GERALD VIZENOR:
An Inventory of His Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
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OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Vizenor, Gerald Robert, 1934-, creator. | |
| Title: | Gerald Vizenor papers. | |
| Dates: | 1800-1998 (bulk 1950-1998). | |
| Language: | Materials in English, Ojibwe, German and Italian. | |
| Abstract: | Papers documenting the career of a Minnesota Chippewa educator, author, poet, and activist. | |
| Quantity: | 14.0 cubic feet (15 boxes), 1 videoreel, 5 master video files: MOV (58.1 GB), 5 user video files: MP4 (1.2 GB), 1 master sound disc: analog, 20 master audio files: WAV (3.2 GB), and 21 user audio files: MP3 (668 MB). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Included are manuscripts and published copies of Vizenor's poems, articles, and other writings; correspondence and miscellaneous related papers pertaining to his teaching and social service career, his work in Indian education and employment programs, and his editorial work with the Minneapolis Tribune; letters from others active in the literary, social, and political Indian community; and published material related to Indian education and employment, the Wounded Knee trials (1973-1974), Indian social and political conditions, and legal issues.
Other materials include articles and personal statements by other Indians and a number of audio and video recordings covering a variety of Indian-related topics.
ARRANGEMENT
This collection is organized into the following sections by accession number:
| 11,793 | ||
| 12,067 | ||
| 12,947 | ||
| 13,614 | ||
| 13,241 and 13,206 | ||
| 15,791 | ||
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Access Restrictions:
Until the death of Gerald Vizenor, access to the collection requires written permission from Gerald Vizenor. Please consult the reference staff for further information.
Use Restrictions:
Until the death of Gerald Vizenor, quotation or publication beyond the fair use provisions of the copyright law requires written permission. Please consult the reference staff for further information.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Gerald Vizenor papers. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession number: 11,793; 12,067; 12,947; 13,614; 13,241; 13,206; 15,791
Location of Master Files:
Digital masters of the audiovisual material are maintained on the Society's secure digital collections storage servers and are managed and preserved in accordance with archival best practices.
Processing Information:
Processed by: Alex Kent, March 2009.
Digitization and encoding by April Rodriguez, April 4, 2023.
Digital audiovisual material transferred from the master film, videocassettes, audiocassettes, and audio record by the Minnesota Historical Society for preservation purposes, (April 2023).
Digitization was made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the vote of Minnesotans on November 4, 2008.
Catalog ID number: 990017353670104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
ACCESSION 11,793
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| 151.B.12.6F | 1 | Papers, 1960-1965. 14 folders. | |||||||||||
| Originally deposited in University of Minnesota Archives in 1964-1965. They consist of the original manuscripts, the final published work, and material related to the design and printing of his publications, and some correspondence. | |||||||||||||
| 1. Correspondence, 1961-1965. | |||||||||||||
| 2. Reviews, newspaper articles, etc, undated. | |||||||||||||
| 3. "This Indian. This Jew. Friends," undated. | |||||||||||||
| Unpublished manuscript by Gerald Vizenor and David Harmon Fox. | |||||||||||||
| 4. Born in the Wind, March 1960. | |||||||||||||
| 5. The Old Park Sleepers, July 1961. | |||||||||||||
| 6. Two Wings the Butterfly, April 1962. | |||||||||||||
| Haiku in English. | |||||||||||||
| 7. South of the Painted Stones, April 1963. | |||||||||||||
| 8-10. Raising the Moon Vines, April 1964. | |||||||||||||
| Haiku in English. | |||||||||||||
| 11-12. Seventeen Chirps, November 1964. | |||||||||||||
| Haiku in English. | |||||||||||||
| 13-14. Summer in the Spring, lyric poems of the Ojibway, May 1965. | |||||||||||||
| Books by Vizenor, or containing contributions or chapters by Vizenor: | |||||||||||||
| Anishinabe Adisokam (Tales of the People) by Gerald Vizenor, undated. 2 copies. | |||||||||||||
| From the Belly of the Shark, edited by Walter Lowenfels, undated. | |||||||||||||
| The Haiku Anthology, edited by Cor van den Heuvel, undated. | |||||||||||||
| American Indian Art: Form and Tradition, undated. | |||||||||||||
| The Everlasting Sky, undated. | |||||||||||||
| 25 Minnesota Poets, undated. | |||||||||||||
| An American Indian Anthology, compiled by Benet Tvedten. undated. 2 copies. | |||||||||||||
| Swings, by Gerald Vizenor, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Escorts to White Earth, compiled and edited by Gerald Vizenor. undated. | |||||||||||||
| Beloit Poetry Journal, Winter 1955-1956. | |||||||||||||
| Greater Works, August 1968. | |||||||||||||
| American Lutheran Church, Minneapolis. | |||||||||||||
| Slight Abrasions, a Dialogue in Haiku, undated. | |||||||||||||
| International Poetry Forum, 5th Anniversary, by Downes and Gerald Vizenor, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Dakotah Territory, number 6, Winter 1973-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Mockups of Empty Swings and Slight Abrasions, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Note cards listing Vizenor’s writings. undated. | |||||||||||||
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| 151.B.12.7B | 2 | The Anishinabe, undated. | |||||||||||
