University of Wyoming. Native American and Indigenous Studies Program records, 1924-2020
Table of Contents
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- University of Wyoming. Native American and Indigenous Studies program
- Title
- University of Wyoming. Native American and Indigenous Studies Program records
- Dates
- 1924-2020 (inclusive)Date of CollectionDate of Collection
Website capture 2016-ongoing (inclusive)Date of CollectionDate of Collection - Quantity
- 2.55 cubic ft. (3 boxes) + 49.79 + websites
- Collection Number
- 545020
- Summary
- The University of Wyoming, Native American and Indigenous Studies program, once the University of Wyoming, American Indian Studies Program, focuses on Native American communities and the social, political, and economic systems within them. This collection contains information on indigenous languages and groups, program descriptions, student and faculty papers, and the department website.
- Repository
- American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Dept. 3924
Laramie, WY
82071
Telephone: 3077663756
ahcref@uwyo.edu - Access Restrictions
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There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
- Languages
- English
Historical Note
The University of Wyoming, Native American and Indigenous Studies Program (NAIS), once named the University of Wyoming, American Indian Studies Program, focuses on Native American communities and the social, political, and economic systems within them. The program also brings attention to the culture and history of Native American and indigenous communities as well as the problems that face them.
Content Description
The collection contains information on the Eastern Shoshone language, including a dictionary compiled by David Leedom Shaul, a glossary, a grant proposal, and a summary of the program. It also includes access to the archived department website. This collection also includes student and faculty papers, course descriptions, and information on indigenous groups.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Use
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Preferred Citation
Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
Administrative Information
Related Materials
There are no known other archival collections created by the University of Wyoming, Native American and Indigenous Studies Program at the date of processing.
Acquisition Information
This material was received from University of Wyoming, Native American and Indigenous Studies Program from 2014-2023 and the University of Wyoming Native American Education, Research and Cultural Center in September 2024.
Processing Note
The collection was processed by Hunter Callahan McFarland in June 2015 and updated by Bailee Thomas in 2019, Maiah Porter and Sara Davis in May 2020, Jamie Greene in November 2020, and Erin Shadrick in January 2024 and by Brittany Heye in March 2026.
Detailed Description of the Collection
- Description: A Quiet Crisis: Federal Funding and Unmet in Indian CountryDates: 2003Container: Box 1, Folder
- Description: AIS graduation video - VHSDates: undatedContainer: Box 3, Folder
- Description: AIST 7990/EDCI 5480 boarding school lectureDates: undatedContainer: Box 3, Folder
- Description: "American Indian Programs at the University of Wyoming, 1975-2015: A Summary" by John F. NutterDates: March 2016Container: Box 1, Folder
- Description: American Indian Studies Program InformationDates: 1993-1994, 2018Container: Box 1, Folder
- Description: Arapahoe Designs and SymbolsDates: 1983Container: Box 1, Folder
- Description: Arapahoe 1010: Course Outline and DescriptionDates: undatedContainer: Box 1, Folder
- Description: Atlas for AnthropologyDates: 1960Container: Box 2, Folder
- Description: Atlas of American Indian AffairsDates: 1990Container: Box 1, Folder
- Description: Book - "The Arapaho Way"Dates: 2019Container: Box 3, Folder
- Description: Book - "Arapaho Journeys"Dates: 2011Container: Box 3, Folder
- Description: Casenote Legal Briefs: Indian LawDates: 1998Container: Box 2, Folder
- Description: Catherine Keene - honored alum presentation (edited version) - UMaticDates: undatedContainer: Box 3, Folder
- Description: Citizens and Savages: Applied Anthropology and Indian Administration in the United StatesDates: 2006Container: Box 2, Folder
