TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary of the Collection
Scope and Content of the Collection
Series 1: D'Arcy McNickle's Writings, c. 1920-1973
Series 2: D'Arcy McNickle's Diaries, 1931-1970
Series 3: Book Reviews 1936-1975
Series 4: Correspondence 1924-1977
Series 5: American Indian Development, Incorporated (AID) Materials, 1952-1966
Series 6: Sol Tax Correspondence, 1957-1975
Series 7: Omer C. Stewart Additions, 1954-1986
Series 8: University of Saskatchewan Materials, 1966-1971
Series 9: Center for the History of the American Indian Materials, 1971-1977
Series 10: Canadian Indian Materials, 1971-1973
Series 11: Television and Radio Materials, 1941-1975
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Inventory of the D'Arcy McNickle Papers, 1913-1986,bulk 1924-1977
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Lisa Janssen, 2003. 2003 |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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| Creator | McNickle, D'Arcy |
| Title | D'Arcy McNickle |
| Dates | 1913-1986, |
| Dates | bulk 1924-1977 |
| Extent | 14 cubic feet (34 Boxes, 1 oversize box) |
| Abstract | Literary and scholarly manuscripts, diaries, correspondence, and other materials of D'Arcy McNickle, American Indian author, government employee, community organizer, anthropologist, and historian. Records cover McNickle's work with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, American Indian Development, Inc., the University of Saskatchewan, and the Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library. |
| Language | Materials are in English. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Ayer Modern MS McNickle |
| Collection Stack Location | 3 60 1-2 |
Administrative Information
Cite As
D'Arcy McNickle Papers, Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Gift of the estate of D'Arcy McNickle, 1983; Omer C. Stewart additions gift of Omer Stewart, 1986; and other additions noted in the accession file.
Processed by
Rebecca S. Graff, 2001
Access
The D'Arcy McNickle Papers are open for research; they are available one box at a time in the Special Collections reading room (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
Ownership and Literary Rights: The D'Arcy McNickle Papers are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Literary rights, including copyright, may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns.
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Biography of D'Arcy McNickle
Born on January 18, 1904 in St. Ignatius, Montana on the Flathead Indian Reservation, William D'Arcy McNickle was a novelist, author, employee of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, director of American Indian Development, Inc., community organizer, activist, professor of anthropology, historian, and program director of the Newberry Library Center for the History of the American Indian.
Born to a French Cree (Métis) mother, Philomene Parenteau, and an Irish father, William James McNickle, McNickle was the youngest child, and had two older sisters, Ruth Elizabeth and Florence Lea. McNickle's mother applied for membership into the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (known as the Flathead) and she and her children were adopted and received a land allotment under the 1887 Dawes Act. His parents divorced in 1914 and for a time McNickle went by the name of his stepfather, Dahlberg.
McNickle attended mission and government schools for Indian children in Montana and in Oregon, and attended the University of Montana from 1921-1925. In 1925 McNickle sold his land allotment and left for Europe, attending Oxford University (1925-1926) and the University of Grenoble (1931). He eventually went to work in New York and also was briefly at Columbia University in 1933. Although he never finished a degree, McNickle received an honorary Sc.D from the University of Colorado in 1966.
Eventually McNickle went to Washington, D.C. to work for the Bureau of Indian Affairs under John Collier. He worked under this "Indian New Deal" from 1936 to 1952 as an administrative assistant, a field representative for the commissioner, an assistant to the commissioner, and eventually the director of tribal relations. In 1952 he took up the directorship of the newly established American Indian Development, Incorporated, which was run out of the University of Colorado, Boulder. McNickle arranged workshops for Indian students who would arrive from across the country. Eventually the focus of the organization turned to the Navajo community of Crownpoint, New Mexico. In 1966 McNickle was invited to a professorship at the newly established University of Saskatchewan, Regina campus where he was to head and create an anthropology department. After officially retiring to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1971, McNickle went to Chicago in 1972 to help create the Newberry Library's Center for the History of the American Indian. In 1984, the center was named after him in honor of his life and his work, making it one of two organizations named after McNickle (the second is library at the Salish-Kootenai Community College on the Flathead Reservation).
