Abstract

The collection consists of 16 photographs taken by well known circus photographer Harry A. Atwell, depicting indigenous performers from the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Wild West Show in the late 1920s. Photographs in the collection include portraits of performers backstage, as well as action shots of stunt riding during performances.

Abstract The Rupert and Jeannette Costo papers, housed in Special Collections & Archives of the Tomás Rivera Library at the University of California, Riverside is a collection consisting of printed material (correspondence, typescripts, original manuscripts and ephemera), film and photographs collected by Jeannette and Rupert Costo. This collection is largely dedicated to information on American Indians with an emphasis on California Indians and contemporary issues. Water, land, hunting and...

Abstract

This collection consists of photographs and postcards from John W. Dady, depicting various Native American tribes and ranches in the Midwest and California during the early 20th century.

Abstract The collection consists of materials from Dr. Robert Griffin, a Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and French at UC Riverside. Items in the collection are mostly related to Native American studies and programs on campus, including materials documenting the establishment of the Rupert Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs and the Rupert Costo Library of the American Indian, items documenting recruitment efforts and plans to enroll more Native American students, and records and...

Abstract

This collection contains a journal, stamps, documents, correspondence, bibliography and other material on anthropologist Robert H. Lowie, a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley from 1917-1950. Lowie's research focused on ethnographic fieldwork with indigenous peoples in the Great Plains region, including Crow (Apsáalooke), Arikaree, Hidatsa, Mandan and Shoshone communities. The collection contains information on Lowie's research and personal life.

Abstract

The papers of Joel Martin, former Costo Chair of American Indian Affairs, University of Calilfornia, Riverside, includes documents, correspondence, and media publications regarding Native American history and religion.

Abstract This collection contains notes, photographs, articles, manuscripts, maps, published papers, clippings, correspondence, sound recordings, and other material from cultural anthropologist Ralph C. Michelsen. Materials in the collection mostly pertain to Michelsen's anthropological research on numerous indigenous tribes in North and Central America, including the PaiPai and Kiliwa of Baja California, various Luiseño groups in southern California, the Mohave and Cocopah, the Seri of Mexico, and...

Abstract

This collection contains fliers, pamphlets, and other material regarding Native American Student Programs (NASP) at the University of California, Riverside which serves students of Native American descent and heritage. Primarily contains information about NASP related events.

Abstract

This collection includes card files, subject bibliographies, schematic charts, maps, articles, manuscript chapters, clippings, audio tapes, and other material documenting anthropologist Roger C. Owens work with a range of native American groups of the Southwestern US and the Baja peninsula. The collection includes subject coded reference card files on Native American cultures, schematic charts of social organization, subject bibliographies, and scholarly articles filed by subject.

Abstract This collection contains stories, articles, newspaper clippings, scholarly journals, booklets, and other material collected by D. Russell Parks on U.S. Native Americans and Quanah Parker, the last chief of the Comanche tribe. Parks was part of the same Comanche tribe as Quanah Parker, and was interested in writing an accurate history of Parker and his contributions to Oklahoma and the Comanche people. The collection consists of information gathered by Parks for his research, as well as...