Updated: December 2020 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 conferences 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. February 1970: checked 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 Mexican 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 Indian gathering on June 12-13 on the Navajo Reservation at Chinle, Arizona. And finally mention 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 American 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 Updated: December 2020 September 1970: no issue made October 1970: 1) International Travel Teaching Projects: Belize, El Salvador, Nicaragua. p. 4. 2) An article by the Minority Teaching Office entitled; to be "especially sought out and taught”. It is encouraging the teaching of Indians by using many of the writings of Shoghi Effendi. p. 5. 3) United States Home front Goals of the Nine Year Plan (April 1964-April 1973) It includes two which include American Indians; increase the number of Indian languages into which some portion of the Writings have been translated [1963: 40 NOW: 58] and increase the minority representation in the Faith, particularly among...Indian... p. 5. 4) The Second National Bahá'í Youth Conference in June 1970. There is a photo and mention of Phil Lucas providing music. p. 6. November 1970: 1) Periscope: Arizona reports that the Proclamation of Baha’u'lláh has been presented to the Hopi Tribal Council. p. 6. 2) Summer Teaching Projects: Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, Colombia, Belize, Guatemala, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. pp. 8-9. 3) Yakima Indian Reservation-Youth Encampment Summer 1970. One youth enrolled and two pioneers stayed. 76 people came, 50 of those were Indian children. p. 12. 4) Oklahoma Pow Wow. A pow wow was held near Maize and the Bahá'ís from OK and AK joined in the consultation and fun. p. 13. 5) International Travel Teaching Projects in Belize, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama, and Guatemala. p. 14. December 1970: 1) There is mention of the film "Indian Circle on the American Indian" won second prize at the American Film Festival in 1970. The makers of that film, Kiva films Inc., also made "It's just the Beginning" a new youth film proclaiming the Faith. p. 1. 2) A photo of Ms. Helen Henry, Choctaw Indian believer voting at the Mississippi State Convention. p. 2. 3) Victories on Indian Reservations. Two committees, the Northern Plains Indian and the Navajo Reservation C both report increased activity. Two conferences were held in MT, one near the Blackfoot Reservation and the second in the Poplar area. Another one was held on the Fort Totten Reservation and another on the Nez Perce Reservation. Team teaching is on the rise. The Navajo R. Committee reports the first permanent mass teaching institute in America. It opened its doors to teach on November 28. p. 4. 4) All-Bahá'í Town in South Dakota. All three residents of the town of Ralph, South Dakota became Bahá'ís. The Bahá'ís had been teaching in Fort Totten, ND and found many receptive souls. [Editor’s note: The Bahá'ís of North and South Dakota travel extensively. The distance between Fort Totten and Ralph is great. The story doesn't Updated: December 2020 exactly say, but, I can only imagine that the seekers must have been with the Bahá'ís or visiting in Fort Totten.] p. 4. January 1971: 1) Nez Perce Indian Reservation Site of Recent Expansion. The story tells of nine enrollments within 24 hours on the Nez Perce Reservation in Idaho. It gives an account of the event; a story of Chief Joseph; and a photo of Jenny and Dwight Williams, who pioneered from Lapwai. pp. 1-3. 2) Campus Activity Mounts. The first campus teaching plan reports came from the Fort Lewis College Bahá’í Club. The story mentions that three of the youth are moving 18 miles away to teach on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation and will be commuting to Durango for college. p. 11. [Editor’s note: Fort Lewis College is one of two colleges in the country which gives free tuition to American Indians yet today. While I don’t remember the exact situation, this is due to the colleges being built on Indian land. University of MN-Morris is the other one and that is where I worked.] February 1971: 1) Florida Kaleidoscope. Michael Jamir, Vocational Counsellor with the Seminole Indian Agency, BIA, introduces Hand of the Cause of God, Mr. Olinga. George Storm, was the first Seminole Indian to embrace the Cause of Bahá'u'lláh. p. 10. 2) Northern Cheyenne Reservation Opened to Faith. A delightful account of the Bahá'ís of Canada, North and South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Oklahoma arising to teach on the Cheyenne Reservation in Montana despite increment weather. The article mentions Steve White Man who is Northern Cheyenne and Bernard Pretends Eagle, Standing Rock Sioux from Fort Yates, who chaired the meeting; and Auxiliary Board Member Angus Cowan came along. p. 14. March 1971: 1) North Dakota Youth Advance: The Area Youth Committee carried out a teaching event near Woodworth, North Dakota, which involved over one hundred youth from North & South Dakota, Minnesota, and Canada. It was snowy and cold but the youth were able to teach the Faith to over 300 people. About fourteen people declared their belief in Bahá’u’lláh. They watched the movie; “It’s Just the Beginning”, among other fun activities. They were featured in the Minot Newspaper. p. 2. [Editor’s note: while no names or photos appeared, there was sure to be American Indian people at this event. Hopefully this will be enough to jar someone’s memory.] 2) The story of Ethel Murray, a homefront pioneer, who left her home in Providence, Rhode Island to teach the Faith among the Cherokee Indian. She had made her home on the Reservation. p. 4. 3) Teaching in Montana: Without much experience, some Bahá’ís planned a conference for the Northern Cheyenne people in Lame Deer. Thirteen people accepted the Faith. There is Updated: December 2020 a photo. Plans were made to teach on the Rocky Boy, Fort Belnap, Flathead, Fort Peck, and Crow Reservations. p. 5. 4) Mention of a need for volunteers for some Latin American Projects in Mexico, Belize, Venezuela, Guatemala, and Panama. p. 15. April 1971: Summer Teaching Project focus on Indian Teaching in upstate New York. The Tuscarora and Tonawanda Reservations were selected. p. 5. May 1971: 1) “The whole earth will be illumined” There are two pages of gorgeous photos showing the results of the teaching efforts initiated by the Northern Plains Indian Committee in cooperation with the State Goals committees of Idaho, Montana, and North and South Dakota. pp. 6-7. 2) Summer Youth Projects’71. This page includes a project in Phoenix, Arizona which will be oriented to American Indians and a few other minority groups. There are also ads for projects in Missouri, Montana, Wisconsin, New Mexico, and CA. p. 11. June 1971: Hooper Dunbar Brings Special Message from South American Indians. This article tells of Mr. Dunbar a member of the Continental Board of Counsellors for South America visiting man of the reservations throughout the Northern Plains and Southwest (Sioux, Crow, Cheyenne, Assiniboine, Chippewa, Blackfoot, Flathead, Nez Perce, Shoshone, Navajo, and Apache), to carry a message from the Indian Bahá'ís of South America to their brothers and sisters in the United States. p. 9. July 1971: 1) Mrs. Violet Starr, the first Ute Bahá’í and her daughter, Jolene Mart along with Bahá’í’s gather to teach at Fort Duchesne, Utah. A few wonderful photos featuring Violet Star, Loren McCook, and a Dancer(s).