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The Papers of Robert A. Mckennan at Dartmouth College
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Descriptive Summary
Creator: Mckennan, Robert A.
Title Remainder: Papers. 1925-1969
Dates: 1925-1969
Identification: ML-50




Chronology of Robert Addison McKennan

1903 Born December 20, Helena, Montana, son of Robert S. and
1921 Graduates from Helena High School
1925 Graduates from Dartmouth College [UNK]
1925-1926 Instructor in Citizenship, Dartmouth College
1927-1929 Harvard University-Graduate Study in Anthropology
1928 Marries Catharine Laycock in December
1929 Summer with Walapai Indians, northwestern Arizona
1929-1930 Field research in Alaska, Indians of Upper Tanana River
1930-1934 Instructor sociology, Dartmouth College
1933 Harvard University PhD. (Anthropology)
1933 Summer with Chandalar Kutchin, Alaska
1934-1938 Assistant Professor, Sociology, Dartmouth College
1938-1969 Professor, Dartmouth College
1942-1945 USAAF (Lt. Col.), mostly in Alaska
1958 Summer along Thelon River, Barren Grounds, Canada
1962 Summer in Central Alaska - Healy Lake
1969 Retires

Other Descriptive Data

Robert Addison McKennan

Adjunct Descriptive Data

The papers of Robert A. McKennan, Class of 1925, Professor of Sociology, came to Dartmouth College Library in 1969 after his retirement from a teaching career that spanned four decades, 1925-1969.

His papers, mostly correspondence, detail his teaching career at Dartmouth (sociology and anthropology), his participation in various meetings and conferences, the rise and subsequent demise of the Northern Studies Program, and reveals the progress of his tow manuscripts -- The Upper Tanana Indians (1959) and The Chandalar Kutchin (1965) into published form.

These papers also show the gradual recognition “of anthropology as an independent field of study with its own departmental major.” The Department of Anthropology was established at Dartmouth in 1967.

These papers would prove useful to any researcher interested in one mans life work in his chosen profession.

Major Publications

Dartmouth Services

Alumni Council 1950-1954

Dartmouth College Athletic Association

Various faculty committees: Committee on Educational Planning, Committee on the Library, Nominations, Advisory to the President, Conference with Trustees, Outing Club. (etc.)





