MS 49 J. Anthony Paredes Papers

Anthony Paredes Papers
1948-2013 [bulk: 1980-1999] MS 49

Creator: Paredes, J. Anthony (Tony)
Title: J. Anthony Paredes Papers
Dates: 1948-2013 [bulk: 1980-1999]

Abstract: These papers were collected by alumnus of Oglethorpe University, J. Anthony “Tony” Paredes. They feature the collected papers of his lifetime work as a professor of anthropology at the Florida State University and related activities including his advocacy for Indian Affairs. Paredes was involved in many professional organizations in the area of applied anthropology. His field work with American Indians and his work with fishing rights are documented in this collection which is loosely composed of his time at Oglethorpe University as an undergraduate, his correspondence and activities as a professor at the Florida State University , his papers regarding fishing rights, and his work including surveys with American Indians. In addition, copies of reports, research papers, grants, and his dissertation are included.

Processed by: Anne Salter and Claire Fontaine

Administrative History:

The collection is composed of the papers of Tony Paredes from his days as a student at Oglethorpe University to the end of his professional career as a professor at the Florida State University. They roughly cover the following periods of time: Oglethorpe University (1958-1961); Florida State University (1969-1999); research on American Indians; grants; work on fisheries and fishing rights; correspondence; and publications and reports. The original order has been maintained when possible.

Biographical sketch:

  1. Anthony “Tony” Paredes (1939-2013) was professor of anthropology for 30 years at Florida State University. He was also a dedicated alumnus of Oglethorpe University where he received his B.A. degree in 1961. This collection contains his working papers from his career as a professor and also memorabilia from his time at Oglethorpe, including letters to his mother. Tony’s Oglethorpe class participated in many alumni weekends at which he and his classmates became well known to the librarians at the Philip Weltner Library. Through numerous conversations at alumni weekends, the librarians were able to learn about this particular class and its appreciation for higher education and especially for the Core at Oglethorpe University and how it influenced their lives. From Tony’s perspective, his years at Oglethorpe highly influenced his desire to be a scholar. They even more strongly influenced his aspirations to make learning a lifelong process, which he accomplished. His lifelong work as a professor of anthropology at Florida State University and his later work with Indian Affairs are also captured in the papers in this collection. Tony was a rare individual who never lost the love of life and learning and his enthusiasm and dedication can be seen in his numerous pieces of correspondence, his excellent and lyrical writing, and his contributions to his friends and fellow citizens.

Tony was born on Sept. 29, 1939 in New York City. His parents were Antonio and Mildred Paredes. The family lived in Florida where he grew up. In addition to his BA from Oglethorpe, he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow (1961-62). He received an MA in anthropology (1964) and Ph.D. (1969) from the University of New Mexico. His dissertation concerned the Chippewa Indians and their adaptation to urban life. Tony’s interests were broad and they included commercial fisheries and American Indians. A sizeable portion of this collection is devoted to these topics and includes correspondence, surveys, and reports. He also wrote numerous articles and organized conferences and symposiums for anthropological societies including the American Anthropological Association (AAA), where he served on the Executive Board, the Association of Senior Anthropologists, the Society for Applied Anthropology, and the Southern Anthropological Society. His lifelong work was among the American Indians, where he served as Cultural Anthropologist and Chief of Indian Affairs for the National Parks Service Ethnography Program. Tony’s outstanding work as a scholar reflected his love for humanity and the rights of others. He was a voice always asking the authorities to pay attention to the people policies directly impacted. For more information about Tony and his extraordinary life, see the obituary in this collection from the Society of Applied Anthropology.

Description: The collection of papers spans a lifetime from college to just before his time of death in 2013. As a professor of anthropology at Florida State University for 30 years, he led a full and active academic life. He published and did research that included American Indians and fisheries off the coast of Florida and North Carolina. An advocate for many rights, he also was a prolific writer of letters in support of justice.   The collection begins with his papers and letters while attending his undergraduate college, Oglethorpe University. It is apparent from the letters and later from his work with the alumni association that his experience at Oglethorpe was life-changing and a positive influence on his work ethic and dedication to teaching and research.