McNickle is the author of three novels: The Surrounded (1936), Runner in the Sun: A Story of Indian Maize (1954), and Wind From an Enemy Sky (1978). His non-fiction work includes They Came Here First: The Epic of the American Indian (1949), Indians and Other Americans (1959 and 1970, with Howard E. Fey), Indian Tribes of the United States: Ethnic and Cultural Survival (1962, revised in 1973 as Native American Tribalism), and Indian Man: A Life of Oliver La Farge (1971). McNickle also wrote many articles including the entry for "Indians, North America" in the 1951 Encyclopedia Britannica and books reviews for American Anthropologist. He wrote short stories and poetry too, and was published in many popular magazines including Esquire, Common Ground, the Chicago Tribune Magazine supplement, and Frontier and Midland. These stories as well as unpublished ones are included in The Hawk is Hungry and Other Stories, edited by Birgit Hans (1992).
In addition to his paid positions and his writing, McNickle worked for several other organizations. He chaired the steering committee of the 1961 American Indian Chicago Conference and was the primary author of the conference's "Declaration of Indian Purpose." He was a founding member of the National Congress of America Indians, a fellow of the American Anthropological Association, and a member of the executive committee of the Society for American Archaeology (1972-1973).
Like his mother, McNickle was married three times: first, to Joran Jacobine Birkeland from 1926-1938, second to Roma Kaye Haufman from 1939-1967, and finally to his AID co-worker, sociologist Viola Gertrude Pfrommer, from 1969-1977. McNickle had two daughters, Antoinette Marie Parenteau McNickle (with Joran) and Kathleen D'Arcy McNickle (with Roma). He died suddenly of a heart attack in October 1977.
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Scope and Content of the Collection
This collection consists of a wide variety of materials, with the largest number representing McNickle's writings and his papers from American Indian Development. Other materials include his diaries, newspaper clippings including book reviews, correspondence, McNickle's notes from teaching at the University of Saskatchewan, materials from the Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library, television and radio materials, photographs, and assorted personal papers of D'Arcy McNickle, with the bulk of the collection dating from about 1953-1977. There are also copies of anthropologist Sol Tax's papers, miscellaneous additions from anthropologist Omer C. Stewart, and some assorted papers concerning Canadian Indian organizations. The papers cover his life from his college years, his time at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, his career at American Indian Development, his tenure at the University of Saskatchewan, and his final appointment at the Center for the History of the American Indian.
Narrative descriptions of the subject matter, types of material, and arrangement of each series are available through the Organization section of the finding aid.
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Organization
The papers are organized in the following series:
- Series 1: D'Arcy McNickle's Writings, c. 1920-1973. Box(es) 1-12
- Series 2: D'Arcy McNickle's Diaries, 1931-1970. Box(es) 13-16
- Series 3: Book Reviews1936-1975. Box(es) 17
- Series 4: Correspondence1924-1977. Box(es) 18-20
- Series 5: American Indian Development, Incorporated (AID) Materials, 1952-1966. Box(es) 21-23
- Series 6: Sol Tax Correspondence, 1957-1975. Box(es) 25
- Series 7: Omer C. Stewart Additions, 1954-1986. Box(es) 26
- Series 8: University of Saskatchewan Materials, 1966-1971. Box(es) 27
- Series 9: Center for the History of the American Indian Materials, 1971-1977. Box(es) 28
- Series 10: Canadian Indian Materials, 1971-1973. Box(es) 29
- Series 11: Television and Radio Materials, 1941-1975. Box(es) 30
- Series 12: Personal Items1913-1977. Box(es) 31
- Series 13: Miscellaneous. Box(es) 32
- Series 14: Photographs, 1952-1977. Box(es) 33-35
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Selected Search Terms
Names
- American Indian Development, Inc.
- Brando, Marlon
- Collier, John, 1884-1968
- D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian
- Fey, Howard E.
