Barbara Ware Featherstone Collection

Barbara Ware Featherstone Collection, 1970-1980

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Featherstone, Barbara Ware
Title: Barbara Ware Featherstone Collection
Dates: 1970-1980 (inclusive)
19701980
Quantity: .25 cubic feet
Collection Number: MG 5865
Summary: This collection includes a postcard titled "The James Willard Schultz Legacy" with information about his life and works. Additionally, there are two tape recordings from the Nez Perce.
Repository: University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives
Special Collections and Archives
University of Idaho Library
875 Perimeter Drive
MS 2350
Moscow, ID
83844-2350
Telephone: 2088850845
libspec@uidaho.edu
Access Restrictions: Contact Head of Special Collections for access.
Languages: English

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Postcard with letter from Wilbur and Roberta Betts about James Willard Schultz Legacy; Nez Perce sound recordings; one audiocassette and one 3" tape recording. Donated by Lynn Baird delivered to Special Collections from Barbara Ware Featherstone on September 24, 2012

Historical NoteReturn to Top

James Schultz was an American author who lived among the Blackfeet from 1876-1947. He published several short story collections about his time with the Blackfeet in Montana. Also connected to Montana is Mylie Lawyer's family. Her great grandfather, Chief Lawyer, worked with fur traders in Buffalo country. Chief Lawyer assisted in the assembling of a Nez Perce grammar text. Her second great grandfather, Twisted Hair (Tsap tso kalips kin), and his band aided Lewis and Clark in finding a water route to the Pacific Ocean. Mylie and her family have a long history of indigenous-Euro-American negotiations. Her and her father, Corbett Lawyer, worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs during their lives. Corbett Lawyer aided in writing the first constitution for the Nez Perce tribal government, created an accounting system, and worked on a Nez Perce grammar book, like his grandfather.

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Preferred Citation

FOR PHOTOS: Photographer, "Title," date. Collection name, object ID. University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives, Moscow, ID.

FOR DOCUMENTS: Author, Description or "Title" of item, date. Collection name, collection number, box, folder. University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives, Moscow, ID.

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Acquisition Information

Materials received from Barbara Ware Featherstone in 2012 (MA 2012-44). Post card received from Barbara Ware Featherstone by way of Lynn Baird in 2016 (MA 2016-05).

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I: ImagesReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Folder	object
1	1	2: Featherstone Tapes and biographical papers 2 items : Webcor 3" reel tape; Compact Cassette 30 min x 2 "Nez Perce Haruo Aoki" tape; Barbara Ware Featherstone; Nez Perce NHP	Undated
1	2	Schultz Legacy Postcard 1 items : "The James Willard Schultz Legacy"; Wilbur Betts; Roberta Betts; "Why Gone Those Times"; Eugene Lee Silliman	Undated

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