Sabrina Peck Collection
- Donor Name
- Sabrina Peck
- Accession Number
- 08221101
- Processor
- Jon Ille
- Access Restrictions on Use
- None
- Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
- All publication rights are held by Little Big Horn College and use for publication must be approved by archivist.
- Preferred Citation of Materials
- The Sabrina Peck Collection, Little Big Horn College Archives, Crow Agency, MT 59034
Physical Description
- Linear Feet
- .25
- Scope
- 1990
- Materials Included
- Interview compact discs with prominent Crow community members, interview transcripts, photographs, and biographical information on Sabrina Peck.
- Location Note
- The transcripts are located in the main storage and the compact discs are in the video and audio storage both with the label Sabrina Peck Collection.
Biographical and/or Historical note
Sabrina Peck is a playwright, director, and choreographer, who has written, produced, and directed numerous plays in New York City and in other cities on the East coast. Peck often works with diverse collaborators for her productions including Bosnian Muslim refugees in Croatia, commodities traders in New York City, and former tobacco workers in Durham, North Carolina.
Peck attended Harvard University, where she graduated with a degree in theatre in 1984. In 1990, she visited the Crow Reservation on a fellowship from Radcliffe College to conduct interviews related to the Crow creation story. During Peck’s time on the Crow reservation, she conducted interviews with Joe Medicine Crow, Henry Real Bird, Mickey Old Coyote, and Tom Yellowtail.
Provenance
Sabrina Peck conducted the interviews in the collection as part of a fellowship through Radcliffe College in 1990 with an emphasis on the Crow creation story. While the creation story was her emphasis, she collected a wide variety of oral histories through her research. Peck held the compact discs and transcripts in her home in New York City prior to their transfer to Little Big Horn College in 2011.
Inventory
Box 1: Interview Transcripts and Photographs
- File 1: Tom Yellowtail Interview Transcript
- File 2: Photograph Tom Yellowtail
- File 3: Joe Medicine Crow Interview Transcript
- File 4: Photograph Dorothea Aragon
Box 2: Audio Interviews
- File 1: Six Compact discs - Mickey Old Coyote
- File 2: Two Compact discs - Henry Real Bird
- File 3: One Compact disc - Joe Medicine Crow
- File 4: Four Compact discs - Tom Yellowtail