Ruth Murray Underhill papers, 1898-1984.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Ruth Murray Underhill papers, 1898-1984.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52346778

Anthropologist Ruth M. Underhill's papers consist primarily of materials from 1950-1969 and include course materials from her teaching at the University of Denver: lecture notes, exams, syllabi, course descriptions, and bibliographies. Her work with Native American tribes in education, training, employment and political issues is reflected in Bureau of Indian Affairs publications and memos, newspaper clippings, newspapers, newsletters, convention papers, booklets, and correspondence. Also includes manuscripts, galley proofs, and typescripts of books as well as journal articles, journal reprints.

7 linear ft. (6 boxes)

University of Denver, University Libraries, Anderson Academic Commons

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7653212

University of Denver, University Libraries, Anderson Academic Commons

Related Entities

There are 4 Entities related to this resource.

United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66j5829 (corporateBody)

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) was formed in 1824. An agency of the federal government of the United States within the US Department of the Interior, it is responsible for the administration and management of land held in trust by the United States for Native Americans in the United States, Native American Tribes and Alaska Natives. From the guide to the Navajo Land, motion picture, undated, (J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah) A Statistics Section was organ...

American Friends Service Committee. Indian Visiting Program.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tb838k (corporateBody)

University of Denver. Dept. of Anthropology.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bp6zs0 (corporateBody)

Underhill, Ruth, 1883-1984

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zk5zxz (person)

Anthropologist Ruth Murray Underhill served as Supervisor of Indian Education with the U.S. Indian Service from 1942-1948 and was professor of Anthropology at the University of Denver from 1948-1952. She was born in Ossining, New York on August 22, 1884 and graduated from Vassar College in 1905 with a B.A. in comparative literature. She earned a Ph. D. in Anthropology from Columbia University in 1934 and worked for the U.S. Indian Service (later the Bureau of Indian Affairs). Underhill was invol...