John L. Champe, Anthropology
Papers
Title: John L. Champe,
Anthropology Papers
Creator: Champe,
John L. (John Leland), 1895-
Dates: 1917-1977
Quantity: 5 boxes, (2 linear
feet)
Collection Number: RG 12-05-11
Language: English
Restrictions: None
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Preferred Citation: John Champe, Anthropology Papers (RG 12-05-11). Archives & Special
Collections, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. Archives &
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Biography:
John Leland Champe was born in Elwood, Nebraska, on April 27, 1895 and graduated from
high school in Friend, Nebraska in 1911. From 1917 to 1919 he was a member of the
36th Infantry of the U.S. Army. He rose to the rank of 1st Lieutenant but never
actually served over seas in WWI. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from the
University of Nebraska in 1921. On December 27, 1924, John Champe married Flavia
Waters, a ballet teacher. Following an interest in anthropology he studied at
Columbia University and received his Ph.D. in 1946.
In 1940, Champe became an instructor in anthropology within the Sociology Department
at the University of Nebraska. John Champe became an assistant professor of
Anthropology at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln in 1947, an associate professor
in 1950, and a full time professor in 1952. He was Chairman of the Department of
Anthropology from 1953 to 1961. He reorganised the University's Nebraska State
Archaeological Survey to the Lab of Anthropology, which he oversaw until his
retirement. He provided temporary housing for the Missouri Valley Project of the
Smithsonian River Survey (SRBS) in 1946, thus making a direct and strong connection
between the University and the SRBS. He was the sole anthropology instructor at UNL
until 1948. He retired as a Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Laboratory
of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln in 1963.
From 1954 to 1978, Champe acted as a consultant and expert witness on a number of
court cases involving treaty disputes and land claims between various Native
American tribes and the U.S. government.
John Leland Champe died of a heart attack on January 28, 1978.
Scope and Content:
The Champe papers include articles that he researched and published. There are additional articles that Champe brought together
for his archaeological research. Additional components include correspondence, along
with subject files that represent Champe's interests and his activities in
professional organizations. Biographical information and photographs are located at
the end of the materials.
Subjects:
Champe, John L. (John Leland), 1895-
Nebraska -- Antiquities
University of Nebraska--Lincoln. Department of Anthropology --
Faculty
Nebraska -- Archaeology
Series Description:
Series 1: CorrespondenceThe correspondence includes those items sent to Champe. Some of the folders
may include only a single item, or may include additional items, such as two
publications by Fred Voget with his correspondence. The correspondence
outlined as Flavia Champe's includes information on anthropologist Gene
Weltfish.
Series 2: Indian Claims LitigationThis series includes correspondence and documents pertaining Champe's
involvement in court cases associated with land claims. Among the tribes
involved in these cases were the Yankton Sioux, the Omaha, and the
Pawnee.
Series 3: Articles and PublicationsThis series includes typescripts, and an occasional manuscript copy, of
articles that were written by Champe or by other authors, who are
identified. Some of the unpublished typescripts listed may have been written
by Champe, a note on each of these items outlines whether it is a possible
article by Champe.
Series 4: Subject FilesThe subject files includes notes and research items relating to each topic
listed. Selected professional organizations and activities are represented.
Container List:
Series 1: CorrespondenceBox 1. Folder 1. Correspondence, A, 1948-1960
Box 1. Folder 2. Correspondence, B, 1933-1976
Box 1. Folder 3. Correspondence, Brew, Jo, 1947-1977
Box 1. Folder 4. Correspondence, C, 1976
Box 1. Folder 5. Correspondence, D, 1939-1967
Box 1. Folder 6. Correspondence, E, 1967, 1970
Box 1. Folder 7. Correspondence, F, 1947-1972
Box 1. Folder 8. Correspondence, G, 1936-1972
Box 1. Folder 9. Correspondence, H, 1936-1972
Box 1. Folder 10. Correspondence, J, 1946-1972
Box 1. Folder 11. Correspondence, K, 1943-1968
Box 1. Folder 12. Correspondence, L, 1940-1971
Box 1. Folder 13. Correspondence, M, 1941-1977
Box 1. Folder 14. Correspondence, N, 1946-1975
Box 1. Folder 15. Correspondence, O,
Box 1. Folder 16. Correspondence, P, 1947-1971
Box 1. Folder 17. Correspondence, R, 1941-1971
Box 1. Folder 18. Correspondence, Roberts, John (Jack), 1941-1953
Box 2. Folder 1. Correspondence, Roberts, John (Jack), 1954-1969
Box 2. Folder 2. Correspondence, S, 1940-1969
Box 2. Folder 3. Correspondence, Smith, Carlyle, 1940-1969
Box 2. Folder 4. Correspondence, Spaulding, Albert, 1941-1958
Box 2. Folder 5. Correspondence, T, 1951-1974
Box 2. Folder 6. Correspondence, U, 1958
Box 2. Folder 7. Correspondence, V, 1951-1974
Box 2. Folder 8. Correspondence, W, 1941-1976
Box 2. Folder 9. Correspondence, Flavia Champe
Box 2. Folder 10. Correspondence, WPA, Anthropology Department
Box 2. Folder 11. Correspondence, Mamie Meredith, Louise Pound, Dorothy
Canfield
Series : Indian Claims LitigationBox 2. Folder 12. Symposium, Indian Claims Litigation and Anthropology,
Detroit, 1954
Box 2. Folder 13. Correspondence, Pawnee Indians vs. Oklahoma
Box 2. Folder 14. Typescript, Pawnee Claims, "Garland
Publishing Class Suits and the Court of Claims" Angelo A.
