NATAMST 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Federal Records, Franz Boas, Ancestry.Com

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Native American Studies
• Course: NATAMST 110
• Professor: Diane Pearson

Document Summary

Records for just about everything retained by the nara. American indian records are record group 75. Nara are microfilmed copies of original records. For american indian records; rg 75 nara records may be held in wa, To find records in the nara, you follow this url: https://www. archives. gov/research. Of course, they are closed now so just file this for when you need it! Nara files are not free; when you have requests people have to do the work & years ago they were microfilmed when the archives filled up. Many institutions have already purchases the federal records in microfilm form now) When pearson was writing her first nez perce book, she learned that the. Rg75 collections for those people while held in prison for almost 8 years were available in wa, dc. No one had looked at or studied those records since 1886!! Our nas ethnic studies librarian at the time was john berry (he"s retired.