Box DP 12

Cherokee claims; assistance to constituents; financial assistance for education.

January-June; copy of S. 1267, a bill to set aside certain lands in Oklahoma for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians surplus land at Concho subagency and school; Navajo educational program at Cheyenne-Arapaho School at Concho; correspondence concerning S. 1267; correspondents include Business Committee of Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, El Reno Chamber of Commerce, Department of the Interior, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Richard L. Neuberger.

July-August; Cheyenne-Arapaho School at Concho; correspondence concerning S. 1267; copies of S. 2345, S. 2346, an H.R. 8343; information on return of lands to various Indian tribes; correspondents include El Reno Chamber of Commerce, J. Howard Edmondson, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Harry J. W. Belvin, Francis Pipestem, Chairman of Otoe-Missouria tribe, Robert Goombi, several officials of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Selection of Choctaw chief; distribution of funds awarded to tribe; assistance to constituents; economic development; education of Choctaws in Mississippi; correspondents include Harry J. W. Belvin.

Creek claims; purchase of land by city of Eufaula; reappointment of Turner Bear as Creek chief; easements for Wewoka Creek projects; distribution of tribal funds; correspondents include Guy Swadley, Mayor of Eufaula and Ed Edmondson.

Sale of land at Chilocco Indian School; education of Indians in Mississippi; copy of Twelfth Annual Report of Indian Education in Oklahoma; correspondents include Ray Grantham.

Indian health program; copy of letter from N. B. Johnson to Ed Edmondson; views and resolutions of Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes on various issues; correspondents include Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes.

January-February; taxation of Indian-owned land; termination of reservations; transfer of land to Shawnee and Pottawatomie County for use as a hospital; Wyandotte tribal roll; unveiling of sculpture of Charles Curtis in recognition of his induction into the National Hall of Fame for Famous American Indians; correspondents include Lawrence Zane, Wyandotte Chief and N. B. Johnson.

March; alleged request of certain Indians for assistance from the Soviet Union; proposed memorial to American Indians in Oklahoma; problem with some Indians not paying their credit accounts; relocation program; copy of materials on public housing in Dallas; Delaware claims; income taxes on individuals and tribes; assistance to constituents; correspondents include Lawrence Zane, Wyandotte Chief.

April-June; proposed memorial to American Indians in Oklahoma; industrial development; Muskogee County Indian Credit Association; American Indian Institute at the University of Oklahoma; interest of Caddo tribe in lands of Riverside Indian School and Kiowa Agency; assistance to constituents; correspondents include Oklahoma Indian Mission Club, National Hall of Fame for Famous American Indians, George McGovern, Caddo Indian Tribe of Oklahoma.