of the Cherokee. |
Box 5 |
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Scrapbook 10. 101 pages, 1992-1994. This material
consists of newspaper clippings. The main focus is Indian
gaming and casinos. It also includes articles on such
topics as a mysterious, unidentified illness on the Navajo
Reservation, the controversy surrounding a MAAIC Board
of Trustees election, the controversy surrounding the
arrest of American Indian activist Leonard Peltier, a revolt
in Mexico, an attempt to make Wichita a first-day issuance
city for “Wild West” postal stamps, and the birth of a white
buffalo. |
Box 6 |
FF 1 |
Scrapbook 11. 144 pages, 1966-1995. This material
consists of newspaper clippings and photographs. It
documents attempts by members of the Tonkawa tribe of
northern Oklahoma to bring in money from a nuclear
waste dump. It also includes articles on such topics as the
political correctness of Disney’s animated film
“Pocahontas,” murals in Hominy, Oklahoma, Native
American demographics, photographer Edward S. Curtis,
and photographs taken from the Red Earth Day Festival in
Oklahoma in 1994. |
Box 6 |
FF 2 |
Scrapbook 12. 120 pages, 1975-1999. This material
consists of newspaper clippings and photographs. It
documents attempts to change the name of Wichita North
High School’s mascot, the “Redskins.” It also includes
articles on such topics as activist Leonard Peltier’s
incarceration, tribal sovereignty, controversy surrounding a
KU student’s request to wear tribal dress to graduation,
Indian gaming, the Hominy murals, corruption among the
leaders of the White Earth Chippewa tribe of Minnesota,
museums thefts in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma,
controversy over a proposed American Indian memorial at
Little Bighorn, and a Lakota ceremony to bless a B-1B
bomber. |
Box 7 |
FF 1 |
Scrapbook 13. 142 pages, 1996-1999. This material
consists of newspaper articles. The main focus is Native
American sovereignty and treaty rights. It also includes
articles on such topics as tourism, Indian gaming,
musician Brent Michael Davids, the Crazy Horse
Monument in South Dakota, and the Taíno, the group that
Columbus first encountered in the Americas. |
Box 7 |
FF 2 |
Scrapbook 14. 160 pages, 1994-1998. This material
consists of newspaper articles. The main focus is on
powwows. It also includes articles on such topics as the
Wichita Indians, archaeology, the Wichita North High
School “Redskin” controversy, nose art on a KC-135
airplane, a plan by an Oklahoma tribe to build a casino on
Kansas burial grounds, a 9300 year old skeleton
appearing to have European features, and a plan to add 9
acres to Old Cowtown Museum in Wichita for an Indian
village on the site. |
Box 8 |
FF 1 |
Scrapbook 15. 152 pages, 1999-2000. This material
consists of newspaper articles. It mainly documents the
Wichita North High School “Redskin” controversy. It also
includes articles on such topics as Koch Industries
stealing oil from American Indians, activist Leonard
Peltier, Pocahontas, and the burial of the last “full-blooded” Kaw. |
Box 8 |
FF 2 |
Scrapbook 16. 174 pages, 1999-2003. This material
consists of newspaper articles. The main focus is the
sculpture “Ad Astra.” It also includes such articles as the
American Indian mascot controversy, activist Leonard
Peltier, a University of Arizona plan to place a telescope
on Mount Graham, Indian gaming, the Kaw Nation’s return
to Kansas, Northwestern Coast art, an ancient meat
processing site in southwestern Kansas, the Sand Creek
Massacre, the last Indian raid in Kansas, the custody
battle over Jim Thorpe’s body, and a missing massacre
marker in Victoria, KS. |
Box 9 |
FF 1 |
Scrapbook 17. 199 pages, 2002-2007. This material
consists of newspaper articles. It documents the MAAIC
and “Keeper of the Plains.” It also includes articles on
such topics as Indian gaming, the Seminole purchase of
the Hard Rock franchise, the Grand Canyon skywalk, the
near extinction of bison in the last Ice Age, former Vice
President Charles Curtis, and Dull Knife’s exodus across
Kansas. |
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Series 2 -- Memoirs |
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Series 2.1 -- Janet Owen Laws' Memoirs |
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Box 10 |
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Janet Owen Laws’ Memoirs, n.d. |
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Series 2.2 -- Leonard Laws' Memoirs |
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Box 10 |
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Leonard Laws’ Memoirs, n.d. |
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Series 2.3 -- “Letters to Shirley [Andrews]” |
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“Letters to Shirley [Andrews],” 1988-1998. |
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Series 3 -- Artwork |
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Series 3.1 -- Native American Artwork |
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Box 10 |
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Weaving. This file includes general information and
images, particularly on Navajo rug making. |
Box 10 |
FF 5 |
Jewelry. This file includes general information on silver
jewelry from the Southwest. |
Box 10 |
FF 6 |
Beadwork. This file includes general information on
beadwork art made by Native American artists. |
Box 10 |
FF 7 |
Pottery. This file includes general information and images
on pottery of the Southwest and Central American
regions. |
Box 10 |
FF 8 |
Painting. This file includes general information on Native
American paintings and painters, including Grey Cohoe
and R.C. Gorman. |
Box 10 |
FF 9 |
Other Media. This file includes information on other
media, including rock drawings, photography, interior
decorating, printmaking, folk art, gourd art, cradle making,
and theatre. |
Box 10 |
FF 10 |
Allan Houser. This file includes general information about
Houser and his art. |
Box 10 |
FF 11 |
Dan Namingha. This file includes general information
about Namingha and his art. |
Box 10 |
FF 12 |
Martha H. Streuver. This file includes general information
about Streuver and her art. |
Box 10 |
FF 13 |
Cha’ Tullis. This file includes general information about
Tullis and his art. |
Box 10 |
FF 14 |
Other artists. This file includes information and images by
Svevo Brooks, R.C. Gorman, the Nez Perce artists,
Blackbear Bosin, Dorothy Ann Sullivan, Mary Waconda,
John Sloan, Hoarce Poolaw, Don Crowley, Edward S.