SERIES I Sociology and Anthropology Department
BOX 1
Anthropology - Correspondence re: topics
Anthropology staff applicants
History and development of Anthropology major
Development of Anthropology 1
Anthropology 1
Anthropology 1 - Notes by Mary Wesbrook
Anthropology 21
Anthropology 32
Anthropology 35
Anthropology 75F Natwistic movement
Nuclear America 81s
Culture and Personality 81w
Primitive Religion 81w (1963)
Social organization 81a (1964) - 82s (1965)
Poverty 81w (1965)
Ethnography Method 81w (1967)
Ethnohistory 82s
“Anthropology for teachers - Bibliography”
Sociology 1 - Questionnarie 1948
Sociology 1 - Syllabi and helps
Sociology 1 - “Poop” sheets and exams
Sociology - Course elections - Redfield report
Department of Sociology and Anthropology - prposed changes
Calendar and personnel policy
Final lecture - June 5, 1969
Books ordered by R.A. McK
Deans cards
Grade books 1930-1969
Book reviews
SERIES II Correspondence 1938-1969
BOX 2
Correspondence 1938-1954
Correspondence 1954-1960
Correspondence 1960-1966
Osgood, C. B.
Expedition 1962
Arctic Institute Advisory
Tanana Trip
Athopaskan Conference, 1965
Program in Human Ecology (UA)
Alaska, 1966
Alaska, 1967
Japan, 1968
Correspondence (Current) 1969 - A
Correspondence (Current) - B
Correspondence (Current) - C
Correspondence (Current) - D
Correspondence (Current) - F
Correspondence (Current) - G
Correspondence (Current) - H
Correspondence (Current) - J
Correspondence (Current) - K
Correspondence (Current) - L
Correspondence (Current) - Mc
Correspondence (Current) - M
Correspondence (Current) - N
Correspondence (Current) - O
Correspondence (Current) - P
Correspondence (Current) - R
Correspondence (Current) - S
Correspondence (Current) - T
Correspondence (Current) - W
A.A.A. Meeting - Experimental Workshop - Seattle
A.A.A. Meeting 1962
A.A.A. Panel - December 1954
Alaskan Village Consultation Panel 1971-1973
Athlectic Council Correspondence
Chandalar trip 1933
Chandalar Kutchin Monograph
Class of 1925 Correspondence
D.C.A.C. (Hockey)
R.B. - Dixon article
Articles for Encyclopedia Arctica re: Athapaskans
Moscow meetings, 1964
National Science Foundation References
Northern Athapaskan Physical Anthropology
Northeastern Anthropological Association
PhD 1933
re: YUPA #55 Monograph 1958-1959
re: YUPA #55 re: Athapaskan Project
CAPA 1964-1965
D.C.A.C.
SERIES III Articles and manuscripts
BOX 3
Journal of Robert McKennan - Mt. McKinley 1945
Healy Lake, Alaska
Journal of the Chandalar
Mss. of Chandalar Kutchin - Typescript and holograph with revisions
Mss. of The Kutchin - Typescript (carbon copy)
Mss. of Chandalar Kutchin - Typescript
Mss. of Chandalar Kutchin
Photographs - Arctic Village (includes people and artifacts)
BOX 4
Journal of the Upper Tanana Sept. 1929 - June 1930
Upper Tanana - First revision (1941-) 2nd and 3rd Revision (in box)
YUPA #55 Upper Tanana Indians - Notes, typescripts
YUPA #55 Upper Tanana Indians - Galley proofs
YUPA #55 Upper Tanana Indians - Printers Mss.
SERIES IV Northern Studies Program
BOX 5
Northern Studies Program: Description of
Development of Northern Studies Program to 1951
Development of Northern Studies Program to 1951
Development of Northern Studies Program to 1952
Development of Northern Studies Program to 1953
SERIES V Northern Studies Program (cont.)
Development of Northern Studies Program 1954
Northern Studies: Correspondence re: Arctic Seminar
Arctic Seminar - Student reports - Spares
Arctic Seminar - Faculty outline - Spares
Arctic Seminar - Bibliographic aids
Arctic Seminar - W 1960 (Schedule)
Arctic Seminar - Questionnaire at beginning
Arctic Seminar - Questionnaire at Term end 1953
Arctic Seminar - Syllabus and details 1952-1953
Arctic Seminar - Syllabus and details 1953-54
Arctic Seminar - Syllabus and details 1954-55
Arctic Seminar - Syllabus and details 1955-56
Arctic Seminar - Syllabus and details 1956-57
Arctic Seminar - Syllabus and details 1957-58
Arctic Seminar - Syllabus and details 1958-59
Arctic Seminar - Northern Anthropology - Teaching outline
Arctic Seminar - Form sheet for theses
Arctic Seminar - Thesis index
Northern Studies Project: Minutes
The Northern Frontier Studies Project at Dartmouth College
Northern Studies: Appeals to Foundations
Northern Studies: Applications for work
Northern Studies: Arctic Studies Project: U.S. Air Force
Northern Studies: Arctic Institute of N.A.
Northern Studies: Arctic Research Programs
Northern Studies: Budget
Northern Studies: Clippings of Interest
BOX 6
