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Date of Work
Circa 1940s
Description
This undated resolution signed by Joe B. Bear, Adlai Stevenson, Alfred S. Smith, Jackson Dancing Bull, and Francis Stevenson concerns property issues related to the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation. The resolution states that the members of the Fort Berthold Americans Inc. do not agree with a law which would regard native property as a collective movement that denies property ownership.
See also:
Letter from Adlai Stevenson to Representative Burdick Regarding Lemke Bill, April 3, 1944
Keywords
Property laws, Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, The Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, Mandan, Nueta, Hidatsa, Arikara, Sahnish
Organizations Referenced
Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, The Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, Mandan, Nueta, Hidatsa, Arikara, Sahnish,
People Referenced
Joe B. Bear, Adlai Stevenson, Alfred S. Smith, Jackson Dancing Bull, Francis Stevenson, Usher Burdick
Recommended Citation
Bear, Joe B.; Stevenson, Adlai; Smith, Alfred S.; Dancing Bull, Jackson; and Stevenson, Francis, "Letter from Bear, et al to Representative Burdick Regarding Property Laws, Undated" (2022). Usher Burdick Papers. 207.
https://commons.und.edu/burdick-papers/207
Comments
This resolution is undated, but it may be related to the property law issues mentioned in other letters in this collection which are from 1944. See related docs.