Hazel Hertzberg recorded Interviews of Frank W. Parker and Helen L. Peterson

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Hazel Hertzberg recorded Interviews of Frank W. Parker and Helen L. Peterson

1975

https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAI.AC.082

Includes Parker's recollections of preliminary efforts in the 1940s to plan a representative and effective pan-Indian organization; of the creation of the National Congress of American Indians and highlights of its history, 1952-1962, when Parker was actively affiliated with it, and Recording Secretary; and of a number of people involved in its initial and continuing stages. Also includes remarks by Helen Peterson, 1953-1961 Executive Director of the organization, concerning the threat of internal pressure to it.

2 sound cassettes

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 11658135

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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Peterson, Helen L.

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Helen L. Peterson, born in 1915 on the Pine Ridge Reservation, is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux tribe. She attended Chadron State College in 1932, beginning an educational process that included course work at Colorado State College of Education and the University of Colorado. She received a B.S. degree in Business Education from Chadron State College in 1957. Her first important job was with the Department of Agriculture's Resettlement Administration, a New Deal...

National Congress of American Indians

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Parker Frank W.

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Hertzberg, Hazel

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