Northern Studies: Correspondence - General
Northern Studies: Correspondence - Mr. Bradley
Northern Studies: Correspondence - Canadian Dept. of Northern Affairs
Northern Studies: Correspondence: re Endorsements
Northern Studies: Correspondence - Dr. Heyl
Northern Studies: Correspondence - Jensen
Northern Studies: Correspondence - Trevor Lloyd
Northern Studies: Correspondence - R.S. Monahan
Northern Studies: Correspondence - Dean Morrison
Northern Studies: Correspondence - David C. Nutt
Northern Studies: Correspondence on Plant
Northern Studies: Correspondence - Stefansson
Northern Studies: Correspondence - Dr. Washburn
Northern Studies: Correspondence - Planning Committee - Advisory Panel
Northern Studies: Correspondence - D.O.C. Cold Weather Program
Northern Studies: Correspondence - Encyclopaedia Arctica
G.M. Day - Mailing list for publications
G.M. Day - Correspondence re: research
Dr. Day's Abenaka Project
Directory of Arctic Anthropologists
Encyclopaedia Arctica
Northern Studies: Minutes re: Encyclopedia Artica
Northern Studies: Experience of personnel
Northern Studies: Fellowships and Graduate Study Possibilities
Correspondence: U.S. Steel Graduate Fellowships
Northern Studies: Hanover Holiday
Northern Studies: International Geophysical Year
Northern Studies: Laboratory (Army Engineers)
Northern Studies: Letters of Recommendation
Northern Studies: Literature in the Field
Northern Studies: Mount Washington Observatory
Northern Studies: Northern Conference (Summer)
Northern Studies: Norwegian Language Study
Northern Studies: Pattee's Caves, N. Salem, N.H.
Northern Studies: Polar Conference
Northern Studies: Marine use of property
Northern Studies: Purchases
Northern Studies: Questionnaire Forms
Northern Studies: Questionnaire 1956
Northern Studies: Student questionnaires 1954
Northern Studies: Committee on Research
Northern Studies: Reports by Graduate Students
Northern Studies: Research projects
Northern Studies: Reynolds Northern Fellowship
Northern Studies: Stefansson Library
Northern Studies: Summer Institute
Northern Studies: Summer employment
Northern Studies: Unique Assets of College
Northern Studies: U.S. Weather Bureau Correspondence
Northern Studies: Visits by outside persons
SERIES VI Charts-Drawings-Maps (oversize)
Upper Tanana Region - map
Charts and drawings (in package)
SERIES VII Publications
BOX 7
Robinson, D. Brief history of South Dakota
Blumenthal, A. The place of the term “culture” in the Social Sciences
Westbrook, M. “A venture into Ethnohistory: The Journals of Rev. V.C. Sim, Pioneer Missionary on the Yukon” from Polar Notes, n. IX, May 1969 pp. 34-45
Stearns, John B. “Epicurus and Lucretius on Love” from The Classical Journal, v. 31, n. 6, March 1936 p. 343-351
McKennan, Robert A. “Athapaskan groups of central Alaska at the time of white contact” from Ethnohistory v. 16, n. 4, Fall 1969 p. 335-343
Panitt, Jeffrey. The Lessons of the Congo. Hanover, N H. Chase Peace Prize Essay, 1965.
In Memoriam - Robert Henry Michelet
Feldmesser, Robert A. The Option: An analysis of an educational innovation.
MacNaughton, William S. Composite Value Patterns in Non-curricular areas of Student life at Dartmouth Interim report on Class of 1965
MacNaughton, William S. Comparative profiles of emergent value patterns in undergraduate life at Dartmouth. A Summary report on selected data from the Class of 1965 study of student activities.
Helgen, Henry M. and Moorman, Harold N. The Class of 1966: Its vocational and educational plans an analysis by major.
Moorman, Harold N. The Class of 1967: Its vocational and educational plans an analysis by major.
Miler, Ralph E. Health report on Kapingamarangi Hanover, N H. 1950
Eranos, the journal of student affairs, v. 1, n. 2, May 1966
Hopkins Committee Report for the Secretary on the Civil Governments of Guam and American Samoa 1947
BOX VIII.
Athapaskan Conference Papers, 1971
FOLDER : 1.

 Clark, A. McFadyn
FOLDER : 2.

 Clark, Donald
FOLDER : 3.

 Cook, John P. and Robert A. McKennan
FOLDER : 4.

 Davis, Clark
FOLDER : 5.

 Gillespie, Beryl
FOLDER : 6.

 Gillespie, Beryl
FOLDER : 7.

 Helm, June, et. al.
FOLDER : 8.

 Honigman, John J.
FOLDER : 9.

 Howren, Robert
FOLDER : 10.

 Krauss, Michael E.
FOLDER : 11.

 de Laguna, Frederica
FOLDER : 12.

 McClellan, C.
FOLDER : 13.

 Morlan, Richard E.
FOLDER : 14.

 Noble, William C.
FOLDER : 15.

 Osgood, Cornelius
FOLDER : 16.

 Savishinsky, Joel S.
FOLDER : 17.

 Slobodin, Richard
FOLDER : 18.

 Smith, J. G. E.