Representative Ben Reifel meeting with South Dakota constituents in his Washington, D.C. office. Standing left to right: Don Pattratz, Flandreau, instructor at Canton High School; Greg Eiseland, Canton; Ronald Johnson, Canton; Robbin Bong, Beresford; Leon Yelinek, Canton. Seated are Representative Reifel and James Lounsbery, Beresford

Representative Ben Reifel meeting with South Dakota constituents in his Washington, D.C. office. Left to right: Annette Milbrandt, Rich Loomis, Representative Reifel, Arlen Poppen, Cynthia Sandberg

Representative Ben Reifel meeting with South Dakota constituents in his Washington, D.C. office. Susie Ellwein (Center), Judi Wilson (right), Sue French (left)

Representative Ben Reifel meets with VFW representatives from South Dakota, R.W. Hodson, Martin, and Bob Whittemore, Watertown who were raising money for the Battleship USS South Dakota Memorial

Representative Ben Reifel (seated) with four 4-H representatives; standing left to right: Dennis Yeaton, Mary Jean Steinheuser, Sandra Jenter, and Donald Hoar

Representative Ben Reifel with others at the Puerto Rican Cherry Blossom reception in Washington, D.C.

Representative Ben Reifel standing next to the South Dakota Cherry Blossom Princess Judy Sorenson from Flandreau, South Dakota who is shaking hands with Don White, President of the South Dakota State Society from Pierre, South Dakota in Reifel's Washington, D.C. office

Representative Ben Reifel and Senator Karl Mundt at a reception for South Dakota's best Homemaker of Tomorrow Ruth Krueger left to rights: Margaret McBride, Ben Reifel, Ruth Krueger, Karl Mundt

Representative Ben Reifel at a reception for South Dakota's best Homemaker of Tomorrow Ruth Krueger left to rights: Margaret McBride, Ruth Krueger, Ben Reifel

Representative Ben Reifel (seated, second from right) is among the delegation of the Mexico-United States Interparliamentary Group

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

Representative Ben Reifel with South Dakota constituents in his Washington, D.C. office. Bob Gradeneauer is handing Representative Reifel a camera; from left to right: Bob Artz, Aberdeen, Lester McNamara, Watertown, and Bob Gradeneauer, Aberdeen, Representative Reifel

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

Representative Ben Reifel, Don Schweiger, president of the Greater South Dakota Association, Harold Lovre, and Representative E.Y. Berry standing in front of a building

Representative Ben Reifel, Philleo Nash, Commissioner of the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Harry R. Anderson, Assistant Secretary of the Interior

Representative Ben Reifel and Minnesota Representative Ancher Nelsen congratulate Ken Marber for winning the George T. Mickelson Outstanding Club award in 1965. Representative Nelsen was speaker at the convention

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

Representative Ben Reifel is shaking hand with astronaut Gus Grissom, Betty Grissom stands to the right

Representative Ben Reifel is shaking hand with astronaut Gus Grissom, Betty Grissom, astronaut John W. Young and his wife, Barbara Young stand to the right

Representative Ben Reifel is shaking hand with astronaut Gus Grissom, Betty Grissom, astronaut John W. Young and his wife, Barbara Young stand to the right

Representative Ben Reifel meets with Don Hunter of Centerville, South Dakota and Merle Flyger of Hurley, South Dakota to talk about the sugar beet industry in South Dakota, Representative Reifel holds a bowl of sugar cubes for Hunter and Flyger to put in their coffee

Representative Ben Reifel and Representative E.Y. Berry discuss H.R. 12425

Representative Ben Reifel greets Wilma Victor, first woman deputy secretary of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton stands behind them

Congressman Ben Reifel and Senator George McGovern meet with a group of 4-H club members visiting Washington, D.C. in the Senate dining room

Congress Ben Reifel and Senator Karl Mundt meet with four constituents

Representative Ben Reifel meets with Bill Baker and Sam Rott, members of the South Dakota Restaurant Association

Representative Ben Reifel meets with Gabriel Nelson, Wakonda, South Dakota, Loren Adamson and Ralph Landsman, both from Centerville, South Dakota, to discuss the Vermillion River flood control project in Reifel's Washington, D.C. office

Ben Reifel, Special Assistant for Indian programs of the National Park Service, with Albert Wing, chairman of council, Ute Mountain Ute Indian Tribe, Espeedie Ruiz, superintendent of Ute Mountain Ute Agency, and Meredith M. Guillet, superintendent of Mesa Verde National Park

Representative Ben Reifel meets with South Dakota highway officials Don Rounds, Don Achiten, Rex Leubcher, and Art B. Anderson in Reifel's office in Washington, D.C.

