Here are detailed file-by-file descriptions of the contents of specific fonds and/or links to scanned documents.
![]() Dr. Claude E. Schaeffer, 1955
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| Series 1 | Kootenay |
| Series 2 | Flathead |
| Series 3 | |
| Series 4 | Munro Family |
| Series 5 | Field notebooks - Blackfoot, Kootenay and Flathead |
| Series 6 | Various reference material |
| Series 7 |
Inventory
| 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-1100-1 | Kootenay Manuscript - Organization |
| M-1100-2 | Introduction |
| M-1100-3 | The Kootenay and Their Country |
| M-1100-4 | The Kootenay and Their Country - Rough Notes (1) |
| M-1100-5 | The Kootenay and Their Country - Rough Notes (2) |
| M-1100-6 | Topography and Climate |
| M-1100-7 | Family Hunting Territories |
| M-1100-8 | Kootenay Economic Activities |
| M-1100-9 | Fur, Fish and Fowl |
| M-1100-10 | Fur, Fish and Fowl - Rough Notes |
| M-1100-11 | Netting Waterfowl |
| M-1100-12 | Travel and Transport |
| M-1100-13 | Travel and Transport - Rough Notes (1) |
| M-1100-14 | Travel and Transport - Rough Notes (2) |
| M-1100-15 | Wood, Bone and Antler |
| M-1100-16 | Material Culture. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-17 | Allies and Enemies |
| M-1100-18 | Intertribal Contacts |
| M-1100-19 | Chiefs and Warriors |
| M-1100-20 | Warfare. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-21 | Life Cycle. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-22 | From Birth to Death. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-23 | Camp Life |
| M-1100-24 | World of the Nupika. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-25 | World of the Nupika - Rough Notes (1). -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-26 | World of the Nupika - Rough Notes (2). -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-27 | Conjuring Booth and Sundance Lodge. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-28 | Conjuring Booth and Sundance Lodge - Rough Notes. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-29 | Kootenay Conjuring Notes. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-30 | Kootenay Sun Dance. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-31 | The Star Man |
| M-1100-32 | The Fur Buyers |
| M-1100-33 | The Fur Buyers - Rough Notes (1) |
| M-1100-34 | Kootenay Fur Buyers - Rough Notes (2) |
| M-1100-35 | Kootenay Fur Buyers - Rough Notes (3) |
| M-1100-36 | Fur Buyers - Sources |
| M-1100-37 | Kootenay Fur Trade Period |
| M-1100-38 | Spokan Garry and Kootenay Pelly. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-39 | The Black Robes |
| M-1100-40 | Black Robes - Rough Notes |
| M-1100-41 | Early Kootenay Mission |
| M-1100-42 | Miners and Settlers |
| M-1100-43 | Reservation Days |
| M-1100-44 | Modern Era |
| M-1100-45 | Conclusion |
| M-1100-46 | Appendix |
| M-1100-47 | Bibliography |
| M-1100-48 | Kootenay Informants |
| M-1100-49 | Kootenay Social Life - Ms. |
| M-1100-50 | Kootenay Social Life - 1st draft |
| M-1100-51 | The Kootenay Interviews - Social Life. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-52 | Kootenay History and Culture - Copy (1). -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-53 | Kootenay History and Culture - Copy (2) |
| M-1100-54 | Plains Kootenay |
| M-1100-55 | Plains Kootenay |
| M-1100-56 | The Lower Kootenay |
| M-1100-57 | Kootenay Chiefs |
| M-1100-58 | Political Organization |
| M-1100-59 | Political and Social Organization |
| M-1100-60 | Kootenay Annual Cycle |
| M-1100-61 | Kootenay Hunting. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-62 | Kootenay Environment |
| M-1100-63 | Kootenay Bands |
| M-1100-64 | Kootenay Land and Allotment |
| M-1100-65 | Kootenay Berdache |
| M-1100-66 | Kootenay Vocabulary - (1) |
| M-1100-67 | Kootenay Vocabulary - (2) |
| M-1100-68 | Kootenay Vocabulary - Acculturation |
| M-1100-69 | Kinship Terminology |
| M-1100-70 | Old Notes |
| M-1100-71 | Kootenay Notes |
| M-1100-72 | Material Arts |
| M-1100-73 | Kootenay Pottery |
| M-1100-74 | Face Paintings. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-75 | Tobacco. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-76 | Kootenay Winter Count |
| M-1100-77 | Simon Francis |
| M-1100-78 | Kootenay Myths |
| M-1100-79 | Kootenay Camp Sites |
| M-1100-80 | Kootenay Trails. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-81 | Kootenay Trail Maps |
| M-1100-82 | Comparative Sources - Kootenay |
| M-1100-83 | Population Data |
| M-1100-84 | David Thompson's Journals |
| M-1100-85 | LeBlanc and LaGasse |
| M-1100-86 | Causton Kootenay Notes |
| M-1100-87 | Curtis Teit - Kootenay |
| M-1100-88 | Garvan Material |
| M-1100-89 | Kootenay Notes |
| M-1100-90 | "Questions" Bonners Ferry |
| M-1100-91 | Principal Spirits. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-92 | Child Sacrifices |
