Box 58: 80th and 81st Congresses, General Files: Immigration and Naturalization - Interior Department (1947-1951).
F 1: Immigration and Naturalization (D - H).
Correspondence: re: cases.
F 2: Immigration and Naturalization (J - M).
Correspondence: re: cases.
F 3: Immigration and Naturalization (N - R).
Correspondence: re: cases.
F 4: Immigration and Naturalization (S - Y).
Correspondence: re: cases.
F 5: Indian Funds: California.
a. Correspondence: re: discrimination; restoration of Indian funds.
b. Statement on the effect of Deleting Funds From the 1951 Budget for the Indian Service in California.
c. Congressional Record (copy): Helen Gahagan Douglas: "California Indian Funds." (March 23, 1950).
F 6a: Indian Problems (1946-1948).
a. Correspondence: re: Indian contract; federal funds for educational services; property restrictions; H. R. 4066; Navajo Indians; Indian War Pension Bill; H. R. 4627.
b. Pamphlet: "Injun Talk."
c. Copies of clippings.
d. S. 2504: Langer: "To authorize the Court of Claims to fix reasonable compensation and expense for attorneys and other persons for service rendered relating to the Act of May 18, 1928 (45 Stat. 602), and for other purposes." 79th Congress, 2nd Session (1946). Committee on Indian Affairs.
e. Release: "California Indian Service Reorganization." (July 31, 1947).
f. Booklet: Oliver La Farge: "They Were Good Enough For the Army."
g. Newsletter: "The Navajo Crisis." Vol. III, No. 3 (April 1948). 8 pages.
F 6b: Indian Problems (1949-1950).
a. Correspondence: re: Navajo Indians' problems; S. 3197; S. 2734 - rehabilitation of the Navajo and Hopi Tribes; discrimination.
b. Petition on Behalf of American Indians of New Mexico and Arizona." (January 12, 1949).
c. Release: "Navajo Suffering Intensified by Denial of Social Security Rights, Association on American Indian Affairs Charges." (January 13, 1949).
d. Remarks of Antonio M. Fernandez - New Mexico: "Plight of the Navajo Americans." (February 16, 1949).
e. S. 3197: Downey: "To extend the personal rights and duties of the Indian of California." 81st Congress, 2nd Session (1950). Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
f. Article: "Downey - The Friend of the Indian?"
g. Summary Comments: "Indians."
h. P. L. 81-322 (H. R. 5310): "To confer jurisdiction on the State of California over the lands and residents of the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation in said state, and for other purposes."
i. Remarks of Helen Gahagan Douglas: "California Indians are Citizens!"
F 7: Interior Department.
a. Correspondence: re: need for water; objection to construction of a dam across Putah Creek; reclamation appropriation; Yuma irrigation project; claims; tidelands.
b. Release: re: "Reduction of 47% in the appropriation requests of Department of Interior" (April 21, 1947).
c. Address: Arthur Goldschmidt: re: electric power (April 23, 1947).
d. Appropriations for Power Activities.
e. Booklet: "Dr. M. T. Schnirer: "Therapeutische Wochenschrift" (in German).
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