| Photocopy of typescript, 225 leaves. | |||||||||||||
| Fate in August: A novel by Gerald Vizenor, May 1961. 216 pages. Carbon of final typing. | |||||||||||||
| "Can Paraeconomics Survive? Tribal Nostalgia and New Reservation Experiences, by Vizenor for Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Exponent series, Jaunuary 1975. | |||||||||||||
| Letters, 1961-1973. 13 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Vizenor's personal and family letters, teaching and social work career, education, writing and publication of poetry and articles, Mayor's [Naftalin] Indian-American Task Force, Indian service work, executive director of American Indian Employment and Guidance Center, participation in seminars and training sessions, work on Minneapolis Tribune, speaking and lecture engagements, Indian education, research and writing on the Anishinabe, work with Park: Rapids School District and elsewhere in Indian adult education, professor and Director of Indian Studies at Bemidji State College. | |||||||||||||
| Vizenor manuscripts, 1967-1970. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous items, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Opportunities Unlimited Minnesota Indiana: Adult Basic Education narrative and statistical evaluation, 1971-1972. | |||||||||||||
| Bush Leadership Fellows Program, 1969. | |||||||||||||
| Pine Point School, 1970-1972. | |||||||||||||
| Chippewa Tribe: Leech Lake, 1970-1972. | |||||||||||||
| American Indian Employment Center, November 1966-August 1967. | |||||||||||||
| Mimeos, correspondence, minutes, reports, programs, proposals, financial records. | |||||||||||||
| Anishinabe Stories, by Tom Cain, undated. | |||||||||||||
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| 151.B.12.8F | 3 | Wounded Knee Trial, St. Paul: Clippings, broadsides, handout literature, transcripts, legal documents, press kit materials, 1974. | |||||||||||
| AIM: Rapid City, Custer, and Wounded Knee, 1973. | |||||||||||||
| Clippings, leaflets, articles and editorials, handout literature, notes and articles by Vizenor, issues of Indian-American newspapers. | |||||||||||||
| Statements and affidavits in class action suit against law enforcement officials of South Dakota, 1973. | |||||||||||||
| Newspaper clippings, Indian affairs and AIM, 1950-1974. 3 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Newspaper clippings: Articles by Vizenor, 1966-1972. | |||||||||||||
| Transcripts of interviews for The Everlasting Sky, 1970. | |||||||||||||
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| 151.B.12.9B | 4 | Clippings: Articles by and about Vizenor. 2 folders and 8 volumes. | |||||||||||
| “The Everlasting Sky: The story of the Anishinabe,” Park Rapids Enterprise, September-December 1971. Serial. | |||||||||||||
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| 151.B.12.10F | 5 | Speeches, articles, personal statements, clippings, reports, photos, etc. relating to economic and social conditions of urban Indians, interactions with the white community, employment and job training, primarily in Minneapolis. 1964. 3 folders. | |||||||||||
| Includes: Minutes, Urban American Indian Committee of Minneapolis, February 11, 1964. | |||||||||||||
| Articles by Marvin Needham, Tad Mahto selected pages, Vincent Hill, George Mitchell, and Lawrence Crowell, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Transcript of talk by F. Scott Momaday, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Report, American Indian Employment Center of Minneapolis, April 1967. | |||||||||||||
| Minutes, Indian Affairs Committee, August. 23-24, 1967. | |||||||||||||
| Urban American Indian Center constitution and bylaws. undated. | |||||||||||||
| Walter Mondale statement on Indian Education, October 1, 1968. | |||||||||||||
| Convocation of American Indian scholars, list of participants, September 1961. | |||||||||||||
| Testimony and statements for hearings on Indian education and Indian child welfare, Senate Subcommittee on Indian Affairs, March-April 1974. 1 folder and 1 volume. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous articles, reports, published materials: | |||||||||||||
| Proposal to Corporation for Public Broadcasting for a news and public affairs radio production, KSJN, Twin Cities, | |||||||||||||
| Abuse. Drug abuse primer. Training, Resource and Development Assistance Center, Minneapolis, | |||||||||||||
| Background research on creation of Indian states, by James Henderson, 1973. | |||||||||||||
| Legislative Review by Indian Legal Information Development Center, volume I, number 2, November 1972. | |||||||||||||
| 4 studies on Indian economic development and profile of American Indian National Bank, 1974. | |||||||||||||
| "Study of Delivery System of Social Services to the American Indian in the Greater Minneapolis Area," by Community Health and Welfare Council of Hennepin County, April 1974. | |||||||||||||
| "Education and the Future of Tribalism in the U.S.," by Alexander Lesser, 1961. | |||||||||||||
| Report to the Committee on Appropriations, U. S. House of Representatives, on the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, Belcourt, North Dakota, November 1973. | |||||||||||||
| "The Legal System of the Red Lake Reservation," by William Lawrence, 1970. | |||||||||||||
| Investigative Report, Minnesota Attorney General, on the Incarceration and Death of Dane M. White, December 1968. | |||||||||||||
| Racism is..., published by Twin City T.T.T. Program. American Indian Business Directory, published by Upper Midwest American Indian Center. | |||||||||||||
| "Some Problems in Minnesota Chippewa Acculturation," by Jerome S. Stromberg. | |||||||||||||
