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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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Chief Red Fox Remembers Chief Red Fox Remembers
Date: 7/19/1975Call Number: NI 057Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Pacifica ArchivesProgram: Nothing is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
The author of “Memoirs of Chief Red Fox” is a Sioux 101 years of age who remembers the Battle of Little Big Horn and life on the North Dakota plains. Born June 11, 1870, Chief Red Fox is a rich guide through the oral history of the Sioux nation as he speaks of his youth, his uncle Chief Crazy Horse, his father Black Eagle, and about the Sioux way of life. This interview, with Bill Schechner, was conducted in 1971, a few years before the U. S. attacks on the American Indian Movement and the people of the Pine Ridge Reservation had intensified. Chief Red Fox speaks at length about the battle of Little Big Horn, known in the U.S. history books a Custer’s Last Stand. The last twenty minutes of this tape are unbearably squeaky so it may need to be baked.
The Road to Wounded Knee III The Road to Wounded Knee III
Date: 7/18/1974Call Number: CD 443Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: KPFACollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Carter Camp, One of the founders of AIM talks about the oppression of the Native American and the civil rights struggle that has developed. SAME AS KP112
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.
Ward Churchill - American Indian Movement of Pine Ridge: Siege by FBI and US Marshalls Ward Churchill - American Indian Movement of Pine Ridge: Siege by FBI and US Marshalls
Date: 3/23/1991Call Number: CE 484Format: Cass A & BProgram: Alternative RadioCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Ward Churchill, author, activist, and former professor, speaks about the 71-day siege at Wounded Knee in which 200 or so Oglala Lakota and members of the AIM occupied Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation responding to the failure of impeaching the tribal president and to expose inhumane and corrupt conditions on Pine Ridge by the US Federal government through the tribal government. Churchill gives a succinct history of Lakota/US relations, including details of treaties, and discusses the role of COINTELPRO in neutralizing the AIM.