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How does this work?
There are many ways to search the collections of the Freedom Archives. Below is a brief guide that will help you conduct effective searches. Note, anytime you search for anything in the Freedom Archives, the first results that appear will be our digitized items. Information for items that have yet to be scanned or yet to be digitized can still be viewed, but only by clicking on the show link that will display the hidden (non-digitized) items. If you are interested in accessing these non-digitized materials, please email info@freedomarchives.org.
Exploring the Collections without the Search Bar
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.
Advanced Searching
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.
Keyword Searches
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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Ward Churchill: Doing Time, The Politics of Imprisonment Ward Churchill: Doing Time, The Politics of Imprisonment
Date: 9/15/2000Call Number: CD 063Format: CDProducers: AK PressCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Ward Churchill discusses how the US government has used all means to subvert and neutralize movements for social change. He focusses on the FBI’s counter intelligence program - COINTELPRO, their use in undermining dissent and the criminal (in)justice system’s role as an agent of social control.
Ward Churchill: In a Pig’s Eye, Reflections on the State, Repression Ward Churchill: In a Pig’s Eye, Reflections on the State, Repression
Date: 5/16/2001Call Number: CD 066Format: CDProducers: AK PressCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
2 CD set of talk given by Ward Churchill in San Francisco on May 16, 2001 about the history of state targetting the Native American, Black, Brown and progressive movements.
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz for COINTELPRO 101 (1 of 2) Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz for COINTELPRO 101 (1 of 2)
Date: 2/15/2008Call Number: C 10 019Format: DV CamCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Long-time Native American activist, author, and educator.
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz for COINTELPRO 101 (2 of 2) Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz for COINTELPRO 101 (2 of 2)
Date: 2/15/2008Call Number: C 10 020Format: DV CamCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Long-time Native American activist, author, and educator.
Ward Churchill for COINTELPRO 101 (1 of 2) Ward Churchill for COINTELPRO 101 (1 of 2)
Date: 11/23/2007Call Number: C 10 026Format: DV CamCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Recently-removed Professor at the University of Colorado who has written extensively about COINTELPRO.
Ward Churchill for COINTELPRO 101 (2 of 2) Ward Churchill for COINTELPRO 101 (2 of 2)
Date: 11/23/2007Call Number: C 10 027Format: DV CamCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Recently-removed Professor at the University of Colorado who has written extensively about COINTELPRO.
Incident at Oglala Clips Incident at Oglala Clips
Date: 4/22/2009Call Number: C 10 040Format: DV CamCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Documentary directed by Michael Apted on Native American activist Leonard Peltier. Following 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee, and amid tensions between US government and Lakota Sioux, two FBI agents and one Native American killed by gunfire on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975. Peltier was later arrested and imprisoned, although there was little direct evidence, and others charged earlier were found not guilty on the basis of legitimate self-defense. Narrated by Robert Redford (also the executive producer), the film revisits the scene of the shooting and assembles archival footage and interviews to show how Peltier was never granted a fair trial, while painting a larger portrait of social injustice in view of the contemporary living conditions of Native Americans.
Interview with Leonard Peltier (Part 1) Interview with Leonard Peltier (Part 1)
Call Number: C 10 059Format: CDCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Leonard Peltier, Native American Activist, on his past and his now present time in prison.
Interview with Leonard Peltier (Part 2) Interview with Leonard Peltier (Part 2)
Call Number: C 10 060Format: CDCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Leonard Peltier, Native American Activist, on his past and his now present time in prison.
Ward Churchill for COINTELPRO 101 (1 of 2) Ward Churchill for COINTELPRO 101 (1 of 2)
Date: 11/23/2007Call Number: C 10 075Format: DVDCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Recently-removed Professor at the University of Colorado who has written extensively about COINTELPRO.