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This undated public statement from the office of United States Representative Usher L. Burdick, discusses the possibility of giving some of the stockpile of coal in the Garrison Dam area of North Dakota to the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs for distribution to reservations so that "Freezing Indians" can use it. This is draft has many handwritten notes and emendations.
See Also:
Public Statement by Representative Burdick Regarding Indian Coal, February 8, 1951
Keywords
The Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, Mandan, Nueta, Hidatsa, Arikara, Sahnish, Garrison Dam, Garrison Diversion, Garrison Reservoir, Garrison coal, coal, Riverdale
Organizations Referenced
The Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, Mandan, Nueta, Hidatsa, Arikara, Sahnish,North Dakota Indian Affairs Commission, United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian Bureau, United States Army Corps of Engineers
People Referenced
John B. Hart, F. M. Albrecht, G. Warren Spaulding
Recommended Citation
Burdick, Usher, "Draft of Public Statement by Representative Burdick Regarding Indian Coal, Undated" (2022). Usher Burdick Papers. 377.
https://commons.und.edu/burdick-papers/377