Iadarola
Box 2. Folder 15. Correspondence, contracts, vouchers, Three Affiliated
Tribes
Box 2. Folder 16. Correspondence, Wilkinson, Cragun & Barker, 1968-1974
Box 2. Folder 17. Correspondence, Weissbrodt Law Firm, Sealaska
material, 1972-1975
Series : Articles and PublicationsBox 3. Folder 1. Articles, Champe Item 1. Champe, publication list
Item 2. "Corpus, Locus,
Tempus"
Item 3. "Early Spanish Expeditions
Northeast of New Mexico"
Item 4. "Symposium on Missouri River Basin
Archeology"
Item 5. "Aksarben"
Box 3. Folder 2. Sterns Creek Revisited
Box 3. Folder 3. Differences Between Horse and Bison
Box 3. Folder 4. Present Status of Physcial Anthropology in the Central
Plains, 1945
Box 3. Folder 5. The Sweetwater Culture Complex
Box 3. Folder 6. Published articles, Champe
Box 3. Folder 7. Reprints, reviews, ChampeItem 1. "A is for Apple"
Item 2. "White Cat
Village"
Item 3. Review, "Upper Missouri River
Valley Aboriginal Culture in North Dakota, George F. Will and
Thad C. Hecker"
Item 4. Review, "Post-Kansas Geologic
History of the Lower Platte Valley Area, Gilbert Carl
Lueninghoener"
Item 5. Review, "River Basin Surveys
Papers, Numbers 9-14," 1960
Box 3. Folder 8. Typescript drafts, unpublished manuscripts, 1968-1974Item 1. "Anthropologist and the
Historian"
Item 2. "Ethnohistory in the Central
Plains"
Item 3. "Can Paraffin be Removed from
Charcoal Samples"
Item 4. "Anthropologist and the Indian
Claims"
Item 5. "Possibility of Personality in
Prehistory Interpretations"
Item 6. "Swanson Site, 39BR16, Brule
County, South Dakota" Wesley R. Hurt, Jr.
Item 7. "Proceedings of the Sixth Plains
Archeaological Conference" edited by Jesse D.
Jennings
Item 8. "In Defense of David
Ingram"
Item 9. "Critique of the Nebraska and Upper
Republican Aspects"
Item 10. Untitled, on central plains taxonomy
Item 11. "Early Spanish Expeditions
Northeast of New Mexico"
Item 12. "Symposium on Missouri River Basin
Archeaology"
Item 13. Taxonomy
Box 3. Folder 9. ArticlesItem 1. "Certain Culture Correlations in
Nebraska Archeology," Waldo R. Wedel
Item 2. "Melvin Randolph Gilmore
(1868-1940), Accomplished Ethnobotanist, Museologist, Plains
Ethnologist," David L. Erickson
Item 3. "Aboriginal and Historic Groups of
the Ute Indians of Utah: An Analysis," Julian H.
Steward
Box 3. Folder 10. "Brandon Village Site and the Split
Rock Creek Mounds" E.E. Meleen and W.R. Hurt, Jr., 1941
Box 3. Folder 11. "Burial Complex from the Oahe Sit,
39," E.E. Meleen and W.R. Hurt, Jr.
Box 3. Folder 12. "Preliminary Report of the Mitchell
Indian Village and Burial Mounds" E. E. Meleen, 1938
Box 3. Folder 13. "Spanish Horses among the Plains
Tribes," D. E. Worcester
Box 3. Folder 14. "Migrations of Siouan Tribes" J.
