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For more information about how to submit the materials listed in this guide for a tour material request, please see our page on Requesting Materials for a Class or Tour

The Historical Trauma Guide encompasses materials related to traumatic historical events that took place in or are related to Tulsa and Oklahoma.  

We recommend actively engaging with the list and being selective about item choices, in order to align material types and contents with your visitor group.

If you choose materials from this guide, please select some of the items listed, rather than requesting everything. There is limited space available on the Reading Room display tables, and Special Collections staff reserve the right to adjust the number of material requests submitted for the safety of our rare books and archival collections. 

Indigenous Materials

  • Indigenous Peoples of North America - 1975-006 (collection materials organized by tribe)
  • Papers of the [Alice] Robertson and Worcester families, 1815-1932 - 1931-001
  • J. B. (Jesse Bartley) Milam papers, 1925-1950 - 1989-002
  • Gus Welch papers, 1911-1991 - 1995.002
  • Edward Curtis framed photograph of a Cheyenne maiden, Undated - 2016.017
  • Mamusse wunneetupanatamwe up-biblum God naneeswe nukkone testament kah wonk wusku testament - (BS345.A2 E4 1685
    • Also known as the Eliot Indian Bible, written in Algonquin.
  • "Alcatraz-Indianland", 1971 - 1500.026.4.19.49
  • Map of the proposed State of Sequoyah - 1500.026.4.19.1002 
  • Native American ledger artworks - 2023.028 Ovrsz
  • Printed message to the Creek people [by Principal Chief Moty Tiger], in Creek and English, concerning the effect Oklahoma statehood will have on government of the Creek Nation - 1931.001.1.7.29
  • Photograph of an oak tree purported to be the Creek Council Oak - 1975.006.3.Creek.002
  • Creek Freedmen School. Exterior view of the school house and 3 of its students. Located near Catoosa - 1931.001.4.2.4.18
  • Portrait of the first chief of the Creek Nation - 1931.001.4.5.4.5
  • Studio portrait of student body. Alice Robertson also pictured., Circa 1887 - 1931.001.4.5.4.15r-15v 

Ku Klux Klan (KKK) materials

Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

  • Events of the Tulsa Disaster by Mary E. Parrish - (F704.T92 P37 1922)
  • Greenwood community photograph album, 1922-approximately 1950 - 2014.028 
  • Impact Magazine (Reader's copy only) - (AP2 .I473)
  • The Orbit (Booker T. Washington High School yearbook 1924; Reader's copy only) - (LB3621.25 B66 1924)
  • Tulsa Race Massacre photo album (Reader's copy only) - 1989.004.5
  • Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 archive - 1989.004