National Congress of American Indians records

United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs

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The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) was formed in 1824. An agency of the federal government of the United States within the US Department of the Interior, it is responsible for the administration and management of land held in trust by the United States for Native Americans in the United States, Native American Tribes and Alaska Natives. From the guide to the Navajo Land, motion picture, undated, (J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah) A Statistics Section was organ...

Tonasket, Mel

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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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Deloria, Vine

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Vine Deloria Jr., author, theologian, historian, lawyer, and community organizer was a member of the Standing Rock Sioux. Born on March 26, 1933 in Martin, South Dakota near the Pine Ridge Oglala Sioux Reservation, he was the grandson of Tipi Sapa (Black Lodge), also known as Rev. Philip Joseph Deloria, an Episcopal priest and a leader of the Yankton band of the Nakota Nation. Deloria's father, Vine Sr. (1901–1990), studied English and Christian theology and became an Episcopal arch...

United States. Indian Claims Commission

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Zitkala is the Indian name for Gertrude Bonnin, 1876-1938. From the guide to the National Council of American Indians records, 1926-1938, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Historical note: The Indian Claims Commission rendered a settlement between the United States Government and the San Carlos Apache Tribe, the White Mountain Apache Tribe, and the Yavapai-Apache Indian Community of Fort McDowell. The settlement involved the title transfer of two tracts of land outside the ...

United States. American Indian Policy Review Commission

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Snake, Reuben, 1937-1993

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Reuben A. Snake, Jr. was born January 12, 1937 at Winnebago, Nebraska, the youngest child of Reuben Harold and Virginia Greyhair Snake. Reuben’s mother divorced her husband and later remarried, but Reuben’s early life was fraught with hardships, including a period of separation from his parents and siblings. When the family’s financial situation improved, parents and children were able to reunite and eventually settled in Hastings, Minnesota. Reuben entered Haskell Insti...

Native American Rights Fund

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National Tribal Chairmen's Association

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The National Tribal Chairmen's Association (NTCA) was formally created in Albuquerque July 13th, 1971. Funded in part by contracts with the Department of the Interior and in part by funds from the department of Health Education and Welfare the NTCA was composed of elected chairmen from federally recognized Indian tribes, bands and communities in the United States. The NTCA served as a voice to promote American Indian unity, observation of treaty and other rights, preservation of values, and prog...

McNickle, D'Arcy, 1904-1977

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North American Indian author, government employee, and professor. Born in 1904 to a French Cree mother and an Irish father, and adopted into the Flathead Tribe, McNickle was educated at Montana and Oregon government and mission schools, and attended several universities including Montana, Yale, and Grenoble. After working at the BIA under John Collier (1936-1952), McNickle directed AID from from the Univ. of Colo., Boulder (1952-1966), eventually focusing on the Navajo a...

Curry, James E., 1907-1972

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James E. Curry (1907-1972) was an attorney during the 1930s up to the 1950s active in the legal affairs of Alaskan Natives, particularly the Tlingit and Haida. He was born in Chicago, IL and later entered Loyola University as a scholarship student and received his law degree in 1930. After a short employment term in the legal division of an insurance company, he opened his own law office. At the same time he was secretary of the Chicago branch of the American Civil Liberties Union and an attorne...

Bronson, Ruth Muskrat, 1897-1982

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Ruth Muskrat Bronson (1897-1982) was a Cherokee poet, educator and Indian rights activist. Born on October 3, 1897 in White Water, Delaware Nation, Indian Territory, Bronson became the first Guidance and Placement Officer of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. She served as executive secretary for the National Congress of American Indians, which was founded in 1944, and created their legislative news service. After a decade of work in Washington, D.C., Bronson moved to Arizona. There she served as ...

Arrow, Inc.

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American Indian Development was "a project concerned with helping the Indian people of the United States to find and use the material resources and the leadership which exists in their communities." 1953 was its second full year of operations. The project was "devoted to self-help projects and leadership training in Indian communities." Initiated by the National Congress of American Indians, it was funded by The Field Foundation in the first four years. From the description of Americ...

Trimble, Charles E.

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Harjo, Suzan Shown, 1945-

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Suzan Shown Harjo (born June 2, 1945) (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee) is an advocate for Native American rights. She is a poet, writer, lecturer, curator, and policy advocate, who has helped Native peoples recover more than one million acres (4,000 km²) of tribal lands. After co-producing the first American Indian news show in the nation for WBAI radio while living in New York City, and producing other shows and theater, in 1974 she moved to Washington, DC, to work on national policy issues. Sh...

United Effort Trust

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