Curtis, Gregg Bourland, Roxanne Swentzell, Fred Meyers,
Joe Pachak, Tony Abeyta, John Hoover, Jeanne Walker
Rorex, Cheryl Davis, Ed Mell, R. Carver, and Maynard
Dixon. |
Box 10 |
FF 15 |
Calendars. This file includes calendars featuring Native
American art, 1998-2006. |
Box 10 |
FF 16 |
Cards and Postcards. This file includes cards and
postcards received and collected by Janet Owen Laws
featuring Native American art. |
Box 10 |
FF 17 |
Government-commissioned artwork. This file includes
information and images on government-commissioned
artwork, the Buffalo Silver Dollar, the Indian Arts and
Crafts Board, and the Indian Arts and Crafts Act. |
Box 10 |
FF 18 |
Gilcrease Institute. This file includes information and
images on the Gilcrease Institute in Tulsa, OK. |
Box 10 |
FF 19 |
Galleries and Art Shows. This file includes information on
art galleries and art shows in Kansas at Prairie Edge, MJF
Galleries, Red Stone Gallery, In The Spirit Gallery, Bah-Kho-Je Gallery, White Buffalo Gallery, and The Gallery
Wall. |
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FF 20 |
Books Lists and Catalogues. This file includes a book list
and catalogues, including one on missing art and artifacts. |
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Series 3.2 -- Janet and Leonard Laws' Artwork |
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FF 21 |
Heritage Rock. This file includes images of Leonard Laws
standing in front of Heritage Rock, his sculpture at
Southwestern College. |
Box 10 |
FF 22 |
Laws’ art descriptions. This file contains descriptions of
the art by Leonard and Janet Owen Laws written by
Leonard and their son Kenneth. |
Box 10 |
FF 23 |
Laws’ Art 1. This file includes a compact disc (CD 1 of 7)
of images of the artwork of Janet and Leonard Laws,
printouts of the images, and a list of the images on the
CD. Examples include “Praying Hands” and “Semi-Victorious Warrior,” both sculptures by Leonard Laws. |
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FF 24 |
Laws’ Art 2. This file includes a compact disc (CD 2 of 7)
of images of the artwork of Janet and Leonard Laws,
printouts of the images, and a list of images on the CD.
Examples include “Young Storks” and “Instant Fossil,”
both sculptures by Leonard Laws. |
Box 11 |
FF 1 |
Laws’ Art 3. This file includes a compact disc (CD 3 of 7)
of images of the artwork of Janet and Leonard Laws,
printouts of the images, and a list of images on the CD.
Examples include “Abstraction #1,” a carving by Leonard
Laws, and “Bag #3,” a weaving by Janet Owen Laws. |
Box 11 |
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Laws’ Art 4. This file includes a compact disc (CD 4 of 7)
of images of the artwork of Janet and Leonard Laws,
printouts of the images, and a list of images on the CD.
Examples include “Snail,” a carving by Leonard Laws, and
“Water Flowers,” a weaving by Janet Owen Laws. |
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Laws’ Art 5. This file includes a compact disc (CD 5 of 7)
of images of the artwork of Janet and Leonard Laws,
printouts of the images, and a list of images on the CD.
Examples include “Rooster” and “Kansas Twister,” both
sculptures by Leonard Laws. |
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Laws’ Art 6. This file includes a compact disc (CD 6 of 7)
of images of the artwork of Janet and Leonard Laws,
printouts of the images, and a list of images on the CD.
