Source-specific accounts of musicians, groups, and institutional settings.
The library includes material associated with Native communities and with institutions named in historical sources. These records should be read in their particular community, period, and institutional context.
A school or institutional label is not a substitute for a person’s own account of identity and experience. Future approved interviews can add perspectives that administrative descriptions and photographs do not contain.
Archive photograph
Panel of the "1992 Reunion Committee" with photos of people and objects. Top left photo two women has handwriting: "Co-Chairmen" Middle photos has handwriting of "Work-Work-Work." Photos of people has handwriting: "Plan-Plan-Plan.
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Archive photograph
Photograph of: Annesley, Robert (Cherokee artist).
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Newspaper history
The September 13, 1895 Duncan Banner account of an Atoka meeting of Choctaws and Chickasaws reports music by the Atoka Cornet Band.
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Archive photograph
Photograph of Moses Iron Moccasin in a Chilocco Indian School Band uniform playing an Euphonium, June 13, 1905.
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Archive photograph
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Journal newspaper. Caption: "Macram work"
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Archive photograph
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Journal newspaper. Caption: "Randy Cramer, Miss Hope Pickering, and Jerry Sharp." Headline: Cramer Randy Choctaw, High School student.
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Archive photograph
Photograph of the Harley Institute's Boy's Band in a wagon, Ravia, Indian Territory, c. 1903.
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Archive photograph
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Journal newspaper. Caption: "Indian author Jamake Highwater will present a lecture and slide show on "Native American Painting"" Headline: Highwater Jamake, Indian Art Expert.
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Archive photograph
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Journal newspaper. Caption: "Photograph of Bob Goodner, and Demetrio Baldini Jr." Headline: Goodner, Bob Choctaw High School Band director.
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