Representative Charles Goodell (R-NY), Representative Ben Reifel, and Admiral Ben Moreell, director of the Americans for Constitutional Action, talk at the conservative awards

Alice Reifel stands by a portrait of her husband, Ben Reifel, while a seated woman pours coffee, and two campaign volunteers stand nearby during Ben Reifel's 1960 campaign

Alice Reifel is with two other women, each are holding a doll, during Ben Reifel's 1960 campaign

Mrs. Peter (Nancy) Dominick, Mrs. T. Nygaard, Mrs. Ben (Alice) Reifel, and unidentified woman, former President Eisenhower, and Evelyn ?

Candidate for Vice President William Miller shakes hands with Aberdeen, South Dakota Mayor Clifton Hurlbert on a stage, Representative Ben Reifel is standing behind them

Supporters at a Republican campaign rally in South Dakota, they are holding signs supporting Barry Goldwater and William Miller for United States presidents and Nils Boe for South Dakota governor

Young Republicans from Northern State Teachers College; Bob England, Lloyd Duncan, Bill Walker, Sue Walker, Gary Kulm

Alice Reifel with two campaign volunteers making telephone calls seeking support for Ben Reifel

William Scranton, Republican U.S. House of Representatives candidate from Pennsylvania is speaking with Bill Johnson

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

Representative Ben Reifel, David Volk, and Alice Reifel at the South Dakota State Fair

Representative Ben Reifel with his wife Alice in Honolulu, Hawaii; with them are Arlene Jones, Marge Steplses, and Shirley Mlddy

Former Representative Ben Reifel at a Indian Society seminar at Black Hills State College in Spearfish, South Dakota

Representative Ben Reifel is shaking hands with Alma Larson, secretary state

Representative Ben Reifel was Frosty for the 1962 South Dakota Snow Queen Festival in Aberdeen, South Dakota, he is kissing the cheek of the newly crowned queen Marnah Satviei of Sioux Falls

Representative Ben Reifel and an unknown man in Washington, D.C.; there is illegible writing in the bottom right hand corner of the image

Representative Ben Reifel is shaking hand with Admiral Ben Moreell, director of the Americans for Constitutional Action, Reifel was honored with the distinguished service award

Visitors from abroad surround the speaker of the day, Representative Ben Reifel, at the International Crossroads Sunday Morning Breakfast

Visitors from abroad surround the speaker of the day, Representative Ben Reifel, at the International Crossroads Sunday Morning Breakfast

Visitors from abroad surround the speaker of the day, Representative Ben Reifel, at the International Crossroads Sunday Morning Breakfast

Alice Reifel (far left) is with three unknown people; written in ink on the back is an inscription: With Love to our Alice - Fred and Lorraine

Indian Council Fire Achievement award ceremony held at the National Aviation Club in Washington, D.C., Dr. Ned A Hatathli is the 1971 Indian Achievement award winner; from left to right: Ben Reifel, director, Office of Indian Programs, National Park Service; Leo W. Vocu, executive director, National Congress of American Indians; Louis R Bruce, Commissioner of Indian Affairs; Dr. Ned A. Hatathli, President of Navajo Community College; Forrest Gerard, director, Office of Indian Affairs, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; Tom Colosino Director or Arrow Inc.; Hon. Virgil L. Kirk, Chief Justice, Navajo Tribal Courts; Elmer Bennett, Arrow Inc.

Dr. Ned A. Hatathli, President of Navajo Community College, received the 1971 Indian Council Fire achievement award from Ben Reifel; from left to right: Dr. Ned A. Hatathli; Louis R. Bruce, Commissioner of Indian Affairs; Ben Reifel, director, Office of Indian Programs, National Parks Service; Elmer Bennett, Arrow Inc.

Dr. Ned A. Hatathli, President of Navajo Community College, received the 1971 Indian Council Fire achievement award; from left to right: George Lavatta, Special Assistant to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs; Ben Reifel, director, Office of Indian Programs, National Park Service; Louis R. Bruce, Commissioner of Indian Affairs; Dr. Ned A. Hatathli, President of Navajo Community College; Leo W. Vocu, executive director, National Congress of American Indians; Forest Gerard, director, Office of Indian Affairs, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

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

Burdette Solum, president of Norwest Bank in Watertown, South Dakota, Fritzie, Class of 1933, and Ben Reifel, Class of 1932 were all welcomed as members of the Campanile Society by South Dakota State University president Robert Wagner

Henry Crawford, Leon Clement, Ben Reifel and Artie Travis pose for a photograph

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

Representative Ben Reifel at a powwow on the Rosebud Reservation with dancers dressed in American Indian costume. Reifel is wearing a headdress