- LaFarge, Oliver, 1901-1963
- McNickle, William
- McNickle, D'Arcy, 1904-1977
- Parenteau, Philomene
- Pfrommer, Viola Gertrude
- Stewart, Omer Call, 1908-
- Tax, Sol, 1907-
- United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs--Officials and employees
- University of Saskatchewan
- University of Colorado (Boulder campus)
Subjects
- Anthropologists--United States--History--20th century--Sources
- Correspondence--United States--1924-1977
- Crownpoint (N.M.)--History--20th century--Sources
- Diaries--United States--1931-1970
- Indian authors--20th century--Sources
- Indians of North America-- Education--History--20th century--Sources
- Manuscripts, American
- Navajo Indians-- Education--History--20th century--Sources
- Photographs--1952-1977
- Salish Indians
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Container List
Series 1: D'Arcy McNickle's Writings, c. 1920-1973 |
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| Contains manuscripts of novels, manuscripts of non-fiction books, articles, book reviews by McNickle, and poetry. The book materials frequently include drafts, notes and other research materials, and final published copies. Unless noted differently, the titles listed are of book-length manuscripts. | |||||||||||
| The items are arranged alphabetically within the type of material: books, articles, book reviews, short stories, poems, and fragments. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | "Dinetxa: A Community Experience" draft - book manuscript written with Viola Pfrommer | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | "Dinetxa: A Community Experience" draft - book manuscript written with Viola Pfrommer | |||||||||
| 1 | 3-4 | "Dinetxa: A Community Experience" draft - book manuscript written with Viola Pfrommer | |||||||||
| 2 | 5 | Indian Man: A Life of Oliver LaFarge - early draft | |||||||||
| 2 | 6 | Indian Man: A Life of Oliver LaFarge - chapters 1-12 | |||||||||
| 2 | 7 | Indian Man: A Life of Oliver LaFarge - chapters 13-20 | |||||||||
| 2 | 8 | " Indian Man: A Life of Oliver LaFarge" - copies of LaFarge's correspondence | |||||||||
| 2 | 9 | Indian Man: A Life of Oliver LaFarge - LaFarge's correspondence | |||||||||
| 2 | 10 | Indian Man: A Life of Oliver LaFarge - notes | |||||||||
| 3 | 11 | Indian Man: A Life of Oliver LaFarge - notes | |||||||||
| 3 | 12 | Indian Man: A Life of Oliver LaFarge - notes and miscellaneous related materials | |||||||||
| 3 | 13 | Indian Man: A Life of Oliver LaFarge - papers of the Association on American Indian Affairs, Inc. papers | |||||||||
| 3 | 14 | Indian Man: A Life of Oliver LaFarge - notebook #1 | |||||||||
| 3 | 15 | Indian Man: A Life of Oliver LaFarge - notebook #2 | |||||||||
| 3 | 16 | Indian Man: A Life of Oliver LaFarge - notebook #3 | |||||||||
| 3 | 17 | Indian Man: A Life of Oliver LaFarge - McNickle's journal containing entries related to the book | |||||||||
| 3 | 18 | Indian Man: A Life of Oliver LaFarge - notebook with clippings | |||||||||
| 4 | 19-20 | Indians and Other Americans - writings by coauthor Howard E. Fey with corrections by McNickle | |||||||||
| 4 | 21 | Indians and Other Americans - revised copy | |||||||||
| 4 | 22 | The Indian Tribes of the United States - draft | |||||||||
| 4 | 23 | The Indian Tribes of the United States: Ethnic and Cultural Survivals - published copy | |||||||||
| 4 | 24 | Native American Tribalism: Indian Survivals and Renewals - published copy | |||||||||
| 4 | 25 | North American Tribalism: Survivals and Renewals - draft | |||||||||
| 4 | 26 | North American Tribalism: Survivals and Renewals - draft | |||||||||
| 5 | 27 | Runner in the Sun - early draft, titled The Boy Who Stole the Sun | |||||||||
| 5 | 28 | Runner in the Sun - first draft | |||||||||
| 5 | 29 | Runner in the Sun - notes | |||||||||
| 6 | 30-31 | The Surrounded - manuscript | |||||||||
| 6 | 32 | They Came Here First - draft | |||||||||
| 6 | 33 | They Came Here First - notes and corrections | |||||||||
| 6 | 34 | They Came Here First - published copy | |||||||||
| 7 | 35-36 | Wind From an Enemy Sky - draft and outline | |||||||||
| 7 | 37 | Wind From an Enemy Sky - draft | |||||||||
| 7 | 38 | Wind From an Enemy Sky - first draft | |||||||||
| 7 | 39-40 | Wind From an Enemy Sky - draft | |||||||||
| 7 | 41 | Wind From an Enemy Sky - draft | |||||||||
| 7 | 42 | Wind From an Enemy Sky - draft | |||||||||
