Sheep in Navajo Culture and Social Organization, 1973

The Peter Iverson Collection consists primarily of research materials collected to support Iverson's various publications. These materials date from the late 1800s to the early 2000s. Also included are materials documenting Iverson's teaching experience at Diné College between 1969 and 1972 and papers showing the 1991 White House Conference on Indian Education. The collection is arranged in seven series.

Series I: Navajo Research Material contains published articles photocopied from journals that discuss multiple Navajo topics. Also included are Tribal Council Minutes (incomplete); materials regarding such programs as DNA and environmental issues (including grazing and land reduction); chapter reports; sovereignty; and resolutions and lists of speeches (including those of John Collier, Chee Dodge, Peter McDonald, and Jimmy Becenti). Iverson used these research materials for his books on the Navajo.

Series II: Navajo Community College includes materials documenting accreditation, financial issues, and curriculum issues in addition to Regents' reports, quarterly reports, budget reports, minutes of council and faculty meetings, and memoranda. These materials date from Iverson's time at the institution (1969-1972).

Series III: Carlos Montezuma contains material that Iverson used to write his biography of the Mohave Apache activist, including articles by Montezuma; his application for tribal enrolment; his autobiography and correspondence with Gertrude Bonnin (Yank-ton Sioux writer and activist); and copies of Montezuma's writings, including his paper defending Indian rights entitled Wassaja. Also included are copies of Dr. Iverson's research notes.

Series IV: Barry M. Goldwater contains Iverson's research notes, interview and correspondence, notes on the Goldwater Kachina Collection and his photography, and newsclippings. Also included is information regarding the Smoki People, of whom Goldwater was a member.

Series V: Indians of North America includes material that may have been used for Iverson's research on the Plains Indians and while writing When Indians Became Cowboys.

Series VI: White House Conference on Indian Education contains material that Iverson collected during the conference. These items date from 1989 to 1991.

Series VII: Personal includes book reviews by Peter Iverson, reviews of Iverson books, copies of Iverson's speeches and presentations, published journal articles, biographical information, awards, and publisher correspondence and contracts.