Representative Ben Reifel and Representative E.Y. Berry meet with South Dakota American Legion commanders Bill Lenker and Carle Lenker. The commanders are father and son

Representative Ben Reifel shakes hands with a 4-H club member while holding an award, other 4-H club members stand nearby, the United States capitol building is in the background

Representative Ben Reifel meets with Lyle Gerriott, South Dakota RECA and Tom Venables, National RECA

Representative Ben Reifel meets with East River Electric officials Art Jones, president, and Harlan Severson (standing)

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 with Under Secretary of Commerce Leroy Collins, Representative John Flynt, Secretary of Commerce John T. Connor, and Representative Mark Andrews

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

Dr. Ben Reifel presiding over an assembly discussing Indian boarding school issues, seated at the table are Olaf Nelson, reservation principal at Ft. Berthold Reservation in North Dakota, O.R. Sande, superintendent at Wahpeton Boarding School in North Dakota, and Herman Bogard, superintendent at Flandreau Boarding School in Flandreau, South Dakota

Representative Ben Reifel and his wife, Alice Reifel, are at a reception in Washington, D.C. with Web Hill, and a representative of Life Magazine

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

Representative Ben Reifel meets with John Graff, secretary of the Greater South Dakota Association, Huron, South Dakota, and W. H. Rork, manager of Northern States Power in Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Representative Ben Reifel with his office staff in his Washington, D.C. office

Representative Ben Reifel, Representative E.Y. Berry, and Web Hill looking at a beaded American Indian shirt in Reifel's Washington, D.C. office

Constituents from Mitchell, Winner, and Sioux Falls South Dakota visit Representative Ben Reifel in his Washington, D.C. office; Back row left to right: John R. McDougal, Cecil W. Duncan, Representative E.Y. Berry, Carle B. Lenker, Ray Asmussen; Front row left to right: Bob Payne, Representative Ben Reifel, Bill Lenker, W. Hal Ramsey

Representative Ben Reifel and Representative E.Y. Berry showing an American Indian headdress to two men in Reifel's Washington, D.C. office

Representative Reifel with members of American Legion in his Washington, D.C. office; standing left to right: Ray Gallagher, Merton B. Tice, Representative E.Y. Berry, Representative Ben Reifel, John Chambers, Val G. Stockinger, Matthew Voigth, and Clyde Prouty; seated is Mrs. Voight

Representative Ben Reifel standing in the grass with four other men at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, there is a crowd of people behind them

Representative Ben Reifel is with Roland Chicoine and Dan Nobr in Reifel's Washington, D.C. office, Chicoine and Nobr are about to put cubes of sugar in their coffee, Reifel is holding a bowl of sugar cubes

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

Representative Ben Reifel is with Dick Schoon of Aberdeen, South Dakota, and E.H. Dunker of Northwest Public Service Corporation in Reifel's Washington, D.C. office

Representative Ben Reifel with United States government officials; from left to right: Surgeon General Luther Terry; Representative Ben Reifel; Mrs. Polling, Indian Health Service; Miss Gifford, Bureau of Indian Affairs; Secretary ?; Mamie Mizen, Senate Appropriations; Dr. Wagner, Indian Health Service

Representative Ben Reifel with a group of men; left to right: Henry Crow, Major General R.H. Wienecke, Representative Anderson, Irving Crown, Vadm Greenfell, Ben Reifel, and Charles R. Perrin of Senator McNamara's office

Representative Ben Reifel (left) examines the new electronic macing at the new Veterans Administration Hospital at the Washington Hospital Center, discussing the apparatus are Dr. George A. Higgin (center) and Mr. J.C. Gillespie, assistant director

Representative Ben Reifel (left) examines the new electronic macing at the new Veterans Administration Hospital at the Washington Hospital Center, discussing the apparatus are Dr. George A. Higgin (center) and Mr. J.C. Gillespie, assistant director

Representative Ben Reifel, Representative E.Y. Berry, and Senator Karl Mundt meet with South Dakota constituents; left to right: Representative Reifel; Marilyn Daczewitz; Senator Mundt; Col. Casey Fillbrandt; Representative Berry; Senator Joseph Bottum; Pat Fillbrandt

Representative Ben Reifel and his wife, Alice Reifel, meet Martha Yunker, the National Homemaker of Tomorrow, and her advisor Melba Ellis

Representative Ben Reifel and his wife, Alice Reifel, meet Martha Yunker, the National Homemaker of Tomorrow: left to right Alice Reifel, Arletta Lischer, Martha Yunker; Harold Lischer; Melba Ellis

Sun Dance at Two Strike Camp on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota; left to right: Jessie White Lance, Leo Clairmont, Bill Schweigman, and Henry Crow Dog

Representative Ben Reifel with Miss Universe, Kiriaki Tsopei of Greece, and Miss USA Bobbie Johnson formerly of Aberdeen, South Dakota

Representative Ben Reifel addresses South Dakota Farmers Union bus trippers in the Veterans Affairs Committee Room in Washington, DC

Representative Ben Reifel greets National GOP Chairman Bill Miller

Representative Ben Reifel works with intern Debbie Spaulding in his Washington, DC office

Representative Ben Reifel with Margaret Ward, Yankton, South Dakota and Sheldon Ward, Pottersville, New York at the dedication of the 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

Representative Ben Reifel and Bill Ferguson looking at a copy of the 1963 South Dakota State College Jack Rabbit yearbook

Representative Ben Reifel and Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Johnson in Washington, D.C.