| 8 | 43 | Wind From an Enemy Sky - fragments | |||||||||
| 8 | 44-45 | Wind From an Enemy Sky - early draft, titled How Anger Died | |||||||||
| 8 | 46-48 | Wind From an Enemy Sky - final draft | |||||||||
| 8 | 49 | Wind From an Enemy Sky - galley | |||||||||
| 8 | 50 | Wind From an Enemy Sky - published copy | |||||||||
| 9 | 51 | "The American Indian Today" - speech published as an article in The Missouri Archaeologist 5(2), 1939 | |||||||||
| 9 | 52 | "American Indians That Never Were" - article | |||||||||
| 9 | 53 | "American Indians That Never Were"- in New University Thought volume 7(3), 1971 | |||||||||
| 9 | 54-57 | Captives Within a Free Society: Federal Policy and the American Indian - manuscript, historical review for The American Indian Policy Review Committee | |||||||||
| 9 | 58 | "Commentary" - article in Indian-White Relations: A Persistent Paradox | |||||||||
| 9 | 59 | "The Evidence of Their Lives" - article in The Nation July 22, 1968 | |||||||||
| 9 | 60 | "Four Years of Indian Reorganization" - article in Indians at Work, July 1938, No. 11. | |||||||||
| 9 | 61 | "The Goals of the Group" - article in The Nation, September 27, 1965 | |||||||||
| 9 | 62 | "The Golden Myth" - article in Common Ground, Summer 1949 | |||||||||
| 9 | 63 | "Habla un piel roja" - article in América Indígena, April 1954 | |||||||||
| 10 | 64 | "The Healing Vision" - article in Tomorrow, 4(3), 1956 | |||||||||
| 10 | 65 | "The Indian in American Society" - published speech | |||||||||
| 10 | 66 | "Indian Crisis, U.S.A." - article in Colby Junior College Bulletin, 14(5), 1954 | |||||||||
| 10 | 67 | "Indian and European: Indian-White Relations From Discovery to 1887" - article in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1957 | |||||||||
| 10 | 68 | "Indian Expectations"- article in Indian Truth, 38(1), 1961 | |||||||||
| 10 | 69 | "Indian, North America" - Encyclopedia Britannica article, 1951 | |||||||||
| 10 | 70 | "The Indians of the United States" - article in América Indígena, 18(2), 1958 | |||||||||
| 10 | 71 | "In Search of the White Man's Guidance" - article in The Nation, April 25, 1966 | |||||||||
| 10 | 72 | "It's Almost Never Too Late" - article in The Christian Century, February 20, 1957 | |||||||||
| 10 | 73 | "John Collier's Vision" - article in The Nation, June 3, 1968 | |||||||||
| 10 | 74 | "Looking Backward" - article in The Nation, December 23, 1968 | |||||||||
| 10 | 75 | Miscellaneous articles | |||||||||
| 10 | 76 | "Peyote and the Indian" - article in Scientific Monthly, 57(3), 1943 | |||||||||
| 10 | 77 | "Private Intervention" - article in Human Reorganization, 20(4), Winter 1961-2 | |||||||||
| 10 | 78 | "Process or Compulsion: The Search for a Policy of Administration in Indian Affairs" | |||||||||
| 10 | 79 | "A Record of the Vanished West" - article in The Nation, December 25, 1967 | |||||||||
| 10 | 80 | "Rich Ceremonial Life of American Indians Brought to Us Through Music of Tribes - article, 1938 | |||||||||
| 10 | 81 | "Saskatchewan" notes, outline, and manuscript - article | |||||||||
| 10 | 82 | "The Sociocultural Setting of Indian Life" - article in American Journal of Psychiatry 125(2), 1968 | |||||||||
| 10 | 83 | "They Cast Long Shadows," part 1 and 2 - article in The American Way, November and December 1971 | |||||||||
| 10 | 84 | "Two Ways to Grow Up" - article in The Nation, March 28, 1966 | |||||||||
| 10 | 85 | "U.S. Indian Affairs-1953" - article in América Indígena, 13(4) article in América Indígena 17(3), 1957 | |||||||||
| 10 | 86 | "We Are On Our Way" - article in Highroad, May 1945 | |||||||||
| 10 | 87 | "We Go On From Here" - article in Common Ground, Autumn 1943 | |||||||||
| 11 | 88 | "Review of 'American Indian Policy in the Formative Years' by F. P. Prucha" - book review reprints | |||||||||
| 11 | 89 | "Brandon: The Last Americans" - book review in The Nation, December 7, 1974 | |||||||||
| 11 | 90 | "Review of 'Education and the American Indian: The Road to Self-Determination, 1928-1970' by Margaret Szasz" - Book review | |||||||||
| 11 | 91 | Review "Ortiz and the Tewa World" - article in The Nation April 27, 1970 | |||||||||
| 11 | 92 | "Review of 'South of the Sunset' by Claire Warner Churchill" -book review in the New York Herald Tribune Books, Sunday, July 19, 1936. | |||||||||
| 11 | 93 | "Afternoon on a Rock" - article in Common Ground, Spring 1945 | |||||||||
