Representatives Ben Reifel and E.Y. Berry with delegates to the National 4-H Conference on the steps of the US Capitol. Delegates: Sandra Jenter, Mary Jean Steinhauser, Donald Hoar, and Dennis Yeaton. Club agents: Frank Heitland and Elle Ollenburg

Representatives Ben Reifel and E.Y. Berry with Don Van Bockern and Verly Hafer standing in front of the statue of Joesph Ward statue in Emancipation Hall in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, DC. The statue was given by the State of South Dakota

Representative Ben Reifel and members of the South Dakota Bankers Association in Washington, D.C. Front row left to right: R.J. Berry; Hutchinson, Harkison, Lovald, Mateer, Gullickson, E.Y. Berry, Meklhaff, A.W. Powell. Back row left to right: Goodell, Colton, Lynch, Hill, Ben Reifel, Lovre, Larsen, Stilgebauer, Walrath

Representative Ben Reifel, Representative E.Y. Berry, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Quinn stand in front of the statue of Joseph Ward statue in Emancipation Hall in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, DC. The statue was given by the State of South Dakota

Representatives Ben Reifel and E.Y. Berry with Mr. and Mrs. Walt Soulek on the steps of the US Capitol

Representatives Ben Reifel and E.Y. Berry with Mrs. Wayne Eshelberger on the steps of the US Capitol

Representatives Ben Reifel and E.Y. Berry with REA members in Washington, D.C. The US Capitol is in the background

Representatives Ben Reifel and E.Y. Berry with Roy Beard, state 4-H agent and 4-H delegates on the steps of the US Capitol

Representatives Ben Reifel and E.Y. Berry with South Dakota 4-H leaders on the steps of the US Capitol

Representatives Ben Reifel and E.Y. Berry with South Dakota State University President Hilton M. Briggs, Lillian Briggs, and Alice Reifel on the steps of the US Capitol

Representatives Ben Reifel with others aboard a replica of Christopher Columbus' ship the Santa Maria

Representatives Clark MacGregor (left) of Minnesota and Ben Reifel of South Dakota, sit at the conference table where violations of the armistice in Korea are discussed between the North Korean communists and the United National Command MacGregor and Reifel were members of a United States Congressional group who toured U.S. military installations in Korea

Representatives E.Y Berry and Ben Reifel with a 4-H group on the steps of the US Capitol. Ella Ollenburg, Sharon Vander Martin, Eileen Kelsey, Tom Varilek, Larry Wasland

Representatives E.Y. Berry and Ben Reifel with Deaconess Link, Malinda Walters, and Bernadette Thompson from Eagle Butte, South Dakota on the steps of the US Capitol

Representatives E.Y. Berry and Ben Reifel with Helen Vlasak and Martha Eng on the steps of the US Capitol. The photograph is signed: Best wishes to Helen Vlasak Ben Reifel M.C.

Representatives E.Y. Berry and Ben Reifel, and Senator George McGovern with presidential scholars, Steve Larson and Sarah E. Perry

Two men talking during a Republican party event

Correspondence and other documents related to Congressman Ben Reifel's decision to retire from Congress.

Correspondence and other documents related to Congressman Ben Reifel's decision to retire from Congress.

Richard S. Cowan, Director, Museum of Natural History, Congressman Ben Reifel, and Sidney R. Galler, Assistant Secretary for Science, during an Evening at the Smithsonian Institution

Richard S. Cowan, Director, Museum of Natural History, Congressman Ben Reifel, and Sidney R. Galler, Assistant Secretary for Science, during an Evening at the Smithsonian Institution

Barbara Peet, Robert Orben, and another woman in a living room setting, Orben is President Nixon's speech writer

Ronald Reagan in Brookings, South Dakota campaigning for Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew

Ronald Reagan in Brookings, South Dakota campaigning for Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew

Ronald Reagan in Brookings, South Dakota campaigning for Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew

Rosebud Agency as seen from the northwest approach road. The Agency is about 12 miles southwest of Mission, South Dakota. Show the log Sioux Indian Museum on the right

Rosebud Agency as seen from the northwest approach road. The Agency is about 12 miles southwest of Mission, South Dakota

Main school building and one of the dormitories at the Rosebud Indian Boarding school, about one mile east of Mission, South Dakota

Main school building and one of the dormitories at the Rosebud Indian Boarding school, about one mile east of Mission, South Dakota

Rusty Walles, John Sayre, directors of the Mackinac Demonstration, with Conrad Hunte, director of sports program and vice captain of West Indies Cricket Team, at the Mackinac Demonstration

View northward toward the Sacred Heart no. 2 Catholic Church and cemetery where the soldiers were fortified at Wounded Knee

