Correspondence from Kenneth H. Pearson, Vice-President, Publishing at Grolier, to E Palmer Patterson regarding a proposed series of books about Indigenous peoples in Canada. In the correspondence, Kenneth Pearson proposed that the books be published for the British Columbia Ministry of Education for the grade 4 social studies curriculum. Also includes correspondence from Jocelyn Smith, a staff member at Grolier, to E Palmer Patterson regarding an edited manuscript.

Additionally contains manuscript notes and typescript draft chapters of a book titled, "The Haida: People of the Land and Sea" by E Palmer Patterson and Nancy-Lou Patterson. Also includes photocopied curriculum documents from the British Columbia Ministry of Education.

An offprint of an article titled, “The Poet and the Indian : Indian themes in the poetry of Duncan Campbell Scott and John Collier,” written by E Palmer Patterson The article was published in Ontario History 59, no. 2 (June, 1967), p. 69-78. The cover of the offprint features a drawing by Nancy-Lou Patterson illustrating the interpretations of Indian themes in the poetry of Duncan Campbell Scott and John Collier. The offprint was originally housed in a package titled, Tongass Tlingit: Tongass at Ft. Simpson. The term Tongass is an anglicized variant name for the Taantʼa Ḵwáan. Fort Simpson, BC is now known as Lax-Kwʼalaams, BC.