Angie Debo's Christmas Letters

The OSU Archives houses an extensive collection of Angie Debo's work and personal items. Within this collection is Debo's Christmas letters that span a good part of the twentieth century. Upon analyzing her perceptions about the current events she was living through, one can see how her historian mindset was able to thread stories in history together to make unique conclusions about tumultuos events. In this episode we tell her story through her personal Christmas letters and correspondence regarding the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.

Resources:

https://debo.library.okstate.edu/

https://debo.library.okstate.edu/activism/alaska-native-claims-settlement-act-correspondence

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Kurt Anderson is an Asistant Professor of Professional Practice at Edmon Low Library. He is our resident archvist on all things Angie Debo. https://library.okstate.edu/library-directory/anderson-kurt