Representative Ben Reifel is with his wife, Alice Reifel, and Al Gustafson in Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Ben Reifel and Alice Reifel with the Emery Anderson family, Loyce Anderson is standing behind the chair, Lisa Anderson and Laurie Anderson are sitting on Reifel's lap

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

Ben Reifel talking with a carpenter on the front porch of a house in Spearfish, South Dakota during his campaign for Congress

Ben Reifel talking with a carpenter on the front porch of a house in Spearfish, South Dakota during his campaign for Congress

Ben Reifel signing business cards during in campaign for Congress, another man is standing behind him watching

Ben Reifel talking with a people in a men's clothing store during his campaign for Congress

Ben Reifel talking with a man in front of a store during his campaign for Congress

Ben Reifel talking with people in Rosholt, South Dakota during his campaign for Congress

Ben Reifel talking with people in a place of business during his campaign for Congress

Ben Reifel talking with a housewife in her kitchen in Ipswich, South Dakota during his campaign for Congress, there are jars of preserves sitting on the stove

Ben Reifel talking with a housewife in her kitchen in Ipswich, South Dakota during his campaign for Congress, there are jars of preserves sitting on the stove

Ben Reifel talking with a housewife in her kitchen in Ipswich, South Dakota during his campaign for Congress, they are standing in front of the kitchen sink

Ben Reifel talking with a man in a drugs store during his campaign for Congress

Ben Reifel talking with Mrs. Winerd in her home in Ipswich, South Dakota during his campaign for Congress

Ben Reifel talking to a school teacher at a playground in Ipswich, South Dakota during his campaign for Congress

Ben Reifel talking to a school teacher and a child at a playground in Ipswich, South Dakota during his campaign for Congress

Ben Reifel talking to a business man in Ipswich, South Dakota during his campaign for Congress

Ben Reifel talking to a business man and his employee in Ipswich, South Dakota during his campaign for Congress

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

Former Representative Ben Reifel with Bill and Wynn Pecora; the image is signed in ink on the front: To Ben, with affection - Bill & Wynn Pecora

Representative Ben Reifel with two people in Flandreau, South Dakota

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

Representative Ben Reifel with the Goldwater Girls from Aberdeen, South Dakota during the 1964 campaign: Left to right: Peggy Lamont, Donna Patterson, Darla Wollman, Ben Reifel, Lorraine Germer, and Susan Vaughen

Representative Ben Reifel is among a crowd of people at a party, they all appear to be laughing

Representative Ben Reifel and his wife Alice Reifel are with a couple at an outdoor restaurant; there is a note typed on the back: With the Compliments of Congress G. Elliott Hagan First District of Georgia

House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations Sub-Committee on Interior and related agencies; Left to Right: George Evans, Joe McDade, Ben Reifel, Winfield Denton, Mila Kirwan, Julia Hansen

Representative Ben Reifel with Representative Mike Kirwan, a Democrat from Ohio

Representative Mike Kirwan, a Democrat from Ohio, is having an American Indian headdress places on his head by an unknown American Indian man

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

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

Representative Ben Reifel with Representative Mike Kirwan, a Democrat from Ohio, and two other unknown men

Representative Ben Reifel and his wife, Alice Reifel, talk with the parents of the Fischer quintuplets born in Aberdeen, South Dakota

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 (?)

Representative Ben Reifel is with A.E. Crooks of Frankfurt, South Dakota, and Dan Nohr of Yankton, South Dakota waiting to testify before the Committee on Agriculture in Washington, D.C.

Alice Reifel, wife of Representative Ben Reifel, is sitting with Florence Gubbrud, wife of South Dakota governor, Archie Gubbrud, and Elizabeth Green, wife of former governor Warren Green; there are dolls in the background

Alice Reifel is with other women at an event in Washington, D.C.

Alice Reifel is with four other women at an event in Washington, D.C.

Alice Reifel is with other women at an event in Washington, D.C.

Alice Reifel, wife of Representative Ben Reifel, and Myrtle Case, wife of Senator Francis Case at an event

United State Vice President Hubert Humphrey shakes hand with three men

Representative Ben Reifel and his wife, Alice Reifel, are with Mary Balo of White, South Dakota, who was named the Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow; Esther MacLean, Balo's adviser of Brookings, South Dakota, and an unknown man are also with them

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

Representative Ben Reifel, Representative Roy Taylor, and others with Stewart Udall, Secretary of the Interior, in Washington,, D.C.

