For Eagles to be Crows Collection, 1971-1973
UA Mss.10
6 linear ft. - 120 audio tapes
History
Planning for the KDSU radio series, "For Eagles to be Crows" began in 1971 by meeting with community and tribal council members on the North Dakota reservations to determine if there was a need for the series as well as what topics and areas needed to be covered. The series was an attempt to tell the story of North Dakota's Indians as interpreted by them and from their own point of view. These visits were done by Sharon Cobb and JoAnn Logan.
A grant proposal was submitted to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in 1972 by KDSU Radio and funding was received through CPB's Community Service Grants. Producer for the project was Sharon Cobb with JoAnn Logan, associate producer. Narrator for the series was John L. Tilton, program manager of KDSU. Others assisting were Mary Metzger and Jim Hetland.
Before any taped interviews were conducted, the project staff visited each reservation three times to establish trust and openness of communications. During these visits formats were developed with all the resource people for their approval with final approval made by the tribal councils. At this point the taping of interviews commenced and over 150 persons were interviewed. The producers ended up with over 200 hours of taped material which was edited into twenty-three half-hour programs. Extensive research was also done using primary and secondary sources in private collections and public research facilities. Upon completion, the final programs were sent to the reservations for final approval by the resource persons and tribal councils.
The radio series is divided into three parts: "The heritage of the Indian people; a review of the general effectiveness and evident trends in the policies of federal agency programs; and a discussion of those problems which are troublesome socially for the Indians." The twenty-three weekly radio programs began airing on November 4, 1973 on KDSU radio. It later was aired on radio stations in Minnesota, New Mexico, Massachusetts and North Dakota. In 1974 KDSU received the American Bar Association's Certificate of Merit in the Gavel Awards competition for the series.
The title of the series was taken from a quotation by Sitting Bull in 1876: "If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man He would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans. In my heart he put other and different desires. Each man is good in his sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows."
Scope and Contents
The For Eagles to be Crows collection has been divided into five series: Administration, Reservations, Resources, Oral Interview Tapes, and Program Tapes. The paper records originally were in no order. The first three series were established during processing. It is apparent there are missing records, oral interview tapes and gaps in what there is in the collection.
The Administration Series contains a variety of files documenting the implementation of the project including: various outline plans, meeting notes, lists of persons contacted for interviewing, and a small amount of correspondence. The scripts files contains edited versions of all the radio program scripts. For about sixteen of the oral interviews there are tape logs detailing the contents of the interview. The last file contains the Gavel Award nomination submission, related correspondence, an the award announcement.
The Reservation Series contains information on each of the four North Dakota reservations including: histories, fact sheets, clippings and correspondence. There is also outlines of meetings held on the reservations by the project coordinators.
The Resources Series contains a variety of material apparently used by the staff in researching the radio series. The non-North Dakota file has general information on Indian population statistics, housing, poverty, cultural values, and an Indian Police Academy training manual. The North Dakota file contains a number of items issued by the North Dakota Indian Affairs Commission, and education items including several brochures from the United Tribes Employment Training center. There is also an incomplete run of The Action News (1971-1972) published by the Three Affiliated Tribes' Community Action Program, based at New Town, N.D.
The Oral Interview Tapes Series includes ninety-seven tapes of interviews done with Indians on the various reservations and other resource persons. The tapes are organized in their original order which possibly is the order in which they were done. None of the tapes are dated. An alphabetical name index is including following the box listing. Complete names are lacking on a number of the tapes and original tape log. A number of the interview tapes as listed on the log are missing. They are noted on the original tape log.
The Program Tapes Series contains
the twenty-three programs which were aired on KDSU. They are on 7-in.
reels. It is not known if these tapes are the master tapes.