Secretary of the Army Elvis J. Stahr, Jr. (right) greets Representative Ben Reifel of South Dakota and Alice Reifel at a reception at Fort Meyer, Virginia which followed a retreat review honoring army veterans of the 87th Congress

Representative Ben Reifel with Rita Red Starr, Coleen Courey, Kenyon Cull, Peggy Allen and Elgene Lance in his Washington, D.C. office

Ben Reifel receives the All American Indian Days award for Outstanding American Indian of the Year at the All American Indian Days in Sheridan, Wyoming

Representative Ben Reifel, Governor Nils Boe, and Representative E.Y Berry standing 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

Representative Ben Reifel (center) presents Wilma L. Victor with the Achievement Award of the Indian Council Fire Achievement Award, Inc. Looking on are Commissioner of Indian Affairs Louis R. Bruce (left) and Marion Gridley (right), editor of the Amerindian, Chicago, Illinois. The award was made in the Capitol in Washington, D.C.

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

Representative Ben Reifel and Representative E.Y. Berry stand with another man 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

Representative Ben Reifel is showing the statue of Joseph Ward to Highway Department representatives Kenneth Morgan and Derald Thompson 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 stands in front of the statue of Joseph Ward with Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Hartman and their family 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 Alice Reifel stand in front of the statue of Joseph Ward with Joan Gratz 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 Alice Reifel with their granddaughters meet Mr. Quinn at the Sioux Falls, South Dakota Republican Headquarters

Representative Ben Reifel and Margaret Ferguson of the South Dakota Nurses Association in his Washington, D.C. office

Ben Reifel and a former Congressman from Alaska at a Former Members of Congress meeting in Washington, D.C.

Representative Ben Reifel escorts Nancy Nadeau, Cherry Blossom Princess, at the 1962 National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C.

Representative Ben Reifel talks with A.E. Crooks of Frankfort, South Dakota. Reifel is holding a bowl of sugar cubes

Representative Ben Reifel discusses a book with Alice Kundert of Mound City, South Dakota in his Washington, D.C. office

Representative Ben Reifel shows Don Clausen a Native American headdress and peace pipe. There is a mounted pheasant on the wall above their heads

Representative Ben Reifel and Senator Ed Brooke, formerly Massachusetts Attorney General, are being interviewed

Representative Ben Reifel and summer intern D'Ann Kyrk, an Augustana College student from Milbank, South Dakota, working in Reifel's office

Representative Ben Reifel and 1961 South Dakota Cherry Blossom Princess Patricia Lay from Aberdeen, South Dakota

Representative Richard Roudebush placing a pin on Representative Ben Reifel's lapel

Representative Ben Reifel shaking hands with Paul Bixler, President of the South Dakota Future Farmers of America from Centerville, South Dakota

Representative Ben Reifel shaking hands with US Vice President Spiro Agnew. The photograph is signed Ben Reifel, MC, 1st Dist. SD

Miss Indian America Thomasine Hill is presenting Representative Ben Reifel an award at the Bill Harrison Fundraising event in Sheridan, Wyoming

Shirley Temple Black speaks with Representative Ben Reifel

Representative Ben Reifel shaking hands with Bob Dillman, a Gallaudet College student from Yankton, South Dakota, who won a silver medal in diving in the 1961 Deaflympics in Helsinki, Findland

Representative Ben Reifel with the 1965 American Dairy Princess Susanne Bradford from Tallahassee, Florida

Representative Ben Reifel and Alice Reifel with 1964 Science Talent Search scholarship winner Lee Snyder, from Huron, South Dakota. Snyder was awarded a $5000 scholarship

Representative Ben Reifel working with summer intern Craig Green, a University of South Dakota student from Gettysburg, South Dakota

William Miller greeting constituents at Joe Foss field in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Miller was candidate for vice president candidate in 1964. Alice Reifel is visible in the bottom left hand corner wearing a white shirt and sweater

William Miller speaking at a Republican campaign rally in South Dakota

Representative Ben Reifel is with other members of the 1968 Democratic National Congressional Committee

Representative Ben Reifel is with other members of the 1968 Democratic National Congressional Committee

Representative Ben Reifel meets with other members of the 1968 Democratic National Congressional Committee

Representative Ben Reifel meets with other members of the 1968 Democratic National Congressional Committee

William Miller speaking at a Republican campaign rally at the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota