Indians of North America

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Dr. Martin was a long-time member of the Western History Association and a recognized scholar of Native American/white relations. He 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.

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Typed papers titled “Aspects of Peyotism among the Navajos”; “The Proceedings of The Peyote Meeting”; photocopy excerpt of “Peyotism”; pamphlet “John Red Hill back from the War learns about Peyote”; brochure on “Peyote Intoxication”; several photocopies of pictures about Peyote jewelry and equipment.

Scope and Contents Magazine articles “New Face for a Desert mission”; Arizona Highways “The Storyteller’s Tale, The Legend of the Tohono O’odham”, 1999. Newspaper articles from Tri-Valley Dispatch “Village Celebrates Feast of St. Francis”, 1998; Tuscan citizen “Sunrise Dance marks maturity for Apache”; Tri-Valley Dispatch “O’odham look wistfully at ancestral homeland now used by military”, 1999; Tri-Valley Dispatch “Southern Arizona Indians keep chicken scratch alive”, 1999; “Navajo Nation creates program to...

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Newspaper articles from The Mail Tribune “Glasgow will return Ghost Shirt to Lakotas”, 1998; Tri-Valley Dispatch “Seven Campfires Yielded Strange Justice”, 1976.

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Magazine articles from Arizona Highways “The Consummate Artistry Of Diane O’Leary – “Opeche”’, 1972; Oregon History, “Art Was Always Around Me”; Americana, “Vanishing Frontier”.

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A booklet “Plateau, The Quarterly of the Museum of Northern Arizona” Volume 48, number 3 -4, 1976; “Plateau, The Magazine of the Museum of Northern Arizona”, 1976.

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A photocopy of “Pomo Indian Baskets and their Makers”, 1902 and a magazine article from Americana, “Masterpieces of Basketry”.

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A magazine article from National Geographic Magazine “Powwow”, 1994.

Scope and Contents Magazine articles from Arizona Highways “The Rocks Begin to Speak”, 1973; “The Anasazi Indians of Mystery”; Arizona Highways “Walnut Canyon’s Secret Sites"; National Geographic “First Masters of the American Desert, The Hohokam”, 1967; National Geographic “Ice Age Man, the First American”, 1942; Trailblazer “In the Steps of the Ancient Ones”, 1998; Arizona Highways “Searching for the Mountain People”, 1997; Arizona Highways “Red Buttes, Sand Dunes, and Hogans, Navajo Back-country Close-up”,...