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

The Road to Wounded Knee I The Road to Wounded Knee I
Date: 7/18/1974Call Number: KP 107Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Native Americans
SAME AS CD 168. Events on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota before and during the declaration of Independence by the Tribal Chiefs. Hour 1 of 5 hour program. 1st hour: story of conditions on Pine Ridge Reservation, the activities of the elected tribal leader/dictator Richard Wilson which led to his impeachment, and a view of what life was like on the reservation. Additional notes: Program includes rock-like music song, “Spread your wings and fly/ Give peace a holiday/ Give us just a little more time), Treaty of 1868, broken promises of treaty payments, Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 erases sovereign status of nations, problems with mixed blood tribal bureaucracy ripping off own people, tribal police corruption and payoffs, taken away of local self government, and federal government denies self sufficiency.
The Road to Wounded Knee I The Road to Wounded Knee I
Date: 7/18/1974Call Number: CD 168Format: CDProducers: KPFACollection: Native Americans
SAME AS KP 107. Events on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota before and during the declaration of Independence by the Tribal Chiefs. Hour 1 of 5 hour program. 1st hour: story of conditions on Pine Ridge Reservation, the activities of the elected tribal leader/dictator Richard Wilson which led to his impeachment, and a view of what life was like on the reservation. Additional notes: Program includes rock-like music song, “Spread your wings and fly/ Give peace a holiday/ Give us just a little more time), Treaty of 1868, broken promises of treaty payments, Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 erases sovern status of nations, problems with mixed blood tribal bueracy ripping off own poeple, tribal police corruption and payoffs, taken away of local self government, and federal goverment denies self suffiency.