Theodore Hetzel field notebooks contents list, continued:
Notebooks [16] through [29],
1965-1985

Date (s)

Location

Topic/comments/notes

1965 May 25-27

Haverford to Colorado Springs, Colo.

Drove from Haverford to Colorado Springs, Colo., citation from Fortune magazine-art on the Colorado River, "the long term interest rate determines any projects' fate," different %'s, citation from the Atlantic-plot to drown Alaska, Army engineers, Yukon River, car trouble over Monarch Pass, Dr. Joseph and Betty Feathers-Western Montana College, in Dillon , Montana, Peach Springs-neighborhood youth corps girl in store, "Agent says Bridge Canyon Dam good for Havasupi (?), won't flood land," list of names to send photos to, Crow Agency, Dillon-"Brave against the enemy," citation to Country Beautiful, "The Newatt Frontier, last hope of the Indian."

1965 June 22

Dillon, Montana

Montana State Film Library in Helena, numbers with titles.

1965 June 23

Dillon, Montana

Allen Yazzie, New Education Chairman, jewelry, Fey and McNickle, "use rights, not ownership of land," National Parks not communism, Paul Tafoya-Santa Clara governor, cite to When the Legends Die, by Hal Borland.

1965 June 24

Dillon, Montana

Governor Paul Tafoya, similarities between Indian and Christian basic ideas, spirits, fetishes, symbols, hunting and fishing year round, education, crime, tribal judges, Indian government, language barriers, "No real problem between traditionals and progressives," thoughts of how the young, middle-aged, and the older people respond and act differently, "BIA school separates us from outside society," need of vocational school, voter registration, employment and training of some Indians, alcohol issues, "Prefer to see people drunk at home than in bars or on road or Espanola, drinking habits are improving," "need land to preserve their heritage," Stanford Research-study of tribe, church hearings, cite to June 1959-Human Resources Survey of the Colville Confederated Tribes," BIA field report, Colville Agency, land sales issues, Nicholson-chairman, returning to the reservation, “I will fight no more forever”-Nez Perce, mention of other names; Ft. Hall, Le Clair-chairman, Tindoor-assistant chairman, flooding of Indian lands, housing program, recreation program, community building, employment, public school.    

1965 July 1

Sales Tax on reservation, tribal scholarships, archeological finds in area of meadows to be flooded, cooperation with school districts, “employees not just welfare recipients,” local opposition to the dam, cite to Economy and Conditions of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, by Norman Nybroten.

1965 July 17

“The Savages of America,” Clinton Rickard-invitation to Border Crossing Celebration, nature, the individual in society, cite to Young Americas Newest Vocation.

1965 no date

List of summer travels-throughout Montana, Jack D. Forbes-“A comprehensive program for Tribal development in the US-Human Organization.”

1965 July 17

TBH principal speaker at the 38^th annual Border Crossing. Insert of paper advertising a raffle with title “Indian Defense League of America,” “Indian speech”-Har(?) College library, quote about the difference between ‘Christian’ morals and ‘Indian’ morals, Passamaquoddy-Don and Susan Gellers, Miss Andrea Bear, loss of land, welfare assistance, state support, list of names, reservation Indians to vote? State support of Catholic schools, medical assistance, housing, sewage, employment, workcamp discussion.

1965 Aug. 6-7

Charlestown

Holly Tall Oak, Owls Head, Tarzan Brown, talk about economics.

1965 Aug. 8

Charlestown

Visit at the Longhouse Trading Post of Red Wing’s brother, Peter Dana Point, list of names of campers, Sister Concetta, Father Lemekin-grades 1^st-6^th at school here, headstart class at Princeton, Doc (?) Cotesworth Jellers, John Stevens, Francis Ranco, search for commissioner of Indian Affairs, Indian Education formerly under Health and Welfare, talk about the right or appropriate divisions of departments, lease money appropriations; Andrea Bear’s-report on Pass Interior (?), the outline of the school, unemployment; Samoset Dawn Eagle-president of the Inter-tribal American Indian club-Bridgeport Conn., Paul McClay-director of Indian Affairs, names of other officers, legal trouble with Indians started, land/ownership; treaty of 1777-John Allen-Court Congress, Indians getting to vote, crimes that are minor, supreme court to act as trial court, Willard Walker gave opinions about project Head Start.

