Interior, Indian Affairs, General, 1953

File — Box: DP 9, Folder: 33

Identifier: CAC_CC_31_5_9_33_0000

Staff Only

Assistance to constituents; per capita payments; support for area director and district agent; removal of restrictions; lawsuit relating to an intruder sale; appointment of new Commissioner of Indian Affairs; problems of Indians in Roger Mills and Dewey counties; American Indian Exposition at Anadarko; admission to Indian hospitals; hunting rights of Indians; matters affecting the Pawnee tribe; criticism of Indian offices; oil and gas leases; The First American published on November 25, 1953; Leased District payments; possible closing of Hastings Indian Hospital in Tahlequah; allegations of racial discrimination; lease money advances; patents-in-fee; Sacajawea monument; sale of alcohol to Indians; payments from sale of coal and asphalt properties; assistance for students living on land held in trust by the United States; rebuttal to a Daily Oklahoman article entitled "Emancipating the Indian"; United Nations flags for American Indian Exposition; transfer of records from Muskogee to Fort Worth; transfer of students from Carter Seminary to Ardmore Public Schools; visit of Kiowa and Apache delegation to Washington; Caddo tribe; leasing of restricted lands.

Dates

1953

Language of Materials

English

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