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BOX 13-22 Oklahoma State University File, 1973-2010
The Oklahoma State University File series focuses on Ai’s tenure as a professor of creative writing from 1999 to 2010 and her roles as vice president and president of the Native American Faculty and Staff Association (NAFSA) while at Oklahoma State University at Stillwater. The bulk of the files comprises student papers, including one digital file, written for Ai’s creative writing classes. Many of the student papers include Ai’s handwritten comments. Class assignments, course readings, and syllabi files provide insight on Ai’s approach to teaching. Also present is material pertaining to her participation as a NAFSA officer. The association was established to assist Native American students, faculty, and staff in discussing issues of concern and serve as a liaison between them and the university administration. This series includes documentation about NAFSA's scholarship program, which awarded scholarships to Native American students based on their academic performance.

Material types include correspondence, memoranda, printed email, photocopies of course readings, class assignments, syllabi, evaluations, student papers, exams, posters, newspaper clippings, printed matter, digital files, and other material.
Arranged alphabetically by name of organization, topic, or type of material. The file structure of the digital content maintained as received.
BOX 13 Class assignments, 1999, undated
BOX 13 Course readings, 1973, 2001-2002, 2008
BOX 13 Course readings, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 14 Course readings, undated
(3 folders)
BOX 14 Department of English, 1999-2010, undated See also Container OV 2, same heading
(4 folders)
BOX 14 Evaluations by students, 2003-2008, undated
(3 folders)
BOX 15 Faculty Appraisal and Development Program, 1999-2008
BOX 15 General, 1999-2010, undated See also Container OV 2, Oklahoma Women's Summit
(3 folders)
BOX 15 Graduate student exams and committees, 2000-2010, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 15 Letters of recommendation, 2000-2009, undated
BOX 15 Native American Faculty and Staff Association
BOX 15 General, 2000-2009, undated
(3 folders)
BOX 15 Scholarships, 2000-2007, undated
(4 folders)
BOX 15 Scholarships, 2008, undated
BOX 16 Student papers
BOX 16 1999-2004
(6 folders)
BOX 16 2005, spring
(2 folders)
BOX 17 2005, fall
BOX 17 2006
(7 folders)
BOX 18 2007-2008
(5 folders)
DF 2007, audio files accompanying student's poetry collection for Ai's creative writing class
Digital ID: mss86481_276_002
BOX 18 2009, spring
(2 folders)
BOX 19 2009, fall
(5 folders)
BOX 19 2010
(2 folders)
BOX 20 Undated
(6 folders)
BOX 21 Undated
(6 folders)
BOX 22 Undated
(3 folders)
BOX 22 Syllabi, 2001-2008, undated
(2 folders)
BOX 22-38 Research File, 1820-2010
The Research File series contains Ai’s research for a memoir and historical study about her Native American, white, and African American ancestry. She described the project as a memoir that “evolved into a memoir/tribal history involving the Indian Wars, [George A.] Custer, massacres . . .” and a “meditation on race in America.” Although she utilized some of this research in her poetry, she did not live to complete the memoir/history. The majority of the files consist of Cheyenne Tribe and Arapaho Tribe allotment records, United States census records, United States Indian census schedules, and research and notes relating to the Smith family, her mother's ancestors. An item of note is a grant application (May 10, 1999) in which Ai describes her writing, including her use of dramatic monologues, her focus on character, her fascination with good and evil, and the changes in her writing over time.

Material types include correspondence, memoranda, printed email, allotment records, notes, notebooks, maps, photographs, grant applications, newspaper clippings, printed matter, digital files, and other material.
Arranged alphabetically by name of family, topic, or type of material. The file structure of the digital content maintained as received.