1965 Aug. 9(?)

Went down around Peter Dave Point with Dave, visited Lena Brooks-she was basket-making, tools; John Stevens-selling of land, talked with Andrea Bear-editing a newssheet with guidance from Ruth Thompson, Ruth Bronson, car problems.

1965 Aug. 15-16

Returned to Boston and then to Beverly, car troubles, bought a basket from John Stevens.

1965 Aug. 27

Trip to Salamanca-book 15(note-there was no book 15 in the collection box).

1965 Oct. 2

AFSC, Dr. Spruce-NIYC, Clyde Warrior-need to admit younger people; under heading “Termination,” special status, “don’t rock the boat,” something to gain from Indian culture.

1965 Oct. 15

Friends Council on Education, self respect and human dignity, changes in values, “youth hold basic values more than does the changing society,” “hard work and personal achievement worse than Puritanism in school,” “less emphasis on driving students to qualify, more needed on involvement,” purpose of the college, importance of creativity, students influence on each other, teaching of values.

1965 Nov. 19

Denver, Colo.

Council on Indian Affairs, list of names, agenda, plans for meeting with OEO, description of the council’s structure and functions, support of research, Deloria-termination of council, form committee to research the idea of termination, establishing guidelines, searching for funds for study, hire public opinion poll, the Indian in the American society, looking at examples of other tribes and how they terminated the council, task force objections to OEO treatment of Indian proposals and problems, getting Indian involvement, hiring consultants, Washington state Indian fishing rights, list of more names.

1965 Nov. 20

Denver, Colo.

American Anthropological Association, list of names, Sol Tax-chairman, thoughts and concerns about taxes, “Is self-determination possible for Indian tribes?” legalities, policy of termination; Deloria-testimony for tribes regarding legislation, usually based on old laws and concepts, need to make current and up to date, “US proud of Indians at Presidential Inauguration, but ignorant of Indian situation,” “not equality, but conformity is demanded,” reservation concepts and ideas, research needed for research grants, interest in social systems and development, “prejudice grows out of assumptions,” getting an outsiders’ point of view, local administration, problems that arise when value systems clash, values of a society being defined, taxation, Cornell study of Window Rock, what it means to be an Indian and a human being, problem of learning language, the identity of America, the idea of an informant, bringing Indians into the mainstream American life, what type of research would be most helpful? Control of environment, hunting and gathering, surviving the present trauma of urbanization, industrial revolution, list of names, The Native Americans symposium.

1965 Nov. 20

Council meeting at the Olin Hotel, list of names, focus on termination, “world problem of what cultures have to say to each other thru education,” don’t have money to travel to investigate, NCAI will study termination bills and claims judgments, condition of tribes under such consideration, finding personnel to support, raising money for the council, evaluation of programs, claims money, interstate commission should be reviewed, citation to American Technical Society, drinking motivation.

1965 Dec. 1

Franklin Institute, Dye-Abolical Indians, talked about different forms of materials, types of dyes, cochineal, indigo, fustic, Osage orange, Brazil wood, Mordant metal, other types of dyes.

1965 Dec. 4

ASEE, Trybus-liberal arts education, knowledge of engineering, applying knowledge, sense of accomplishment, “instructors like analytical work not experimental,” medical science studies, experimental ideas, economic ideas of problem.

1965 Dec. 11

Round Up, Indian program, list of names, fishing rights in Washington, treaty rights to traditional fishing, civil rights, police brutality, needing counsel, Muckleshoot, Tulalip and Swinomish tribes have denounce Indian seeking off-reservation fishing rights; Youth training proposal, priorities in Indian program, community action program, vista workers, health system, disrupting of community between the Catholic and Peyote, registering voters.

1966 Jan. 24

Robert E. Drew, USPHS, Hearings are BIA and Division Indian Health, $4 million for projects, environmental health conditions, sanitation, Earl Dudding-assistant to Drew; Dupont Circle Building, Council on Indian Affairs, Lindley Carter Colosimo Sherman, Betty Boardman, NY Times article, respect for Salen (?) Weaver, BIA-new emphasis on development, Education Committee of Council, NIYC interest in fishing rights, OEO grant for council; Hand Adams on fishing rights-on and off reservations, tribal members determined by tribe, mixed bloods-who do they belong to? Role of the church, housing programs, public relations, treaties and states, Council should take action on this report, appointment of Vice Chairman of Council-Vine Deloria Jr.

