Ammon Hennacy and Associates collection, 1943-1955.

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Ammon Hennacy and Associates collection, 1943-1955.

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Ammon Hennacy and Associates were Quaker activists Ammon Hennacy, Virginia Anderson and George Yamada who in the 1950s wrote letters on behalf of the Hopi to United States Government leaders from the BIA and the Justice Department concerning a planned highway that would cut through the Hopi village of Hotevilla and issues surrounding Hopi tribal government and sovereignty. Other correspondents include Coconino Sun editor, Platt Cline, and attorney, Wayne Collins, of San Francisco. Anderson was an Arizona State University Instructor in Social Work and Psychology and George Yamada was a World War II draft resister.

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Northern Arizona University, Cline Library

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Northern Arizona University, Cline Library

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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...

United States. Department of Justice

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The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice in the United States, and is equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries. The department was formed in 1870 during the Ulysses S. Grant administration, and administers several federal law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigat...

Collins, Wayne D.

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Hopi Tribe.

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Hennacy, Ammon, 1893-1970

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Pacifist/anarchist. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154299795 Ammon Ashford Hennacy was born in 1893 in Negley, Ohio, to Benjamin and Lida Fitz-Randolph Hennacy. He married Selma Melms in 1919, they were divorced in 1964, and then he married Joan Thomas. Hennacy was a "Christian-anarchist-pacifist" (as he called himself) who never paid taxes or went to war. He was a conscientious objector in both world wars, and a lifelong anti-war activist. He...

Anderson, Virginia (Virginia M. Genevie)

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Yamada, George Kiyoshi

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Ammon Hennacy and Associates.

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Ammon Hennacy was born July 24, 1893 in Negley, Ohio. Hennacy was known for his anti-establishment viewpoints. He resisted the draft in both world wars, worked as a social worker and social activist. He passed away in Phoenix in 1970. From the description of Ammon Hennacy and Associates collection, 1943-1955. (Nogales-Santa Cruz County Public Library). WorldCat record id: 55762799 The Ammon Hennacy Associates were Quaker activists Virginia Anderson and George Ya...

Cline, Platt, 1911-

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