Descriptive Summary
Indian Claims
Commission
Indian Claims Commission
Photograph, 1947
1 photograph.
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The
University of Texas at Austin
English.
Creator SketchThe Indian Claims Commission was established
in 1946 by the U.S. Congress as a way to hear and process claims by Native
Americans against the United States. The Commission was disbanded in 1978.
Scope and Contents
One 8x10 inch black and white photograph depicts the swearing in of the
Indian Claims Commission on April 10, 1947.
Unrestricted access.
Preferred Citation Indian Claims Commission Photograph,
1947, the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.
Subjects
Butler, Hugh Alfred,
1878-1954—Photographs
Connally, Thomas Terry,
1877-1963—Photographs.
Holt, Rush Dew,
1905-1955—Photographs.
O'Mahoney, Joseph Christopher,
1884-1962—Photographs.
Stigler, William Grady,
1891-1952—Photographs.
United States. Indian Claims
Commission.
Inventory
3Y44
Photograph: Indian Claims Commission swearing in,
April 10, 1947