1966 Jan. 25

Council on Indian Affairs, list of those present, Sherman-the American Indian Civil Liberties Trust; Carter-survey team, Indian situation is getting worse, Pleasant Point, “climate of fear,” prosecutions for murder and crime, “isolation and reputation are racial. Open season on Indian women,” “OEO requires approval of its loans by the local political authorities, county and state;” Deloria-OEO proposal; design and conduct program for technical support, FCNL reports on laws regarding Indians Council agency not to inform Indian about existing legislation, housing, budgeting, “Indians without reservations don’t get help,” racial discrimination; other council business-appointing new director, termination study.

1966 Feb. 2

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Indian Committee, ceremonies, land issues, implementing the Public Assistance program; Indian Rights Association, fishing rights, list of names, Act 3 of Treaty-to clear land for the N. Pacific Railroad interrupted fishing rights, how to defend Indian rights, public relations used against the Indian, conservation problems and practices.

1966 March 16

Seneca Indian Affairs, list of people present with numbers next to them, address for Frank Fakes (?) Gun, design of small dams.

1966 April 27

Dinner for Robert Bennett, was sworn in this morning at the White House.

1966 April 28

Washington, D.C.

Council on Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, list of names of those present, community analysis work, “troubles due to race and discrimination, to turn conflict into justice,” “assumption is assimilation, community tensions, desegregation; Jim Wilson-reservation issues, Community Action Program, Task Force on Indian Poverty, Small Business Development Centers, VISTA on many reservations, Development Authority; Udall-economic issues, need for more consultation.

1966 May 11

AFSC, names of those to speak, Susan Bax-info services, Intertribal Friendship House, termination studies, tribal youth program hasn’t developed, health development, advisors to recreation, arts and crafts, extension work, developing youth leadership, staff functions and issues, welfare.

1966 May 18

Washington, DC

S3085 Hearings, James McGrath-IAIA Santa Fe, FCNL, Udall Amendment, use of land, ecological issues; Arthur Greeley-Assoc. Chief of US Forest Service, Reynolds Florence-another director, Department of Agriculture-hasn’t discussed amendment proposed by Udall, management of land, “rights of Indians have been protected,” “violates rights of non-Indian,” timbering, issues with the Blue Lake Church, problems with the use of land, compensation for the land, sacredness of the land.

1966 Spring

Human Organization, control over money, system of colonial policy.

1966

Short list of expenses.

No date

Last page, names and addresses.

Date(s)

Location

Topic/comments/notes

1966 June 21

Haverford

List of mileage and places visited.

No date

List of mileage and places visited.

1966 June 24

Boulder, Colo.

11^th annual College Workshop on American Indian Affairs, list of names; discussion of cultures and cultural change, The Silent Language, by Edward T. Hall.

1966 June 26

Colorado

Central City Celebration, Weston and Independence passes to Aspen.

1966 June 27

Car check, a few names.

1966 July 1

San Diego, CA

Spanish-American youth to be taken to Mexico to learn of their cultural heritage, list of names.

1966 July 10

Methodist Church, sermon.

1966 July 11

Class on instruction, methods, “Getting to Know Indians Today,” termination, study of Clamath by BIA for Congress, intermarriages, community, Treaty of Ft. Laramie, boarding schools, remembering history, religious control, “war experience taught need for education,” redefine education, “self-image corrupted by community influence,” lecture on Indian Education, smoothing transfer from BIA to public schools, problem of alcohol, illegitimate children, abandoned children, hostility in Indian communities, employment.

1966 July 12

TV program about Menminee hunting rights, termination, went to Old Faithful Lodge, Yellowstone; Pan American Petroleum Wells, Rocky Mountain Hall at Ft. Washakie.

1966 July 14

Ft. Washekie

Ethete Sun Dance-Arapahoe, Lander Wahakie Plunge.

1966 July 15

Laramie, WY

Visited with Richard and Ruth Hillier, personal errands.

1966 July 16

Drove west to Saratoga and visited seniors who will graduate.

1966 July 17

Laramie, WY

Back to Snow Range and Brooklyn Lake, drove to Albany, Woods Landing, Laramie.

