Indian Pioneer History Collection

About

Like the so-called WPA Slave Narratives, the Depression era “Old Settlers” or “Pioneers” projects interviewed early settlers in each state. Many of these interviews were never published, and are only available in the appropriate state repository as manuscript collections. Grant Foreman collected and edited these interviews from Oklahoma, which include many reminiscences of early state and territorial days.

Location

Library Annex LISA Microfilm F699 .I53 1978

Format

Microfilm

Arrangement

For the most part alphabetical by interviewee name but it is sometimes necessary to use the indexes or online search engine to locate specific interviews.

Items

40 reels of film

Publication

Oklahoma Historical Society

The Indian-Pioneer Papers are temporarily unavailable in the Digital Collections repository while the University of Oklahoma Libraries works with source communities to determine appropriate access. If you have any questions, please contact the Western History Collections at westernhistorycollections@ou.edu or (405) 325-2904.