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"The Brafferton School" quilt was created by Denise Walters of the Nottoway Tribe of Virginia in May 2022. The quilt was created to commemorate the history of the Brafferton Indian School at William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. The school was constructed in 1723 and students from many local Virginia tribes, including the Nottoway, attended the Brafferton before and after the construction of the building. Indigenous tribes were required to pay a tax to the local government but by sending two students to the Brafferton, they were absolved from paying taxes. The quilt is a tribute to all of the Indigenous students who attended the school.

Collection includes materials documenting the daily activities of Gamma Phi Beta (Alpha Chi Chapter). Materials include pages from a scrapbook that contain stereotypical caricatures of east Asian and Native American people as well as derogatory language regarding race, gender, sexual orientation, and ethnicity. Collection also includes photographs of culturally insensitive events held in Sorority Court.

Contains prints of engravings depicting John Smith, Pocahontas, and Benjamin Franklin.

The stereograms in this collection represent racist attitudes of the time period and also the struggles of a minority population. Stereograms are an early form of photography which was often used for educational purposes. When a view finder is used to look at the stereograms, the images appear to be three dimensional.

Six boxes relating to Chief Oliver "Fish Hawk" Perry's life and role as Chief Emeritus for Virginia's Nansemond Tribe, including materials from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, National Register of Historic Places, NAGPRA documentation, personal photographs, archeological reports, magazine articles, personal and official correspondence, awards, resume, and assorted audiovisual materials. Also included is a copy of the Tribune Extra's "First Account of the Custer Massacre" dated Bismarck, D.T., July 6, 1876 (received 6 February 2001 by Danielle Moretti-Langholtz).

This collection contains papers that document the Zuni culture and its history since the sixteenth century. It has more than forty pages of papers that includes recordings of social structures and rituals associated with the Zuni people.

Three brochures providing information on the fifteenth, twenty-first, and twenty-second Tack Faculty Lecture Series. This lecture series occurs once a semester, and gives a professor the ability to speak on a topic of general interest.

The Thomasina E. Jordan collection contains the personal and professional papers of American Indian activist Thomasina E. Jordan. The collection includes awards, certificates, correspondence, newspaper articles, and photographs. The Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act, H.R. 984 granted federal recognition status to six native tribes in Virginia. This act provides eligible ethnic groups services and benefits provided by the federal government to federally recognized tribes, without regard to the existence of a reservation for the tribe. The act was named in honor of Thomasina E. Jordan.

Three sheets of written vocabulary and phrases of the Dakota Native American language. These were notes taken by Reed while stationed with the Army at Fort Rice in the Dakota Territory. Phrases include "I am sick", "something to eat", and "I love you". There are many phrases which are left blank which may indicate that all of the phrases compiled by Reed were ones in which he desired to learn from the Native American tribes with which he interacted and communicated. There are also sections of his pages that are devoted entirely to conjugations of the verb to be (Yanka) as well as sections that break down pronouns, possessive cases, and plurals of words and phrases. Included with the Dakota phrases is a carte de visite of Reed taken in Philadelphia by Wenderoth, Taylor, and Brown.