Bureau of Indian Affairs
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content: Strong, William Duncan, 1899-1962
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content: William Duncan Strong papers
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content: William Duncan Strong papers / Series 9: Papers relating to organizations
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content: 1934-1937
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content: Box 50
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Strong served as anthropological consultant to the Bureau of Indian Affairs from May through December 1935.
Includes a copy of the understanding between the Bureau of American Ethnology and the BIA relating to investigations on reservation Indians (May 1, 1935), a suggested program for combined BAE-BIA investigations (May 1, 1935), a copy of "Notes on the place of anthropology in the administration of Indian affairs" apparently by Felix Cohen (December 9, 1935), correspondence, and a copy of Hill's 1935 report "Acculturation and Present Cultural Status of the Navaho."