Ward Alan Minge Papers, 1689-1991.

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Ward Alan Minge Papers, 1689-1991.

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The Ward Alan Minge Papers contain legal documents, such as depositions, reports, exhibits, and opinions, as well as other primary and secondary sources concerning New Mexico's Pueblo Indians. Primary sources include translations and transcriptions of Spanish and Mexican era sources, as well as documents from the territorial and modern era. Unpublished reports by Donald C. Cutter, Myra Ellen Jenkins, Florence Hawley Ellis, Lyman Tyler, and Sophie Aberle are in the collection as are correspondences, reports, maps, and articles related to the Pueblos, and documents related to various historical associations and commissions concerning Minge and New Mexico's history, including materials related to Dr. Minge's career as Chief Historian at Kirtland Air Force Base. Acoma Pueblo contains legal, primary and secondary sources, as well as reports and photographs, and photocopies of documents from the National Archives and Records Administration. Included are translations and transcriptions of colonial era documents, records of Acoma's land disputes, correspondences, and copies of legal records. Jémez, Santa Ana, and Zia Pueblos contains documents common to these three Pueblos, as well as sources particular to the individual Pueblos. Agricultural and anthropological reports, translations and transcriptions of Spanish primary sources, articles, and correspondences are found in this series. Sandia Pueblo contains translations and transcriptions of Sandia's 1748 Spanish grant as well as other colonial documents. There are also copies of various NARA documents that relate to Sandia Pueblo. Legal documents pertaining to boundary disputes are included as well. San Felipe and Santo Domingo Pueblos includes notes on the 1770 grazing grant to the Pueblos, correspondences, maps, and reports. Additionally, there are legal and secondary sources on Santo Domingo's boundary dispute. Zuni Pueblo contains legal documents, reports, articles, and correspondences. The legal documents include depositions, exhibits, and court opinions and responses related to Zuni's Indian Claims Commission case. Pueblos Generally contains primary and secondary sources including legal, reports, articles, brochures, maps, and correspondences relating to the New Mexico Pueblos in general, but also particular to Laguna Pueblo; San Juan Pueblo; Nambe, Pojoaque, Tesuque, and San Ildefonso Pueblos; and Taos, Cochiti, Isleta, Picuris, and Santa Clara Pueblos. Documents pertaining to the Aamodt water rights case are included. Historical Associations contains articles, biographical information, photos, and correspondences related to Ward Alan Minge, Kirtland Air Force Base, historical preservation and economic planning organizations, the New Mexico Commission on Public Records, the New Mexico State Records Center and Archives and other general historical sources.

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University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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New Mexico State Records Center and Archives

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The Public Records Act of 1959 created the State Records Center and Archives (1959 NM Laws, Chp. 245, Sec. 1-19). From the description of State Records Center and Archives collection of New Mexico photographs [graphic]. 1880-[ongoing] (Santa Fe Public Library). WorldCat record id: 38453135 The New Mexico State Records Center and Archives has maintained history files on various New Mexico topics since it began operations in 1960. From the description of New Mexico...

United States. National Archives and Records Administration

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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records. It is also tasked with increasing public access to those documents which make up the National Archive. NARA is officially responsible for maintaining and publishing the legally authentic and authoritative copies of acts of Congress, presidential directives, and federal regulations. NARA also transmit...

Aberle, Sophie D., 1899-

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Sophie D. Aberle, health researcher and administrator for Indian affairs, was born in Schenectady, New York on July 21, 1896. She received a Ph. D.from Stanford University in1927 and an M.D. from Yale in 1930. Aberleserved as Superintendent of the United Pueblos Agency, 1935-1944 andExecutive Director of the Commission on the Rights, Liberties andResponsibilities of the American Indian, 1959-1966. She died in Albuquerquein 1996. From the description of Papers, 1913-1987. (University ...

New Spain. Real Audiencia (Guadalajara)

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New Mexico Commission of Public Records

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The Commission of Public Records was established by the Public Records Act in 1959 (1959 Laws of N.M., Chp. 245, Sec. 1-19). The Public Records Act related to the care, custody, preservation, and disposition of public records in New Mexico. This act repealed a 1927 law designating the Historical Society of New Mexico as the official custodian and trustee of public records for the State of New Mexico; established the office of State Records Administrator; and established the State Records Center ...

Jenkins, Myra Ellen

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For a chronology of Dr. Jenkins' life and work, see the first folders in Box 1. For an obituary, see the Denver Post, June 28, 1993. The following is a reminiscence written by Robert W. Delaney, who was the founding director of the Center of Southwest Studies and a friend and colleage of Myra Ellen Jenkins. I Remember Myra / by Robert W. Delaney (published in the November 1993 issue of La Cronica de Nuevo Mexico, Issue No. 37) "For more than four decades, I k...

Minge, Ward Alan

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Ward Alan Minge was born in Marshall County, Kansas on March 20, 1924. He received his BA from the University of Denver in 1950 and an MA from the University of the Americas in 1952. In 1955, he became the Chief Historian for Kirtland Air Force Base, retaining the position for several decades while working on numerous other historical endeavors. Many of these involved New Mexico's nineteen native-American Pueblos. In the last half of the twentieth century, many of the Pueblos asserted claims inv...

Ellis, Florence Hawley

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Florence Hawley Ellis, an archaeologist, taught at the University of New Mexico and the University of Chicago, 1934-1971. From the description of Florence Hawley Ellis lecture notes : mimeograph typescript, [19]̲̲. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37992652 Florence Hawley at Chaco Canyon, 1935. Pict 000-579-001 Florence Hawley Ellis was born on September 17, 1906 in Sonora, Mexico. She moved with her family to Los Angeles, Californ...

Cutter, Donald C.

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United States. Indian Claims Commission

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Zitkala is the Indian name for Gertrude Bonnin, 1876-1938. From the guide to the National Council of American Indians records, 1926-1938, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Historical note: The Indian Claims Commission rendered a settlement between the United States Government and the San Carlos Apache Tribe, the White Mountain Apache Tribe, and the Yavapai-Apache Indian Community of Fort McDowell. The settlement involved the title transfer of two tracts of land outside the ...

Tyler, Lyman S.

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