UUM_Acc0575 Guide to the University of Utah American West Center records 1966-2003 University of Utah American West Center records Finding aid created by David Buhler University Archives and Records Management, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Acc0575 University of Utah American West Center records 1966-2003 1966-1995 University of Utah. American West Center University of Utah American West Center records 4.75 linear feet The American West Center is a research arm of the University of Utah that is housed within the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. The Center's main research efforts are in the social, cultural, regional, and ethnic aspects of the American West. The material in this collection comes from the files of Floyd O'Niel who was the Director the American West Center from 1986 until 1995. Material in English. Historical Note

The Western History Center began at the University of Utah in 1964. After an administrative review in 1970, it was reorganized into the American West Center and placed within the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. The Center was also merged with the Bureau of Indian Services, American West Studies, and documentation and oral history projects which began in 1967 under a large grant from the Doris Duke Foundation. In the 1970's, the American West Center launched an Applied History program in conjunction with the History Department and incorporated the Intercultural and Regional Studies program which dealt with the various ethnic groups in the Intermountain West.

The material in this collection was generated through the activities of Floyd O'Neil who was the Assistant Director of the Center for the Studies of the American West from 1967 to 1971, Associate Director for the American West Center from 1972 to 1985, and Director of the American West Center from 1985 until his retirement in 1995. He was also an adjunct professor in the Department of History from 1976 from until he retired and was made Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and History. The bulk of the material covers the administrations of Directors David E. Miller (1965-1971), S. Tyler Lyman (1971-1985), and Floyd O'Neil (1986-1995). The majority of the Administrative Records were produced from consultation projects that the American West Center performed in collaboration with Native American tribes in the American West. This material also covers the program for graduate training in the history of Indians in the Americas which the Center implemented in 1976.

This collection is divided into the following two series: Administrative Office Records and Correspondence. The Administrative Office Files are arranged alphabetically by subject while the correspondence files are arranged chronologically.

Materials must be used on-site; advance notice suggested. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Initial Citation: American West Center records, Acc. 575, Box [ ]. University Archives and Records Management. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott. Salt Lake City, Utah.

Following Citations:Acc. 575

Acc. 70: American West Center Advisory Committee meeting minutes, 1969-1970

This collection came from seventeen cubic feet of material that was picked up from American West Center in 2007 and 2008.

Processed by David Buhler in 2019.

 Miller, David E. O'Neil, Floyd A. Tyler, S. Lyman (Samuel Lyman), 1920- University of Utah. College of Social and Behavioral Sciences University of Utah. Dept. of History University of Utah--Archives. Research institutes--Utah--History--Souces. Universitities and colleges--Utah--Salt Lake City--History--Sources. Education Colleges and Universities Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Anthropology Correspondence Memorandums Minutes Reports 1 Administrative Records 1 Central Utah Water Conservancy Project to Graduate and Professional Opportunities Program 1 Central Utah Water Conservancy Project (CUP) 1984-1994 2 Department of History 1979-1988 3 Department of History - Department Meeting Minutes 1982-1985 4 Department of History - Executive Committee Meeting Minutes 1982-1985 5 Fort Hall: Shoshone-Bannock Project 1994-2000 6-7 Graduate and Professional Opportunities Program (G-POP) 1978-1984 2 Grant to Develop Curriculum... to Miller, David E. 1 Grant to Develop Curriculum for University and College Courses in the History of the Indians of the Americas 1979-1981 2 Historical Sketch of Hopi Land Use and Occupance circa 1980 3-6 Intertribal Council of Nevada 1972-1975 undated 7 Metlakatla Community Archives 1984-1991 8 Miller, David E. - Correspondence 1966-1969 3 Miller, David E. to "Records of the Mission..." 1 Miller, David E. - Correspondence 1970-1971 2 Program for Graduate Training in the History of the Indians of the Americas 1975-1979 3 Project to Extend the Use of American Indian History 1979-1982 4-6 Pueblo Archives 1981-1986 7 Pueblo of Tesque 1992-1994 8 Pueblo Water Inventory 1990 1996 9 Records of the Mission of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe de Zuni circa 1980 4 Tohono O' Odham to Ute Mountain Ute Project 1 Tohono O' Odham: History of the Desert Peoples 1985-1989 2 Uintah and Ouray Reservation Water Rights 1987-1988 3 United States Bureau of Reclamation 1988 4 Ute Mountain Ute Project 1986-1990 2 Correspondence 1967-2003