LB Updatd: February 2018
CHAPTER 7 - THE AMERICAN BAHÁ'Í MAGAZINE
January 1970: 1) NABOHR: Past, Present, and Future. The North American Bahá'í Office for Human Rights was established in January 1986. It is reported here that this office sponsored con- ferences for action on Human Rights in 20 leading cities and on a Canadian Reserve. There is a Photo here of presenter giving the address at the "American Indian and Human Rights" conference in Gallup, New Mexico. p. 3. 2) A program illustration entitled; "A World View" and it includes an Indian image. p. 7.
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March 1970: 1) Bahá'í Education Conference Draws Overflow Attendance. More than 500 Bahá'ís from all over the U.S. come to this event. The only non Bahá'í speaker at the conference, Mrs. De Lee has a long record of civil rights activity in South Carolina. Her current project was to help 300 Indian school children in Dorchester County get into the public school. They were considered to be white until they tried to get their children in the public schools there. They were told they couldn't go to the public schools. A Freedom school was set up in an Indian community to teach Indian children and Mrs. Lee is still working towards getting them into the public school. pp. 1, 5. 2) News Briefs: The Minorities Teaching Committee of Albuquerque, NM held a unity Feast recently concurrent with the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which is significant to the Mex- ican and American Indian populations of the area. p. 8. 3) An ad: A Call to Indian Nations, gathering in Chinle, AZ in June. p. 11.
April 1970 1) News Briefs: The first Intercontinental Council Fire will be held in Oroville, WA in May. This was called the Canawash Council Fire. Mention of another Council Fire being planned on the Mescalero Apache Reservation, near Alamogordo, New Mexico. And an all Bahá'í In- dian gathering on June 12-13 on the Navajo Reservation at Chinle, Arizona. And finally men- tion of the annual Toppenish Council Fire on July 18-19 in Toppenish, WA. p. 6. 2) Longhouse Fellowship. This article is encouraging the Bahá'ís to make friends among Ameri- can Indians, teach them, and bring them home. p. 7.
May 1970: no issue made June 1970: no issue made July 1970: no issue made August 1970: no issue made September 1970: no issue made