Oral history

Scope and Content The Alamo Navajo Oral History Project collection consists of 23 interviews on 26 CDs with related photographs. The interviews were conducted between 1977 and 1984 with people from the Alamo Navajo Reservation in southwestern New Mexico. The interviewees include: Louise Abeyta, Narciso Abeyta, John Anderson Pino, Denny Y. Apachito, Julian Apachito, Martiano Apachito, Billy Apachito, Hattie Apachito, Helen Apachito, Ida Apachito, Bessie Field Baca, John M. Baca. Thomas Ganadonegro, John...

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The American Indian Oral History collection contains recorded interviews with and about Native Americans. There were 904 recordings collected by the University of New Mexico between 1967-1972. The bulk of the interviews contain oral traditions and recollections from Navajos and Pueblos. Transcripts are available for most of the recordings.

Scope and Content The Atrisco Oral History Project, also known as Herencia: The Atrisco Community, was conducted over nine months in 1984, with the exception of one interview which was conducted in 1981. The project was directed by Dr. Raymond Burrola and consists of interviews with 35 residents of the Atrisco area in Albuquerque's South Valley. The project was sponsored by the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute at the University of New Mexico, in conjunction with the Albuquerque Museum and University of...

Scope and Content The project consists of thirteen oral history interviews from eleven different people living in New Mexicos East-Central Caprock region. All interviews were conducted by Craig Newbill during the Summer of 1992, except for Bernice and Pete Newbill who were initially interviewed in November of 1988, and subsequently in February and August of 1990, respectively. Pete and Bernice Newbill are the only interviewees who were interviewed twice. The collection contains twelve ninety minute audio...

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Memoirs of personnel working at Chaco Canyon National Monument from 1922-1941

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This is a copy of the field recordings made by Charlotte S. Johnson on the Navajo Reservation in 1963-1965. There are large segments of Navajo dialogue with English translations. The collection contains a wide range of songs and oral histories that provide an in depth view of Navajo religion, society and history.

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This collection consists of 51 CDs containing oral interviews with Frank Day, Bryan Beavers and Leland Scott, members of the Maidu-Concow tribe.

Scope and Content This collection consists of 30 CDs each containing one hour of oral interviews and/or renditions by Edwin Berry (Baca), a pioneer resident of Tomé, New Mexico. These interviews were conducted by Dr. Rowena Rivera, a former professor of Spanish at the University of New Mexico. In 1979, Dr. Rivera interviewed Edwin Berry, who was at the time 66 years old. Mr. Berry gave an account of life in the Tomé area in the early part of the 20th century. In addition to the oral history, the recordings...

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This interview with Dr. Eleanor Adler (1909-1993) of Albuquerque, New Mexico, summarizes her 32 years of private practice in pediatrics in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Abstract The collection features sound recordings and background information on Juan B. Rael, interviews and photos from the 1995 Farmers’ Markets Project in Colorado Springs, and folk music recordings (corridos, inditas, alabados and other traditional songs) and photographs with Native Americans and Hispanics of New Mexico, Cajuns in Texas, and Mexicans on the U.S. Mexican border. Topics covered range from life along the Rio Grande, the Penitentes, Matachines, the blessing of the acequias, tributes...

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The collection consists of oral history interviews conducted by Shawn Kelley for Paramatrix, under contract with the New Mexico Department of Transportation. The interviews were designed to mitigate adverse effects of various projects, including US 82 (Riley Homestead) Data Recovery Project (Eddy County, NM) and Cambray Bridge Replacement Mitigation Project (Luna County, NM).

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George Adlai Feather was a Rhodes Scholar, historian, and nurseryman, serving as Professor of Languages at New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (present-day New Mexico State University) from 1923-1937.

Scope and Content This oral history collection consists of thirty-six (36) interviews recorded on thirty-three (33), ninety-minute cassette tapes. There are no transcripts although interview summaries written by Rev. Wargelin are included.Included in the collection is a tape in which Rev. Wargelin recalls an interview that was done in 1985 with artist and illustrator, Hella Shattuck. The collection also contains biographical materials about Hella Shattuck, including photocopies of news clippings...