Restrictions: None

Subject Headings:

Box 1

Folder  1 Correspondence Publishing, Lectures, 1972-1978
Folder  2 Correspondence Re. Promotion of Paredes, 1978
Folder  3 Correspondence, 1983-1988
Folder  4 Correspondence, Funding and Promotions, 1995-1996
Folder  5 Correspondence, April–June 1997
Folder  6 Correspondence, July–Nov. 1997                               

Box 2

Folder 1 Correspondence – Thhiokol Training Program for Indians of Minnesota, 1967-1968
Folder 2 Correspondence – Thank You Letters to Paredes, 1970s
Folder 3 Correspondence to Paredes, Florida Folk Arts, 1978
Folder 4 Correspondence Re. Appointments of Paredes, 1978
Folder 5 Correspondence to Paul Durrenberger, 1988
Folder 6 Correspondence FSU, 1992-1995
Folder 7 Correspondence to and from Paredes, 1990-1995
Folder 8 Correspondence, Commercial Fishing, Florida, 1995-1996
Folder 9 Correspondence, Bias, Bigotry, 1996
Folder 10 Correspondence to and from Paredes, 1997
Folder 11 Emails to Paredes Re. Naticokes  

Box 3

Folder 1 Area Community Relations
Folder 2 Barbee Creek Transcript 2005
Folder 3 Censuses – Tribal Enrollments
Folder 4 EELPOT Paper
Folder 5 EEOAC
Folder 6 Field Report Memorial Day 1968
Folder 7 Bemidji Mass Media Survey – Done by Upward Bound Students under Jim Cecil, Summer 1967
Folder 8 Ojibway Folklore Notes
Folder 9 Transcript
Folder 10 Transcripts
Folder 11 Transcript – Male 31
Folder 12 Transcript
Folder 13 Transcripts
Folder 14 Transcripts
Folder 15 General Info on Indians, BIA, etc.
Folder 16 Dept. of Health, Education, & Welfare

Box 4

Folder 1 Life Histories
Folder 2 NCAI
Folder 3 Notes
Folder 4 Notes
Folder 5 Notes
Folder 6 Notes
Folder 7 Notes

Box 5

Folder 1 Grant Proposal – Indian Symposium, 1986-1987
Folder 2 Grant – Indian Symposium, Supporting Documents, 1986-1987
Folder 3 48th Annual International Congress of Americanists, Stockholm, Sweden, 1994 – Papers Presented
Folder 4 Journal of Anthropological Research – Miscellaneous, 2003
Folder 5 Miscellaneous
Folder 6 Paper – American Anthropology Association – Tables for … Chippewa by Tony Paredes, 1971
Folder 7 Symposium of Minnesota Indians, 1967

Box 6

Folder 1 Coastal Herrings … Oct. 1979
Folder 2 Mackerel Report Papers, 1979-1980
Folder 3 Coastal Herrings and Associated Species, 1979
Folder 4 Coastal Herrings … Oct. 1979
Folder 5 Fishery Papers – “Any Comments …” by J. Anthony Paredes, 1963
Folder 6 Fishery Papers – “Any Comments …” Responses to Article

Box 7

Folder 1 Hepburn, Marcus
Folder 2 Hepburn, Marcus – Harker’s Island, 1979
Folder 3 Correspondence to and from Marcus J. Hepburn – 1976
Folder 4 Correspondence to and from Marcus J. Hepburn – 1977
Folder 5 Correspondence to and from Marcus J. Hepburn – 1979
Folder 6 Correspondence to and from Marcus J. Hepburn with Ph.D. Chapters
Folder 7 Hepburn, Marcus – Ph.D. Committee

 Box 8

Folder 1 Aquaculture Development … 1979
Folder 2 Fisheries Policy … 1979
Folder 3 Florida Maritime Heritage, 1980
Folder 4 Hurricanes – Correspondence
Folder 5 Hurricane Eloise, Aug. 1976
Folder 6 Hurricanes – Papers
Folder 7 Mass. Lobster Fishery – 1977
Folder 8 New England Fishing, 1979
Folder 9 Paper – Overbey, M. M., “Florida Sea Grant …” 1979
Folder 10 Sea Grant – Human Factors in the Economic Development … 1977
Folder 11 Sea Grant Report – Chapters
Folder 12 Sea Grant Program Final Report, 1977

 Box 9

Folder 1 Correspondence – Fishery Management, 1970s-1980s
Folder 2 Correspondence — Fishery Management, 1980-1981
Folder 3 Correspondence Re. Fishery Management Paper, 1982
Folder 4 Correspondence Re. Fishery Management Paper, 1982-1986

