James A. Clifton's research files on the Kansas Potawatomi
name: label: Creator
content: Clifton, James A.
place: label: Place
content: Kansas
label: Place
content: North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Religion
label: Topic
content: Funeral rites and ceremonies
creator: label: Creator
content: Clifton, James A.
culture: label: Culture
content: Potawatomi
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: James A. Clifton is a psychological anthropologist and ethnohistorian. He graduated with a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Oregon in 1960 and was the Emeritus Frankenthal Professor of Anthropology and History at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.5 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1962-1966
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2001-07
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection is unprocessed.  Contact the repository for more information.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: James A. Clifton's research files on the Kansas Potawatomi include census data, an officer survey, and articles and materials on religious practices in particular information on funeral practices and the Drum religion.

Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds additional materials by James A. Clifton in MS 7198 A report on a survey of Potawatomi Indian groups in Canada, MS 7395 Escape, evasion, and eviction: adaptive responses of the Indians of the Old Northwest to the Jacksonian removal policy in the 1830s,  MS 7396 Trial by history: a perspective on the analysis of the Indian removal policy in the Old Northwest and the James A. Clifton photographs of Potawatomi people and material culture (Photo Lot 78-46).

The Clarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University holds the James A. Clifton Native American research collection, the Zhang Legacy Collections Center at Western Michigan University holds the James Clifton collection, and the Kenneth Spencer Research Library Archival Collections at the University of Kansas holds the Personal Papers of James A. Clifton (PP 528).