Van Valkenburgh papers, 1868-1950 (bulk 1928-1950).

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Van Valkenburgh papers, 1868-1950 (bulk 1928-1950).

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Correspondence, manuscripts, business records, radio scripts, personal and printed materials chiefly relating to his study of the Navajo in the 1930s. The Richard Van Valkenburgh subgroup includes correspondence from many prominent anthropologists and manuscripts about Navajo individuals, history and place names. There are also typescripts from his radio program concerning law enforcement, crime and criminals in Pima County. His father, H.P. Van Valkenburgh's subgroup is a scrapbook about his career in the California state civil service. Navajo Agency materials include an 1884 letterbook of letters to the Office of Indian Affairs, later correspondence received from the Office concerning education and missions, an 1871 government census of the Navajo, and licenses for reservation traders, 1886-1899. Typescript extracts of letterbooks comprise the Moqui Agency subgroup.

3 linear ft. (6 boxes).

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Hopi Agency

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United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Navajo Agency

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Van Valkenburgh, Richard F.

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Anthropologist; primarily studied the Navajo from 1935 to 1941 and 1952 to 1957. He was employed by the U.S. Office of Indian Affairs to head a social and economic study of the Navajo Reservation from 1935 to 1941 and was the head of the Navajo Tribe's Dept. of Land Use and Surveys. He also wrote volumniously about the Navajo for scientific and popular publications. He was deputy Pima County sheriff from 1948 to 1951 and appeared regularly on "Sheriff's story", a weekly historical radio program ...