Scope and Content:
The collection includes audio tapes, a vhs tape, cd's, color photos, papers, magazines, file folders with topic/subject names, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, government documents, reports, and articles. On said tapes are interviews in both English and Lakota. All source material is specific to Burnham's books, Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn and his research into the National Park System and Tribal lands, Indian Country, God's Country: Native Americans and the National Parks. The collection covers topics such as but not limited to The Wounded Knee Massacre, The Battle of Little Big Horn, Buffalo Bill and the Wild West Show, Dewey Beard, Frank Horn Cloud and Coyote/Fox Belly, the Wounded Knee Settlement compensation fight, the Aerial Gunnery Range (Bombing Range) and the work of Senator Francis Case of South Dakota.