Search Help

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.

Search Results

Harvest Quarterly Harvest Quarterly
Publisher: Harvest Quarterly 1976Year: 1976Volume Number: No1 MarchFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Native Americans
Articles include Blueprint for a Police State by Center for Research on Criminal Justice, Steps to Sovereighty by John Mohawk
Free Paul Skyhorse and Richard Mohawk - Stop All Attacks on Indian People Free Paul Skyhorse and Richard Mohawk - Stop All Attacks on Indian People
Authors: Info for brochure from Skyhorse-Mohawk Judicial Liberation Committee, Akwasasne Notes, Seven Days MagazinePublisher: Native American Solidarity CommitteeYear: 1975Format: PamphletCollection: Native Americans
Support for AIM political prisoners Richard Mohawk and Paul Skyhorse
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
Spirit of Crazy Horse: Newsletter of the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee Spirit of Crazy Horse: Newsletter of the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
Publisher: Leonard Peltier Defennse Committee (International Office)Year: 1992Volume Number: February-MarchFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Leonard Peltier
Wounded Knee Means Resistance
Redwire Magazine Redwire Magazine
Year: 2001Format: PeriodicalCollection: Native Americans
Native American Resistance in Vancouver
Z Magazine Z Magazine
Publisher: ZDate: 5/1997Volume Number: MayFormat: ArticleCollection: Native Americans
Subterfuge and Self-Determination: Suppression of Indigenous Sovereignty in 20th Century United States, by Ward Churchill
Z Magazine Z Magazine
Publisher: ZDate: 12/1995Volume Number: DecemberFormat: ArticleCollection: Native Americans
Fascism, the FBI & Native Americans, David Barsamian interviews Ward Churchill
Anpao Duta Anpao Duta
Publisher: Oki Tamakoce K'a Oni Unkitawapi, Anpao Duta OkodakciyeYear: 2010Volume Number: Issue 4Format: PeriodicalCollection: Native Americans
Dakota Journal of Decolonization and Homecoming
What Can We Do? What Can We Do?
Publisher: AIMFormat: FlyerCollection: Native Americans
Fundraising flier for Wounded Knee Support