1966 July 18

Chadron, Walter Fillmore, Job Corps. camp director, Jake Herman-Edgar Red Cloud, Mildred Young; Johnson, Pine Ridge, talked about health education, community workers, Head Star, Ranger Corps., War Cry newsletter, tribal economics, Father Bryde-acculturation and experience, teaching at NDEA-Denver, rangers talk about the BIA wanting to give western/Badlands to National Parks, resource development.

1966 July 20

Rosebud

List of names, private enterprise is not tribal enterprise, Donald J. Ballas-Indiana State College, Rosebud reservation building by their own efforts; Frank LaPointe-developing housing, resource development, list of names, list of businesses, Project Head Start, tribal administration building, land ownership to the tribe, community development.

1966 July 23

Ft. Totten (?)-well preserved, museum by pioneer daughters, International Peace Gardens, Medical College-Winnipeg.

1966 July 24, 25

Personal business, Belcourt.

1966 July 26

Robert M. Schultz at Bulove Ordnance Plant (Rolla Jewel Bearing Plant), took photos of Leona Slater, Larry Berg, Project Head Start.

1966 Aug. 4

VISTA workers and more expected, Supt. W. A. Mahojah, Tom Hill, Indian Truth-“routed in many names,” other names, Taylors at Camp Olympia; Menominee-Neopit, list of names, leasing of land, illegal hunting, stocks and bonds maturing, sawmill equipment.

1966 Aug. 12-17

Leave Haverford to Colorado Motel, Portville, list of names, talked about pillow factory, ‘cornplanter’ pageant, drove to USA and Old Ft. Niagara, raising of the flags-1727, list of names, lacrosse racket factory, Patterson lacrosse factory, Tonawanda Community Center, Camp Arden, Janaki, Anne Janeway, went to Ing (?) and Helen Richardson’s So Bristol, went to quarry.

1966 Aug. 18

Augusta, Tony Kaliss, drove to Eastport, talk with Don Gellers, to Princeton Me, Kennebasis Camp, insert-business card of “Tuskewe Krafts,” Pleasant Point, Calais office-Dept. of Indian Affairs, shoe factory at Quoddy Village, Civil Right Council, AFSC misconduct, Walter Moulton-WC director, promoting different subjects, problems between Mr. Davis and Mrs. Stevens, citation to The Dilemma for our Indian People,” tribal elections influenced by whites, Peace Corps resources and volunteers.

1966 Aug. 21

Camp Arden, mileage, list of names.

1966 Sept. 10

SSRS Swarthmore, educating scientists for social responsibility, science-pure vs. technology, “keep the integrity of language,” “economy of underdeveloped countries,” ethical problems, ethics with NASA, conflict of interest, “educating engineers for social responsibility,” “systems analysis started with military problems,” “inadequate treatment of social effects,” “pollution, population, control, transportation planning, community development problems.”

1966 Sept. 24

George School, Friends Council on Education, “education for meaning in an age of absurdity,” –Landrum Bolling, finding the best applicants, “realistic acknowledgement of life,” role of TV as an educational tool, search for the difference between good and evil is rewarding, “insight that continuing evolution of man is possible and rewarding.”

1966 Oct. 4

Democracy in Friend’s Schools, insubordination, conformity, critical thinking, student-faculty relationships, citation to History of the Indian Walk and Life of Edward Marshall.

1966 Oct. 24

Council on Indian Affairs, list of names, Vine Deloria, membership and application issues, NY yearly meeting-Indian Commission-hold a meeting starting with ABC Taos program, Duncan proposal for White House Conference, White House Task Force on Indian problems completely non-Indian, disagreements about a draft being written up or a draft not being written up, who has seen or worked on the draft.

1966 Oct. 25

Council meeting, list of names of those present: Lindley, Connor, Carter, Coe, Sherman, Gagne, Rosnthal, Weber, Bennett, Deloria, Belindo, Bird, Zimmerman; governor speech and statement to revise HconRes108 policy, BIA policy not to provide scholarships to church-related schools, draft should go to tribes before it goes to Congress, role of lawyers, employment, increased population and decreased land and resources, industrial development, how a bill represents who it is supposed to.