Representative E.Y. Berry, Senator Karl Mundt, and Representative Ben Reifel are the guests of Harold Levinger of Yankton, South Dakota at the National Retail Merchants Association dinner in Washington, D.C.

Representative Ben Reifel and Senator George McGovern talk with a woman at the Women's Forum on National Security in Washington, D.C.

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.

United States Vice President Hubert Humphrey walking out of a door with other people

Alice Reifel is sitting by Senator Jack Miller of Iowa at an outdoor luncheon

President Dwight Eisenhower is speaking at an event, there are men holding microphones in front of him

89th United States Congress in session

Indian pageant at Black Hills Ordnance Depot in Provo, South Dakota, showing Helen Morganti of Lead, South Dakota being adopted into the tribe as Princess Silver Cloud, and Chief Afraid of Horses, the show was held for the war workers at the depot; the photograph is signed in ink on the front: Sincerely, Helen Morganti

Large group of people in front of the building at the Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico

Representative Ben Reifel is sitting on a sofa with Selma Gifford, Assistant Commission of Indian Affairs in a Washington, D.C. office

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

Distinguished Service and Valor awardees and the Secretariat - 25th Honor Awards Convocation - Interior auditorium; Left to Right - Top Row: Captain Matthew V. Carson, Jr., USN, Office of the Secretary; Joseph V.B. Wells, Geological Survey; Christopher J. San Fellipo, Geological Survey; Paul Zinner, Bureau of Mines; Ulric J Gendron, Bureau of Reclamation; William M. Deaton, Bureau of Mines; James Westfield, Bureau of Mines; Elmer P. Myers, Bureau of Indian Affairs; John S. Knowles, Bureau of Land Management; George L. Collins, National Park Service; Charles E. Peterson, National Park Service; A. Clark Stratton, National Park Service; Dick Sutton, National Park Service; Left to Right - Front Row: Floyd H. Phillips, Bureau of Indian Affairs; Alphonse Kemmerich, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries; Administrative Assistant Secretary Beasley; Andrew W. Anderson; Bureau of Commercial Fisheries; Monty Wilcox; Louise A. Wilcox; Orpha R. McPherson, Bureau of Indian Affairs; Secretary Udall; Clara B. Gonzales, Bureau of Indian Affairs; Assistant Secretary Carver; Assistant Secretary Holum; Fannibelle Jackson, Bureau of Land Management; Under Secretary Carr; Assistant Secretary Briggs; Benjamin Reifel, Bureau of Indian Affairs; Father John G. Kuhn, Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle

It was Representative Ben Reifel Day at the New York World's Fair House of Good Taste, Reifel and his wife, Alice, are seen here being welcomes by Lady Malcolm Douglas Hamilton, originator of the exhibit. The exhibit features three homes, a traditional home, a contemporary home, and a modern home

Bureau of Indian Affairs Commissioner Glenn Emmons shakes hands with Alfred Gilpin on the Omaha Tribal Council in Omaha, Nebraska

Bureau of Indian Affairs officials visit the Holy Rosary Mission in Pine Ridge, South Dakota; from the right: (second) Superintendent Towle; (third) Commissioner Emmons; (fourth) Rev. Lawrence Edwards, S.J., Superior of Holy Rosary Mission; From the Left (fourth) Rev. John Bryde, S.J. , principal of Holy Rosary Mission; (fifth) Ben Reifel, Aberdeen Area Director; (sixth) Representative Ely. Berry; (seventh) Assistant Commissioner Rex Lee

Ben Reifel with a group at the American Public Works Association conference at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago, Illinois

Congressman Ben Reifel shakes hands with a South Dakota homemaker

Representative Ben Reifel with the 1964 Westinghouse Science Talent Search scholarship winner, Lee R Gerton Snyder of Huron, South Dakota, he was awarded $5,000

Representative Ben Reifel (S.D.) and Representative Ancher Nelson (Minn.) are wearing American Indian headdresses and holding a Washington Daily Globe newspaper

Representative Ben Reifel (S.D.) and Don Clauson of Crescent City, California are wearing American Indian headdresses and holding a peace pipe

Representative Ben Reifel works with Karen Nali, an intern from the University of South Dakota, in his Washington, D.C office

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

Representative Ben Reifel eating a meal with Jim Conklin of Aberdeen, South Dakota

Representative E.Y. Berry, Senator Karl Mundt, and Ben Reifel, Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from the First District of South Dakota, are on the campaign trail in Pierre, South Dakota

Representative Ben Reifel is part of the Mexico-U.S. Interparliamentary group

Representative Ben Reifel with three others at a Former Members of Congress meeting

Representative Ben Reifel at a Former Members of Congress meeting