Owen Dorsey, 1886
Box 3. Folder 15. "Source Material Available for the
Study of the Physical Anthropology of the Central Plains"
Robert B. Cumming, Jr. RESTRICTED
Box 4. Folder 1. "Functional-Historical View of Plains
Indians Warfare" Frank R. Secoy, 1950
Box 4. Folder 2. "Historiography, Ethnohistory, and
Applied Anthropology," Nancy Oestreich Lurie
Box 4. Folder 3. Pottery, Upper Missouri, Paul Tolstory, 1950
Box 4. Folder 4. "Oto Ethnohisory Before 1855",
Arth, Hanson, & Wood, 1956 RESTRICTED
Box 4. Folder 5. "Excavation of Earth-Lodge Ruins in
Eastern Nebraska" Robert F. Gilder, Ales Hrdlicka, 1909
Box 4. Folder 6. "The Harvest" Murien
Box 4. Folder 7. "Frontier Tall Talk, "W. F.
Thompson
Box 4. Folder 8. "Fred H. Sterns: A Pioneer in the
Pursuit of Plains Prehistory" David M. Gradwohl, 1978
Box 4. Folder 9. "Symposium on River Valley
Archeology," J. O. Brew
Box 4. Folder 10. "Symposium on Salvage
Archaeology" John M. Corbett, 1961
Box 4. Folder 11. "Intro to Diario de Pedro de
Rivera," V. A. Robles
Box 4. Folder 12. ArticlesItem 1. "New Notes on the Dakota Earth
Lodge," James H. Howard
Item 2. "An Omaha Medicine Packet,"
James H. Howard
Item 3. "House Types of the Over Focus,
South Dakota," Wesley R. Hurt, Jr
Item 4. "Animal Bone and Plains
Archeology," Donald H. Lehmer
Item 5. "Pottery Types from the Dodd Site,
Oahe Reservoir, South Dakota," Donald J.
Lehmer
Item 6. "A Folsom Fluted Point from
Marshall County, Kansas," J. M. Shippee
Item 7. "Archeological Work at the Kansas
Monument Site" Carlyle S. Smith, 1949
Item 8. "Pottery Types from the Talking
Crow Site, Fort Randall Reservoir, South Dakota," Carlyle
S. Smith
Item 9. "A Plainview Point found in
Marshall County, Kansas," Ralph S. Solecki
Item 10. "A Note on the McKean Lanceolate
Point," Richard P. Wheeler
Item 11. "Plains Ceramic Analysis: A
Check-List of Features and Descriptive Terms," Richard P.
Wheeler
Item 12. "Suggestions on the Butchering
Technique of the Inhabitants of the Dodd and Phillips Ranch
Sites in the Oahe Reservoir Area," Theodore E.
White
Item 13. "Suggestions for Facilitating the
Identification of Animal Bone from Archeological Sites,"
Theodore E. White
Item 14. "The Square Earth Lodges of the
Central Great Plains," W. Raymond Wood
Box 4. Folder 13. ArticlesItem 1. "Comments on Hyde, 1050, Indians of
the High Plains," A. H. Schroeder
Item 2. "Linguistic Isomorphisms"
Thomas Storer, 1952
Item 3. "The Physique of the Ancient
Hawaiians" Vaughan MacCaughey, 1917
Series : Subject FilesBox 4. Folder 14. Programs, American Anthropology Association, 1949, 1951
Box 4. Folder 15. Notes, Aksarben
Box 4. Folder 16. Notes, Ash Hollow
Box 4. Folder 17. Charts, correspondence, Ash Hollow, 1946-1947, 1975
Box 4. Folder 18. Dismal River Aspect
Box 4. Folder 19-20. Research, early maps and travels
Box 5. Folder 1. Research, early maps and travels
Box 5. Folder 2. Research, early Western travels
Box 5. Folder 3. Indian trade silver
Box 5. Folder 4. Keith Focus
Box 5. Folder 5. La Roche Focus
Box 5. Folder 6. Lower Loup Focus
Box 5. Folder 7. Loup River
Box 5. Folder 8. "Rev. Marquette," by
F.H.Sterns
Box 5. Folder 9. Missouri River Basin SurveysItem 1. "Harlan County Reservoir,
Nebraska," 1947, Mar.
Item 2. "Republican River Sub-basin,
Nebraska, Kansas, & Colorado," 1947, July
Box 5. Folder 10. Editorial Notes on the Mitchell & Brandon Sites (Wesley
Hurt)
Box 5. Folder 11. Correspondence, publications, National Order of
Omphalopsychites
Box 5. Folder 12. National Parks Service Contract, 1965
Box 5. Folder 13. Proceedings, Nebraska Academy of Sciences, 1946-1947
Box 5. Folder 14. Proceedings, Plains Conference for Archeology, 1949
Box 5. Folder 15. Redbird Focus
Box 5. Folder 16. Valley Focus
Box 5. Folder 17. Radio script, "Your University
Speaks," 1946, undated
Box 5. Folder 18. Oral history interview questions
Box 5. Folder 19. Obituary, newspaper clippings, 1940-1964
Box 5. Folder 20. Photographs, Champe, family, friends
Box 5. Folder 21. Finding aids, Nebraska State Historical Society
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