Box 10

Folder 1 Article – McCay, Bonnie J. “Optimal Foragers …”
Folder 2 Conference – Marine Resource Utilization, 1988
Folder 3 Grant – Florida/Georgia Sea Grant, 1979-1980
Folder 4 Grant – Impact of Naval Base Development …
Folder 5 Grant Proposal – Red Drum FMP, 1987
Folder 6 Report – The Cedar Key Oyster Relocation and Demo Project, 1977
Folder 7 Report – Feeding the People from Generation to Generation, 1986
Folder 8 Report – “The Matinnecock Indians of Long Island” by Dr. William Hawk

Box 11

Folder 1 Fishery Correspondence, 1986, 1987
Folder 2 Fishery Correspondence – 1990, 1992
Folder 3 Fisheries – Correspondence 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998
Folder 4 Fisheries Papers – “Defining the Social Parameters of Stone Crab …” 1984
Folder 5 Fisheries Papers – “A Demographic Profile of …”, “Inshore Shrimp …”
Folder 6 Fishery Papers – “Economic Impact Analysis of the Fishery Management Plan …” 1979
Folder 7 Fisheries Papers – “Fishery Management in a Multiple-Use Conflict”, 1985
Folder 8 Fishery Papers – Government and Industry, 1986
Folder 9 Fishery Papers – Resource Utilization, 1988
Folder 10 Fishery Papers – Report on the 1981 Texas Closure … 1981
Folder 11 Fishery Papers – Review of the 1986 Texas Closure for the Shrimp Fishery … — 1987
Folder 12 Fisheries Papers – The Role of Community-Level … in Fishery Conflicts, 1984
Folder 13 Fishery Papers – Social and Economic Factors … Stone Crab … 1989
Folder 14 Fishery Papers – Studying the Impact of Texas Shrimp Closure

Box 12

Folder 1 Bemidji – The Indian Student in the Bemidji Public School
Folder 2 Social Structure and Community Development, 1967
Folder 3 Beltrami County Resources and Its People, 1967
Folder 4 Annual Report of the Upper Mississippi Research Project, 1964
Folder 5 Lakewood: An Ethnographic Analysis of a Northern Minnesota Community, 1965

Box 13

Folder 1 Bemidji Community – Research Paper by Peter Hackett
Folder 2 Minnesota Ojibway Independent Study Reference Handout
Folder 3 Bemidji Indians – Survey Questionnaire Results, 1966-1967
Folder 4 Bemidji Indians – Student Survey
Folder 5 Bemidji Indians – Student Survey
Folder 6 Bemidji Indians – Student Survey
Folder 7 Bemidji Indians – Student Survey
Folder 8 Bemidji Indians – Student Survey
Folder 9 Bemidji – Transcriptions of Surveys
Folder 10 Directories

Box 14

Folder 1 Paredes, J. Anthony – Obituary
Folder 2 Dissertation – Tony Paredes
Folder 3 Manuscript – Indians of the Anglo-Tradition USA
Folder 4 Dissertation – Paredes, 1969

Box 15

Folder 1 Alexander
Folder 2 James Amend
Folder 3 Arnold, Joel
Folder 4 Sue Austin Dissertation
Folder 5 Maria Beltram
Folder 6 Barker
Folder 7 Bob Bedeau, Richard Cutbank, Charles Staples, Jr.
Folder 8 Bedeau, Robert
Folder 9 Davis, Donna
Folder 10 Finch Thesis
Folder 11 Florine
Folder 12 Glasure, Yong U.
Folder 13 Martin Green
Folder 14 Larry Haikey
Folder 15 Halada
Folder 16 Hammond
Folder 17 S. Hale – Ph.D. Comm.
Folder 18 C. Staples
Folder 19 Philip Wickner, Buckaunaga, Le Jeunesse, R. Cutbank, Morrison

Box 16

Folder 1 Cathy Adcox
Folder 2 Blow
Folder 3 J. Chafin
Folder 4 Steve Coonrod – Honor (Bell)
Folder 5 James Cook
Folder 6 Edith Crew
Folder 7 Frank Dall
Folder 8 Candace Donaghy
Folder 9 Usa Duongsaa
Folder 10 Cathy Edgeman
Folder 11 UFF
Folder 12 Ewen
Folder 13 Filiberto
Folder 14 Kimberly Fisher
Folder 15 Lisa George (Campos)
Folder 16 Melonie Heron
Folder 17 Cherlyn Renee Gooch
Folder 18 Fred Hawley