- Description: Contextual Influences on the Creation of Crow Tribal Photographs by Richard Throssel in the Early Twentieth CenturyDates: 2002Container: Box 2, Folder
- Description: Contribution to Canadian LinguisticsDates: 1979Container: Box 2, Folder
- Description: The Coyote in the Kawuneeche: Story, Relation, and Experience in a Rocky Mountain LandscapeDates: 2010Container: Box 2, Folder
- Description: The Cultural Position of the Kalapuya in the Pacific NorthwestDates: 1951Container: Box 2, Folder
- Description: Cultural Trust and Relationship MatrixDates: 2001Container: Box 1, Folder
- Description: Current AnthropologyDates: 1973-1979Container: Box 2, Folder
- Description: Current Trends in the Wind River Shoshone Sun DanceDates: 1953Container: Box 1, Folder
- Description: "Developing Effective Working Relationships With Indian Tribes and Organizations"Dates: 2001-2002Container: Box 1, Folder
- Description: Dissertation: It Takes a Village: Decolonization, Experiential Narrative, and Community-Centered Learning in a Reservation BordertownDates: 2010Container: Box 1, Folder
- Description: The Eastern Shoshone Tribe: Supplementary Support of the Wind River Needs Determination SurveyDates: 1998Container: Box 2, Folder
- Description: Eastern Shoshone Working DictionaryDates: undatedContainer: Box 1, Folder
- Description: Everyday Lakota conversation - CassetteDates: undatedContainer: Box 3, Folder
- Description: General Information on the ArapahoeDates: 2002-2013Container: Box 1, Folder
- Description: Glossary of the Eastern Shoshone languageDates: 2012Container: Box 1, Folder
- Description: Graduate Thesis: A Botanical Survey in Grand Teton National Park: Plants Used By Native AmericansDates: 2006Container: Box 1, Folder
- Description: Graduate Thesis: Catastrophe in Paradise: A Study of the Alienated Individual in the Fiction of James WelchDates: 1989Container: Box 1, Folder
- Description: Grant ProposalDates: 2009Container: Box 1, Folder
- Description: Indian Education Legal Support ProjectDates: 2005Container: Box 1, Folder
- Description: Information on Indigenous TribesDates: undatedContainer: Box 1, Folder
- Description: Mapping the Influences of the Hollywood "Indian"Dates: 2011Container: Box 2, Folder
- Description: Miscellaneous articlesDates: 1985-1995Container: Box 1, Folder
- Description: Native American Education, Research, and Cultural CenterDates: undatedContainer: Box 1, Folder
- Description: Newspaper clippingsDates: 1996 - 2001Container: Box 3, Folder
- Description: Now I Must Try to Live as They Did: Reginald Laubin and American Indian RepresentationDates: 2009Container: Box 2, Folder
- Description: The Peyote Culture Among Wyoming IndiansDates: 1946Container: Box 1, Folder
- Description: Plan B: Social Services and Wyoming American Indians: A Qualitative StudyDates: 2009Container: Box 2, Folder
- Description: Recognizing Cultural Competence in Social WorkersDates: 1999Container: Box 2, Folder
- Description: Recordings of NDN affairs - CassetteDates: undatedContainer: Box 3, Folder
- Description: Report - Arapaho Culture Student ReferencesDates: 2001Container: Box 3, Folder
- Description: Report to the Hopi Kikmongwis and Other Traditional Hopi Leaders on Docket 196 and the Continuing Threat to Hopi Land and SovereigntyDates: 1979Container: Box 2, Folder
- Description: Shoshoni Language Materials (7 CDs)Dates: 2002Container: Box 1 and Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_001-007
- Description: Student PapersDates: 2006, undatedContainer: Box 1, Folder
- Description: Tribal Names of American Indians: Origins and EvolutionDates: 1995Container: Box 1, Folder
- Description: Tribal Water Code of the Seminole Tribe of FloridaDates: 1995Container: Box 1, Folder
- Description: University of Utah: Anthropological PapersDates: 1978Container: Box 2, Folder
- Description: Wappo TextsDates: 1924Container: Box 2, Folder
- Description: Wyoming Indian Affairs CouncilDates: 1994Container: Box 2, Folder
- Description: 10 years of honoring our graduates - VHSDates: undatedContainer: Box 3, Folder
Series I. Digital Records, 1988-2014
This series contians the digital records of the UW Native American and Indigenous Studies program.
