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Grant no. MH 12892-06

File contains correspondence and memoranda regarding grant No. MH 12892-06 for the psychiatric disorder and socio-cultural environment study. Also includes completed application and budget forms.

Grant no. MH 12892-05

File contains correspondence and memoranda regarding grant no. MH 12892-05 for the psychiatric disorder and socio-cultural environment study. Also contains budget documents, datasets, and application forms.

Institute of Ethnic Affairs

File contains correspondence with individuals in the Institute of Ethnic Affairs. Also includes meeting minutes, a newsletter, and an information pamphlet about the Institute. Also contains proposals for "The Institute for Racial Democracy" and "The Spanish Speaking People in the United States."

Proposals 1964 - 1969

File contains applications for and correspondence regarding several grants, numbered MH 12892-06, MH-08180-02S1, MH 08180-01, and MH 02307-01. Also contains application feedback, project plans, and appendices.

Grant no. MH 12892-02

File contains an application for and correspondence regarding grant no. MH 12892-02, for research grant "Psychiatric Disorder and Sociocultural Environment" under the direction of Alexander Leighton. The grant included salaries, administrative costs, and field office expenses in Nova Scotia and New York.

Correspondence between Movie Makers magazine and Alexander Leighton

File contains a series of letters between Arthur Gale and Alexander Leighton regarding his film "Porpoise Oil." The correspondence includes an announcement of its inclusion as an Honorable Mention by Movie Makers staff in the selection of the Ten Best Non-theatrical Films of 1937, as well as letters about an article Gale commissioned from Leighton about the making of his film. There is also correspondence from 1941 with James Moore at The Amateur Cinema League regarding Alexander Leighton's possible submission of his film about Navajo life, "Work for your Own," for a contest in the Special Class.

Porpoise Oil and the Movie Makers and Amateur Cinema League

File contains Leighton's manuscript for an article about making his film "Porpoise Oil"; correspondence with the editors of Movie Makers; a copy of the Movie Makers issue in which his film was given an honorable mention; and a medallion awarded for his film being chosen for screening at the First International Photographic Exhibition.

Hezekiah Williams

File contains a manuscript titled "The Cherry Carnival" submitted to a competition at Princeton, which later became part of the Isaiah Wilson stories. Also contains correspondence regarding the manuscripts and notes on Hezekiah Williams.

Various manuscripts, reviews, proposals

File contains letters concerning the book "The Navaho Door" by Alexander Leighton and Dorothea Leighton, a 1945 copy of the New York Times Book Review covering Leighton's book "The Governing of Men," a bundle of abstracts from the American Philosophical Society's AGM in 1952, a bulletin on teaching English to the Navajo, and a proposal for a retirement commemoration conference for Alexander Leighton. Also includes some of Alexander Leighton's reports and articles: "Pilot study of cultural items in medical diagnosis," "Mental health in Canada: working toward a better future," "Cornell southwestern program: a summary report on five years 1948-1953," and "Interview with the editor of a small town paper."

Reviews and mentions for book "The Governing of Men"

File contains correspondence regarding Alexander Leighton's book "The Governing of Men." Also contains several periodicals containing reviews of the book, such as Baptist Adult Union Quarterly, Saturday Review of Literature, The Prison World, and the Rudge Memorandum. Also contains 2 photos : b&w; 8 x 10in and smaller.

Log canoe article

File consists of communications, research notes, newspaper clippings, and boat racing information to be used in writing an article on the history of log canoes.

Reviews

File consists of reviews of Come Near cut from newspapers and magazines. Also contains correspondence regarding reviews.
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