National Congress of American Indians records, 1933-1990 (bulk 1944-1989)
Creator:
National Congress of American Indians
Subject:
Bronson, Ruth Muskrat
Curry, James E. 1907-1972
Deloria, Vine
Harjo, Suzan Shown
McNickle, D'Arcy 1904-1977
Peterson, Helen L
Snake, Reuben 1937-1993
Tonasket, Mel
Trimble, Charles E
Arrow, Inc
National Congress of American Indians
National Tribal Chairmen's Association
United Effort Trust
United States American Indian Policy Review Commission
United States Bureau of Indian Affairs
United States Indian Claims Commission
Physical description:
251 linear feet
Type:
Administrative records
Collection descriptions
Audiotapes
Clippings
Correspondence
Financial records
Photographs
Videotapes
Place:
United States
Date:
1933
1933-1990
bulk 1944-1989
20th century
1934-
Topic:
Alaska Natives--Land tenure
Indians of North America--Civil rights
Indians of North America--Economic conditions
Indians of North America--Government relations
Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc
Indians of North America--Politics and government
Indians of North America--Social conditions
Indian termination policy
Radioactive wastes--Management
Trail of Broken Treaties, 1972
Local number:
NMAI.AC.010
Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu)
Notes:
The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) is a major American Indian advocacy organization, designed to serve as a link between tribal governments and the United States government. NCAI was founded in 1944, in Denver, CO, as a membership organization for "persons of Indian blood." In 1955, group membership was limited to recognized tribes, committees, or bands. The organization is overseen by an Executive Council, which selects a five-member Executive Committee and an Executive Director. The Executive Director is then responsible for managing the organization's staff and overseeing its initiatives and everyday operations. Since 1944, NCAI has held annual conventions in the fall to elect officers and pass resolutions, which become the basis for the organization's policy positions. Beginning in 1977, a mid-year conference in May or June was added to provide further opportunities for in-depth exploration of issues
Since its inauguration, NCAI has worked on a wide variety of issues facing Indians in the US. Some of those issues include voting rights, land claims, education, economic development, natural resource protection and management, nuclear waste, repatriation, and government-to-government relations with the federal government. In 1954, NCAI organized an emergency conference to protest the US government's newly-announced termination policy. NCAI has also frequently worked closely with other Indian organizations, such as the Native American Rights Fund and National Tribal Chairmen's Association, and with various government bodies, such as the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Health Service
Summary:
The NCAI records document the organization's work, particularly that of its office in Washington, DC, and the wide variety of issues faced by American Indians in the twentieth century. The bulk of the material relates to legislation, lobbying, and NCAI's interactions with various governmental bodies. A large segment also concerns the annual conventions and executive council and executive committee meetings. Finally, the records also document the operations of the NCAI, including personnel, financial, and fundraising material. The collection also includes the records of two of NCAI's Executive Directors, Charles E. "Chuck" Trimble (1972-1977) and Suzan Shown Harjo (1984-1989). Included are correspondence, publications, reports, administrative records, photographs, and audio and video recordings
Cite as:
National Congress of American Indians Records, National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution
Data Source:
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian Archives
Chasing the dark : perspectives on place, history and Alaska Native land claims / edited by Kenneth L. Pratt
Author:
Pratt, Kenneth L
United States Bureau of Indian Affairs Alaska Region Division of Environmental & Cultural Resource Management
United States Bureau of Indian Affairs ANCSA Office
Subject:
United States Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act History
Physical description:
xiii, 472 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 28 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2009
Topic:
Alaska Natives--Land tenure
Alaska Natives--Claims
Alaska Natives--Social life and customs
Call number:
E78.A3 C43 2009
Notes:
Shipping list no.: 2009-0270-P
Contents:
List of contributors -- Editor's preface -- Acknowledgments -- Beginnings -- History and culture -- Implementation -- Interpretation and innovation -- Moving forward
Alaska native political leadership and higher education : one university, two universes / Michael Jennings
Author:
Jennings, Michael 1949-
Subject:
University of Alaska (System) History
Physical description:
ix, 185 p. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Alaska
Date:
2004
C2004
Topic:
Education (Higher)
Land tenure
Colonization
Education and state
Discrimination in education
Race relations
Politics and government
Contents:
From the land -- Worldviews and institutional conflict -- Education, economy, empire -- The Native agenda for rural education -- Structural responses to human needs -- Urban agendas -- Conclusion : the Indian trade
Sold American : the story of Alaska Natives and their land, 1867-1959 / Donald Craig Mitchell with foreword by Stewart L. Udall
Author:
Mitchell, Donald 1947 Jan. 23-
Subject:
Alaska Native Brotherhood History
United States Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act History
Physical description:
xv, 544 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Alaska
Date:
2003
C2003
Topic:
Land tenure
Claims
Government relations
Indian title--History
Ethnic relations
Politics and government
Call number:
E78.A3 M57 2003
Notes:
Originally published by University Press of New England, 1997 under the title: Sold American: a story of Alaska natives and their land, 1867-1959: the army to statehood
Alaska native land claims : hearings before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, second session on S. 2906, a bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant certain lands to Alaska natives, settle Alaska native land claims, and for other purposes and S. 1964, S. 2690, and S. 2020 related bills
Author:
United States Congress Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Physical description:
508 p. : 1 folded map ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Alaska
Date:
1968
Topic:
Land tenure
Eskimos--Land tenure
Claims
Eskimos--Claims
Indian land transfers
Call number:
E78.A3 U55 1968
Notes:
"February 8, 9, and 10, 1968."