Box 17

Folder 1 C. Morrison
Folder 2 John Buckanga
Folder 3 Bill Dolson
Folder 4 C. Staples, Jr. (Cont.), B. Dolson, Bob Bedeau, Other Bits
Folder 5 Theresa Harris
Folder 6 John Higgins
Folder 7 Kara Hoover
Folder 8 Doug Hendrix
Folder 9 Laura Howard
Folder 10 Pete Hackett – Independent Study
Folder 11 Terry Bias
Folder 12 Erick Bacho

Box 18

Folder 1 Correspondence to and from Paredes, 1988-1993
Folder 2 Correspondence – American Anthropological Association, 1992-1993
Folder 3 Correspondence Re. Southeastern Indian Symposium, 1986-1987
Folder 4 Indian Symposium Conference Proceedings, 1987

Box 19 

Folder 1 Book – The Book of American Indians
Folder 2 Book – Grandmother Five Baskets
Folder 3 Book – How: Indian Sign Talk in Pictures
Folder 4 Book – On the Trail to Outdoor Adventure
Folder 5 Book – The Patches of Tipisa Lodge #326
Folder 6 Book – Indian Love
Folder 7 Periodicals – Indian Country
Folder 8 Photo
Folder 9 Notes

Box 20

Folder 1 Papers – Paredes – University of New Mexico, 1961
Folder 2 The Land and the People, Upper Mississippi Research Project, 1966
Folder 3 People and Politics in a Chippewa Community, 1967
Folder 4 Powhatan Project Proposal – 1992
Folder 5 Report on Human Resources for Beltrami County Planning, 1967
Folder 6 Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences … 1987
Folder 7 Upper Mississippi Research Project, 1964
Folder 8 Upper Mississippi Mental Health Center, Inc., 1968-1969

Box 21

Folder 1 Copy of Unidentified Letter
Folder 2 Court Case – 1984
Folder 3 Manuscript Review – Anthropology, Genteel Racism, & Multiculturalism, 1997
Folder 4 Papers – American Anthropology Association, by Margaret McMichael, 1980
Folder 5 Tony Paredes (Photo)
Folder 6 Clippings

Box 22

Folder 1 Oglethorpe – Alma Mater
Folder 2 Oglethorpe – Alumni Association
Folder 3 Oglethorpe – Alumni Weekend Photos
Folder 4 Oglethorpe – Alumni Weekends
Folder 5 Oglethorpe – Board
Folder 6 Oglethorpe – Class of 1961 50th Anniversary
Folder 7 Oglethorpe University – Alpha Phi Omega
Folder 8 Oglethorpe – Commencement Program 2011
Folder 9 Oglethorpe – Daughert, Stanley
Folder 10 Oglethorpe – Make a Difference
Folder 11 Oglethorpe University Name Tags
Folder 12 Oglethorpe – Clippings 

Box 23

Folder 1 Oglethorpe University – Correspondence from Paredes to His Mother — 1957
Folder 2 Oglethorpe – Reminiscences of Graduates of 1960s as Transcribed
Folder 3 Oglethorpe – Soldati, Joseph
Folder 4 Oglethorpe University Correspondence
Folder 5 Oglethorpe – Correspondence to Paredes from Oglethorpe
Folder 6 Correspondence – Commentary on Correspondence between Paredes and His Mother
Folder 7 Oglethorpe – GRA-Y Program
Folder 8 Oglethorpe Humanities Program
Folder 9 Correspondence to Paredes – 1959
Folder 10 Oglethorpe – Letter to Editor, 1956-1957
Folder 11 Oglethorpe – Notebooks
Folder 12 Oglethorpe – Notebooks
Folder 13 Oglethorpe – Papers, 1961-1962
Folder 14 Papers – Paredes – Oglethorpe, 1960
Folder 15 Oglethorpe – Paredes Notebook – “The Nature of Language”, 1961
Folder 16 Oglethorpe – Papers – Anthropology
Folder 17 Oglethorpe – Miscellaneous
Folder 18 Oglethorpe – Exams 1959 (Summer) 

Box 24

Folder 1 Oglethorpe University — Bulletin 1958
Folder 2 Oglethorpe University Carillon – 2010
Folder 3 Oglethorpe – Men’s Basketball Program, 2005-2006
Folder 4 Oglethorpe University “O” Book – 1957-1958, 1958-1959
Folder 5 Oglethorpe University – Oglethorpe Book 11th Edition
Folder 6 Oglethorpe University Flying Petrels
Folder 7 Oglethorpe – Play, 1958
Folder 8 Oglethorpe University – History by M. Pattillo
Folder 9 Oglethorpe University – Literary Magazine

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Miscellaneous Papers