| "Chippewa Indians of Redlake," by Laura Morgan, 1970-1972. | |||||||||||||
| I.A.B.E. Study Guide for Ojibwa Crafts, undated. | |||||||||||||
| "Minneapolis: Emergence of Indian Power," by Anne Pearse, 1967. | |||||||||||||
| AIM materials: annual report, national convention, and miscellaneous items, 1970-1972. | |||||||||||||
| Interviews regarding Minneapolis riot, 1966. | |||||||||||||
| State of Minnesota vs. Loretta Beaulieu, 1968. | |||||||||||||
| Youth Leadership Training Program, Bemidji reports, 1966. | |||||||||||||
| Leech Lake Newsletter, 1966. | |||||||||||||
| Trail, January-October 1961. 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Red Lake Reservation News, 1966. | |||||||||||||
| The Peace Pipe, February-June 1956. 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous issues of Indian periodicals, August 1966-March 1967. | |||||||||||||
| "Everything You Ever Wanted to Ask About Indians, But Were Afraid to Find Out,” 1966-1969. | |||||||||||||
| Issues of the Twin Citian with articles of Vizenor, 1966-1969. 1 box. | |||||||||||||
| Articles and bibliography by Vizenor, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Two account books/notebooks, circa 1880s-1900s. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 151.B.12.11B | 6 | Legal papers and clippings regarding hunting and fishing rights on Leech Lake and White Earth reservations, undated. 2 packets. | |||||||||||
| Legal papers and memorandums, Morse vs. Morse and Vizenor, undated. 1 packet. | |||||||||||||
| Indian articles by Sam Newlund, Minneapolis Tribune, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Manuscripts of Anishinabe Adisokan and Anishinabe Nagamon by Vizenor, undated. 1 packet. | |||||||||||||
| Papers of Resident Reorganization Committee for OEO, undated. 1 packet. | |||||||||||||
| Shelf Q-9-H (Room B-105.7) | Audio Recordings: | ||||||||||||
| Milt Williams and Gerald Vizenor speeches, undated. 1 master sound disc (1 hour, 2 minutes): 33 1/3 rpm; 12 inch and 1 user audio file: MP3 (58.2 MB). | |||||||||||||
| 0:00:00-0:31:17: "White Racism and Black Power", Mr. Milt Williams. | |||||||||||||
| 0:31:17-end "The Soul Of An Indian", Mr. Gerry Vizenor. | |||||||||||||
| Container note: Lutheran Records, The American Lutheran Church, Produced by Div. of Youth Activity -- TALC for Joint Youth Publication Council. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 151.B.12.11B | 6 | Dick Gregory speech and songs by Buffy Sainte Marie, undated. 1 master audio file (24 minutes, 49 second): WAV (125 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (16.5 MB). | |||||||||||
| 0:00:00-0:12:46 speech, 0:12:46-end music. Recording device is handled throughout the speech. | |||||||||||||
| Container note: My country tis of thy people you're dying now that the buffalo's gone seeds of brotherhood. | |||||||||||||
| American Chemical Society presents Men and Molecules, undated. 1 master audio file (16 minutes, 18 second): WAV (82.3 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (16.4 MB). | |||||||||||||
| Stuart Finley interviews Dr. Carl Sagan answering the question, "Is anyone out there?" | |||||||||||||
| Introduction to Native American Music, undated. 1 master audio file (32 minutes, 44 second): WAV (165 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (24.3 MB). | |||||||||||||
| Narrated and prepared by Paul Pirthon of Bemidji state college. | |||||||||||||
| Gerald Vizenor interviews Navarre Scott Momaday, undated. 1 master audio file (20 minutes, 4 second): WAV (101 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (15 MB). | |||||||||||||
| Poverty programs and police relations, undated. 1 master audio file (44 minutes, 48 seconds): WAV (226 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (42.9 MB). | |||||||||||||
| Discussion between a cop and former poverty program committee member. | |||||||||||||
| Buffy Sainte Marie, undated. 1 master audio file (15 minutes, 41 seconds): WAV (79.1 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (22.3 MB). | |||||||||||||
| Songs from Buffy Sainte Marie. | |||||||||||||
| Patrick DesJarlait interview and George Morrison interview. undated. 1 master audio file (17 minutes, 8 seconds): WAV (86.4 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (17 MB). | |||||||||||||
| Note: Patrick DesJarlait interview starts and ends abruptly 0-07:57. George Morrison comments and descriptions written by him are read to describe film strips. | |||||||||||||
| Doug Hall, VISTA conference, Minneapolis, 1966. 1 master audio file (56 minutes, 50 seconds): WAV (286 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (50.4 MB). | |||||||||||||
| Minneapolis riot coverage, John Hansford of SNCC interview, and Robert Vizenor, August 1966. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 1 minute): WAV (307 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (58.6 MB). | |||||||||||||
| Note: 0:00:00-0:30:01 riot coverage by WCCO, 0:30:01-0:44:55 John Hansford interview, 0:44:55-end recording of Gerald and his son Robert Vizenor at age 6. | |||||||||||||
| Container note: Naflatin Riot Speech meeting at Oak Park. | |||||||||||||
| American Indian Employment Center board meeting, 1967. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 2 minutes): WAV (316 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (60.8 MB). | |||||||||||||
| Container note: Baines, Hall, Libertus etc. Vizenor accused of being too [politically] active. | |||||||||||||
| Aaron Miller of KUOM with Gerald Vizenor, July 13, 1967. 1 master audio file (50 minutes, 6 seconds): WAV (252 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (44.9 MB) | |||||||||||||
| Container note: Vizenor Haiku Reading Kuom "Poet Reads" Guest of Aaron Miller Kuom. | |||||||||||||
