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Under the heading Browse By Collection, you’ll notice most of the Freedom Archives’ major collections. These collections have an image as well as a short description of what you’ll find in that collection. Click on that image to instantly explore that specific collection.
Basic Searching
You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
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The Freedom Archives search site also understands Boolean search logic. Click on this link for a brief tutorial on how to use Boolean search logic. Our search function also understands “fuzzy searches.” Fuzzy searches utilize the (*) and will find matches even when users misspell words or enter in only partial words for the search. For example, searching for liber* will produce results for liberation/liberate/liberates/etc.
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You’ll notice that under the heading KEYWORDS, there are a number of words, phrases or names that describe content. Sometimes these are also called “tags.” Clicking on these words is essentially the same as conducting a basic search.

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The Geneva Conference The Geneva Conference
Publisher: International Indian Treaty CouncilDate: 9/1977Volume Number: SeptemberFormat: ReportCollection: Native Americans
International Indigenous Conference to address the needs and the issues of Natives that are oppressed by the system in the USA.
Vern Harper Vern Harper
Call Number: KP 270Format: Cass A & BCollection: Native Americans
Vern Harper - A Cree elder, Healer, Aboriginal rights activist, Korean War Vet. Known as "Urban Elder". In 1974 with wife Pauline Shirt Harper organized the Native Peoples' Caravan, a cross Canada trek to raise awareness of broken treaties against the Canadian government. In 1976 founded the Wandering Spirit Survival School of Toronto. Author of "Following the Red Road: The Native Peoples' Caravan" 1974.
Vern Harper Tape 2,
Barbara Lavinsky KPOO, Else Collins Interview, Housing in the Fillmore Vern Harper Tape 2, Barbara Lavinsky KPOO, Else Collins Interview, Housing in the Fillmore
Call Number: KP 271Format: Cass A & BCollection: Native Americans
Vern Harper - A Cree elder, Healer, Aboriginal rights activist, Korean War Vet. Known as "Urban Elder". In 1974 with wife Pauline Shirt Harper organized the Native Peoples' Caravan, a cross Canada trek to raise awareness of broken treaties against the Canadian government. In 1976 founded the Wandering Spirit Survival School of Toronto. Author of "Following the Red Road: The Native Peoples' Caravan" 1974. Side 2 has Interview with Else Collins by Barbara Lavinsky of KPOO radio about housing in the Fillmore. Some Audio problems.
The Conquest and it's Impact The Conquest and it's Impact
Format: CompilationCollection: Native Americans
Articles include: The Conquest and its Consequences; Silver and Money Capitalism; Culture; Columbus and the Orgins of Racism in the Americas; Tribal Warfare; Scalping, Rethinking Terminology, and Maps: Taking Euroupe off Center Stage; Newsweek Meets the 500 Years of Resistance, Excerpt from Newsweek Special Issue, When Worlds Collide: How Columbus's Voyages Transformed Both East and West; Whose America?
Pit River Indians: A Question of Land Pit River Indians: A Question of Land
Date: 11/20/1973Call Number: KP 307Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Frances EmleyCollection: Native Americans
"A history of genocide and of the struggle today." On the Northern California Pit River Indians.
Navajos Resist Forced Relocation, Big Mountain & Joint Use Area Communities Fight Removal Navajos Resist Forced Relocation, Big Mountain & Joint Use Area Communities Fight Removal
Publisher: Big Mountain Support GroupYear: 1983Format: MonographCollection: Native Americans
Navajo people's struggle to hold onto the land they have inhabited for over 400 years
Geopolitics of the Navajo Hopi Land Dispute Geopolitics of the Navajo Hopi Land Dispute
Author: John RedhouseFormat: MonographCollection: Native Americans
U.S. government attempt in 1981 to take over land and relocate Big Mountain Dine People
Human Rights Violations and Landrights of Native American Nations in United States: The Case of the Western Shoshone Human Rights Violations and Landrights of Native American Nations in United States: The Case of the Western Shoshone
Publisher: American Indian MovementFormat: ReportCollection: Native Americans
A report on the Western Shoshone tribe and their resistance of the invasion of their lands. Also contains information the struggle to retain their landrights