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Dr. Claude E. Schaeffer, 1955
NA-1996-1

Claude E. Schaeffer fonds

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Table of Contents

Scanned Document indicates that the series includes scanned documents.

Series 1 Kootenay
Series 2 Flathead
Series 3 Scanned Document Blackfoot
Series 4 Munro Family
Series 5 Field notebooks - Blackfoot, Kootenay and Flathead
Series 6 Various reference material
Series 7 Scanned Document Photographs

Inventory

Series 1
Kootenay. -- Please note that some of the information in these files is of a sensitive nature and may not be accessible for research or copying without the approval of the Ktunaxa Nation Council in Cranbrook (250-421-4001), or the Kootenai Culture Director in Elmo, Montana (406-849-5659). These files have been marked below. Please consult an Archivist before requesting.
M-1100-1Kootenay Manuscript - Organization
M-1100-2Introduction
M-1100-3The Kootenay and Their Country
M-1100-4The Kootenay and Their Country - Rough Notes (1)
M-1100-5The Kootenay and Their Country - Rough Notes (2)
M-1100-6Topography and Climate
M-1100-7Family Hunting Territories
M-1100-8Kootenay Economic Activities
M-1100-9Fur, Fish and Fowl
M-1100-10Fur, Fish and Fowl - Rough Notes
M-1100-11Netting Waterfowl
M-1100-12Travel and Transport
M-1100-13Travel and Transport - Rough Notes (1)
M-1100-14Travel and Transport - Rough Notes (2)
M-1100-15Wood, Bone and Antler
M-1100-16 Material Culture. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-17Allies and Enemies
M-1100-18Intertribal Contacts
M-1100-19Chiefs and Warriors
M-1100-20 Warfare. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-21Life Cycle. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-22From Birth to Death. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-23Camp Life
M-1100-24World of the Nupika. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-25World of the Nupika - Rough Notes (1). -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-26World of the Nupika - Rough Notes (2). -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-27Conjuring Booth and Sundance Lodge. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-28Conjuring Booth and Sundance Lodge - Rough Notes. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-29Kootenay Conjuring Notes. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-30Kootenay Sun Dance. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-31The Star Man
M-1100-32The Fur Buyers
M-1100-33The Fur Buyers - Rough Notes (1)
M-1100-34Kootenay Fur Buyers - Rough Notes (2)
M-1100-35Kootenay Fur Buyers - Rough Notes (3)
M-1100-36Fur Buyers - Sources
M-1100-37Kootenay Fur Trade Period
M-1100-38Spokan Garry and Kootenay Pelly. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-39The Black Robes
M-1100-40Black Robes - Rough Notes
M-1100-41Early Kootenay Mission
M-1100-42Miners and Settlers
M-1100-43Reservation Days
M-1100-44Modern Era
M-1100-45Conclusion
M-1100-46Appendix
M-1100-47Bibliography
M-1100-48Kootenay Informants
M-1100-49Kootenay Social Life - Ms.
M-1100-50Kootenay Social Life - 1st draft
M-1100-51The Kootenay Interviews - Social Life. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-52Kootenay History and Culture - Copy (1). -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-53Kootenay History and Culture - Copy (2)
M-1100-54Plains Kootenay
M-1100-55Plains Kootenay
M-1100-56The Lower Kootenay
M-1100-57Kootenay Chiefs
M-1100-58Political Organization
M-1100-59Political and Social Organization
M-1100-60Kootenay Annual Cycle
M-1100-61Kootenay Hunting. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-62Kootenay Environment
