Joy Leland Research Materials
Scope and Contents
The Joy Leland Research Materials contains grant funded research materials on alcoholism of urban Nevada female Indians and publications presented about the findings. Also research materials collected for the biography of Frederick West Lander, explorer and soldier who led or participated in five transcontinental surveys for transportation routes (1853-1860). Research materials on Lander were gathered by Joy Leland, Alice Baldrica, and Mavis Shahrani and published as Frederick West Lander: A biographical sketch (1822-1862) by the Desert Research Institute Publications in the Social Sciences No. 15, 1993. The biography was the fulfillment of a condition of an endowment to DRI from Anna Lander West McDonnell (1872-1966), daughter of Frederick Lander's brother Charles West.
"Anna Lander West McDonnell Papers have been accessioned as a separate manuscript collection: 96-13."
Dates
- 1979-1994
Creator
- Leland, Joy (Creator, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Materials must be used on-site; advance notice suggested. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
The Lander research materials are under copyright restrictions.
Biographical Note
Dr. Joy Leland, Ph.D., is a research professor emeritus of Anthropology, Desert Research Institute (DRI) of the University of Nevada (1989). She received the following degrees: B.A., Pomona College, 1949; M.B.A., Stanford University, 1960; M.A., University of Nevada, Reno, 1972; and Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1975.
Dr. Leland began working for the DRI in 1961. Her research was in the field of anthropology, focusing on studies of alcohol and health issues among urban Native Americans. She is the author of many articles in professional journals, professional papers, and the following books:
We Need to be Shown: A Study of the Talents, Work Potential and Aspirations of the Pyramid Lake Indians by William Gomberg and Joy Leland (1962)
Great Basin Indian Population Figures (1873-1979) and the Pitfalls Therein (1976)
Drinking Styles in an Indian Settlement: A Numerical Folk Taxonomy. M.A. Thesis, University of California, Irvine (1975)
Firewater Myths: North American Indian Drinking and Alcohol Addiction (1976)
Frederick West Lander: A Biographical Sketch (1822-1862), edited by Joy Leland with contributions by Mavis Shahrani, Joy Leland, and Alice Baldrica (1993).
Extent
14.803 Linear Feet (17 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Joy Leland Research Materials contains grant funded research materials on alcoholism of urban Nevada female Indians and publications presented about the findings. Also research materials collected for the biography of Frederick West Lander, explorer and soldier who led or participated in five transcontinental surveys for transportation routes (1853-1860). Research materials on Lander were gathered by Joy Leland, Alice Baldrica, and Mavis Shahrani and published as Frederick West Lander: A biographical sketch (1822-1862) by the Desert Research Institute Publications in the Social Sciences No. 15, 1993. The biography was the fulfillment of a condition of an endowment to DRI from Anna Lander West McDonnell (1872-1966), daughter of Frederick Lander's brother Charles West.
Arrangement
Arranged into the following series: 1) "Alcohol in the Lives of Some Indian Women" Research Materials; 2) Research Materials for Biography of Frederick West Lander
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Joy Leland in 1996.
Accruals
At a future date, Dr. Leland will be donating the key to the identity of the subjects by number for the questionnaires in Series 1; they will be restricted for a time period specified by Dr. Leland.
Separated Materials
Photographs have been transferred to the Special Collections Department photo archive as collection number UNRS-P1997-15.
The following maps and transparencies were transferred to the maps section of the Special Collections Department:
Dept. of the Interior, Pacific Wagon Roads. Preliminary Map of the Western Division of the Fort Kearny South Pass and Honey Lake Road, supervised under the direction of John Kirk by F.A. Bishop. 1857.
Dept. of the Interior, Pacific Wagon Roads. Preliminary Map of the Central Division of the Ft. Kearny South Pass & Honey Lake Wagon-Road, surveyed and worked under the direction of F.W. Lander by W.H. Wagner. 1857-1858.
War Dept. Explorations and Surveys for a Rail Road Route from the Mississippi R to the Pacific Ocean. Milk R. to the Crossing of the Columbia R. from explorations & surveys made under the direction of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War by Isaac I. Stevens, Governor of Washington Territory. 1853-1855.
- Alcoholism -- Nevada
- Baldrica, Alice M.
- Ethnographies
- Indians of North America -- Alcohol use -- Nevada
- Lander, F. W. (Frederick West), 1821-1862
- Maps
- McDonnell, Anna Lander West, 1876-1966
- Pacific railroads -- Explorations and surveys
- Photographs
- Questionnaires
- Railroads -- Surveying
- Roads -- History -- West (U.S.)
- Shahrani, Mavis
- Transportation -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
- Women -- Alcohol use
Creator
- Leland, Joy (Creator, Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Joy Leland Research Materials
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Susan Searcy
- Date
- June 1996
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department Repository
Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center
1664 N. Virginia St.
Reno Nevada 89557-0322 USA
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