- Description: "Thinking Towards an American Indian Center at the University of Wyoming" - CDDates: 2009Container: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_008
- Description: Arapaho 1-18 - CDDates: undatedContainer: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_009
- Description: Arapahoe 19-36 - CDDates: undatedContainer: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_010
- Description: Arapahoe 37-42 - CDDates: undatedContainer: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_011
- Description: Arapaho #1 - 21 g 30 - CDDates: undatedContainer: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_012
- Description: Arapaho #2 - 20 g 30 - CDDates: undatedContainer: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_013
- Description: Arapaho #3 - 19 g 30 - CDDates: undatedContainer: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_014
- Description: Arapaho #4 - 21 g 30 - CDDates: undatedContainer: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_015
- Description: Arapaho #5 - 17 g 30 - CDDates: undatedContainer: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_016
- Description: Arapaho #1 - 19 g 30 - CDDates: undatedContainer: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_017
- Description: Arapaho #1 - 26 g 30 - CDDates: undatedContainer: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_018
- Description: Arapaho #2 - 27 g 30 - CDDates: undatedContainer: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_019
- Description: Arapaho #3 - 26 g 30 - CDDates: undatedContainer: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_020
- Description: Arapaho #4 - 14 g 30 - CDDates: undatedContainer: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_021
- Description: The photographs of Saea - CDDates: undatedContainer: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_022
- Description: American Indians in Geology - CDDates: 1995 - 1996Container: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_023
- Description: Sidney Haysen with Caskey - CDDates: undatedContainer: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_024
- Description: AIS graduation - CDDates: 2005Container: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_025
- Description: AIS graduation - CDDates: 2007Container: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_026
- Description: AIS graduation - 1st half - CDDates: 2008Container: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_027
- Description: AIS graduation - 2nd half - CDDates: 2008Container: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_028
- Description: AIS graduation - CDDates: 2009Container: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_029
- Description: AIS graduation - CDDates: 2010Container: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_030
- Description: AIS graduation - CDDates: 2011Container: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_031
- Description: AIS graduation - CDDates: 2014Container: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_032
- Description: American Indian Studies photos - CDDates: undatedContainer: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_033
- Description: Teepe photosDates: October 2008Container: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_034
- Description: American Heritage Center photos for AISA brochureDates: June 2005Container: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_035
- Description: American Indian Studies - stills from video footageDates: March 2009Container: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_036
- Description: American Indian Studies - web imagesDates: undatedContainer: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_038
- Description: A. Wagon - ADates: July 1988Container: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_039
- Description: A. Wagon - ADates: July 1988Container: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_040
- Description: A. Wagon - BDates: July 1988Container: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_041
- Description: A. WagonDates: undatedContainer: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_042
- Description: A. Wagon - vowelsDates: undatedContainer: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_043
- Description: A. Wagon - 1 vowelsDates: undatedContainer: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_044
- Description: A. Wagon - 2 vowelsDates: undatedContainer: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_045
- Description: A. Wagon - 3 vowelsDates: undatedContainer: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_046
- Description: A. Wagon - soundsDates: undatedContainer: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_047
- Description: AIS and AISA logo's and faculty picturesDates: 2007Container: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_048
- Description: Pow Wow photos (three floppies)Dates: April 2005Container: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_049-051
- Description: Arapaho dictionary (two floppies)Dates: undatedContainer: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_545020_053-054
Series II. Websites
This accretion contains the websites belonging to the UW Native American and Indigenous Studies program.
- Description: Website: American Indian Studies ProgramDates: 2016-2020Container: Digital,
- Dates: 2020-ongoingContainer: Digital,
- Dates: 2020-ongoingContainer: Digital,
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Indians of North America -- Education (Higher) -- Wyoming
- Indians of North America -- Study and teaching (Higher)
- Shoshoni language
Geographical Names
- University of Wyoming
- Wind River Reservation (Wyo.)
