Florence Connolly Shipek Collection

Russell Michalak

Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library

800 North Dartmouth Avenue

Claremont, CA 91711

Email: specialcollections@claremont.edu

URL: https://library.claremont.edu/scl/

Descriptive Summary

Title: Florence Connolly Shipek Collection

Dates: 1981-1985 and undated

Collection number: H.Mss.0828

Creator: Shipek, Florence Connolly

Extent: 0.2 Linear Feet (1 slim document box)

Repository: Claremont Colleges. Library. Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library, Claremont, CA 91711.

Abstract: A collection of published materials by Florence Connelly Shipek (1918-2003), historian, anthropologist, and expert in Native American history and culture in Southern California. The collection primarily focuses on the Spanish missions in Southern California and the Kumeyaay and Luiseño peoples.

Physical Location: Please consult repository.

Language of Material: Languages represented in the collection: English.

Administrative Information

Access

Collection open for research.

Publication Rights

All requests for permission to publish must be submitted in writing to Special Collections.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Florence Connolly Shipek Collection (H.Mss.0828). Special Collections and Archives, The Claremont Colleges Library, The Claremont Colleges Services, Claremont, California.

Provenance/Source of Acquisition

Provenance unknown.

Accruals

No additions to the collection are anticipated.

Processing Information

Arranged and processed by Special Collections staff.

Biography / Administrative History

Florence Connelly Shipek (1918-2003) was historian and anthropologist, who specialized in Native American history and culture in Southern California. She was born on December 11, 1918, in North Adams, Massachusetts and earned her BA and MA degrees in anthropology from the University of Arizona. After moving to San Diego in the early 1950s, Shipek became involved with the local tribes as a volunteer to help preserve federal support for Native American communities. In the late 1950s, she assisted attorneys working on tribal land claims – recording interviews with Native American elders and documenting their histories and customs. She continued her research through the 1970s, which resulted in two books and made her an expert witness in Native American land and water rights cases. In 1977, Shipek earned her Ph.D. in ethnohistory from the University of Hawaii. From 1978 to retirement, she was a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Shipek also served as a long-time member of the Congress of History, giving presentations about Native Americans at history conferences. In 2002, she received the Save Our Heritage Organisation (SOHO) People in Preservation "Lifetime Achievement" award. Florence Shipek passed away on January 9, 2003, in Point Loma, San Diego, California.

Sources:

Barmy, Chet. "In Loving Memory: Florence Connolly Shipek, Kumeyaay Anthropologist." The Kumeyaay Information Village & Website. January 12, 2003. http://www.kumeyaay.info/whoswho/inmemory/shipek.html

Halmy, Helen. "Florence C. Shipek 1918-2003." Save Our Heritage Organisation. Accessed June 18, 2024. https://www.sohosandiego.org/reflections/2003-1/shipek.html

Scope and Contents of the Collection

This collection includes journal articles authored or contributed to by Florence Connolly Shipek, as well as a book review. Materials primarily focus on the Spanish missions in Southern California and the cultural, social, and political effects they had on the local Native American peoples, specifically the Kumeyaay and Luiseño.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library’s online public access catalog.

Subject Terms

Anthropology

California, Southern -- History

Diegueño Indians

Ethnohistory

Franciscans--Missions

Indians of North America

Kehoe, Alice Beck

Kumeyaay

Luiseño Indians

Luiseño Indians -- Missions -- California -- Oceanside Region -- History

Luiseño Indians--Religion

Missions, Spanish -- California

Native Americans

Shipek, Florence Connolly

Genre and Form of Materials

Articles

Book reviews

Box 1, Folder 1

Kehoe, Alice B., "Revisionist Anthropology: Aboriginal North America" 1981 October

Note

Journal article featured in Current Anthropology, Volume 22, Number 5. Comment by Florence Shipek included on page 514.

Box 1, Folder 2

Shipek, Florence Connolly, "California Indian Reactions to the Franciscans" 1985 April

Note

Reprinted from The Americas (Academy of American Franciscan History), Volume XLI, Number 4. Autographed copy.

Box 1, Folder 3

Shipek, Florence Connolly, "Devolution and Enclavement in Southern California: The San Luiseno Case" undated

Box 1, Folder 4

Shipek, Florence Connolly, Book Review undated

Note

Review of American Indian Environments: Ecological Issues in Native American History . Edited by Christopher Vecsey and Robert W. Venables. (New York: Syracuse University Press. 1980. Bibliographical references and index)