| Recording contains intermittent distorted audio. | |||||||||||||
| Gerald Vizenor interview with Stan Steiner, January 1970. 1 master audio file (37 minutes, 54 seconds): WAV (191 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (33.8 MB). | |||||||||||||
| Gerald Vizenor interview with Vine Deloria, January 1970. 1 master audio file (50 minutes, 6 seconds): WAV (252 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (44.9 MB). | |||||||||||||
| Container note: Vine Deloria Denver Jan 1970. | |||||||||||||
| Hunting and Fishing settlement, June 19, 1972. 1 master audio file (24 minutes, 1 second): WAV (121 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (22.3 MB). | |||||||||||||
| Container note: RBC Office, Hunting/Fishing Settlement - Gov. Anderson, Simon Howard. | |||||||||||||
| Film slides: Sioux peyote ceremony, Bemidji State College Educational Media Center, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Excerpts from White Earth The Progress (1887-1888) and The Tomahawk (1903-1919). 1 roll negative microfilm. | |||||||||||||
| 142.C.13.2 | Minneapolis Tribune news stories by Vizenor. June 1968-November 1969. Oversize folder. | ||||||||||||
ACCESSION 12,067
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| 151.B.12.11B | 6 | Newspaper clippings and other publicity, 1973-1976. 1 packet. | |||||||||||
| Autobiographical Stories by Vizenor: "I Know What You Mean Errdupps MacChurbbs," October 1976. 52 p. | |||||||||||||
| Spring Hill Conference Center: Conference on Revision of Educational Materials, October 20-22, 1974. | |||||||||||||
| Spring Hill Conference Center: Meeting on Reservation Economics, November 2-4, 1975. | |||||||||||||
| Letters, 1974-1975, 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Studio One, Spring 1976. | |||||||||||||
| The First Skin Around Me, 1976. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous AIM, Wounded Knee, contemporary Indian printed materials, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 152.H.7.2F | 7 | Photocopy of typescript of The New Fur Trade, University of Minnesota Press, 1977. 1 volume. | |||||||||||
| Edited typed printer's manuscript of Darkness in St. Louis Bearheart, undated. 1 volume. | |||||||||||||
| Published copy of Darkness in St. Louis Bearheart St. Paul, Truck Press, 1978. 1 volume. | |||||||||||||
| Proofs/typescripts of Wordarrows: Indians and Whites in the New Fur Trade, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Book reviews, flyers, announcements, articles, other publicity materials, undated. | |||||||||||||
ACCESSION 12,947
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 147.C.19.5B | 8 | Print and semi-print items relating to Vizenor's work in the field of native American Studies; also articles written by Vizenor, three tapes: | |||||||||||
| Folders: | |||||||||||||
| Earthdivers, by Vizenor. | |||||||||||||
| Selected chapters of first draft. | |||||||||||||
| Land Fill Meditation, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Skins and Furs, 1966-1981. | |||||||||||||
| Santa Fe Conference, Wheelwright Museum, July 1977. | |||||||||||||
| Minneapolis Public Schools Annual Report on Indian Education, 1978-1979. | |||||||||||||
| Volumes: | |||||||||||||
| Proceedings of the Conference on Indian Rights and Resources. University of Minnesota, 1953. | |||||||||||||
| Proceedings of the Conference on Indian Tribes and Treaties. University of Minnesota, April 1955. | |||||||||||||
| Report of the Indian Review Committee of the American Indian Studies Department. University of Minnesota. February 15, 1978. | |||||||||||||
| Summer in the Spring; Ojibwe Lyric Poems and Tribal Stories Edited and Reexpressed by Gerald Vizenor. 1989. | |||||||||||||
| Earthdivers, Tribal Narratives on Mixed Descent by Gerald Vizenor, 1981. | |||||||||||||
| Audio recordings: | |||||||||||||
| Thomas White Hawk discussion, undated. 1 master audio file (31 minutes, 39 seconds): WAV (159 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (28.2 MB). | |||||||||||||
| Native American, religious, and civil rights leaders discuss the Thomas White Hawk case. | |||||||||||||
| Mixed Media interview of poets and musicians, undated. 1 master audio file (28 minutes, 1 second): WAV (141 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (26.3 MB). | |||||||||||||
| Gerald's interview start at the beginning of the segment and ends at 12:35. | |||||||||||||
| Container note: Copyright MPR. | |||||||||||||
| Earthdivers by Gerald Vizenor, August 8, 1981. 1 master audio file (12 minutes, 45 seconds): WAV (64.3 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (13.2 MB). | |||||||||||||
| Container note: Scott Elton. | |||||||||||||
| Lars Hoel interviews with Vizenor on WCAL FM Radio, October 5, 1981. 1 master audio file (31 minutes, 33 seconds): WAV (159 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (34.7 MB). | |||||||||||||
| Radio interview about Vizenor in the role of a poet. Interview ends abruptly. | |||||||||||||
ACCESSIONS 13,241 AND 13,206
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| 147.G.4.1B | 1 | Correspondence, 1976-1982. 7 folders. | |||||||||||
| University of Minnesota, 1980-1983. | |||||||||||||
| University of Minnesota Press, 1977-1982. | |||||||||||||
| University of California, 1980-1982. | |||||||||||||
| Published Stories and book reviews, 1979-1981. | |||||||||||||
| Curriculum Vitae; Promotion to Full Professor, 1980. | |||||||||||||
| Minneapolis Tribune Editorials, 1978-1982. | |||||||||||||
| Small Colleges: Augsburg, Hamline, Macalester, 1976-1978. | |||||||||||||
| American Indian Studies, 1980. | |||||||||||||
| Book Designs, undated. | |||||||||||||
| The Everlasting Sky, 1972. | |||||||||||||