| 11 | 94 | "Debt of Gratitude" - draft - short story | |||||||||
| 11 | 95 | "The Hawk is Hungry" - manuscript - short story | |||||||||
| 11 | 96 | "The Hawk is Hungry" - draft - short story | |||||||||
| 11 | 97 | "The Hawk is Hungry" - draft - short story | |||||||||
| 11 | 98 | "The Hawk is Hungry" - final draft - short story | |||||||||
| 11 | 99 | "The Hawk is Hungry" - fragments - short story | |||||||||
| 11 | 100 | "If I Were Commissioner"/ "En roulant ma boule, roulant" - fragments - short story | |||||||||
| 11 | 101 | "In the Alien Corn" - draft - short story | |||||||||
| 11 | 102 | "Let the War Be Fought" - draft - short story | |||||||||
| 11 | 103 | "Manhattan Wedlock" - draft - short story | |||||||||
| 11 | 104 | "Man's Work" - two drafts and research notes - short story | |||||||||
| 11 | 105 | "Meat for God" - draft with photocopy - short story | |||||||||
| 11 | 106 | "Meat for God" - short story in Esquire, September 1935 | |||||||||
| 12 | 107 | "Newcomers" - draft and photocopies - short story | |||||||||
| 12 | 108 | "Six Beautiful in Paris" - draft with photocopy - short story | |||||||||
| 12 | 109 | "Snowfall" - draft - short story | |||||||||
| 12 | 110 | "Snowfall" - draft - short story | |||||||||
| 12 | 111 | "Snowfall" - draft - short story | |||||||||
| 12 | 112 | "Snowfall" manuscript - short story | |||||||||
| 12 | 113 | "Snowfall" - short story in Common Ground, Summer 1944 | |||||||||
| 12 | 114 | untitled - short story | |||||||||
| 12 | 115 | untitled - short story | |||||||||
| 12 | 116 | "The Wedding Night" and photocopy - short story | |||||||||
| 12 | 117 | miscellaneous poems | |||||||||
| 12 | 118 | "Song of Malinche" - verse play on Cortez | |||||||||
| 12 | 119 | "The Third Daughter" - narrative poem | |||||||||
| 12 | 120 | miscellaneous fragments | |||||||||
Series 2: D'Arcy McNickle's Diaries, 1931-1970 |
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| Contains diaries as well as garden notebooks (which often serve as diaries). The content of the diaries, which is hard to discern at times due to McNickle's handwriting, concerns his travels, his work, and his thoughts about life. The garden notebooks are used to record the work done on his garden, as well as notes on the weather and plants. | |||||||||||
| Arranged chronologically. | |||||||||||
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| 13 | 121 | Diary, 1931 | |||||||||
| 13 | 122 | Diary, 1932 | |||||||||
| 13 | 123 | Diary, 1932 | |||||||||
| 13 | 124 | Diary, 1935 | |||||||||
| 13 | 125 | Diary, 1942 | |||||||||
| 13 | 126 | Diary, 1943 | |||||||||
| 13 | 127 | Diary, 1943 | |||||||||
| 13 | 128 | Diary, 1943, 1945 | |||||||||
| 13 | 129 | Diary, 1943-1947 | |||||||||
| 13 | 130 | Diary, 1947 | |||||||||
| 14 | 131 | Diary, with notes from 1947, 1951 | |||||||||
| 14 | 132 | Garden Notes, 1948 | |||||||||
| 14 | 133 | Diary, 1948 | |||||||||
| 14 | 134 | Diary, 1949-1950 | |||||||||
| 14 | 135 | Diary, 1950 | |||||||||
| 14 | 136 | Diary, 1950 | |||||||||
| 14 | 137 | Diary, 1950 | |||||||||
| 14 | 138 | Diary, 1952-1953 | |||||||||
| 14 | 139 | Diary, 1953 | |||||||||
| 140 | 15 | Diary, 1954 | |||||||||
| 15 | 141 | Diary, 1956 | |||||||||
| 15 | 142 | Diary, 1957 | |||||||||
| 15 | 143 | Diary, 1958 | |||||||||
| 15 | 144 | Diary, 1959 | |||||||||
| 16 | 145 | Diary, 1960 | |||||||||
| 16 | 146 | Diary, 1961 | |||||||||
| 16 | 147 | Diary, 1963 | |||||||||
| 16 | 148 | Diary, 1964 | |||||||||
| 16 | 149 | Diary, with some entries from 1966-1967, 1970 | |||||||||
Series 3: Book Reviews 1936-1975 |
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| Contains reviews of books written by McNickle. Many of the clippings were sent to him by a clipping company that he hired to collect such articles. Also included here are requests for McNickle to review books by other authors. Some of these published reviews are located in the "Writings" series. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by book title, followed by requests for reviews. | |||||||||||
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| 17 | 150 | Reviews of "Indian Man: A Life of Oliver LaFarge" | |||||||||
| 17 | 151 | Reviews of "Indians and Other Americans" | |||||||||
| 17 | 152 | Reviews of "Native American Tribalism" | |||||||||
| 17 | 153 | Reviews of "Runner in the Sun" | |||||||||
