Helen L. Peterson papers

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Helen L. Peterson papers

circa 1944 to circa 1990

https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAI.AC.016

The Helen Peterson collection includes correspondence, notes, miscellaneous administrative documents, financial records, calendars, questionnaires, notes from interviews, survey forms, copies of resolutions, proceedings, speeches, programs, press releases, printed and processed material, and many other types of documents. Mainly these relate to Petersons's career and special interests between 1953 and 1970. There are also a few documents that concern the organizations which Peterson served for periods preceding or following her periods in office. Of special interest are the materials related to the NCAI, many of which supplement the records in that organization's files. The collection also includes documents that concern a wide range of Indian interests and activities.

55 Linear feet (estimated)

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 6363795

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

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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...

National Congress of American Indians

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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...

City and County of Denver Commission on Community Relations

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American Indian Development, Inc.

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