Creek Indian Project Records, 1817-1981, Date acquired: 06/00/1981, bulk 1950-1981
Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Dysart, Jane.
- Ellsworth, Lucius F.
- Extent:
- 1096.00 items
- Language:
- English
Background
- Scope and content:
Records and papers pertaining to the Creek Indians of Northwest Florida, collected by the University of West Florida faculty members, Jane Dysart and Lucius Ellsworth, as part of a grant project. Records include research bibliographies and research publications dealing with the history of the Creek Indians from earliest settlement to 1980, census records, claims made to the federal government in 1906 and 1957, a newspaper index of materials about the Creeks in Northwest Florida (1950-1980), records about the efforts toward formal recognition, and oral histories of Creek Indians of Florida.
A detailed inventory of the oral histories, narrators, and subjects is available.
- Acquisition information:
- Dr. Jane Dysart and Dr. Lucius Ellsworth, June 1981
- Processing information:
Revised 02/21/1985
Revised 07/12/1983
Cataloged 12/18/1981
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
Open to researchers, dependent on our compliance with U.S. Copyright Law, HIPPA requirements, donor agreements and other applicable state and federal statutes. Occasionally we may need to review a collection before permitting immediate access.
- Terms of access:
Digital photography, scanning, and photocopying of materials is prohibited. Permission may be granted by the Special Collections Librarian for such reprography dependent on issues of copyright, ownership, condition, donor agreements, etc. In general, staff do not make reproductions of copyright materials or materials for which title is not owned by the institution. Recent revisions in the U.S. Copyright Law extended the copyright of correspondence, letters, and other personal papers to the life of the author plus seventy years.
Special Collections does not have signed releases for all of the oral history tapes.
- Location of this collection:
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University Archives and West Florida History Center11000 University PkwyPensacolaFL32514USA