"Printed for the use of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs."
Possessory rights of the natives of southeastern Alaska; a detailed analysis of the early and present territory used and occupied by the natives of southeastern Alaska, except the natives of the village of Kake (partially treated), Hydaburg, and Klawock. A report to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, by Walter R. Goldschmidt and Theodore H. Haas
Author:
Goldschmidt, Walter Rochs 1913-
Haas, Theodore H
United States Bureau of Indian Affairs
Physical description:
x, 173 l. illus., maps. 27 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Alaska
Southeastern region
Date:
1946
Topic:
Land tenure
Description and travel
Call number:
E78.A3 G62
Notes:
"A detailed analysis of the early and present territory used and occupied by the Natives of southeastern Alaska, except the Natives of the Village of Kake (partially treated), Hydaburg, and Klawock."
Breaking the ice : from land claims to tribal sovereignty in the arctic / Barry Scott Zellen
Author:
Zellen, Barry Scott 1963-
Physical description:
x xvii, 419 p. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Alaska
Date:
2008
C2008
Topic:
Land tenure
Claims
Politics and government
Self-determination, National
Race relations
Contents:
Alaska in the age of native land claims -- After ANCSA : the persistence of subsistence -- Land claims come to the NWT -- Co-management in action : balancing the two Arctics -- After land claims : toward the restoration of tribal sovereignty
From hunters to herders : the transformation of earth, society, and heaven among the Inupiat of Beringia / by Linda J. Ellanna and George K. Sherrod ; edited by Rachel Mason
Author:
Ellanna, Linda J
Sherrod, George K
Mason, Rachel 1954-
Shared Beringian Heritage Program (U.S.)
Physical description:
ix, 227 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Alaska
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve (Alaska)
Date:
2004
2004]
Topic:
Inupiat
Reindeer herding--History
Call number:
E99.E7 E453 2004
Notes:
"August 2004."
"Research for the study was conducted in the early 1990's as part of the One Man's Heritage Project within the National Park Service's Shared Beringian Heritage Program."--P. iii
Contents:
Introduction to the study: Introduction -- Study design -- Quest for data -- geographical, sociocultural, historical, and intellectual contexts: Geographical context -- Sociocultural context -- Context of Euro-American contact -- Conceptions of hunters and herders in the intellectual climate of the 1800s -- Hope and promise of Ublasaun: a herder's story -- Introduction of reindeer herding and missionary education: historical overview -- Home range to range wars: Introduction -- Resource use, settlement patterns, and land tenure and polity on Northern Seward Peninsula -- Americanization of the Last Frontier: Creation of private and public lands -- Hunting territories, mobility, and herding: Attempts at alienation and commoditization -- Implications for Ublasaun -- Myth of the Egalitarian Society: Introduction -- Stratification, leadership, and gender in Inupiat societies of Northwest Alaska -- Creation of a "Civilized" Social order -- Umialiit of deer -- Implications for Ublasaun -- Creation of "Heaven": Introduction -- Inupiat Order of the Universe -- Missionaries, genesis, and the order of the Protestant Universe -- Inupiat ideology, Protestant Christianity, and Syncretism -- Implications for Ublasaun -- Conflict and compromise: Legacy of reindeer herding in Alaska: Implications for Ublasaun: Retrospective -- Glossary
Then fight for it! : the largest peaceful redistribution of wealth in the history of mankind and the creation of the North Slope Borough / by Fred Paul
Mapping our places : voices from the Indigenous Communities Mapping Initiative
Author:
Scott, Clay
Warren, Alvin
Enote, Jim
Indigenous Communities Mapping Initiative
Physical description:
221 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 x 31 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
North America
Alaska
Chevak
Hawaii
Kauai
Chevak (Alaska)
Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico
Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico
Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, Montana
Kauai (Hawaii)
Date:
2005
2005]
Topic:
Indian cartography
Indians of North America--Maps
Land tenure
Names, Indian
Names, Hawaiian
Eskimos--History
Hawaiians--History
Oral history
History
Social life and customs
Call number:
E77 .M265 2005
Notes:
Date from colophon
"Through their own voices and images of their ancestral lands, you will learn about mapping projects carried out by four indigenous peoples in the western United States: The Kashunamuit people of the Native Village of Chevak, a Cup'ik Eskimo community located in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of Alaska; the village of Khap'o Owingeh, also known as Santa Clara Pueblo, in the upper Rio Grande Valley in northern New Mexico; the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation in Montana with aboriginal territory covering the upper reaches of the Missouri and Columbia River Basins; and the Native Hawaiian people of Häÿena on the island of Kauai'i, working through the Hui Makaÿäinana o Makana and the Limahuli Garden and Preserve."--P. 9
Contents:
Editor's note / by Clay Scott -- Foreword / by Alvin Warren -- Introduction / by Jim Enote -- Village of Chevak -- Limahuli Garden and Preserve in collaboration with the Hui Makaÿäinana o Makana Häÿena, Ahupua'a -- Santa Clara Pueblo - Khap'o Owingeh -- The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation -- Homeland - connecting and reconnecting -- Tradition and technology -- Aloha Häÿena / Carlos Andrade -- Boundaries are fluid -- Secret knowledge, sacred knowledge -- Regaining land, reclaiming history -- Preservation -- Language is our map -- Places and names, stories and histories -- Living on the land, living off the land -- Culture -- Passing on knowledge -- Challenges -- Common spirits -- Dreams and visions -- The roots of the ICMI / Jaune Evans -- Maps in court / Curtis Berkey -- A world where many fit / Joe Bryan
