IAIA Records--Compiled by Chuck Dailey

ArchivalResource

IAIA Records--Compiled by Chuck Dailey

IAIA Records--Compiled by Chuck Dailey

1961

https://nmarchives.unm.edu/repositories/12/resources/627

RG-01, IAIA Records, 1961-Present, consists of the surviving records of the Institute of American Indian Arts, a division of the Bureau of Indian Affairs until 1986, and its associated museum. Since there was no records management program at IAIA, very few records were formally retained by the administration, faculty, or staff over the course of the Institutions existence. Charles Dailey, a former faculty member and the director of the IAIA Museum between 1971-2007, wisely compiled administrative records he deemed important, which are sparse, but maintained very good records for his museum and its operations. It is important to note that RG-01 must be viewed through the eyes of Mr. Dailey, not through the lenses of general operations. The records were stored in the basement of the IAIA Museum on the campus of the Santa Fe Indian School until their move to the present IAIA Museum on Palace Ave in 1992. Upon completion of the IAIA Campus in Santa Fe County, the records were moved into the current location in 2001. As the administrative records were compiled over the years, students taking Dailey’s “Museum Archives” course filed the records to no particular archival standards. Beginning in 2006, upon the hiring of IAIA’s first archivist, basic folder level inventories began to be compiled. Beginning in 2009, an effort was started to re-arrange and re-describe RG-01 according to current archival standards, as well as process previously unprocessed sections of the record group. The records are arranged by year, adhering to the previous arrangement schema. Each year is represented by a Sub-Group, i.e. SG-01-1961, SG-02, 1962, etc. Within each sub-group, there are two primary series; Series I: IAIA Educational and Administrative Records, and Series II: IAIA Museum Records. Because the Museum director compiled the vast bulk of RG-01, the Museum series is much more detailed and complete than the Educational and Administrative series. IAIA Records,1961 consists of reports and public relations materials (.25 cu. ft.) related to the activities of IAIA during the year 1961. The subgroup contains a brief history of the Santa Fe Indian School and the beginning of a reconstruction to house the IAIA two-year program under the Bureau of Indian Affairs with several leading persons: Glenn Emmons, BIA Commissioner; Stewart Udall, Future Secretary of the Interior; Philleo Nash, Future BIA Commissioner; Hildegard Thompson, BIA Chief Officer of Education; George A. Boyce, IAIA Superintendent.

1 box (.25 cu. ft)

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Institute of American Indian Arts