| Matsushima, 1980. | |||||||||||||
| Earthdivers (letters), 1981. | |||||||||||||
| White Noise, 1983. | |||||||||||||
| Sundance Institute, 1983. | |||||||||||||
| Harold of Orange screenplay, June 1983. | |||||||||||||
| People Named Chippewa, 1983. | |||||||||||||
| Photographs, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 147.G.4.2F | 2 | Cedarfair Circus notes, undated. | |||||||||||
| Mashkiki, undated. | |||||||||||||
| The Press and Wounded Knee: An Analysis of the Coverage of the Occupation by Selected Newspaper and News Magazines, A Thesis by Judith Anole Vick. 1973, July 1977. | |||||||||||||
| Curriculum Vitae, Gerald Vizenor. January 1982. | |||||||||||||
| Kari Aschehoug class notes, April-May 1979. | |||||||||||||
| Beaulieu and Vizenor Families, compiled by Gerald Vizenor, January 1983. | |||||||||||||
| Under Construction , Winter 1982. | |||||||||||||
| Bearheart, 4 items. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous, 1969-1983. | |||||||||||||
| Four Skin, Counting Coup at Berkeley, A satirical novel by Gerald Vizenor. undated. | |||||||||||||
| Indian novel notes, undated. 2 booklets. | |||||||||||||
| Final report from the Roundtable of Native American Studies Directors in Forming Native American Studies Association, 1980. | |||||||||||||
| Native Americans and the Cinema, Berkeley, 1979. | |||||||||||||
| Video recordings: | |||||||||||||
| Program on Gerald Vizenor, long version undated. 1 master video file (10 minutes and 33 seconds): MOV (4.6 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (111 MB). | |||||||||||||
| Container note: KTCA TV 2. Producer: Deanna Kamiel. | |||||||||||||
| Program on Gerald Vizenor, short version undated. 1 master video file (9 minutes and 41 seconds): MOV (4.3 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (103 MB). | |||||||||||||
| Container note: KTCA TV 2. Producer: Deanna Kamiel. | |||||||||||||
| My hands are the tools of my soul, 1974. 1 master video file (52 minutes and 48 seconds): MOV (23.4 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (539.8 MB). | |||||||||||||
| Based on a concept by Erwin Swann. Narrated by Gerald Vizenor. | |||||||||||||
| Container note: Copyright 1974 Swann Films, Inc. | |||||||||||||
| I wear the morning star, October 5, 1976. 1 master video file (28 minutes and 33 seconds): MOV (12.6 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (310.1 MB). | |||||||||||||
| Container note: Copyright KTCA-TV. Presented by the MIA on exhibit. | |||||||||||||
| Nest of singing birds, August 11, 1980. 1 master video file (29 minutes and 36 seconds): MOV (13 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (313.9 MB). | |||||||||||||
| Container note: KTCA 2. Producer: Allan, Director: Waggoner. | |||||||||||||
| Shelf Q-9-A (Room B-105.7) | Untitled, undated. 1/2 in. videoreel. | ||||||||||||
| Container note: MRX 10C 431 12C. 70T43IPB12C2. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 147.G.4.2F | 2 | Audio recordings: | |||||||||||
| Gerald Vizenor narration track, 1980s. 1 master audio file (8 minutes, 23 seconds): WAV (42.3 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (8.9 MB). | |||||||||||||
| Brief narration by Gerald Vizenor followed by feedback from someone on the production team for the documentary, The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?, 1983. | |||||||||||||
| NPR, All Things Considered,, February 27, 1983. 1 master audio file (58 minutes, 44 seconds): WAV (296 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (58 MB). | |||||||||||||
| News piece with Gerald Vizenor as one of many interview subjects that looks back at the Wounded Knee occupation. Introduction starts at the beginning of the recording and the story picks back up at the thirty minute mark. | |||||||||||||
| Container note: Ten years after wounded knee. | |||||||||||||
ACCESSION 13,614
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 144.A.1.2F | 1 | The People Named the Chippewa by Gerald Vizenor, 1984. | |||||||||||
| Manuscript copy. | |||||||||||||
| "Introduction to the Works of Gerald Vizenor," by A. LaVonne Brown Rouff, 1985. | |||||||||||||
| "The Anishinabe," by Gerald Vizenor, The Indian Historian, Winter 1971. | |||||||||||||
| "Gerald Vizenor: Compassionate Trickster," by LaVonne Rouff, University of Illinois, Chicago. | |||||||||||||
| "The Voices of Gerald Vizenor: Survival Through Transformation," by Patricia Haseltine, University of Arizona. | |||||||||||||
| "Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart," by Matthew Carlstroem, 1984. | |||||||||||||
| "Walking Backwards into the Fourth World," by Maureen Keady, undated. | |||||||||||||
| "Gerald Vizenor and Harold of Orange," by Robert Silberman, University of Minnesota, 1985. | |||||||||||||
| "Cultural Shrines Revisited," by Elaine Jahner, Dartmouth College, undated. | |||||||||||||
| "Heading 'Em Off at the Impasse," by Elaine Jahner, Dartmouth College, 1985. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous articles and programs, undated. | |||||||||||||
ACCESSION 15,791
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 143.F.3.4F | 12 | Griever: An American Monkey King in China, 1987. | |||||||||||
| Landfill Meditation: Crossbreed Stories, 1991. | |||||||||||||
| The Old Park Sleepers: A Poem by Gerald Robert Vizenor, 1961. | |||||||||||||
| Parolefrecce: Indiani e bianchi nel nuovo commercio delle pelli, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Italian translation of Wordarrows. | |||||||||||||
| White Noise, Odd Fodder, 1983. | |||||||||||||
| Empty Swings: Haiku in English, 1967. | |||||||||||||
| Anishinabe adisokan: Tales of the People, 1970. | |||||||||||||
| Poems: Born in the Wind, 1960. | |||||||||||||
