White Bear Fredericks Collection, 1953-1965.

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White Bear Fredericks Collection, 1953-1965.

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Correspondence and oral history transcripts concerning White Bear Fredericks' work on the Book of the Hopi. The correspondence consists primarily of letters with publishers and foundations concerning the project. Fredericks conducted numerous oral interviews with Hopi elders during the 1950s and early 1960s, then translated and transcribed the interviews these transcripts, along with correspondence make up the bulk of this collection.

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Cline Library. Special Collections and Archives Department.

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Fredericks, Oswald White Bear.

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White Bear (Oswald Fredericks) spent most of his life as a Hopi artist and story teller working for various youth organizations. One of his accomplishments was the carving of the Goldwater Kachina Collection which now resides at the Heard Museum in Phoenix. His second major accomplishment was collecting oral histories of Hopi people. These oral histories were the basis of Frank Waters', Book of the Hopi. White Bear was born in Old Oraibi on February 6, 1905 to Charles an...