Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids

Container	Title
M95-157	Part 1 (M95-157): Original Collection, 1920-1961 Physical Description: 5.0 cubic feet (5 record center cartons) Scope and Content Note: Included are Ames' field notes; typed research notes/observations; interview schedules; interview questions and responses; correspondence; reports and drafts, some written by Ames and some produced by others; research materials; newspaper clippings; and meeting minutes of the Menominee Indian Study Committee, the General Council of the Menominee Tribe, the Oconto County Board, and regular, special, and general meetings of the Menominee Indian Advisory Council.
	Series: Field/Interview Notes
	General
Box 1 Folder 1-10	Field notebooks: numbered 5a, 9-21, 23-27, 1955 September-October, 1955 December-1957 August
Box 1 Folder 11-19	Typed field notes, 1955 June-1957 June
Box 1 Folder 20	“Miscellaneous notes,” 1956-1957
Box 1 Folder 21	Carbon copies of field notes, 1956
Box 1 Folder 22	Miscellaneous typed notes, 1956
Box 1 Folder 23	Miscellaneous original field notes, 1956
Box 2 Folder 1	Compiled interview notes regarding relocation, 1957
	Menominee Indian Mills (MIM)
Box 2 Folder 2	Interview schedule and reference/background material, 1955-1957
Box 2 Folder 3-5	Interview schedule and typed notes, 1956-1957
Box 2 Folder 6	Carbon copies of notes, 1957
Box 2 Folder 7	Research outline worksheets, human factors and the MIM, undated
Box 2 Folder 8-9	Land use study correspondence and typed notes, 1955-1956
Box 2 Folder 10-12	Burton R. Fisher notes copies, 1955-1957
Box 2 Folder 13	Unlabelled notes and drafts, undated
Box 2 Folder 14	“Social Structure,” memos, reports, seminar notes, 1955-1957
Box 2 Folder 15	Memos, reports, minutes of the Menominee Indian Study Committee, and interview notes, 1955-1956
Box 2 Folder 16	Memos and typed interview notes (with subtopics), 1948, 1954-1956
Box 2 Folder 17-19	Background materials with subtopics, 1955-1957
	Arranged by Ames by subject
Box 2	Advisory Council (AC)
Box 2	AEP and relocation/education
Box 2	Appendix
Box 2	Applied legislation, history, program unclassified
Box 2	Data (fact and figures) collection record
Box 2	Disposition of assets
Box 2	Attitudes toward disposition
	Economic status
Box 3	Lower; middle classes
Box 3	Classes general, unclassified
Box 3	Economic status upper class
Box 3	Quote on classes
	Enrollment
Box 3	Miscellaneous indexed
Box 3	Squaw Men, RM, non-residents
	General Council (GC)
Box 3	Responsibility
Box 3	Tactics
Box 3	Pro GC
Box 3	Unclassified
Box 3	Health
	Income
Box 3	Standard of Living, consumption
Box 3	Income
Box 3	Sources of Income other than MIM
Box 3	Rents on Menominee reservation
	Indian-White
Box 3	General, stereotypes
Box 3	1955
Box 3	Guardianships
Box 3	Indian-White Relations
Box 3	Indian stereotypes
Box 3	Juvenile problem
Box 3	Land
Box 3	Land registration
Box 3	Land use
Box 3	Menominee-BIA relationship
Box 3	Menominee Loan Fund
Box 3	Menominee rural building survey, Walsh
	MIM (Menominee Indian Mills)
Box 3	General
Box 3	Rules and regulations
Box 3	MIM study bibliography
Box 3	Pagans vs. Catholics
Box 3	Paternalism
	Political Factions
Box 3	Confidential
Box 3	Tactics; Recognition
Box 3	Unclassified, miscellaneous
Box 3	Blocs, membership, issues, church
	Program
Box 3	General
Box 3	BRF (Burton R. Fisher)
Box 3	Recreation business and general
Box 3	Semi-political organizations
Box 3	Church, Menominee
Box 3	Semi-political organizations
Box 3	Termination attitude
Box 3	Traditional culture
Box 3	Government alternatives, attitudes
	Series: Articles and Papers by David Ames	⇧
	Report to the Menominee Indian Study Committee
Box 4 Folder 1	Menominee report outline, undated
Box 4 Folder 2	Outline and draft, undated
Box 4 Folder 3-4	Draft with revisions
Box 4 Folder 5	Final draft
Box 4 Folder 6	Final draft, circa 1957
	“The Menominee Termination Crisis...”
Box 4 Folder 7	Draft, undated
Box 4 Folder 8	Final draft by Ames and Fisher, as it appeared in Human Organization (Volume 18, number 3) Physical Description: Photocopy
	“Some Social and Cultural Problems Related to the Withdrawal of the Menominee People from Federal Supervision”
Box 4 Folder 9	First draft, undated
Box 4 Folder 10	Draft, undated
Box 4 Folder 11	“A Summary of Socio-Cultural Problems Related to the Withdrawal of Federal Supervision,” undated
	Series: Correspondence and Monthly Reports	⇧
Box 4 Folder 12-15	General Correspondence, 1955-1960
Box 4 Folder 16	Correspondence with Rebecca Barton, 1955-1957
Box 4 Folder 17	Monthly Reports by David Ames, entitled “Current Events,” 1955-1957
	Series: Related Committee Records	⇧
	Menominee Indian Study Committee (MISC)
Box 4 Folder 18-22	Reports, 1955-1956
Box 4 Folder 23	Correspondence and reports, 1957-1959
Box 4 Folder 24-25	Reports printed in the Wisconsin Legislative Council's General Report, 1957, 1959
Box 4 Folder 26-28	Governor's Commission on Human Rights, 1951-1955
Box 4 Folder 29	H.R. 6322, hearings before the Indian Subcommittee of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, 1957 July
Box 4 Folder 30	Termination of Federal Supervision Over Certain Indian Tribes, Joint Hearings Before the Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs. Part 6: Menominee Indians, Wisconsin, 1954
Box 4 Folder 31	Wisconsin Legislative Council, Directory of Project Assignments, 1958
	Series: Meeting Minutes	⇧
Box 5 Folder 1	Menominee Advisory Council meeting, 1955-1957
Box 5 Folder 2	General Council of the Menominee Indian Tribe meeting, 1954-1957
Box 5 Folder 3	Menominee Indian Study Committee meeting, 1957-1959
Box 5 Folder 4	Oconto County Board meeting, 1955 November 15-16
	Series: Background Materials	⇧
Box 5 Folder 5	Menominee Treaties, Constitution and Bylaws
Box 5 Folder 6	Voucher for annuities and per capita payments to Indians, 1954
Box 5 Folder 7	Newspaper clippings, 1955-1956
Box 5 Folder 8	“Plan for Termination of Federal Control of Menominee Indian Tribe,” by Fairchild, Foley and Sammond, Attorneys for Termination, 1959
	Items found in copy of Sunrise of the Menominee, by Phebe Jewell Nichols (Mrs. Angus Lookaround)
Box 5 Folder 9	Brief biography of Angus Lookaround, 1948
Box 5 Folder 9	Typed lecture on Menominee given to a Massachusetts Mens' Group, 1906
Box 5 Folder 9	Postcard, circa 1925 Physical Description: Hand tinted photograph of 4 Menominee, with names of individuals written on the back
Box 5 Folder 10	Title pages of Sunrise of the Menominees and Oshkosh the Brave : photocopies / signed by the author Phebe Jewell Nichols (Mrs. Angus Lookaround) Note: Also includes an index to Sunrise of the Menominees, handwritten by David Ames.