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Student Interviews and Surveys

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 286-350

Scope and Contents note

From the Series:

Funded by a grant from the Office of Education through Emory University, the project studied the Oglala Sioux of Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The project staff included Murray and Rosalie Wax, Robert V. Dumont, Roselyn (Jumping Bull) Holy Rock, and Gerald One Feather. Interviews of mothers were conducted by Rosalie Wax and Roselyn Holy Rock. Murray Wax interviewed educational personnel. Although the project was funded for the period of 1962-1963, contents of the series include an original project proposal from 1960 and correspondence dating from 1964. Includes interviews, field notes and observations by project staff; financial and personnel records and related correspondence; survey questionnaires and accompanying drawings; data collected from the surveys and other sources; maps of the reservation road and bridge system; manuscript drafts of the report and a final copy of the published monograph.

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Conditions Governing Access

The Murray L. Wax papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).

Interview and field note files contain details about living persons that, if revealed, would constitute an invasion of personal privacy. Researchers must sign the Newberry Library's Murray L. Wax papers Access Statement form before gaining access to these materials.

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