Republican Party sample ballots for the 1960 primary election

Samuel Fast lives on his father's allotment with one room, shingle roof, and board floor

Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall presents Reifel with an award

Senator Jim Abdnor is with Representative Ben Reifel, Frances Reifel, and Miss Indian America

Senator Karl Mundt speaking with a woman

Senator Karl Mundt and Representative Ben Reifel talking

Senator Karl Mundt, Representative Ben Reifel, and another man at an event

Senator Karl Mundt and Representative Ben Reifel clasp hands with two other people

Senator Karl Mundt, Representative Ben Reifel, and another man watch David Hamil sign a document. There is a REA sign on the wall behind them

Senator Karl Mundt and Representative Ben Reifel, and a group of men with David Hamil (seated) of the East River Power Cooperative in Madison, South Dakota

Senator Karl Mundt and Representative Ben Reifel with Mr. and Mrs. Bob Bennett, Commissioner of Indian Affairs

Senator Karl Mundt and Representative Ben Reifel with South Dakota State College alumni. Senator Mundt is holding an elephant ivory carving with Col. Emerich; from left to right: Walt Conahan, Senator Mundt, Col. Emerich, Representative Reifel, and Laurel A. Engberg

South Dakota Senator Karl Mundt speaking with two men during a Republican Party event

Senator Karl Mundt sitting in a convertible with other men during Northern State Teachers College annual Gypsy Day parade in Aberdeen, South Dakota

South Dakota Senator Karl Mundt speaking with Louise Humphrey at an event

Senator Karl Mundt, Senator Francis Case, and Ben Reifel being interviewed on a television set

Senators Karl Mundt, George McGovern, Representative Ben Reifel, and Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall by a model of a gasification facility for Rapid City, South Dakota

Senators, Representatives, and Congressional aides in Italy for a tour of the U.S. Army's Southern European Task Force. The group, all members of the US army Reserve, and serving two weeks of active duty, will visit SETAF installations at Verona, Vicenza, and Livorno, and observe the training of the Corporal and Honest John Missile units

Shirley Temple Black speaks with Representative Ben Reifel

Sioux Indian Museum at Rosebud Agency, South Dakota

Representative Ben Reifel (second from left) is among other at the groundbreaking for a new high school in Sisseton, South Dakota

Snow sled used by Alaskan infantrymen, called an akhio, is demonstrated for US Congressmen visiting Fort Richardson, Alaska

Comments by John J. Barcroft, Director, Division of Public Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities, at the presentation of the Distinguished Award in the Humanities to Congressman Ben Reifel. Also included is correspondence and pamphlets.

Comments by John J. Barcroft, Director, Division of Public Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities, at the presentation of the Distinguished Award in the Humanities to Congressman Ben Reifel. Also included is correspondence and pamphlets.

South Dakota congressional delegation with Tom Taylor; from left to right: Tom Taylor, Representative Ben Reifel, Alice Reifel, Senator Karl Mundt, Representative E.Y Berry, and Sam Seehser (?)

South Dakota delegation and their spouses at an event, from left to right: Representative E.Y. Berry, Senator Karl Mundt, Rose Berry, Web Hill of Rapid City, South Dakota, Alice Reifel, Representative Ben Reifel, and May Mundt

Senator George McGovern, Representative Ben Reifel, Representative E.Y Berry, Senator Karl Mundt. Ken Holum, and Floyd Dominy work on the Oahe Irrigation Project in Washington, D.C.

Political panel at the South Dakota Farmers Union convention featuring candidates for Governor and Congressmen. Nils Boe, Republican candidate for Governor, discusses taxation. John Lindley, Democratic candidate for Governor, discusses 25% aid to schools. Ben Reifel, Republican candidate for Congress discusses farm legislation in Congress and the future of the livestock industry. George May, Democratic candidate for Congress discusses improving farm programs to maintain farm income. Byron Brown, Democratic candidate for Congress discusses the rural community development aspect of the food and agricultural program. The candidates' introductory remarks are followed by a question and answer session.

Correspondence, publications, and other documents related to Ben Reifel's dealings with the South Dakota Memorial Art Center, including his American Indian art collection and his service on their board of directors.

Members of the South Dakota Nurses Association visit with Representative Ben Reifel in his office, they are looking at a folder of the American Nurses Association Conferenced on Legislation

Senator Karl Mundt, Senator George McGovern, Representative, and William F. McKee with Captain Charles W. Broz, winner of the Koren Kolligian, Jr. trophy which recognizes outstanding feats of airmanship by aircrew members who by extraordinary skill, exceptional alertness, ingenuity, or proficiency, averted accidents or minimized the seriousness of the accidents in terms of injury, loss of life, aircraft damage, or property damage

Ben Reifel's note on the South Dakota Republican party platform during Ben Reifel's campaign.