Examples include “Small Decorative Pieces,” weavings by
Janet Owen Laws, and “Delight Maker #1,” a sculpture by
Leonard Laws. |
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Laws’ Art 7. This file includes a compact disc (CD 7 of 7)
of images of the artwork of Janet and Leonard Laws,
printouts of the images, and a list of images on the CD. Examples include “Harmonious Veteran,” a sculpture by Leonard Laws, and “Janet’s Tipi,” a tipi decorated by Janet Owen Laws. |
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Series 4 -- Powwows and Religious Life |
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Box 11 |
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Powwows. This file includes information on powwows,
1976-2008. |
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Kachinas. This file includes general information and
images on Kachina dolls. |
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Religious life. This file includes general information on
peyote, Methodist missionaries, and Native American
versions of Christian prayers. |
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Series 5 -- Education and Indian Colleges |
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Series 5.1 -- Educational Programming for Native Americans |
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Oglala Lakota College. This file includes pamphlets,
newsletters, annual reports, and other publications on
Oglala Lakota College in Kyle, South Dakota. |
Box 11 |
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Newsletters and mailings. This file includes newsletters for
St. Joseph’s Indian School (Chamberlain, SD), Cook
College and Theological School (Tempe, AZ), and the
American Indian Higher Education Consortium, as well as
mailings from the American Indian Education Foundation,
the Native American Scholarship Fund, Red Cloud Indian
School (Pine Ridge, SD), and St. Labre Indian School
(Ashland, MT). |
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FF 11 |
Cowley County Community College. This file includes
information on Native Americans taught in a cultural
studies workshop at Cowley County Community College,
August 9-10, 1993. |
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Series 5.2 -- Reading Lists, Internet Resources, and Other Educational
Materials |
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Reading Lists. This file includes book lists issued by
publishers on various Native American topics, including
exploration, the fur trade, and the Civil War. |
Box 11 |
FF 13 |
Reading Lists. This file includes book lists issued by
publishers on various Native American topics, including
Navajo rugs, art, the Indian Wars, and American history. |
Box 11 |
FF 14 |
Internet resources. This file includes information about
online discussion groups on Native American culture and
history received by Janet Owen Laws. |
Box 11 |
FF 15 |
Booklets and stories. This file includes booklets explaining
Wichita and Apache history, statistics for Indian Education
for 1971, stories to teach Native American children about
their culture, and an article on making Indian dolls. |
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Other educational material. This file includes two pins, a
Girl Scout pen, a postcard with the Cherokee alphabet,
and a cornhusk doll kit. |
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Series 6 -- Museums |
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Series 6.1 -- Mid-America All-Indian Center and Docent Program |
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Mid-America All-Indian Center (MAAIC). This file includes
event programs and newsletters for the MAAIC museum,
1976-1979. |
Box 13 |
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Mid-America All-Indian Center. This file includes event
programs and newsletters for the MAAIC museum, 1980-2003. |
Box 13 |
FF 3 |
MAAIC Docent Program. This file includes docent training
materials, memos, and exhibit labels for the MAAIC
docents, 1965-1989. |
Box 13 |
FF 4 |
MAAIC Docent Program. This file includes docent training
materials, memos, and exhibit labels for the MAAIC
docents, n.d. |
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Series 6.2 -- National Museum of the American Indian |
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National Museum of the American Indian. This file
includes newsletters and mailings from the National
Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., and
a letter from Senator Nancy Kassebaum to Janet Owen
Laws, 1992-2005. |
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Series 6.3 -- Other Museums |
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Box 13 |
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Institute of American Indian Arts. This file includes an
annual report, pamphlets, images, and mailings for the
Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM, 1991-2006. |
Box 13 |
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Other museums. This file includes pamphlets, programs
and images from other museums throughout the United
States and Canada, primarily in Kansas, Oklahoma and
Minnesota, such as the Wichita Art Museum, the Five
Civilized Tribes Museum in Muskogee, OK, and the
Amerind Foundation in Dragoon, AZ, 1977-1998. |
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Series 7 -- Newspaper Clippings, Articles, Brochures, and Government
Documents |
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Box 13 |
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Government Documents. This file includes pamphlets
from government organizations, copies of several
congressional bills, and a letter from Representative Joe
Skubitz, 1978-2002. |
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Rare articles. This file includes rare children’s publications
about Navajo children, 1955-1956. |
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Casino articles. This file includes articles on the fight for
casinos in Kansas, 1991-1993. |
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Art articles. This file includes articles on various art topics,
including painting, weaving, and sculpture, 1955-1999. |
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Notable Native Americans articles. This file includes
articles on well known Native Americans, including Sitting
Bull and Wilma Mankiller, the first female Cherokee chief,
1987-2005. |
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Archaeology articles. This file includes articles and
brochures on archaeology and various archaeological
sites, primarily in the Southwest, 1973-1996. |
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Tourism articles. This file includes Janet Owen Laws’
notes and articles on tourism and tourist sites in the
United States and Canada, 1974-1978. |
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Tourism articles. This file includes Janet Owen Laws’
notes and articles on tourism and tourist sites in the
United States, 1978 -2004. |
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General articles. This file includes articles on a range of
topics, including cooking Native American dishes,
Jamestown, and poaching, 1934-2007. |
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Oversized articles. This file includes articles from such
publications as the Wichita Eagle, the Kansas City Star,
the Palo Alto Weekly, and the Native Monthly Reader,
1957-2004. |
