Organization records, 1952-1977.

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Organization records, 1952-1977.

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Correspondence, financial data, and craft patterns from this Episcopal Church project, started in the early 1950s by Karen Petersen, to help the Indians in northern Minnesota become self-supporting.

0.75 cu. ft. (1 box).

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Indian Crafts of the Episcopal Church in Minnesota.

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Petersen, Karen Daniels

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The interest of Karen Daniels Petersen (born ca. 1910) in Native Americans was sparked during childhood by her grandfather Asa W. Daniels and her great uncle Jared W. Daniels, who had come to Minnesota in the 1850s as U.S. government physicians to the Dakota Indians. In the 1950s Petersen began purchasing traditional Ojibwe crafts from residents of northern Minnesota reservations for resale through St. Paul churches. She collected and researched Indian artifacts for the Science Museum of Minneso...

Episcopal Church. Diocese of Minnesota

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Frederick Ferdinand "Fritz" Kramer began his service in the Diocese of Minnesota in 1953 with his appointment as vicar in charge of the Samuel Memorial Mission, Naytahwaush, and of St. Philip's Church, Rice Lake. Following the retirement of Frederick K. Smythe, he rose to the positions of archdeacon in charge of Indian work in Minnesota and dean of the Cass Lake Deanery (1956). In 1960 he was removed as vicar of the two individual parishes, and the post of dean to the Northwest Deanery was added...