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National Congress of American Indians
- Dates:
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1952-1997
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24 videoreels (1/2 inch)
1 videocassettes (hi8)
3 sound cartridges
1 sound recording (dictaphone belt)
10 videocassettes (vhs)
442 Sound tape reels (1/4" open reel)
30 videocassettes (u-matic)
713 Sound cassettes
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.010.001
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
The National Congress of America Indians (NCAI), which describes itself as the oldest and largest American Indian and Alaskan Native organization in the United States, was founded on November 16, 1944, in Denver, CO and is still active today. NCAI was founded to serve as a link between individual tribal councils and the United States government but also aimed to educate the general public about Indians, preserve Indian cultural values, protect treaty rights with the United States, and promote Indian welfare. This collection of National Congress of America Indians Audio and Film Recordings contains materials created by and for NCAI to maintain a record of organizational proceedings and events between 1952 and 1997. Recorded in various formats, the bulk of this collection is on 1/4" open reel to reel tapes and sound cassettes. The events represented in this collection include annual and mid-year conventions, executive council meetings, congressional hearings, intertribal institutes and a variety of workshops and meetings regarding economic, civil and educational issues facing indian country.
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Pratt, Richard Henry, 1840-1924
- Dates:
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circa 1896
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30 Contact prints
30 Negatives (nitrate)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.81I
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs probably made by Richard Henry Pratt and his daughter Nana Pratt on a trip around the United States, circa 1896. They include images of Southwest and Northwest Coast Native peoples, waterways, dwellings and pueblos, a church, a totem pole, and a town in the Northwest.
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1973, 1992, undated
- Level:
- file
- Collection ID:
- AAA.ybartoma
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Archives of American Art
(booklets, "Indian Paintings and Dance Paraphernalia" and "Indian Silverwork of the Southwest"; Mickey Mouse magazine [in German]; TYF's notes on Mickey Mouse cartoons and on American and American Indian Art Museums [1 p. ea]; book, De Museos, Universidad Iberoamericana, Deparamento de Arte, México, 1992)
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1890-1900
- Level:
- file
- Collection ID:
- NAA.XXXX.0311
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Consists of folders with several items in each. Includes notes, clippings, other printed material including Walter Hough, "Remarks on Antarctic Exploration" before the Washington Academy of Sciences, 1910; illustrations of British Guiana weapons by Ph. Schmid; letter, J.O. Dorsey to Otis T. Mason, 1/171(?)/93, re Hiawatha; letter, Jessie E. Thomas,...
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- Level:
- file
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 416
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
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1893 February 14
- Level:
- file
- Collection ID:
- NAA.XXXX.0311
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Includes a letter, T. J. Morgan to Mason, 2/14/93, re summary of relationship of Indians to the government; printed material; and notes.
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Smithsonian Institution
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circa 1927-1950
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25 cu. ft. (25 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 05-143
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of motion pictures created by, acquired by, or about the Smithsonian Institution and its staff. Highlights of the collection include footage related to the Charles Lindbergh transatlantic flight and the Lindbergh baby; footage of Native American sign language; footage from archeological expeditions in Arizona, Colo...
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
- Dates:
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1986-1987
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2.38 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes) (1 film box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 02-122
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of 16mm film, 1" videotape and U-matic videotape documenting companion films to exhibitions in the National Museum of Natural History Hall of Indian and Eskimo Cultures. Working titles of films include: Potlatch "Box of Treasures," Potlatch "Strict Law," "Northwest Coastal Masks," "North West Coast Indian Masking," ...
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Canada: Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, Mi'kmaq (Micmac)
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1930-1931
- Level:
- series
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177 Negatives (photographic)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.001.038
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
The photographs in this series were taken by Frederick Johnson during fieldwork conducted in 1930 on Mi'kmaq (Micmac) reserves in Cape Breton Island and Truro in Nova Scotia and a short trip to Conne River, Newfoundland in 1931. Both trips were funded by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Johnson took many outdoor portraits of Mi'...
N19796-N19932, N20268-N20307
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Hilu, Sam
- Dates:
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1966
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5 Items (35 mm color transparencies )
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4958
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Relate to Cuna Indians, Island of Carti, Panama, 1966.