| M-1100-93 | Ceremonialism. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-94 | Kootenay Bear Ceremonialism. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-95 | Kootenay Sun Dance - Manuscript. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-96 | Kootenay Sun Dance - Live Notes. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-97 | Kootenay Sun Dance - Used Notes. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-98 | Kootenay Sun Dance - Rough Notes. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-99 | Kootenay Sun Dance - 1st Draft. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-100 | Kootenay Conjuring & Ghosts. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-101 | Kootenay Conjuring. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-102 | Kootenay Conjuring. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-103 | Kootenay Conjuring. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-104 | Kootenay Sugar Conjuring. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-105 | Kootenay Conjuring Practices - Final Ms.. -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-106 | Conjuring Notes (Used - 1). -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-107 | Conjuring Notes (Used - 2). -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| M-1100-108 | Conjuring Notes (Used - 3). -- Includes sensitive material. Please consult with an Archivist before requesting material. |
| Flathead | |
| M-1100-109 | The Flathead Indians - Manuscript |
| M-1100-110 | The Flatheads - 1st Draft |
| M-1100-111 | Material Culture & Annual Economic Cycle of the Flatheads - final Draft of Theses |
| M-1100-112 | Material Culture & Annual Economic Cycle of the Flatheads - Original Draft |
| M-1100-113 | Tales of the Flathead - Ms. |
| M-1100-114 | Flathead Indians - Acculturation Study, Copy 1 |
| M-1100-115 | Flathead Indians - Acculturation Study, Copy 2 |
| M-1100-116 | Flathead Indians - Midwater Ceremony |
| M-1100-117 | Flathead Indians - Mid-Winter Ceremony |
| M-1100-118 | Flathead Indians - Field Notes |
| Blackfoot | |
| M-1100-119 | Blackfoot Bison Drives - Ms. |
| M-1100-120 | Blackfoot Bison Drives - Notes |
| M-1100-121 | Blackfoot Buffalo Stones |
| M-1100-122 | Blackfoot Bison Drives - Misc. |
| M-1100-123 | Bison Pounds - Comparative Data |
| M-1100-124 | Bison Drives - Symposium |
| M-1100-125 | Blackfoot Painted Lodges |
| M-1100-126 | Blackfoot Animal Lore |
| M-1100-127 | Blackfoot Winter Counts |
| M-1100-128 | Blackfoot - Misc. Notes |
| M-1100-129 | Blackfoot Beaver Bundle |
| M-1100-130 | Blackfoot - Published Sources |
| M-1100-131 | Analysis of Blackfoot Culture |
| M-1100-132 | Blackfoot Societies |
| M-1100-133 | Blackfoot Medicine Pipes |
| M-1100-134 | Blackfoot Bands |
| M-1100-135 | Peigan Bands |
| M-1100-136 | Misc. Notes |
| M-1100-137 | Blackfoot Childbirth |
| M-1100-138 | Cecile Black Boy's Blackfoot Notes - Index |
| M-1100-139 | Blackfoot Bird Lore - Economic Utilization |
| M-1100-140 | Blackfoot Bird Lore - Comparative Notes |
| M-1100-141 | Blackfoot Bird Lore - Notes |
| M-1100-142 | Blackfoot Bird Lore - Ms. |
| M-1100-143 | Blackfoot Bird Lore - Field Notes |
| M-1100-144 | Blackfoot Bird Lore - Misc. Notes |
| M-1100-145 | The Blackfoot Indians of 1854, report by James Doty |
| M-1100-146 | Blackfoot Conjuring |
| M-1100-147 | Notes on R N Wilson, Ms. |
| M-1100-148 | Blackfoot Shaking Tent - 1st Draft |
| M-1100-149 | Blackfoot Shaking Tent - Final Draft |
| M-1100-150 | Biographies of Blackfoot Leaders |
| M-1100-151 | Sata, Blackfoot Indian |
| M-1100-152 | Blackfoot Biographies |
| M-1100-153 | Canadian Blackfoot Chiefs |
| M-1100-154 | Blackfoot Chiefs - Misc. |
| Munro Family | |
| M-1100-155 | Hugh 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-1100-157 | Field Notebooks - 1 Blackfoot |
| M-1100-158 | Field Notebooks - 2 Blackfoot |
| M-1100-159 | Field Notebooks - 3 Blackfoot |
| M-1100-160 | Field Notebooks - 4 Kootenay |
| M-1100-161 | Field Notebooks - 5 Flathead & Kootenay |
| M-1100-162 | Field Notebooks - 6 Flathead & Kootenay |
| M-1100-163 | Field Notebooks - 7 Flathead |
| M-1100-164 | Field Notebooks - 8 Miscellaneous |
| M-1100-165 | Blackfoot Field Notes - 1 |
| M-1100-166 | Blackfoot Field Notes - 2 |
| M-1100-167 | Blackfoot Field Notes - 3 |
| M-1100-168 | Blackfoot Field Notes - 4 |
| M-1100-169 | Kootenay Field Notes - 1 |
| M-1100-170 | Kootenay Field Notes - 2 |
| M-1100-171 | Kootenay Field Notes - 3 |
| Various reference material | |
| M-1100-172 | Beaver Traps |
| M-1100-173 | Game Drives - Misc. |
| M-1100-174 | Game - Misc. |
| M-1100-175 | Hunting Methods - Misc. |
| M-1100-176 | Field Notes on Penobscot-Malecite |
| M-1100-177 | Northern Plains - Comparative Data |
| M-1100-178 | Comparative Data - Northern Plains |
| M-1100-179 | George Catlin |
| M-1100-180 | Fritz Lecture - 1914 |
| M-1100-181 | Hallowell Studies |
| M-1100-182 | Lewis H. Morgan Ms. |
| M-1100-183 | Crow's Nest Country by Ian Turner |
| M-1100-184 | Field Notes - Misc. Tribes |
| M-1100-185 | Printed Sources |
| M-1100-186 | Bibliography - Misc. |
| M-1100-187 | Bibliography Schaeffer Books |
| M-1100-188 | Misc. Notes - 1 |
| M-1100-189 | Misc. Notes from Desk |
| M-1101 | Religious calendars for Blackfoot and Cree. - 1939 and 1952 |
| Series 7 | Photographs Many of the photographs have been scanned. |
| 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 |