| Matsushima: Pine Islands, 1984. | |||||||||||||
| The Heirs of Columbus, 1991. | |||||||||||||
| Matsushima: Pine Islands: Haiku, 1983. Spiral binding. | |||||||||||||
| Bearheart: Fabulous Tribal Allegories, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Ishi and the Wood Ducks: Postindian Trickster Comedians, March 1995. Spiral binding. | |||||||||||||
| Gerald Vizenor: Postindian Comments and Conversations, with A. Robert Lee, 1998. Spiral binding. | |||||||||||||
| Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence, 1998. Galley proof.Spiral binding. | |||||||||||||
| Griever: An American Monkey King in China, 1985. Velo binding. | |||||||||||||
| Dead Voices: Natural Agonies in the New World, 1992. Spiral binding. | |||||||||||||
| The Moccasin Games, undated. Spiral binding. | |||||||||||||
| Water Striders: Haiku Scenes Imagist Poems and Envois, 1997. Spiral binding. | |||||||||||||
| Interior Landscapes, undated. Spiral binding. | |||||||||||||
| The Heirs of Columbus, 1991. Library binding. | |||||||||||||
| Landfill Meditation: Crossblood Stories, 1991. Library binding. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 143.F.3.5B | 13 | “Episodes in Mythic Verism, from Monsignor Missalwait’s Interstate,” The New Native American Novel: Works in Progress, edited by Mary Dougherty Bartlett, 1986. | |||||||||||
| “Reservation Café: The Origins of American Indian Instant Coffee,” Earth Power Coming: Short Fiction in Native American Literature, edited by Simon J. Ortiz, 1983. | |||||||||||||
| “Measuring My Blood,” “Heartlines,” and “Ishi and the Wood Ducks,” Native American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology, edited by Gerald Vizenor, undated. | |||||||||||||
| “Authored Animals: Creature Tropes in Native American Fiction,” Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences, Fall 1995. | |||||||||||||
| “The Heirs of Columbus,” Fiction International 20, Fall 1991. | |||||||||||||
| “Word Cinemas,” Book Forum, volume 5, number 3, 1981. | |||||||||||||
| “The Baron of Patronia,” “China Browne,” Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories edited by Craigh Lesley, 1991. | |||||||||||||
| Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures, edited by Gerald Vizenor, 1993. | |||||||||||||
| Includes “A Postmodern Introduction,” “Trickster Discourse: Comic Holotropes and Language Games” by Vizenor and “Ecstatic Strategies: Gerald Vizenor’s Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart” by Louis Owens. | |||||||||||||
| “White Earth,” “March in North Dakota,” “Shaman Breaks,” “Surrendered Names,” “Seasons in Santa Fe,” Harper’s Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry edited by Duane Niatum, 1988. | |||||||||||||
| “Manifest Manners: The Long Gaze of Christopher Columbus,” Gone to Croatan: Origins of North American Dropout Culture edited by Ron Sakolsky and James Koehnline, 1993. | |||||||||||||
| “Luminous Thighs: Mythic Tropisms,” The Lightning Within: An Anthology of Contemporary American Indian Fiction, edited by Alan R. Velie, 1991. | |||||||||||||
| “Monte Cassino Curiosa Heart Dancers at the Headwaters,”Re/Mapping the Occident edited by Bryan Joachim Malessa 1995. | |||||||||||||
| “The Tragic Wisdom of Salamanders,” Sacred Trusts: Essays on Stewardship and Responsibility edited by Michael Katakis, 1993. | |||||||||||||
| “Mounds of foam,” “Fireflies blinking,” “Upon the pine cones,” The Haiku Anthology: English Language Haiku by Contemporary American and Canadian Poets edited by Cor van den Heuvel, 1974. | |||||||||||||
| “The Psychotaxidermist,” “Rattling Hail Ceremonial,” “Land Fill Meditation,” Words in the Blood: Contemporary Indian Writers of North and South America edited by Jamake Highwater, 1984. | |||||||||||||
| “Thomas James White Hawk: Almost a Beauty Mark,” Greater Works: for all men of the church, August 1968. | |||||||||||||
| “Transethnic Anthropologism: Comparative Ethnic Studies at Berkeley,” Studies in American Indian Literatures: Journal of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures, Winter 1995. | |||||||||||||
| “Harold of Orange: A Screenplay,” Studies in American Indian Literatures, Fall 1993. | |||||||||||||
| “Fourskin,” Tamaqua: Native American Issue, Winter/Spring 1991. | |||||||||||||
| “Bad Breath,” An Illuminated History of the Future edited by Curtis White, 1989. | |||||||||||||
| “Introduction” with Alan R. Velie, and “Native American Indian Identities: Autoinscriptions and the Cultures of Names,”Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, Winter 1992. | |||||||||||||
| “Firewater Labels and Methodologies,” The American Indian Quarterly: Journal of American Indian Studies, Fall 1983. | |||||||||||||
| “Dennis of Wounded Knee,” The American Indian Quarterly, Spring 1983. | |||||||||||||
| “Bone Courts: The Rights and Narrative Representation of Tribal Bones,” The American Indian Quarterly, Fall 1986. | |||||||||||||
| “Monte Cassino Curiosa: Heart Dancers at the Headwaters,” Caliban, volume 14, 1994. | |||||||||||||
| “Reversal of Fortunes: Tribalism in the Nick of Time," Caliban, volume 13, 1993. | |||||||||||||
| “Hotline Healers: Virtual Animals on Panda Radio," Caliban, volume 15, 1995. | |||||||||||||
| “Feral Lasers: Almost a Whole Trickster," Caliban, volume 6, 1989. | |||||||||||||
| “from Interior Landscapes: Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors” in Caliban, volume 7, 1989. | |||||||||||||
| “The Tragic Wisdom of Salamanders," Caliban, volume 12, 1993. | |||||||||||||
| “Moccasin Games: Christopher Columbus on Talk Radio,," Caliban, volume 9, 1990. | |||||||||||||
| “The Heirs of Columbus: Trickster Testimonies," The Berkeley Poetry Review, 1991-1992. | |||||||||||||
