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The following classes will meet in the Coe Library Electronic Classroom on Wednesday:
I blogged about National American Indian Heritage Month earlier this week, but only mentioned a portion of the great research material available in Laramie about Native Americans.
If you are interested in digging further into the awesome resources at UW, archivist Leslie Waggener recommends the following collections. All are available for use at the American Heritage Center located on Willett Drive:
Richard Throssel Collection (ca. 1902-1920s)
This collection contains materials relating to Throssel’s photographic work of the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Indians from 1902-1933. It includes 2,481 photographs, glass plate negatives and lantern slides of daily life, ceremonies, portraits and village scenes of the Crow and Northern Cheyenne; what is now the Little Bighorn National Monument; daily life of Billings; Throssel and his family; ranching; and scenery of southern Montana and northern Wyoming.
Demitri Boris Shimkin (1890-1993)
Collection is chiefly materials related to Shimkin’s research on the Shoshone (or Shoshoni), including ethnographic research journals (1937-1938), Rorschach tests, Shoshone Day School records, notes, census rolls, correspondence, manuscripts, student papers, photographs, negatives, and printed materials. There is a small amount of material on the Arapaho tribe as well as anthropological papers by various authors on other North American tribes.
John Roberts Papers (1883-1963)
The collection contains material regarding John Robert’s mission work on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. There are numerous notes and drafts as well as printed versions of Robert’s translations of church literature into the Arapaho and Shoshone languages. Other material includes history of the region and biographical information about Roberts and his family, friends and prominent citizens of the area including Sacagawea.
* photograph of Shoshone Indians in front of J.K. Moore’s store in Ft. Washakie used with permission from the American Heritage Center