Oral history interview with Rita Singer, 1991
By: by Malca Chall, Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley, for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives,
Contributors: Chall, Malca.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.; State Government Oral History Program (Calif.)
Published: 1993
Subjects: United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs.; United States. Bureau of Reclamation.; United States. Dept. of the Interior.; Water resources development -- California.; Lawyers -- California -- Interviews.; Indians of North America.; California -- Politics and government -- 1951-; United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
Genres: Interviews.
Description: Singer discusses her law school experience in the 1930s as one of very few women; people in the Bureau of Indian Affairs including John Collier, William Brophy, Phileo Nash and handling Indian claims litigation in Alaska; World War II and Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman; Dept. of Interior issues and people including Harold Ickes, Stewart Udall, Cecil Andrus; the Bureau of Reclamation and the 160-acre limit, power and electrical utility law, water issues, the Westlands contract; the state of California Dept. of Water Resources and Ronald Robie.