Latorre Collection on the Kickapoo Indians of Mexico, 1898-1986, (bulk 1960-1975).

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Latorre Collection on the Kickapoo Indians of Mexico, 1898-1986, (bulk 1960-1975).

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Field notes, manuscripts and galley proofs, correspondence, photographs, travel diaries, clippings, and assorted materials, primarily about Kickapoo culture in El Nacimiento, Mexico. Field notes and card files record the Latorres' observations during the study; they include a roll of tribe members from 1960-1972 and a Kickapoo dictionary. Photographs (1898-1973) of the Kickapoo in Coahuila and in Shawnee, Okla., depict their daily life, traditions, and artifacts. Correspondence (1928-1976) illustrates Indian life and researchers' efforts to document it; writers include Sarah McKellar, Bessie Williams, and Kenneth W. Porter. Other correspondence includes that of the Kickapoo with the Mexican government, some documenting efforts to oust renters from Kickapoo lands (1961-1968); other correspondence of the Kickapoo and by the Latorres with and for the Kickapoo (1961-1971); and the Latorres' general correspondence (1962-1986), some concerning their publications. Manuscripts and galley proofs are mostly from the The Mexican Kickapoo Indians. Research materials include microfilm, articles, clippings, and printed material about Kickapoo and other North American Indians. Travel diaries record trips to South America in 1958-1959 and Spain in 1978 and 1979. Materials about Chile are mostly letters and newspaper clippings. The collection also holds college term papers by the Latorres and assorted materials, including a bust of the Kickapoo chief, Papícoano.

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Porter, Kenneth Wiggins, 1905-1981

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Kenneth Wiggins Porter was a professor of history at several colleges and conducted research on African-American frontiersmen and cowboys, Black Seminoles, and American folklore and folk history. He also wrote poetry and was a Socialist, maintaining an active correspondence with both groups of people. Born in Kansas, Porter graduated from Sterling College in Kansas with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1926, and obtained his Master of Arts degree the following year from the ...

McKellar, Sarah.

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Williams, Bessie

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Latorre, Felipe A., 1907-

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Anthropologists Felipe Latorre (born 1907 in Chile) and Dolores Latorre (born 1903 in Spain) graduated from the Institute of Latin American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin (1953); they also studied at Columbia University (1951) and the School of Anthropology of the National University of Mexico (1957). From 1960 to 1972 they lived in Múzquiz, Mexico, and conducted an ethnological field study of Kickapoo Indians in the Mexican state of Coahuila; they published The Mexican Kickapoo In...

Papícoano.

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Latorre, Dolores L., 1903-1999

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Anthropologists Felipe Latorre (born 1907 in Chile) and Dolores Latorre (born 1903 in Spain) graduated from the Institute of Latin American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin (1953); they also studied at Columbia University (1951) and the School of Anthropology of the National University of Mexico (1957). From 1960 to 1972 they lived in Múzquiz, Mexico, and conducted an ethnological field study of Kickapoo Indians in the Mexican state of Coahuila; they published The Mexican Kickapoo In...