| 17 | 154 | Reviews of "The Surrounded," first edition | |||||||||
| 17 | 155 | Reviews of "They Came Here First" | |||||||||
| 17 | 156 | Requests for McNickle to review books | |||||||||
Series 4: Correspondence 1924-1977 |
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| Contains incoming and outgoing correspondence, the bulk of which comes from 1950-1977. No attempt was made to separate the incoming from outgoing correspondence, but letters are arranged chronologically with the exception of several folders arranged by subject matter at the end of this series. Topics include publishing, meeting arrangements for discussion of a variety of topics, financial matters, requests to read articles, and personal matters. Many of the letters concern issues related to McNickle's tenure at AID as well as his attempts to get his books published. Prominent correspondents include various members and donors to AID, many publishing houses, and Viola G. Pfrommer. Other folders of correspondence have been placed alongside relevant materials in other series. | |||||||||||
| Arranged chronologically, followed by several folders arranged by subject. | |||||||||||
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| 18 | 157 | Correspondence, 1924-1935 | |||||||||
| 18 | 158 | Correspondence, 1936-1939 | |||||||||
| 18 | 159 | Correspondence, 1940-1951 | |||||||||
| 18 | 160 | Correspondence, with Viola Pfrommer 1953-1954, | |||||||||
| 18 | 161 | Correspondence, 1955-1956 | |||||||||
| 19 | 162 | Correspondence, 1957-1962 | |||||||||
| 19 | 163 | Correspondence, 1963-1965 | |||||||||
| 19 | 164 | Correspondence, 1966-1968 | |||||||||
| 19 | 165 | Correspondence, 1969-1971 | |||||||||
| 19 | 166 | Correspondence, 1972 | |||||||||
| 20 | 167 | Correspondence, 1973-1974 | |||||||||
| 20 | 168 | Correspondence, 1974-1975 | |||||||||
| 20 | 169 | Correspondence, 1976-1977 | |||||||||
| 20 | 170 | Correspondence - regarding publications, 1964-1977 | |||||||||
| 20 | 171 | Correspondence - Miscellaneous | |||||||||
Series 5: American Indian Development, Incorporated (AID) Materials, 1952-1966 |
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| From 1952 to 1966 McNickle was the director of AID, a project funded by the Field Foundation. Its purpose was "concerned with helping the Indian people of the United States to find and use the material resources and the leadership which exists in their communities" (McNickle, AID First Annual Report, 1952). Workshops were first run on a variety of pertinent subjects. Later AID began to focus upon one community, Crownpoint, New Mexico. The Crownpoint project ran from 1953-1960. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by type of material or subject. | |||||||||||
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| 21 | 172 | Agreements between AID and the Bureau of Indian Affairs | |||||||||
| 21 | 173-180 | Annual Reports, 1952-1966 | |||||||||
| 21 | 181 | Board meeting papers, 1958-1966 | |||||||||
| 21 | 182 | Community Development in Manitoba | |||||||||
| 21 | 183 | Crownpoint papers | |||||||||
| 22 | 184 | Grant papers-Ford Foundation | |||||||||
| 22 | 185 | Grant papers - Schwarzhaupt Foundation | |||||||||
| 22 | 186 | Health Education Project | |||||||||
| 22 | 187 | Hopi papers | |||||||||
| 22 | 188 | Incorporation materials | |||||||||
| 22 | 189 | Initial Planning, 1952-1953 | |||||||||
| 22 | 190 | Miscellaneous papers | |||||||||
| 22 | 191 | Miscellaneous papers, 1952 | |||||||||
| 22 | 192 | Miscellaneous proposals | |||||||||
| 23 | 193 | Navajo papers | |||||||||
| 23 | 194 | Newsletters | |||||||||
| 23 | 195 | Publicity | |||||||||
| 23 | 196 | Training Program for Indian Leaders | |||||||||
| 23 | 197-207 | Workshop correspondence, 1952-1966 | |||||||||
| 23 | 208-209 | Workshop expenses, 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| 23 | 210-212 | Workshop papers, 1952-1962 | |||||||||
| 23 | 213 | Workshop solicitation letters, 1965 | |||||||||
Series 6: Sol Tax Correspondence, 1957-1975 |
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| McNickle acquired copies of anthropologist Sol Tax's correspondence from the library of University of Chicago. Tax is well-known for his contributions to anthropology, including his work on the Chicago Indian Conference in 1961. The correspondence, which is mainly between Tax and McNickle, covers topics such as Tax's involvement with AID (he was one of a group of directors), McNickle's solicitation for Tax's opinions on job candidates at the University of Saskatchewan, and correspondence about articles and books. | |||||||||||
