Southern Paiute news clippings
Scope and Contents
The Southern Paiute news clippings collection (approx. 1957-1980) consists of newspaper, magazine, and other publication clippings, including obituaries; correspondence, photographs, documentation of the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians and Las Vegas Tribe of Paiute Indians, and a certificate collected by Mary Manning, a Las Vegas Sun reporter. Most of the clippings are from Las Vegas, Nevada newspapers and pertains to the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians of the Moapa River Indian Reservation and/or the Las Vegas Tribe of Paiute Indians of the Las Vegas Indian Colony, Nevada. The clippings document reservation educational, economical, and infrastructure development, legal concerns, and other everyday life. The historical documents include an informal census of both reservation communities.
Dates
- Creation: 1957 - 1980
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open and freely available to researchers during Special Collections’ hours or by appointment. Researchers must complete an Application for Use and show a photo ID prior to accessing materials.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright restrictions apply.
Biographical / Historical
Mary Manning was a reporter for the Las Vegas Sun newspaper in Las Vegas, Nevada for 34 years. She later studied archaeology and became an artist.
Full Extent
0.21 Linear Feet (1 gray half legal document case.)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Abstract
The Southern Paiute news clippings collections contains newspaper and magazine clippings pertaining to Southern Paiute bands and other Native American communities in the United States, with a focus on southern Nevadan communities from approximately 1957 to 1980. The collection also contains a few photographs, correspondence, a map, and historical records of the Moapa River Reservation and Las Vegas Indian Colony.
Arrangement
The Southern Paiute news clippings collection is arranged into five series, with the bulk of the material in the Newspaper Clippings series, which is further divided into News and Obituaries. The material is arranged chronologically within its series/subseries, except for the obituary clippings, which are arranged alphabetically by last name.
Series I Newspaper Clippings, 1957-1980, undated
Subseries A News, 1957-1980, undated
Subseries B Obituaries, 1959-1978, undated
Series II Certificates and Other Publications, 1962-1978, undated
Series III Correspondence, 1963, 1966
Series IV Moapa Band history, 1961-1962, undated
Series V Photographs, 1964-1976
Biographical Note Citation
Content Warning and Disclaimer
Content Warning: The description of and material in this collection contain names and/or images of deceased persons.
Content Warning: Contains words that are inherently offensive, insensitive and harmful.
Utah Tech University provides access to its collections as an unaltered, authentic historical record to aid in the research and understanding of history, while acknowledging their impact on various peoples and groups. Some collection materials are reflective of past cultures and prejudices, including images or words that are inherently offensive, insensitive and harmful. The University does not support, condone or endorse these harmful ideas, behaviors or attitudes, and they do not reflect the official opinion of the University.
Source
- Manning, Mary. (Collector, Person)
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Caitlinn Grimm, Interim Head of Special Collections/Archivist, acknowledges her standpoint as a master’s educated middle class white settler cis-gender female from the Midwest United States working in Utah Tech University’s Special Collections & Archives.
- Date
- April 2025
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Utah Tech University Special Collections and Archives Repository
330 Holland Centennial Commons
225 South 700 East
Saint George 84770 United States
(435) 634-2087
specialcollections@utahtech.edu