South Dakota State College Class of 1932 reunion; from let to right; row 1: Garrett Holleman, Frances O'Connell, James Etteldorf, Jennie Bang VanDenBerg. Nina Mae Cranston Garthune; Row 2: Ben Reifel, Wesley Neufeld, Eli Ferguson, Ken Schoenwether, Marjorie White Ashbaugh, Adeline Dahl Muehlbeier, Charlotte Christie Jones, Paul Jones; Row 3: Vivian Swenson Strand, Otis Dahl, Merwin B. Wheeler, Liguri Gannon, Donald Craig, Fred Frame; Row 4: Ozzie Stockland, William Garthune, Everard Opsal, Herman Stallbaum, Millard MacComb, Don Pier

Members of South Dakota State College Class of 1932 meet for a reunion; left to right: William Garthune; Nina Cranston Garthune; Howard Magnusson; Jennie Bang VanDerBerg; Ben Reifel; Fred Fromke; Millard MacComb

South Dakota State College Class of 1932 reunion at Alumni Days at South Dakota State University; left to right; Front Row: Nina Mae Cranston Garthune, Charlotte C. Jones, Effie Olson Rishoi, Dorothy Whittemore Goose, Ben Reifel; Back Row: William M. Garthune, Ed Painter, Paul C. Jones, F. Clark Trygstad, Larry Gannon, Kenneth Schoenwether, Otis J. Dahl

South Dakota State College Class of 1933 reunion; from let to right; Row 1: Edith Braun, Helen Walters, Francis Ryland Reifel, Winifred Brown Lee, Ethel Bowe Gilbertson; Row 2: Paul Freeburg, Harold Braun, Francis Johnson, Willis Dahlmeier, Kris K. Gilbertson, Elmer Johnson

South Dakota State College Hobo Day bum band is at the South Dakota Republican Headquarters at the State Fair in Huron, South Dakota, there is an elephant to the right

Representative Ben Reifel, Representative E.Y. Berry, and Senator Karl Mundt with Lawrence Welk and others at a South Dakota State Society luncheon

Dean Delwyn Dearborn of the College of Agriculture and Biological Sciences at South Dakota State University honors Al Schock Oscar Olson, Ben Reifel, and an unknown man

Speakers of the House Sam Rayburn swears in Ben Reifel during a ceremony

Fargo Warrior living on Spider Back Bone's allotment as he gave 160 acres to his daughter. One room log house with shingle roof and good flooring

Crowd gathered during the swearing in ceremony for Ben Reifel as Special Assistant for Indian programs to the Director of the National Park Service in the Department of the Interior

T. Dale Stewart, Senior Scientist, Department of Physical Anthropology, and Congressman Ben Reifel look at a first Americans exhibit during an Evening at the Smithsonian

Congressman Ben Reifel and T. Dale Stewart, Senior Scientist, Department of Physical Anthology looks at an exhibit in Jade Hall in the Museum of Natural History during and Evening at the Smithsonian

Congressman Ben Reifel and T. Dale Stewart, Senior Scientist, Department of Physical Anthology looks at an exhibit in Jade Hall in the Museum of Natural History during and Evening at the Smithsonian

Book of remarks from the Testimonial Dinner for Felix S Cohen, as well as Ben Reifel's iterinaries and list of orientation meetings.

Three men in American Indian dress in front of a tipi at an event in Lemmon, South Dakota

Tom Kleppe introduces Ben Reifel as Special Assistant for Indian programs to the Director of the National Park Service in the Department of the Interior, Reifel's wife, Francis, stands between them

Tom Kleppe introduces Ben Reifel as Special Assistant for Indian programs to the Director of the National Park Service in the Department of the Interior, Reifel's wife, Francis, stands between them. The photographs is signed: To Ben Reifel - It is good to have you with us even thought for a short time. Tom Kleppe

Tom Kleppe swears in Ben Reifel as Special Assistant for Indian programs to the Director of the National Park Service in the Department of the Interior, Reifel's wife, Francis, stands between them

Representative Ben Reifel (second from left) is with a group touring the new Veterans Administration hospital in Washington, D.C.

Congressman John D. Fuqua, Florida, Frank J. Horton, New York, Graham D. Purcell, Texas, and Clark MacGregor, Minnesota, watch exercises held at the Ski Bowl training area at Fort Richardson, Alaska

Trinity Episcopal Mission Church at Mission, South Dakota

Two men shaking hands and smiling

Representative Ben Reifel (seated, far right) was on the United States House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture sub-committee in 1961-1962

Representative Ben Reifel and Representative Mike Kirwan are among members of the United States Interior Department Appropriations Subcommittee of the 88th Congress