BOX 22 Correspondence
BOX 22 2001-2006
(6 folders)
BOX 23 2007-2010, undated
(3 folders)
BOX 23 General, 2001-2008, undated
BOX 23 Grant applications, 1999-2000, 2009, undated
BOX 23 Japanese family research, 2001-2009
(4 folders)
DF Spreadsheet of data for "Ogawa: The Y2K Ogawa Family Yearbook," 2004
Digital ID: mss86481_276_003
BOX 23 Native Americans
BOX 23 Bibliography, 1990-2009
BOX 23 Cavalry and military, 2004-2005
BOX 23 Cheyenne Tribe and Arapaho Tribe
BOX 23 Allotments
BOX 23 General, 1914-1923, 1932-1944, undated
BOX 23 No. 48, Black Woman, 1911
BOX 23 No. 114, Robert Yellow Eyes (also known as Robert White Eyes), 1914, 1921, 1935-1936
BOX 23 No. 115, Robert Bent Bird, 1904, 1915
BOX 24 No. 164, Morning Alfrey, 1917-1980
(2 folders)
BOX 24 No. 164, Albert Short Teeth and Myrtle Kelly, 1923-1968
(2 folders)
BOX 24 No. 220, Little Woman (also known as Blue), 1916-1923
BOX 24 No. 228, Standing Out Bent, 1911-1920, 1937-1955
BOX 24 No. 229, William Bent, 1911-1917, 1957-1958
BOX 24 No. 230, Charlie Bent, 1908, 1914
BOX 24 No. 231, Mary Bent, 1915, 1942-1943
BOX 24 No. 232, Daisy Bent and George Bent, 1911-1919, 1950-1962
BOX 24 No. 234, Julia Bent, 1912
BOX 24 No. 354, Broken Jar (also known as Broken Jaw), 1913-1914
BOX 24 No. 367, Julia Guerrier, 1933
BOX 24 No. 368, Edward Guerrier, 1923
BOX 24 No. 381, Smoking Slow, 1913-1914
BOX 24 No. 475, Stump Horn, 1915-1923, 1959
BOX 24 No. 477, Yellow Horse, 1911-1925
BOX 25 No. 602, Swallow family, 1892, 1913-1943, 1954-1957
(3 folders)
BOX 25 No. 640, Buffalo Thigh, 1913
BOX 25 No. 642, Kiowa Woman (Bent), 1913-1919
BOX 25 No. 672, Ponac Woman, 1892, 1912-1940
(2 folders)
BOX 25 No. 719, Big Medicine family, 1919-1985
(3 folders)
BOX 25 No. 719C, Black Bird, 1892
BOX 26 No. 720, Sitting Woman and Jeannette Big Medicine, 1907-1975
(3 folders)
BOX 26 No. 720, Joe Antelope, 1930-1974
BOX 26 No. 720B, Mary Springer Antelope, 1928-1967
BOX 26 No. 721, Big Medicine family, 1892, 1917-1986
(2 folders)
BOX 26 No. 722, Mary Springer (also known as Mary Antelope), 1892, 1916-1988
BOX 27 No. 722, Mary Springer (also known as Mary Antelope), 1892, 1916-1988
(2 folders)
BOX 27 No. 723, Mary Springer (also known as Mary Antelope), 1917, 1929-1931
BOX 27 No. 724, Pipe Woman, 1892, 1913-1922
(2 folders)
BOX 27 No. 728, Little Hawk, 1958-1960
BOX 27 No. 762, William Goodsell, 1915-1925
BOX 27 No. 844, Black Bull, 1892, 1913-1922
BOX 28 No. 3047, Robert Barnes, 1912
BOX 28 No. 3048, Ada Burns, 1913
BOX 28 No. 3061, Turtle John, 1901-1904, 1920
BOX 28 General, 1836, 1904, 1956, 1979, 1999-2008, undated
(3 folders)
BOX 28 Choctaw Tribe
BOX 28 General, 1897-1899, 1905-1906, 1995-2004, undated
BOX 28 Seal, 1994
BOX 28 Comanche Tribe census lists, undated
BOX 28 Crazy Horse, 2000, 2006, undated
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