This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features the Report of the Task Force on the Participation of Hispanic Students in Vocational Education Programs in Idaho.
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Diverse Collections
A series featuring our diverse collections! Each week, we’ll share an archival collection that relates to an underrepresented community in Idaho.
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Norma Dobler Papers
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features our collection of Norma Dobler Papers.
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Shitamae Family Letters
A New Digital Collection
![Letter to Shihei (George) Shitamae [34]](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/shitamae/mg387_03_129.jpg)
Earlier this year, a researcher approached the University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives wondering if it would be possible to digitize some materials from the George Shihei Shitamae papers. As a Japanese immigrant, George Shihei Shitamae was incarcerated at the Santa Fe Detention Center in Santa Fe. His...
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Report on the Governor's Hispanic Initiative
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features the Idaho Commission on Hispanic Affairs Report on the Governor’s Hispanic Initiative, 1996.
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Kooskia Internment Camp Scrapbook
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features our Kooskia Internment Camp Scrapbook.
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Gracie (Bowers) Pfost Papers
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features the Gracie (Bowers) Pfost Papers, 1950-1962. Pfost was Idaho’s first female member of Congress.
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Register of Indigenous People at the Nez Perce Agency
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features the Register of Indigenous People at the Nez Perce Agency.
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Idaho Commission on Hispanic Affairs Management Report
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features the Idaho Commission on Hispanic Affairs Management for 2005-2007.
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Chinese on the American Frontier
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features the book, Chinese on the American Frontier by Arif Dirlik and Malcolm Yeung.
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Lillie Mae Hermann Papers
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features our collection of Lillie Mae Hermann Papers.
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Center for Native American Development Records
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features our collection of The Center for Native American Development Records.
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Samuel Chan Papers
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features our collection of Samuel Chan Papers.
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Black Pioneers - Images of the Black Experience on the North American Frontier
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features the book, Black Pioneers: Images of the Black Experience on the North American Frontier by John W. Ravage.
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Corlann Gee Bush Papers
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features our collection of Corlann Gee Bush Papers.
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Glossary of Quechua, Spanish, and English Languages
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features a (mostly handwritten) glossary of Quechua, Spanish, and English languages from 1940. According to the Penn Language Center, “Quechua, the language of the Inca Empire and still spoken by approximately 8 million people throughout the Andes, is the most spoken indigenous language in...
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The Hispanic Profile Data Book for Idaho
Diverse Collections
Today’s edition of Diverse Collections features a state government publication, The Hispanic Profile Data Book for Idaho by the Idaho Commission on Hispanic Affairs in 2004. The purpose of the report is as follows:
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Asian American Comparative Collection newsletter
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features the Asian American Comparative Collection newsletter, which is a quarterly newsletter about the Asian American Comparative Collection at the University of Idaho Laboratory of Anthropology.
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Other Faces, Other Lives - Asian Americans in Idaho
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features the VHS documentary, “Other Faces, Other Lives: Asian Americans in Idaho.” In this documentary, eight Asian American families (specifically Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino) were interviewed and asked how they or their families came to Idaho. They were also asked about their experiences living...
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Idaho Ebony - The Afro-American Presence in Idaho State History
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features Idaho Ebony: The African American Presence in Idaho State History by Dr. Mamie O. Oliver.1 In the Introduction, Dr. Oliver writes,
For more information about Dr. Oliver, see Blacks in Idaho’s White Press, 1863-1916 ↩
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Mortar Board
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features our collection of Mortar Board Records. Mortar Board, Inc., is a national honor society of college seniors, which recognizes in its membership the qualities of superior scholastic ability, outstanding and continual leadership, and dedicated service to the college or university community.
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Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission Records, 1979-1988 collection. Special Collections houses 4 boxes of meeting minutes, agendas, reports, and supporting documents relating to Native American fisheries, distributed to Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission members and collected by Robert Strom, commission member representing...
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Living Treasures - Hispanic Artisans & Traditionalists of the Snake River Valley
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features the book, Living Treasures: Hispanic Artisans & Traditionalists of the Snake River Valley, published by the Hispanic Folkarts Survey Committee in 1991.
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Japanese American Contributions to Idaho's Economic Development
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features the book, Japanese American Contributions to Idaho’s Economic Development by Robert C. Sims. This book discusses how “Japanese, like other early Idaho pioneers, came to the Gem State in search of economic opportunity. Through their efforts, they not only achieved many of their...
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Blacks in Idaho's White Press, 1863-1916
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features the book, Blacks in Idaho’s White Press, 1863 to 1916 by Dr. Mamie O. Oliver.
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The Women's Caucus
Diverse Collections
Today’s edition of Diverse Collections features a newspaper article from the Women’s Caucus of the University of Idaho Records.
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Indian Hunting and Fishing Rights
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features a document that was reproduced from The George Washington Law Review, Volume 37, July 1969, Number 5, by permission of the author.
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Voces Hispanas - Hispanic Voices of Idaho
Diverse Collections
This week for Diverse Collections, we’re featuring a publication from the Idaho Hispanic Oral History Project in 1992.
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Japanese-Americans in the Pacific Northwest - A Bibliography
Diverse Collections
This week’s edition of Diverse Collections features a bibliography prepared by the Staff of the Tacoma Public Library from materials found in the collections of the Library.
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Idaho Black History Museum Newsletters
Diverse Collections
Today’s edition of Diverse Collections features a collection of newsletters from the Idaho Black History Museum. The museum is located at the St. Paul Baptist Church, which was Idaho’s first Black church, established in 1921.1
Viewpoint: The history of the Idaho Black History Museum ↩
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