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Handwritten blank form for the explanation of absences and/or lateness for activation of the military detachment of the Arkansas Industrial University, 1875.

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Materials concerning the 1952 Republican and Democratic National Conventions in Chicago.

Dollar attended both conventions and collected the materials, adding his own observations about the items and his experiences at the convention. All papers were published in 1952 unless otherwise noted. Numbers printed on the upper right corner of Dollar's typed notations were placed there by the author and are of no significance to the researcher.

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Correspondence (1972-1975), photographs, sound recordings, maps, pamphlets, periodicals, clippings, and other published material relating to the occupation of Wounded Knee, on the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, by leaders of the American Indian Movement, February 27 to May 8, 1973; to the resultant confrontation with federal officials; and to the aftermath of the controversy.

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Views of various historic sites and buildings in Fort Smith photographed in ca. 1975 by Arkansas anthropologist and historian Clyde David Dollar. Slides numbered 1-25 are described on an accompanying manuscript inventory by Dollar.

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90 Items. Photo, SR.

Eighty-nine 35 mm. color photographs, mounted for use in slide projector and numbered on mounting frames, together with photographer Dollar's cassette tape-recorded commentary. Photographs pertain to the occupation of the village of Wounded Knee, on the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation in South Dakota , by leaders of the American Indian Movement, February 27 to May 8, 1973.

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Paper binder, containing: 2 pages introductory material and 1 page map (1979); 20 mounted photographic prints (5" x 3.5") on 7 pages and 20 35mm photographic negatives on 1 page (1973); pertaining to the occupation of the village of Wounded Knee, on the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, by leaders of the American Indian Movemember, February 27-July 4, 1973.

Scope and Content Note The tapes consist of Dollar's interviews with William Shelton and Paul Manhart, both in 1973; two individually titled tapes of personal observations made by Dollar in 1973; and five tapes of telephone conversations entitled "Foxfire." To the users of the Foxfire Tapes: The news of the occupation of the village of Wounded Knee by Indian militants cause great excitement on the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation, both among Indians and Whites alike. As the situation reached...

Scope and Content Note The records pertain to the establishment of the Fort Smith National Historic Site in 1961 and its restoration in the 1970s. Records include correspondence to Fort Smith Judge Paul Wolfe and Restoration Committee Chairman R. K. Rodgers from Congressmen Jim Trimble and John Paul Hammerschmidt, Senators J. William Fulbright and Dale Bumpers, and officials of the National Park Service. Records contain an audiocassette tape of the January 27-28, 1975 conference on Fort Smith history,...