Representative Ben Reifel discusses a book with Alice Kundert of Mound City, South Dakota in his Washington, D.C. office
Representative Ben Reifel and Aldean Farrell, National 4-H delegate from Bullhead, South Dakota on the US Capitol steps
Representative Ben Reifel is with his wife, Alice Reifel, and Al Gustafson in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Representative Ben Reifel is with his wife, Alice Reifel, and Al Gustafson in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Representative Ben Reifel talks with A.E. Crooks of Frankfort, South Dakota. Reifel is holding a bowl of sugar cubes
Representative Ben Reifel and A.E. Crook of Frankfort, South Dakota, on the US Capitol steps
Representative Ben Reifel and a young cadet
Representative Ben Reifel and a young cadet
Representative Ben Reifel and a constituent on the US Capitol steps
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 1967 intern, Donna Bluehorse, who was also Miss Rosebud, on the US Capitol steps
Representative Ben Reifel and 1965 summer intern Mike Pieplow from Aberdeen, South Dakota on the US Capitol steps
Representative Ben Reifel and 1961 South Dakota Cherry Blossom Princess Patricia Lay from 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 aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier
Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier
Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier
Representative Ben Reifel shakes hands with an officer aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier
Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier
Representative Ben Reifel eating with the crewmen aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier
Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier
Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier
Representative Ben Reifel inspects an aircraft gun aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier
Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier
Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier
Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier
Representative Ben Reifel talks with officers aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier
Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier
Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier
Representative Ben Reifel in the mess line aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier
Representative Ben Reifel eating with the crewmen aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier
Representative Ben Reifel sits in a rescue helicopter aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier
Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier
Representative Ben Reifel visits the main ship's store aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier
Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier
Representative Ben Reifel and John Roy Lucas, electronics technician first class, from Madison, South Dakota, talking aboard the USS John Marshall, an Ethan Allen-class submarine
Representative Ben Reifel shakes hands with a man in front of Christopher Columbus' cabin aboard a replica of the ship the Santa Maria
Portrait of Representative Ben Reifel, a Republican from the First District of South Dakota
Portrait of Representative Ben Reifel, a Republican from the First District of South Dakota
Portrait of Representative Ben Reifel, a Republican from the First District of South Dakota
Representative Ben Reifel pointing with his right hand
Representative Ben Reifel talking with two men
Former Representative Ben Reifel talking with a man in a classroom
Portrait of Representative Ben Reifel, a Republican from the First District of South Dakota
Portrait of Representative Ben Reifel, a Republican from the First District of South Dakota
Portrait of Representative Ben Reifel, a Republican from the First District of South Dakota
Representative Ben Reifel is seated in an audience, the audience is applauding
Representative Ben Reifel is talking to a constituent
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, Representative E.Y. Berry, and Web Hill looking at a beaded American Indian shirt in Reifel's Washington, D.C. office
Representative Ben Reifel with a traveling classroom group from Nova Scotia on the steps of the US Capitol in 1964
Reporters and supporters listening to Ronald Reagan in Brookings, South Dakota campaigning for Nixon-Agnew in 1968
Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of the Mahatma, and Editor-in-Chief of the Indian weekly ""Himmat,"" addressing over 800 delegates to the Mackinac demonstration in 1965
President Richard Nixon delivering his budget address to Congress
President Lyndon B. Johnson walks out of a room in front of three other men
President Lyndon B. Johnson greets other men at an event
President Lyndon B. Johnson greets other men at an event
President Lyndon B. Johnson greets other men at an event
President Lyndon B. Johnson greets other men at an event
President Lyndon B. Johnson and two other men stand behind a table at an event
President Lyndon B. Johnson and Senator Frank Carlson bow their heads solemnly
President Lyndon B. Johnson and Senator Frank Carlson at an event
President Lyndon B. Johnson and Senator Frank Carlson at an event
President Dwight Eisenhower is speaking at an event, there are men holding microphones in front of him
United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower with a group of people
Signed portrait from Senator Karl Mundt to Representative Ben Reifel: To Ben Reifel, A great campaigner with a bright congressional future. You are a real credit to our native state of South Dakota. Karl E. Mundt, U.S. Senate Jan. 16, 1961
Portrait of Major General Eugene F. Cardwell, Commanding General, Southern European Task Force
Signed portrait from Representative E.Y. Berry to Representative Ben Reifel: Best wishes to by colleague - a good Congressman Ben Reifel, E.Y. Berry
Portrait of Ben Reifel during his 1960 campaign for Congress
Policeman on the airstrip at Joe Foss Field in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Eastern Airlines plane on which Republican vice presidential candidate William Miller arrived on for a campaign rally is in the background
Large group of people in front of the building at the Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico
Phillip Ritterbush, Special Assistant for Scientific Matters, Congressman Robert T. Ashmore, and Alice Reifel talking during an Evening at the Smithsonian
Group of five people looking at maps
Paul Bear Save Life on an heirship land of 80 acres
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
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.
Ben Reifel is on the National Advisory Council on the Education of Disadvantaged Children, the group is on the lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C.
Miss Indian America Thomasine Hill is presenting Representative Ben Reifel an award at the Bill Harrison Fundraising event in Sheridan, Wyoming
Representative Ben Reifel is part of the Mexico-U.S. Interparliamentary group
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
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
Members of Congress in session in the chambers of the United Stated capitol building
Masahide Shibusawa, Japanese business man, who is in charge of the work of Moral Re-Armament in Japan, speaks at the Mackinac demonstration. He has come to plan for the delegation of 100 Japanese students arriving later in July. Shibusawa's great-grandfather was the founder of modern industrial Japan
Maj. Gen. J. Strom Thurmond accompanied by Honor Guard Commander Capt. Charles E. Guilford salutes the colors during Honor Guard ceremonies
Luck Spider Back Bone living on his allotment of 640 acres, 1 room log house, dirt root, and dirt floor
Labon Holy Pipe on his own allotment of 32- acres, house build with personal funds
Johnson Scabby Face on his deceased daughter's allotment as he is the sole heir to the estate of 160 acres
John White Bear living on his grandmother's allotment of 160 acres
John Garnier, a mix blood living on his wife's allotment of 160 acres with a two room log house, shingle roof, and good floor
John Bean Robe on his deceased wife's allotment of 320 acres
Flanked by American Indian elders and overseas delegates, J. Blanton Belk gives the keynote speech at the demonstration for modernizing America on Mackinac Island, Michigan. Ben Reifel is visible in the background looking left
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
Former Representative Ben Reifel at a Indian Society seminar at Black Hills State College in Spearfish, South Dakota
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
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.
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 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
Roster of House Wednesday Group members with Ben Reifel's name on it, as well as an introduction and overview of what they do in the group.