{"value"=>"<p>Shortly after IFCO was established the board formed the Indian Board of Consultants to assist in identifying the needs of the American Indian community. The American Indian Projects series reflects IFCO's subsequent work with Native Americans, and is the second largest series in the collection. There is information on a number of Indian tribes: Crow, Sioux, Comanche, Lakota, and Navajo, as well as inter-tribal organizations, from around the country. File contents include proposals, agreements, and reports, correspondence with several church denominational representatives, minutes of meetings, copies of Indian treaties with the United States, and conference materials. IFCO also proposed the establishment of an American Indian task force to advise IFCO on American Indian affairs and communicate with urban, rural and regional tribal representatives. Files for the task force contain a proposal from IFCO requesting funding in order to establish a task force and evaluate proposals.</p> <p>There are several files on the American Indian Movement (AIM), which IFCO helped establish. Contents of these files include a feasibility-like study on AIM, the articles of incorporation, minutes, transcript of an IFCO meeting in May 1969, correspondence, activity report, newsletters, and newspaper clippings. A transcript of the trial proceedings in the case of the United States vs. Dennis Bank and Russell Means for the occupation of Wounded Knee can also be found here.</p> <p>Included are files for the Joint Strategy and Action Committee (JSAC), an ecumenical organization similar to IFCO that worked with Indians, Chicanos, Alaskan Eskimos and rural residents. Files include minutes, correspondence, and proposal summaries.</p> <p>There are also several files dealing with the Native American Consultation with Churches, a meeting or retreat convened at the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, South Dakota in 1975. In response to a request for information about American Indians and the lack of resources in their communities, church leaders proposed and assembled a meeting to discuss these issues. Individuals representing fourteen tribes and twelve denominations attended. The files contain materials from the planning meeting, as well as for the actual meeting and workshops, and include reports and plans regarding a follow up meeting for the next year. A folder, entitled, \"Post-Conference Correspondence, Resolutions\", contains letters, resolutions and a petition on Native American concerns. That folder also contains background information on Leonard Crow Dog, a Sioux medicine man who was arrested, tried and sentenced for his role in the occupation of Wounded Knee.</p>"}