M-1100-63Kootenay Bands
M-1100-64Kootenay Land and Allotment
M-1100-65Kootenay Berdache
M-1100-66Kootenay Vocabulary - (1)
M-1100-67Kootenay Vocabulary - (2)
M-1100-68Kootenay Vocabulary - Acculturation
M-1100-69Kinship Terminology
M-1100-70Old Notes
M-1100-71Kootenay Notes
M-1100-72Material Arts
M-1100-73Kootenay Pottery
M-1100-74Face Paintings. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-75Tobacco. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-76Kootenay Winter Count
M-1100-77Simon Francis
M-1100-78Kootenay Myths
M-1100-79Kootenay Camp Sites
M-1100-80Kootenay Trails. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-81Kootenay Trail Maps
M-1100-82Comparative Sources - Kootenay
M-1100-83Population Data
M-1100-84David Thompson's Journals
M-1100-85LeBlanc and LaGasse
M-1100-86Causton Kootenay Notes
M-1100-87Curtis Teit - Kootenay
M-1100-88Garvan Material
M-1100-89Kootenay Notes
M-1100-90"Questions" Bonners Ferry
M-1100-91Principal Spirits. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-92Child Sacrifices
M-1100-93Ceremonialism. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-94Kootenay Bear Ceremonialism. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-95Kootenay Sun Dance - Manuscript. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-96Kootenay Sun Dance - Live Notes. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-97Kootenay Sun Dance - Used Notes. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-98Kootenay Sun Dance - Rough Notes. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-99Kootenay Sun Dance - 1st Draft. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-100Kootenay Conjuring & Ghosts. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-101Kootenay Conjuring. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-102Kootenay Conjuring. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-103Kootenay Conjuring. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-104Kootenay Sugar Conjuring. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-105Kootenay Conjuring Practices - Final Ms.. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-106Conjuring Notes (Used - 1). -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-107Conjuring Notes (Used - 2). -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
M-1100-108Conjuring Notes (Used - 3). -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material.
Series 2
Flathead
M-1100-109The Flathead Indians - Manuscript
M-1100-110The Flatheads - 1st Draft
M-1100-111Material Culture & Annual Economic Cycle of the Flatheads - final Draft of Theses
M-1100-112Material Culture & Annual Economic Cycle of the Flatheads - Original Draft
M-1100-113Tales of the Flathead - Ms.
M-1100-114Flathead Indians - Acculturation Study, Copy 1
M-1100-115Flathead Indians - Acculturation Study, Copy 2
M-1100-116Flathead Indians - Midwater Ceremony
M-1100-117Flathead Indians - Mid-Winter Ceremony
M-1100-118Flathead Indians - Field Notes
Series 3
Blackfoot
M-1100-119 Blackfoot Bison Drives - Ms. Scanned Document View now.
M-1100-120Blackfoot Bison Drives - Notes
M-1100-121 Blackfoot Buffalo Stones Scanned Document View now.
M-1100-122Blackfoot Bison Drives - Misc.
M-1100-123Bison Pounds - Comparative Data
M-1100-124Bison Drives - Symposium
M-1100-125 Blackfoot Painted Lodges Scanned Document View now.
M-1100-126 Blackfoot Animal Lore Scanned Document View now.
M-1100-127Blackfoot Winter Counts
M-1100-128Blackfoot - Misc. Notes
M-1100-129 Blackfoot Beaver Bundle Scanned Document View now.
M-1100-130Blackfoot - Published Sources
M-1100-131Analysis of Blackfoot Culture
M-1100-132 Blackfoot Societies
M-1100-133 Blackfoot Medicine Pipes Scanned Document View now.
