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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.

Lawrence Vizenor’s World War I registration card

Lawrence Vizenor’s World War I registration card, 1918.

Lawrence Vizenor

Lawrence Vizenor in his military uniform, ca. 1918. Printed in Daniel Nelson’s Becker County, Minnesota, in the World War, 1917-1918-1919 (Detroit Lakes, MN: Nelson, [1920?]).

Vizenor, Lawrence A. (1895‒1958)

Lawrence Alexious Vizenor (White Earth Ojibwe) left his home in Becker County, Minnesota, to enlist in the army and fight in World War I in 1918. Before mustering out the following year, he earned military honors and a promotion to corporal.