| “Manifest Manners: The Long Gaze of Christopher Columbus," Boundary 2: 1492-1992: American Indian Persistence and Resurgence, Fall 1992. | |||||||||||||
| “Oshkiwiigan: Heartlines on the Trickster Express," Religion and Literature, Spring 1994. | |||||||||||||
| “Saint Columban of White Earth: Mythic Tropisms," North Dakota Quarterly, Spring 1985. | |||||||||||||
| “The Writer’s Notebook," Zyzzyva: the last word: West coast Writers and Artists, Winter 1992. | |||||||||||||
| “The Envoy to Haiku," Chicago Review: An North Pacific Rim Reader, volume 39, numbers 3 and 4, 1993. | |||||||||||||
| Harold of Orange/Harold von Orangen, 1994. | |||||||||||||
| English/German bilingual. | |||||||||||||
| Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance, 1994. | |||||||||||||
| Griever: An American Monkey King in China, Illinois State University, 1987. | |||||||||||||
| Griever: An American Monkey King in China, University of Minnesota 1990. | |||||||||||||
| Landfill Meditation: Crossblood Stories, 1991. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 143.F.3.6F | 14 | “Mister Ishi," California Monthly, November 2000. | |||||||||||
| Bone Courts: The Rights and Narrative Representation of Tribal Bones, August 1986. | |||||||||||||
| First draft. | |||||||||||||
| Nimiwin: Dancing with Words, in A Report of the Department of Indian Education Minneapolis Special School District Number 1, school year 1977-78. | |||||||||||||
| “Laughter in the Stones.” Poem in the program for A Song of the Pople, 1985. | |||||||||||||
| Native American Literature: Critical Metaphors of the Ghost Dance. Reprint from World Literature Today, Spring 1992. | |||||||||||||
| Dead Voices. Reprint from World Literature Today, Spring 1992. | |||||||||||||
| “The Power of Names.” Speech on the occasion of naming Ishi Court in News from Native California, Summer 1993. | |||||||||||||
| “Those Stubborn Flies Square Dance Across the Grapefruit Honor Your Partner.” Broadside of poem printed for Vizenor’s reading at Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 3, 1993. | |||||||||||||
| “Casino riches could be the ruin of tribal sovereignty.” Opinion by Vizenor in Star Tribune, July 7, 1992. | |||||||||||||
| “Almost Browne: A Mixedblood Trickster in Two Parts,," Indian Youth of America, Winter 1988. | |||||||||||||
| “The Stone Trickster.” Excerpt in Northeast Indian Quarterly, Fall 1991. | |||||||||||||
| “The Triumph of Monkey Business.” Vizenor’s review of Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book by Maxine Hong Kingston in Los Angeles Times Book Review, April 4, 1989. | |||||||||||||
| “Laurel Hole In The Day," Roots, Spring 1986. | |||||||||||||
| “Introduction: Literary Gambling Sticks," Alaska Quarterly Review, 1999. | |||||||||||||
| “Footrace With Generic Indians.” Vizenor’s review of The Fast Men by Tom McNab for Los Angeles Times Book Review, May 22, 1988. | |||||||||||||
| The Stone Babies, March 1998. | |||||||||||||
| For Louis Owens. | |||||||||||||
| Interimage Simulations: Fugitive Poses of Native American Indians, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Fusions of Survivance: Haiku Scenes and Native Dream Songs, September 1999. | |||||||||||||
| “Indian Manikins with few references.” Editorial for Minneapolis Tribune, September 5, 1981. | |||||||||||||
| “Mystic Warrior Speaks with tongue forked and Vision Flawed,” Editorial for Minneapolis Star and Tribune, May 18, 1984. | |||||||||||||
| “A Pale Look at Tribal Life.” Editorial for Los Angeles Times, May 20, 1984. | |||||||||||||
| Speech for Macalester College, May 23, 1999. | |||||||||||||
| Curriculum Vitae, January 1982-January 1987. 2 items. | |||||||||||||
| “Landfill Meditations,," The Minneapolis Star, February 10, 1979. | |||||||||||||
| “The Ruins of Representation: Shadow Survivance and the Literature of Dominance,” by Vizenor in American Indian Quarterly, Winter 1993. | |||||||||||||
| “The Elevator Shaman,” by Vizenor in Xcp: Cross cultural poetics, 1999. | |||||||||||||
| Literary Gambling Sticks: An Introduction to Alaska Native Storiers, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Manifest Manners: Introduction, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Four Skin, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Water Striders: Haiku Scenes: Imagist Poems, Revised June/July 1998. | |||||||||||||
| “Gambling on sovereignty: Native Americans betting away self-government for casino cash,," the Japan Times Weekly, August 14, 1993. | |||||||||||||
| “Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures, “ in Before Columbus Review: A Quarterly Review of Multicultural Literature, Fall/Winter 1989. | |||||||||||||
| “Fugutive Poses,," Excavating Voices: Listening to Photographs of Native Americans, edited by Michael Katakis, 1998. | |||||||||||||
| “Smallpox and the River Are Dead,," Minneapolis Tribune, December 30, 1979. | |||||||||||||
| “The Psychotaxidermist,," Minneapolis Star, July 29, 1978. | |||||||||||||
| “Metaphors in Middle America,” Vizenor’s review of Prairyerth by William Least Heat-Moon, San Francisco Chronicle Review, October 6, 1991. | |||||||||||||
| “Socioacupuncture: Mythic Reversals and the Striptease in Four Scenes.” Chapter 19 in The American Indian and the Problem of History edited by Calvin Martin, undated. | |||||||||||||
| “Bone Courts: The Rights and Narrative Representation of Tribal Bones,," American Indian Quarterly, Fall 1986. | |||||||||||||
| “Santa Claus and his seasonal shadow workers,” opinion in Minneapolis Tribune, December 18, 1981. | |||||||||||||
| “Playing Indian for the White Man,” Vizenor’s review of The Fencepost Chronicles by W. P. Kinsella in Los Angeles Times Book Review, December 20, 1987. | |||||||||||||
