Native Americans | Page 32

CCC-ID softball game

A CCC-ID softball game at Red Lake Agency, 1939.

CCC-ID cooking class

A CCC-ID cooking class at Red Lake Agency, 1939.

CCC-ID construction site

CCC-ID workers building a mobile camp at the Red Lake Agency, 1939.

CCC-ID workers at Grand Portage

Civilian Conservation Corps-Indian Division (CCC-ID) crew on stockade site at end of first day's work, Grand Portage. Photograph by Willoughby M. Babcock, September 7, 1937.

CCC-ID camp recreation hall at Grand Portage

Civilian Conservation Corps-Indian Division (CCC-ID) camp recreation hall, Grand Portage. Photograph by Ralph D. Brown, 1937.

CCC-ID workers at Ah-Gwah-Ching Sanatorium

Collage showing the progress of CCC-ID workers at a construction site at the Ah-Gwah-Ching Sanatorium. Printed in Indians at Work 2, no. 13 (February 15, 1935): 31. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Smithsonian Collection. Washington, DC.

CCC-ID work sites

Photographs of CCC-ID work sites in Minnesota published in Indians at Work 1, no. 12 (February 1, 1934)

CCC-ID workers from Nett Lake

Civilian Conservation Corps-Indian Division (CCC-ID) workers from the Nett Lake Reservation (one of the reservations of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa), July 30, 1941.

Civilian Conservation Corps-Indian Division

Between 1933 and 1943, Native Americans worked on their lands as part of the Civilian Conservation Corps-Indian Division, run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). More than 2,000 Native families in Minnesota benefited from the wages as participants developed work skills and communities gained infrastructure like roads and wells.

Grave marker application for Lawrence Vizenor

Grave marker application for Lawrence Vizenor submitted by his wife, Elizabeth, after his death on October 5, 1958.

Gale Family Library