Series consists of correspondence between Douglas T. Kenny as Chair of the President’s Planning and Coordinating Committee for the Museum of Man and Chairman of the User’s Committee, and members of these committees. Also contains correspondence between Kenny as Chair and the Design Team of the Museum of Man, the University Board of Governors, University President Walter Gage, and other committees concerned with the construction, planning, and design of the Museum of Man. Kenny generated other correspondence in his capacity as Chairman of the University Advisory Council and in his involvement on the Search Committee. The majority of correspondence is original; some are copies of outgoing correspondence.
Series consists of six sound recordings, digitized from three cassette tapes. Recorded content includes Xa'islakala vocabulary and sentence exercises, along with compiled segments of radio reports and interviews regarding events in and around Kitimat in the 1970s and early 1980s. Recorded language materials are intended to be used as supplementary to the textual course materials.
Item is a compilation of stories of and about Kitimaat, as told by Jeffrey Legaic in 1978. Stories were collected by Gisele Mendel for her grandchildren.
File contains a biographical sketch of Karen J. Clark, a paper printed photograph of the sewed badge of the Indian Residential School of Lower Post; photocopies of four letters addressed to Mrs. Clark in 1967, 1968, 1972, and 1973, 1981; photocopies of two newspaper clips about Mrs. Clark and/or her classes; two photocopies of the cover of “Sun, Moon and Owl”; a photocopy of the cover of “Tahltan Native Studies”, a photocopy of an advertisement to buy her last books “Language Experiences with Children Stories” and “Once Upon a Time”.
File includes correspondence between Martine J. Reid and several people and institutions:
Crestview Foundation in regards to the grant to document Agnes Alfred's memoirs, August 9 and 19, 1979
Crestview Foundation and Dr. Michael Ames (Director of the Museum of Anthopology) in regards to the project by Martine Reid, October 22, 1979
Douglas and McIntyre in regards to the seeking for grants for the book project, October 19, 1987
UBC in regards to the publication of the book, April 21, 1988
A letter from Deisy Sewid-Smith grantin permission for the publication of her grandmother's memoirs, April 22, 1988
A letter from J. E. M. Kew (Associate Professor of Anthropology at UBC) recommending support for the publication of the book, April 26, 1988
A letter from UBC Press informing Martine Reid of the decision to publish the book, October 5, 1992
A UBC Press Reader's Report (Reader A)
A UBC Press Reader's Report (Reader B)
Comments of Reader's Reports by Martine Reid, 1992
A copy of recommendation letters by J. E. M. Kew, Douglas and McIntyre, and Daisy Sewid-Smith, and a copy of the letter from UBC Press received in 1988. All of them grouped together by the donor
A letter from Martine Reid to George F. MacDonald (Director of the National Museum of Canadian Civilization)
A letter of recommendation by George F. MacDonald (Director of the National Museum of Canadian Civilization), May 2, 1988
Email correspondence between Martine Reid and Judith Berman on Kwak'wala orthography, April 11, 2002
Fax correspondence between Martine Reid and Randy Bouchard and Dorothy Kennedy (from Bouchard and Kennedy Research Consultants), April 10 and 11, 2002
A letter from Susan Hoeltken (Programme and Liaison Officer at the Association for Canadian Studies) about the request of funds for the publication of the book, March 5, 1992
File also includes A post-doctoral project of research, "Kwakiutl Vision of the World", by Martine de Widerspach-Thor
File contains records related to the renovation of visible storage. File contains meeting minutes, questionnaires, and an evaluation report on a tour given by MOA’s staff on June 22, 1992