Deposited by John Tilton, KDSU, ca. 1980
Processed by Steve Johnson, 1990
BOX 1
1 History and Inventory
ADMINISTRATION SERIES
2 Projection plan, 1971
3 Data format, 1971-1972
4 Resource persons, 1970-1972
5 Correspondence, 1971-1973
Scripts-
6
Fort Berthold Heritage I-IV
7
Fort Totten Heritage, I-II
8
Standing Rock Heritage, I-II
9
Turtle Mountain Heritage, I-II
10
Federal Agencies & programs, I-II
11
Alcoholism
12
Church, I-II
13
Education, I-II
14
Employment
15
Housing
16
Law & Order
17
Mass Media
18
Non-reservation
19
Public Health
20 Tape logs
21 Reel compostion
22 Gavel Award
RESERVATION SERIES
23 Fort Berthold, 1956, 1967-1973
24 Fort Totten, 1967-1972
25 Standing Rock, 1967-1972
BOX 2
1 Turtle Mountain, 1967-1972 2
RESOURCES SERIES
2 Non-North Dakota,
1969-1972
3 North Dakota,
1967-1970
4 The Action
News, 1971-1972
ORAL INTERVIEW TAPES SERIES
(Note - an * next to the Reel Number indicates that a cassette tape is available. At this time only cassettes may be copied for public use)
Reel
Resource Person
Subject Area
*1
Michael Taylor
Ft. Berthold Heritage
*2
Michael Taylor
Ft. Berthold Heritage
3
Vine deLoria
Future projections
*4
Joe Plumage/Bill Weir
Alcohol
5
Dr. Catrell
Church input
6
Dr. Catrell
7
Mary Thompson
Federal agencies
8
Mary Thompson
Federal agencies
8
Alvina Alberts
Ft. Totten Heritage/Education
*9
Alberts
Ft. Totten Heritage/Education
*9
Garcia
Law and Order
10
Garcia/Wisenberger
Law and Order
11
Garcia/Wisenberger
Law and Order
11
Florence Joshua
Education
12
Florence Joshua
Education
12
Bruns
Education
*13
Everette Ballman/Evadena Gillette Federal agencies
*14
Clyde Baker
Education
*14
Marie Wells
Ft. Berthold Heritage-Law & Order
*14
Tom Yellow Wolf
Federal agencies
15
Tom Yellow Wolf
Law and Order--Legals
15
Atkinson
Law and Order--Legals
15
Mrs. Yellow Bird
Non-reservation
16
Bergland (poor quality)
17
Bergland (poor quality)
18
David Garcia/Joshua, Florence
Ft. Totten Heritage
19
David Garcia/Joshua, Florence
Ft. Totten Heritage
20
David Garcia/Joshua, Florence
Ft. Totten Heritage
21
Pete Owen
Non-reservation
22
Davis/Cornelius, Mary
Federal agencies
23
Davis/Robillard, Bob
Federal agencies
23
Greg LaVallie
Federal agencies
*24
Ed Milligan
Law and Order
*25
Ed Milligan
Law and Order
26
Ed Milligan
Housing/Health
26
Vern Vallie
Education
26
Carol Davis
Education
27
Vern Vallie, Davis, Jim
Education
27
Judge Fredricks/Holly Jeanotte
Law and Order
28
Judge Fredricks/Holly Jeanotte
Law and Order
28
Reginald Brien
Federal agencies
*29
Reginald Brien
Recreation
*29
Pat Gailfee
Health
*29
Wayne Trottier
Housing
*30
Wayne Trottier
Housing 30
*30
Twila Martin
Education
*30
Ollie Oswald
Education 30
31
Broadhead
Federal agencies
31
Mary Poitra
Heritage--Enrollment
*32
Henry Bowker
Public Health
*33
Leo Cadotte
Heritage
*33
Ambrose Antelope
Heritage
34
Earl Azure, Ken, Vern,
35
Carl, etc,
36
UND Indian Symposium
37
38
Roland Ross,
Education, Values,
*39
Ralph Walker,
Heritage
*40
Juanita Helphry
Non-reservation
*40
Elaine Grey Bull
Non-reservation
41
Mary College Students
Fornication
*42
Davison, Lawrence, Gibbons
Education
*43
Marie deMontigne
Heritage--Turtle Mountain
44
Massey, Hart, etc.
