American Indian Services Files, 1957-1972.

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American Indian Services Files, 1957-1972.

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American Indian Services files (1957-1972) contain correspondence; minutes; memoranda; reports; conference proceedings, papers, and participant lists; proposals; news releases; newsletters; and news clippings regarding the formation and activities of the Division of Mission Services' American Indian Services program. Records regard discussion of and proposals for the establishment of the program; financial and budgetary issues; papers and background studies concerning Lutheran churches' mission to Native Americans; Lutheran Council in the USA (LCUSA) participating church bodies' Native American mission programs; requests for service opportunities by lay persons; Native American campus ministry; formation and activities of the National Indian Lutheran Board (NILB); Lutheran work with Native Americans in Arizona. Minnesota, and Chicago, Illinois; and Lutheran Church and Indian People (LUCHIP) conferences and activities. Correspondents include Eugene Crawford, the Division's Secretary of American Indian Services and Director of the NILB; Reuben A. Lundeen, Division Executive Secretary; John R. Houck, Division Assistant Secretary for American Missions; Donald H. Larsen, Division Secretary for Church and Community Planning; other LCUSA officials and staff; LCUSA participating church bodies' mission officials; Native American activist Donald F. Bibeau; U.S. government officials; Lutheran social service agencies; and Lutheran pastors and lay persons.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library, ELCA Library

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library, ELCA Library

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Lutheran Church and Indian People.

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Lundeen, Reuben A., 1920-

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Houck, John R., 1923-

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National Indian Lutheran Bureau.

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Larsen, Donald H., 1925-

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Crawford, Eugene, 1928-1986.

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Lutheran Council in the USA. Division of Mission Services.

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(For history of the Lutheran Council in the USA (LCUSA), see OCLC #38889555.) The Division of Mission Services was established at the LCUSA's founding to further cooperation among the LCUSA church bodies in their mission activities in the U.S. and abroad. The Division's American Indian Services program sought to increase awareness and understanding of Native Americans, to share with them in mission and ministry, and to enable pastors and congregations to establish trust relationship...

Bibeau, Donald F.

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