All tapes of oral history interviews and selected transcripts restricted by interviewees are closed and are not available to researchers. Excerpts from both closed and open interviews contained in the unpublished manuscript "Native Voices in the City" are open for research. To gain access to the materials researchers must read and agree to the conditions outlined in the Chicago American Indian Oral History Project's "Oral History Transcript Use Contract" form. Interview transcripts are available one at a time in the Special Collections reading room.

Transcripts may not be reprinted or copied in their entirety without the permission of the Advisory Committee to the Chicago American Indian Oral History Project; limited copying of transcript materials is permitted. The publication of excerpts or quotations from the transcripts requires the permission of the Newberry Library. Segments of interviews appearing in "Native American Voices" may be reprinted with proper standard citation.