1966 Nov. 12-13

Somerville Mass, J and G Tschannerl (?), Federated Eastern Indian League, Mashpee Mass, list of names, quote to The Indian Tests the Mainstream, by D’Arcy McNickle, “Is there an Indian renaissance…toward adoption of the whiteman’s industrial world?” “Or is change in the non-Indian world with regard to Indians?” Rates of unemployment, housing conditions, poverty, “Indians fear progress=termination,” “Indians to be inferior,” use of power, more names.

1966 Nov. 30

New York City, NY

AAIA, National Conference on Indian Health, infections, diseases, malnutrition, mortality rates (especially infant), defense against infection, home life-housing, water, sewage-are what make the difference, water supply; Domingo Montoya (Sandia) Zuni one of the poorest populations, arthritis, no suitable housing, Byler-lost cost housing is too expensive, value system for taking care of a house, “taboos part of problem.”

1966 Nov. 30

AAIS Health Conference, role of anti-microbials and vaccines, prevention methods, importance of military, use of birth control.

1966 Dec. 1

Alaskan life expectancy (34.6) vs. US (69.4), also data for Arizona and Nevada Indians, studies in housing for Alaskan Natives, environmentally caused diseases, prevention is very important, sanitation, communication is key, community cooperation, importance of education; talked about his own personal home problems, costs of running hospitals, clinics, problem of maintenance of sewer and water systems, prairie dogs carrying the plague and other diseases, environmentally caused diseases, education.

1967 Jan. 23-24

“Council on Indian Affairs, Washington, notes in Council file.”

1967 June 2

List of names.

1967 June 19

New York

Trip to Friends World Institute, address, mileage.

1967 June 26

Leave Haverford, list of mileage and places visited, issues involved in at schools: segregation, school boards, teachers, list of names.

1967 June 30

Boulder, CO

List of names, ‘understanding what it means to be Indian,’ solving the Indian problem, “A problem as long as Indians won’t knock if off and learn to be clean, industrious, saving, educated, sober.  Why don’t Indians stop being problems to whites?” Indians not understanding the White point of view, “Good Indians think of themselves as leaders,” “Bad Indian doesn’t go to the conferences, they are the subject of the conference,” middle class doing the defining, discussion of pacification and community development, “Indian identity related to community.”

1967 July 2

Headwaters of Laramie River, below Lost Lake.

1967 July 3

Estes Park, CO

YMCA Camp, “conventions rather than Christian way of life,” community development, social problems, self-determinism, development of resources, education, employment, get insight into needs of Indian communities.

1967 July 4

“BIA will be more a coordinating agency,” “election or termination,” “Indians will have problems if they think of themselves as Indian before being American, should value self as individual first,” BIA’s involvement with off-reservation Indian; comments from Deloria-“concentrate on groups’ problems, not individuals,” issues to be looked at when appropriating money; housing, poverty, unemployment, uncertainty when pushed into school, Indian is isolated, “emphasis on personal salvation and eternal life;” BIA employee concerns, performance in school in relation to home life; cycle of poverty must be broken, planning for improvements, education, college preparation, identity, claiming tribal membership.

1967 July 5

Things the BIA does wrong, “against principles of community development, economic development vs. personal development, pride in being Indian, things that the neighborhood center should provide; legal aid, hunting and fishing rights, technical assistance staff, home improvement; treaty agreements in relation to the role of the church, needing help with resources that are available, outline of purpose of conference, knowledge of services available; civil rights, creation of jobs on the reservations, cite to Good Medicine, by Chas M. Russell.

1966 July 6

“Indian in off-reservation life,” concerns of the church, self-determination, community life, education, social agencies, poverty programs, adult education; Church of the Brethren Layman-Rev. Richard Lupke (?), Employment Assistance Program-relocation, developing leadership; Rev. William Ng-Indian Welcome House, employment, reconciliation, interdependence; Joe Gauthier-assistant to Director Employment Assistant of the BIA, job training, vocational training, educating the whites, “rewrite history books to tell Indian side,” maintaining traditions, higher salary for missionaries, denial of fishing rights, American Indian Civil Liberties Council, churches part of power council, Indian struggles in school, family life/structure, role of the church in the Indians struggles, “If people believe in themselves then they believe in God,” Indian’s religion-importance of the seasons, spirits, supernatural, physical development, whites misconceptions of Indians, “Missionaries’ feelings of divine guidance and ethnocentrism,” other thoughts on religion.

1966 July 7