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"And Justice for All: Part II": article draft by Roosevelt Fitzgerald
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Archival Collection
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From the Roosevelt Fitzgerald Professional Papers (MS-01082) -- Drafts for the Las Vegas Sentinel Voice file. On Native Americans being robbed/exterminated
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Conventions at the Sands Hotel: photographs and correspondence
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Archival Collection
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Series XVI. Conventions
Sands Hotel and Casino
Mixed Content
Slide of Shoshone Indians and others at a peace protest near the Nevada Test Site, March 20, 1988
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Archival Collection
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Image
Thelma Coblentz oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Thelma Coblentz conducted by Judith Chavez on February 17, 1980 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Coblentz discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada and some of the medical services she helped to provide at Nellis Air Force Base. Coblentz later describes Downtown Las Vegas, specifically the development of the casinos and shopping businesses. Coblentz concludes with a discussion on the first physicians in Las Vegas.
Archival Collection
Jewish Federation correspondence, meeting minutes, and other records, item 36
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A copy of a letter from John L. Goldman, President of the Association of Jewish Family & Children's Agencies, to Marvin A. Perer, President of the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas, January 4, 1991.
Fort Mojave Industrial School correspondence and a blueprint design of the Fort Mojave Pump Station, Washington (D.C.), 1891-1893
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Archival Collection
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From the Fort Mojave Indian School Records (MS-00034). The records of the Fort Mohave Industrial School consist of two bound books of correspondence and cover the years 1890-1893. The first book contains typed letters received by the school’s superintendent Samuel W. McCowan from Commissioner of Indian Affairs Thomas J. Morgan or Assistant Commissioner R.V. Belt. While the binding of the first book is in poor condition, all communications are readable and coherent. These letters contain information related to the school’s finances and administrative operations as well as issues of policy implementation and matters related to fact finding. Each letter in this book has an identification number in the top left-hand corner that was recorded with the Department of Indian Affairs and can thus be used as a cross-referencing tool with the records of that department. Financial information includes: detailed authorization letters for purchasing livestock, grains, farming implements, seeds, fruit trees, clothing, blank
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Fort Mojave Indian School Records
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The Fort Mojave Indian School Records (1890-1923) consist of correspondence, finance and administrative records, pump station blueprints, and policy implementation and fact finding records. The school served the Hualapai and Mojave Indians at a site near present-day Kingman, Arizona. The information is contained in two bound volumes.
Archival Collection
Jessie Evans oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Jessie Evans conducted by Bernard Timberg on January 18, 1974 and February 04, 1974 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Evans discuss life as a Native American and places such as Shoshone, Nevada, Owyhee, Nevada, Saint Thomas, Nevada and Winnemucca, Nevada. Later in the interview Evan's brother Henry Dave is introduced and the two of them briefly give a demonstration of the Shoshone language.
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