| Arranged chronologically. | |||||||||||
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| 25 | 214 | Sol Tax correspondence, 1957-1965 | |||||||||
| 25 | 215 | Sol Tax correspondence, 1965-1975 | |||||||||
Series 7: Omer C. Stewart Additions, 1954-1986 |
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| Omer C. Stewart, professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, donated his file of material relating to D'Arcy McNickle to the Newberry in 1986. The types of materials present include letters, articles, and AID meeting notes. Many of these items are concerned with the National Congress of the American Indian (NCAI) and AID (Stewart was a board member of AID). | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 26 | 216-219 | Omer C. Stewart additions - Miscellaneous | |||||||||
Series 8: University of Saskatchewan Materials, 1966-1971 |
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| D'Arcy McNickle accepted a position at the newly established University of Saskatchewan, Regina as a professor of anthropology in 1966. There he organized the teaching program and recruited staff. He retired in June 1971. This series contains McNickle's papers relating to this period in his life, including correspondence with university staff and faculty, memoranda issued by McNickle, department budgets, and papers concerning Canadian Indian rights. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 27 | 220 | University of Saskatchewan materials - Miscellaneous | |||||||||
| 27 | 221 | University of Saskatchewan materials - Miscellaneous | |||||||||
Series 9: Center for the History of the American Indian Materials, 1971-1977 |
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| D'Arcy McNickle, along with Lawrence W. Towner, was instrumental in establishing the Center for the History of the American Indian (CHAI ) at the Newberry Library in 1972. It was renamed after him in 1984. This series contains materials related to the CHAI. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by type of material. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 28 | 222 | Correspondence, 1971-1973 | |||||||||
| 28 | 223 | Correspondence, 1974-1977 | |||||||||
| 28 | 224 | Expenses | |||||||||
| 28 | 225 | Fellowship applications | |||||||||
| 28 | 226 | Field seminars | |||||||||
| 28 | 227 | Grant applications | |||||||||
| 28 | 228 | Notes | |||||||||
Series 10: Canadian Indian Materials, 1971-1973 |
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| This series contains materials that concern Canadian Indian organizations in the 1970s, contemporaneous with part of McNickle's tenure at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 29 | 229 | American Indian Press Association materials | |||||||||
| 29 | 230 | Ontario Project, 1971-1973 | |||||||||
| 29 | 231 | Northwest Indian Education Conference, speech, 1977 | |||||||||
| 29 | 232 | Ontario Educational Communications Authority materials | |||||||||
| 29 | 233 | Manitoba Indian Brotherhood materials | |||||||||
Series 11: Television and Radio Materials, 1941-1975 |
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| This series contains materials from a television project, The Peopling of the New World, which was produced by Marlon Brando and John F. Beck through Black Elk Productions. McNickle served as a consultant for the series. There are also transcripts of 1941 radio broadcasts 1941 by Charles W. Collier, Josefina de Román, and McNickle. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 30 | 234 | The Peopling of the New World, correspondence 1974-1975 | |||||||||
| 30 | 235-337 | The Peopling of the New World, outlines | |||||||||
| 30 | 238 | The Peopling of the New World, proposal | |||||||||
| 30 | 239 | Radio broadcast transcripts, 1941 | |||||||||
Series 12: Personal Items 1913-1977 |
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| This series includes identification materials, legal documents from McNickle's parents' divorce and his boarding school, and McNickle's curriculum vitae. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 31 | 240 | Official Documents | |||||||||
| 31 | 241 | Curriculum Vitae | |||||||||