M-1100-134 Blackfoot Bands Scanned Document View now.
M-1100-135 Peigan Bands Scanned Document View now.
M-1100-136Misc. Notes
M-1100-137 Blackfoot Childbirth Scanned Document View now.
M-1100-138Cecile Black Boy's Blackfoot Notes - Index
M-1100-139 Blackfoot Bird Lore - Economic Utilization Scanned Document View now.
M-1100-140Blackfoot Bird Lore - Comparative Notes
M-1100-141Blackfoot Bird Lore - Notes
M-1100-142Blackfoot Bird Lore - Ms.
M-1100-143 Blackfoot Bird Lore - Field Notes Scanned Document View now.
M-1100-144 Blackfoot Bird Lore - Misc. Notes Scanned Document View now.
M-1100-145 The Blackfoot Indians of 1854, report by James Doty Scanned Document View now.
M-1100-146 Blackfoot Conjuring Scanned Document View now.
M-1100-147Notes on R N Wilson, Ms.
M-1100-148Blackfoot Shaking Tent - 1st Draft
M-1100-149 Blackfoot Shaking Tent - Final Draft Scanned Document View now.
M-1100-150 Biographies of Blackfoot Leaders Scanned Document View now.
M-1100-151 Sata, Blackfoot Indian Scanned Document View now.
M-1100-152 Blackfoot Biographies Scanned Document View now.
M-1100-153 Canadian Blackfoot Chiefs Scanned Document View now.
M-1100-154Blackfoot Chiefs - Misc.
Series 4
Munro Family
M-1100-155Hugh Munro Data
M-1100-156 Hugh Munro Family
M-4111 Photocopies of documents from the Oblate records about Hugh Munro. - 1799-1892
Series 5 Field notebooks - Blackfoot, Kootenay and Flathead
M-1100-157Field Notebooks - 1 Blackfoot
M-1100-158Field Notebooks - 2 Blackfoot
M-1100-159Field Notebooks - 3 Blackfoot
M-1100-160Field Notebooks - 4 Kootenay
M-1100-161Field Notebooks - 5 Flathead & Kootenay
M-1100-162Field Notebooks - 6 Flathead & Kootenay
M-1100-163Field Notebooks - 7 Flathead
M-1100-164Field Notebooks - 8 Miscellaneous
M-1100-165Blackfoot Field Notes - 1
M-1100-166Blackfoot Field Notes - 2
M-1100-167Blackfoot Field Notes - 3
M-1100-168Blackfoot Field Notes - 4
M-1100-169Kootenay Field Notes - 1
M-1100-170Kootenay Field Notes - 2
M-1100-171Kootenay Field Notes - 3
Series 6
Various reference material
M-1100-172Beaver Traps
M-1100-173Game Drives - Misc.
M-1100-174Game - Misc.
M-1100-175Hunting Methods - Misc.
M-1100-176Field Notes on Penobscot-Malecite
M-1100-177Northern Plains - Comparative Data
M-1100-178Comparative Data - Northern Plains
M-1100-179George Catlin
M-1100-180Fritz Lecture - 1914
M-1100-181Hallowell Studies
M-1100-182Lewis H. Morgan Ms.
M-1100-183Crow's Nest Country by Ian Turner
M-1100-184Field Notes - Misc. Tribes
M-1100-185Printed Sources
M-1100-186Bibliography - Misc.
M-1100-187Bibliography Schaeffer Books
M-1100-188Misc. Notes - 1
M-1100-189Misc. Notes from Desk
M-1101 Religious calendars for Blackfoot and Cree. - 1939 and 1952
Series 7

Photographs

Many of the photographs have been scanned. Scanned Document View now.

PA-556 Thunder tipi and bear figure on Blackfoot tipi. - 1910 and 1944. - 2 photographs
PA-1094 Chief Isadore and a group of Kootenay people. - 2 photographs
PA-1124 Kootenay personalities, Lower Kootenay. - 1949. - 3 photographs
PA-3087 Views of Kootenay and Flathead, intended to be part of his ethnographic manuscript above. - 228 photographs
NA-1903-1 Little Isadore, Upper Kootenay. - n.d. - 1 photograph
NA-1957-1 Lower Kootenay people, Bonner's Ferry, Idaho. - 1911. - 1 photograph
NA-1996-1 Portrait of Claude Schaeffer. - 1955. - 1 photograph
NA-3324-(1-2) Thunder tipi and bear figure on Blackfoot tipi. - 1910 and 1944. - 2 photographs
NA-5213-(1-146) Views of Kooteany and Flathead people and activities; pictographs at Writing-on-Stone. - [1940s]-1963. - 146 photographs
NB-47-(1-12) Sketches of Piegan (USA) by Gustav Sohan. - 1855. - 12 photographs
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