| Harold of Orange for Sundance Institute, June 1983. | |||||||||||||
| Harold of Orange supplemental materials, 1984. | |||||||||||||
| Berkeley materials, 1993-1998. 3 ring binder. | |||||||||||||
| American Journey: The Native American Experience, 1998. 2 CD-ROM's. | |||||||||||||
| Macalester College Commencement Program, 1999. Introduction by A. Robert Lee. | |||||||||||||
| Book reviews of Vizenor’s books, 1978-1999. 49 items. | |||||||||||||
| Promotional materials for books, speaking engagements and classes, 1988-1999. 24 items. | |||||||||||||
| Press catalogs, 1984-2000. 10 items. | |||||||||||||
| University catalogs, 1989,1997-98. 3 items. | |||||||||||||
| Newspaper clippings and articles, 1984-2000. 31 items. | |||||||||||||
| Works about Gerald Vizenor: | |||||||||||||
| The American Indian Quarterly, Winter 1985. | |||||||||||||
| The entire issue is about Gerald Vizenor and includes some of his work. | |||||||||||||
| Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition, by Kimberly M. Blesser, 1996. | |||||||||||||
| “Woodland Word Warrior: An Introduction to the Works of Gerald Vizenor,” by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff in MELUS, Spring/Summer 1986. | |||||||||||||
| “Gerald Vizenor’s Word Arrows: Between Tradition and Innovation,” by Maria Vittoria D’Amico in European Review of Native American Studies, 1990. | |||||||||||||
| “Gerald Vizenor: The Trickster Lives on,” by Paul Seesequasis in Aboriginal Voices, January 1998. | |||||||||||||
| “Die Produktivität Indianischer Mythen bei dem Chippewa-Autor Gerald Vizenor” by Helga Lumer, Journal for Anglistics and Americanistics, 1986. | |||||||||||||
| German, with translation. | |||||||||||||
| Close Up: interview with Vizenor, 1992. | |||||||||||||
| “Gerald Vizenor-isms.," terview by Mark Anthony Rolo in The Circle: Native American News and Arts, June 1997. | |||||||||||||
| “Interview with Gerald Vizenor” by Jack Foley for Mythosphere, volume 1, number 3, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Minnesota Author Biographies Project entry for Vizenor undated. | |||||||||||||
| Printed from internet website. | |||||||||||||
| Entry for Vizenor in Poesia, August 1995. | |||||||||||||
| Italian. | |||||||||||||
| Vizenor profile in “100 Visionaries,” Utne Reader, January/February 1995. | |||||||||||||
| “Trickster Discourse: A conversation with Professor Gerald Vizenor,” by Brian Pusser, Student Guide, Winter 1989. | |||||||||||||
| Articles of Interest: | |||||||||||||
| Express, November 8, 1996. | |||||||||||||
| Native American Policy Network Newsletter, July 1987. | |||||||||||||
| “The Panic Hole,” by Jim Harrison, May 1990. | |||||||||||||
| The East Bay Monthly, March 2001. | |||||||||||||
| The New York Times Magazine, October 23, 1983. | |||||||||||||
| “Urban Indians," Minneapolis Tribune Picture, November 18, 1979. | |||||||||||||
| “Indian Blood: Reflection on the Reckoning and Refiguring of Native North American Identity” by Pauling Turner Strong and Barrick Van Winkle, Cultural Anthropology, 1996. | |||||||||||||
| “Blood (and) Memory” by Chadwick Allen in American Literature, March 1989. | |||||||||||||
| Program for American Book Awards, 1988. | |||||||||||||
| Pictures inside. Poems by LaVerne Harsch, 1985. | |||||||||||||
| Dedicated to Vizenor. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 143.F.3.7B | 15 | The People Named the Chippewa: Narrative Histories, 1984. | |||||||||||
| Dead Voices: Natural Agonies in the New World, 1992. | |||||||||||||
| Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart, 1978. | |||||||||||||
| The Trickster of Liberty: Tribal Heirs to a Wild Baronage, 1988. | |||||||||||||
| South of the Painted Stones: Poems, 1963. | |||||||||||||
| The Everlasting Sky: New Voices from the People Named the Chippewa, 1972. | |||||||||||||
| Anishinabe Nagamon, 1970. | |||||||||||||
| Summer in the Spring: Ojibwe Lyric Poems and Tribal Stories, 1981. | |||||||||||||
| Earthdivers: Tribal Narratives on Mixed Descent, 1981. | |||||||||||||
| Wordarrows: Indians and Whites in the New Fur Trade, 1978. 2 copies: 1 paperback, 1 hardcover. | |||||||||||||
| “I Know What You Mean, Erdupps MacChurbbs: Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors,," Growing up in Minnesota: Ten Writers Remember Their Childhoods, edited by Chester G. Anderson, 1976. 2 copies. | |||||||||||||
| Interior Landscapes: Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors, 1990. | |||||||||||||
| Shadow Distance, 1994. 2 copies: 1 paperback, 1 hardcover. | |||||||||||||
| Touchwood: A Collection of Ojibway Prose, 1987. | |||||||||||||
| Crossbloods: Bone Courts, Bingo, and Other Reports, 1990. | |||||||||||||
| Interview with Gerald Vizenor in Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak by Laura Coltelli, 1990. | |||||||||||||
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Indian activists -- Minnesota.
- Indian authors -- Minnesota.
- Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1834-
- Indians of North America -- Study and teaching.
- Indians of North America -- Minnesota -- Education.
- Indians of North America -- Minnesota -- Employment.
- Indians of North America -- Minnesota -- Poetry.
- Indians of North America -- Minnesota -- Social conditions.
- Indians of North America -- Minnesota -- Writing.
- Ojibwa Indians -- Minnesota -- Poetry.
- Ojibwa Indians -- Minnesota -- Writing.
- Ojibwa language.
- Persons:
- Beaulieu family.
- Vizenor family.
- Places:
- Wounded Knee (S.D.) -- History -- Indian occupation, 1973.
- Document Types:
- Sound recordings.
- Video recordings (physical artifacts).
- Photographs.
- Occupations:
- Poets.
- Authors.
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