| 31 | 242 | Legal Papers | |||||||||
Series 13: Miscellaneous |
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| This series contains individual folders that do not fit elsewhere in the collection. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 32 | 244 | Articles about McNickle | |||||||||
| 32 | 245 | Articles by other people | |||||||||
| 32 | 246 | Blue Lake materials | |||||||||
| 32 | 247 | Contracts for books | |||||||||
| 32 | 248 | Drawing tablet with sketches | |||||||||
| 32 | 249 | Notes on books (not McNickle's books) | |||||||||
| 32 | 250 | Royalty statements from "They Came Here First" | |||||||||
Series 14: Photographs, 1952-1977 |
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| This series contains photographs, negatives, and slides of a variety of subjects, including many AID-related events. All are taken in the Southwest unless otherwise noted. | |||||||||||
| The photographs, many of which are undated and have no indication of subject matter, were arranged according to date or subject when it was possible. Negatives were grouped as they were found in their envelopes. The three slides were grouped together at the end of the series. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 33 | 251 | Photographs - - Hopi buildings, group shots, picnics 1952-1954 | |||||||||
| 33 | 252 | Photographs - - people standing by a building, Crownpoint? April 1955 | |||||||||
| 33 | 253 | Photographs - - ditch digging June 1955 | |||||||||
| 33 | 254 | Photographs - - ditch digging July 1955 | |||||||||
| 33 | 255 | Photographs - - house repair November 1955 | |||||||||
| 33 | 256 | Photographs - - making fences March 1956 | |||||||||
| 33 | 257 | Photographs - - meetings and yard work April 1956 | |||||||||
| 33 | 258 | Photographs - - housework July, September 1956 | |||||||||
| 33 | 259 | Photographs - - portraits, school scenes 1956 | |||||||||
| 33 | 260 | Photographs - - cars, people February 1957 | |||||||||
| 33 | 261 | Photographs - -woodworking April-May 1957 | |||||||||
| 33 | 262 | Photographs - - house painting, rugs, wood-working August 1957 | |||||||||
| 33 | 263 | Photographs - - group shots, McNickle September 1957 | |||||||||
| 33 | 264 | Photographs - - "Seminole Life" 1957 | |||||||||
| 33 | 265 | Photographs - - construction March 1958 | |||||||||
| 33 | 266 | Photographs - - cellar door construction and party scenes April 1958 | |||||||||
| 33 | 267 | Photographs - - portraits June 1958 | |||||||||
| 33 | 268 | Photographs - - children playing August-September 1958 | |||||||||
| 33 | 269 | Photographs - - landscapes, meeting December 1958 | |||||||||
| 33 | 270 | Photographs - - rugs, cows and sheep, party, portraits, fish and wildlife department 1958 | |||||||||
| 33 | 271 | Photographs - - group shots February 1959 | |||||||||
| 33 | 272 | Photographs - - landscapes, social events, rug rug display May 1959 | |||||||||
| 33 | 273 | Photographs - - rugs July 1959 | |||||||||
| 33 | 274 | Photographs - - around the AID building August 1959 | |||||||||
| 33 | 275 | Photographs - - plants, group shots January, March, May 1960 | |||||||||
| 33 | 276 | Photographs - - school life July 1962 | |||||||||
| 33 | 277 | Photographs - - rodeo May 1969 | |||||||||
| 33 | 278 | Photographs - -Workshop Pictures, [1971] | |||||||||
| 33 | 279 | Photographs - Undated - moving rocks | |||||||||
| 33 | 280 | Photographs - Undated - CHAI | |||||||||
| 33 | 281 | Photographs - Undated - portraits | |||||||||
| 33 | 282 | Photographs - Undated - rug displays | |||||||||
| 33 | 283 | Photographs - Undated - furniture building | |||||||||
| 33 | 284 | Photographs - Undated - construction | |||||||||
| 34 | 285 | Photographs - Undated -group shots | |||||||||
| 34 | 286 | Photographs - Undated - party pictures | |||||||||
| 34 | 287 | Photographs - Undated - landscapes | |||||||||
| 34 | 288 | Photographs - Undated - Navajo girls | |||||||||
| 34 | 289 | Photographs - Undated - large Workshop pictures | |||||||||
| 34 | 290 | Photographs - Undated - portraits of McNickle | |||||||||
| 34 | 291 | Photographs - Haystack and Baca Community Volunteers, (?) Summer 1954 | |||||||||
| 34 | 292 | Photographs - Miscellaneous | |||||||||
| 34 | 293 | Negatives | |||||||||
| 34 | 294 | Negatives | |||||||||
| 34 | 295 | Slides (3) - workshop scenes | |||||||||
| 35 | 296 | Oversized matted photograph of McNickle | |||||||||