Box 12

Abstract Douglas D. Martin was a long-time member of the Western History Association and a recognized scholar of Native American/white relations. Dr. Martin published widely. Dr. Martin’s areas of specialty included the socio-cultural history of the United States, the history and literature of the American frontier, American environmental history, and Indian-White relations in American history. This special collection contains 16 boxes of manuscript materials relating mostly to Native...

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The file contains photocopies of numerous tables concerning the occupational distribution of Indians in British Columbia data. There is also an excerpt titled Chapter 10: Occupational Motivations and Attitudes.

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The file contains maps that pertain to Native Americans, trading posts, forts, and languages. The oldest map was initially published in 1783.

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Three newspaper clippings published by Canadian papers. The articles discuss Indians as minorities, racism, policing, and an interview with Leroy Little Bear.

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Materials include several pages of Douglas Martin's handwritten notes regarding the James Bay development project in Quebec.

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Materials include two copies of a manuscript for the NEH Summer Seminar at the University of Oregon in August 1975. "Of Human Beings and White Men: The Use of Little Big Man in the Study of Indian-White Relations," by Douglas Martin.

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Materials include a presentation given by Douglas Martin at the conference for the American Council for Quebec Studies in October 1988 entitled "Sagmai: Provincial Diand or Door For Native Peoples?" It also includes handwritten and typed notes on the same topic, as well as a photocopy of an editorial cartoon in French that pertains to Indian and Northern Affairs of Canada.

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This file contains reports from the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, the Rupert's Land Research Centre and the Rocky Mountain House local history series from Parks Canada. All reports describe the fur trade in Canada. A copy of the Canadian government's response to the fur report of 1987 is included.

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The materials include Douglas Martin's handwritten notes, a list of documents available at the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, and several journal articles.

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Materials include Douglas Martin's handwritten notes on neocolonialism. There is also a 1973 issue of the newsletter "The Musk-Ox Circle," a 1996 article, "A Drunken Impulse," published in Western Historical Quarterly, and a profile of James Houston from the August 1988 edition of the New Yorker. A map of the battle of Antietam Creek.