Letter to Indians, December 27, 1960
Subtitle: supplementary documents
Publisher: publisher not identified
Published: 1961
Place of publication: Chicago?
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Indians of North America; Government relations; Law and legislation; American Indian Chicago Conference (1961 : University of Chicago)
Notes: Folded map tipped in.

"The University of Chicago, AICC, Sol Tax, coordinator, 1126 East 59th Street, Chicago 37, Illinois ; Nancy O. Lurie, assistant coordinator, 3300 East Delhi Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan."

"June 13-20, 1961, American Indian Charter Convention."

This "letter" was mailed to American Indians across the country. It explained the idea of the American Indian Charter Convention, later called the American Indian Chicago Conference, and included a "model charter" drawn up by a committee from the NCAI to illustrate what type of document might be produced by the projected conference as a statement of Indian opinion on present problems and Indian desires for their future.
Table of contents: title: Selection for Meriam Survey summary --; title: Conference on the American Indians today, American Anthropologist, Volume 56, Number 3, June 1954 --; title: H.C.R. #108 and discussion from Federal Indian Legislation and Policies, 1956 Workshop on American Indian Affairs Sponsored by the University of Chicago Department of Anthropology --; title: Map, Distribution of Descendants of the Aboriginal Population of Canada and The United States, folded insert.