United Tribes
44
Dennis Huber
JOM
45
Pete Brinkerhoft
Education
*46
Lizz Yellow Bird
Education
*47
Annie McCowan
Miscellaneous
*48
Dominick Siletti
Heritage, Now situtation
49
John Crow
Public law 280
49
Leon Cook
Irrelevant to N.D.
*50
Sam Deloria
State involvement
*51
John Crow
Bureau of Indian Affairs Ft. Totten
*52
Lindely at Ewald's, Paul
Heritage--Fishhook
*53
Sharon Cobb at Ewald's, Paul Heritage
54
Delores Comstock
Housing, Education, etc.
55
"Chris"
Heritage--Sign language
56
Indian Awareness Panel
Education
57
UT Indian Dance
Music
58/59 Life
at the Center & Education Program
60
Awareness Conf. dinner
Music
61
Frank Morin, Dave Jollie II
Federal agencies
62
Fettig, Jerome, etc.
High School Belcourt Education --Turtle Mountain
63
Grant, Roger deCoteau
Alcohol Treatment Center-Belcourt
63
Jacobson
Voc. Rehab.
64
Grant, and deCoteau
Alcohol
64
Frank Morin and Jollie I, Dave
Federal agencies
65
Frank Morin and Jollie III, Dave Federal
agencies
66
Father Wilfred Lambertz I
Heritage/Church Input
67
Father W. Lambertz III
Church Input
*68
Roy LaFontaine I
Employment
*69
Roy LaFontaine II
Employment
*69
Melody Azure
Recreation
70
G.I.I.C. Discussion
State Involvement
71
Same (irrelevant to N.D.)
Public Law (Sandstone Prison)
72
Ernest Patnaude--opinion
73
Indian Singers/Dancers
Music
*74
Juanita Helphry
Church Input
*75
Juanita Helphry
Church Input
*76
Melvin White Eagle
Tribal Structure
77
Chaske Wicks
Heritage
78
Chaske Wicks
Urban Indians
78/*79 Henry J. Gayton, Jr.
Law and Order
*79
Perry Many Wounds
Alcoholism
80
Judge Agaard
Court System
81
Robert Sullivan
81
Philip (Skip) Longie
82
J.C. Whitman
82
Earl Azure/Bernard Kjaro
83
Willard Yellow Bird
Recreation--Berthold
83
Dr. James Brusso
Public Health
84
Theordore Ankle
UND Indian Studies
84
Ken Davis
85/86 Gladys Ray
Non-reservation
*87
Bob Fox, Florence, Crow Dog
88
Vine Deloria
Heritage
89
Bob McLaughlin
Federal agencies
89
Education
90
William Voeder
Fed. agencies
91
Bobo Dean
Heritage
92
Phillip Deloria
Heritage
93
John Anderson
Heritage
94
Dennis Banks
Non-reservation
95
Jim Davis
Education
96
Jim Davis
Education II
97
Ken Davis
Religion
PROGRAM TOPICS SERIES
Reel Program # Subject Area
98 1
Fort Berthold I
99 2
Fort Berthold II
100 3
Fort Berthold III
101 4
Fort Berthold IV
102 5
Fort Totten I
103 6
Fort Totten II
104 7
Standing Rock I
105 8
Standing Rock II
106 9
Turtle Mountain I
107 10
Turtle Mountain II
108 11
Federal Agencies and Programs I
109 12
Federal Agencies and Programs II
110 13
Alcoholism
111 14
Church Involvement I
112 15
Church Involvement II 112
113 16
Education I
114 17
Education II
115 18
Employment
116 19
Housing
117 20
Law and Order
118 21
Mass Media, Public Facilities & Recreation
119 22
Non-Reservation
120 23
Public Health
SEPARATIONS RECORD
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Program for Progress, 1969-1971 (3 vols.)
cataloged into Inst. Rm. book collection.
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