Scope and Content The collection consists of a bound volume, which contains a project history and transcripts for 9 of the 10 interviews. There are 10 audio cassette tapes (60 minute) containing interviews with 8 individuals. There are 6 DVDs, each containing a single interview. Audio recordings are audio versions of the video recordings. Not all interviews have a transcript, an audiotape, and a DVD. For example, there is only an audiotape of the Elba C. De Baca interview; the Carlota Gonzales interview...

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This broad collection contains traditional Southwestern Native American and Hispanic folk music, and popular music, dances, poetry readings and interviews collected in the 1970s and 1980s. Also included are Spanish medieval music, a Belen Los Pastores presentation, Matachines music from Tortugas, a Corrales history pageant, Anglo American country western songs and fiddle tunes, Laotian songs from Albuquerque, and a lecture by John Donald Robb.

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The collection consists of 12 oral interviews, conducted by Jon Hunner as part of the research for his MA thesis. Interviews delve into the social history of Los Alamos, NM, from the perspective of individuals who came of age in Los Alamos, 1943-1968.

Scope and Content This collection contains articles, reports, meeting minutes, ledgers, legal documents, clippings, oral histories, and photographs produced and collected by Professor Rivera while researching several different projects. The collection is divided into four series: Series I. Acequias (irrigation ditches), Series II. Mutualistas (mutual aid societies), and Series III. Justice of the Peace, Sapello, NM., and Series VI. San Antonio, Texas Water Systems. Series I contains the bulk of the...

Scope and Content This collection contains cassette tapes (47) and abstracts for twenty interviews with elder members of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Albuquerque. There are no transcripts. Kempe identified the tapes using a number for each interview followed by a small letter to indicate multiple tapes for that interview (i.e. 1(a), 1(b)). The interviewees for this project are direct descendants of St. Paul founders and the children and grandchildren of Scandinavian and German immigrants. They...

Scope and Content The collection consists of advertisements and articles promoting the Mariachi Spectacular; programs, schedules and correspondence; performers biographies; and photographs of events, including broadcast videotapes. Texts of songs and full and partial scores of music performed are also a part of the collection. Audio and video tapes were added to the collection in August 2008. These tapes contain oral interviews with Miguel D. Martinez, Esteban Hernandez, Jesús Rodriguez de Hijar, Nicolás...

Scope and Content Navajo uranium miners operating a mucking machine. Taken at the Rico Mine in Colorado, 1953. (Box 1 Folder 6). This oral history project consists of 26 individual interviews with former uranium miners or family members of the Navajo Tribe on 26 different cassette tapes. This collection also contains 14 DVDs containing 3 interviews, scenery shots from the mines and the area where the miners lived, as well as some miscellaneous, untranscribed...

Scope and Content This collection contains oral history interviews with 31 individuals from Albuquerque's predominantly Hispanic South Valley. Twenty seven interviews, conducted with 29 individuals, are recorded on 27 sixty-minute audio cassettes. The interview with Benny and Anita Sedillo was not recorded, but there are notes from that interview. There are tape summaries and logs for each of the recorded interviews. Additionally, there is a project description, background information, a resource kit from the...

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This collection consists of 278 sound recordings made in 1950 and 1965. It contains social songs, dances, violin and vocal presentations, oral history interviews and commentaries about Native American customs, social life, ceremonies and rituals.

Abstract Transcripts of the oral histories of fifty-six women from a variety of ethnic backgrounds and geographical locations in the United States. The oral histories project was created and conducted by Fran Leeper Buss, in collaboration with The Southwest Institute for Research on Women at the University of Arizona. Fran Buss sought to give poor and minority women a forum. Their histories cover a wide range of subject matter, each woman speaking candidly about her own life's conditions and critical...

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The collection contains oral history interviews with Dorothy Hughes, conducted in March 1989 in El Paso, Tex. by Rose Diaz. In the interviews Hughes discusses her time as a graduate student at the University of New Mexico, writing the fifty year history of the University, her writing career, and her friends and family.

There are no transcripts for the interviews.

The collection also includes one signed letter from Hughes to her publisher, 1964.

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This collection consists of 4 cassette tapes, in which Janet Neugebauer interviews Ernest V. Joiner in Carrizozo, NM on December 29, 1989. Joiner discusses the newspaper business, small-town life, and politics in west Texas, California, and New Mexico, focusing on 1935-1989.