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

Members of Congress in session in the chambers of the United Stated capitol building

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.

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

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

Ceremony honoring two American Indian code talkers

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

People supporting the Goldwater-Miller ticket during the 1964 United States Presidential campaign at a rally in Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Frank Good Lance, Ben Reifel, and Thor Spotted Bear standing by Wounded Knee Monument on Mother's Day

Florence Peale, wife of Ambassador Edward Peale of Liberia, is visiting the Mrs. Robert Orben, wife of the speech writer for President Nixon

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

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 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

Two men sitting in front of a display of two marlin fish attached to a sign which reads: City of Miami, Pier 5 - World's Finest Fishing Fleet

Delores Racine-Blackfeet in American Indian costume with Ben Reifel and an unidentified woman, Ben Reifel is holding a plaque

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

Congressman Ben Reifel shakes hands with a South Dakota homemaker

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

People standing on a dock waiting to board a charter fishing boat

Representative Ben Reifel is talking with Minnesota Governor Al Quie and Representative Jim Abdnor at a Republican dinner in Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Former Representative Ben Reifel (third from left in back row) served as a member of the South Dakota Memorial Art Center board of directors. South Dakota State University President Berg (first on left in back row) and President Briggs (fifth from left in back row) are also present

Ben Reifel at his Bureau of Indians Affairs desk when he served as farm agent to the Oglala Lakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation

Representative Ben Reifel talking with farmers while standing in a cattle feed lot, there are heifer cows in the background

Representative Ben Reifel talking with farmers about sugar beets during his 1960 campaign for Congress

Representative Ben Reifel talking with farmers about sugar beets during his 1960 campaign for Congress

Representative Ben Reifel talking with farmers about sugar beets during his 1960 campaign for Congress

Representative Ben Reifel talking with a farmer near Ipswich, South Dakota, they are standing in a field by a plow

Ben Reifel talking with A.E. Crooks, Spink County GOP chairman and president of the James River Valley Beet Growers Association from Frankfort, South Dakota and W.E. (Bill) Bergeson of the U & I Sugar Company in Belle Fourche, South Dakota about sugar beet during his 1960 campaign for Congress

Representative Ben Reifel talking with a farmer while standing in a cattle feed lot, there are heifer cows in the background

Representative Ben Reifel talking with a farmer while standing in a cattle feed lot, there are heifer cows in the background

Representative Ben Reifel talking with a farmer while standing in a cattle feed lot, there are heifer cows in the background

Representative Ben Reifel talking with a farmer while standing in a cattle feed lot, there are heifer cows in the background

Representative Ben Reifel talking with a farmer while standing in a cattle feed lot, there are heifer cows in the background

Representative Ben Reifel talking with a farmer while standing in a cattle feed lot, there are heifer cows in the background

Representative Ben Reifel talking with a farmer while standing in a cattle feed lot, there are heifer cows in the background

Representative Ben Reifel talking with a farmer while standing in a cattle feed lot, there are heifer cows in the background

Representative Ben Reifel talking with a farmer while standing in a cattle feed lot, there are heifer cows in the background

Representative Ben Reifel talking with a farmer while standing in a cattle feed lot, there are heifer cows in the background

Representative Ben Reifel talking with a farmer while standing in a cattle feed lot, there are heifer cows in the background, a photographer is in the foreground

Representative Ben Reifel talking with a farmer about sugar beets during his 1960 campaign for Congress

Representative Ben Reifel talking with a farmer standing by a Farmall tractor

Representative Ben Reifel talking with a farmer standing by a Farmall tractor

Representative Ben Reifel talking with a farmer standing by a Farmall tractor

Representative Ben Reifel talking with farmer standing by a Farmall tractor

Representative Ben Reifel talking with a farmer standing by a Farmall tractor

Ben Reifel talking about sugar beets with three men during his 1960 campaign for Congress

Ben Reifel talking about sugar beets with a group of men during his 1960 campaign for Congress

Ben Reifel speaking to voters at the courthouse in Woonsocket, South Dakota

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

Man presenting Ben Reifel (center) and three other men with the Silver Antelope Award from the Boy Scouts of America, the Silver Antelope Award is the highest award in scouting for leadership

Ben Reifel reading an Aberdeen American News newspaper heading declaring him as the winner of the 1960 Republican primary in the first district of South Dakota, the headline reads: Reifel wins GOP contest

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 talking with people in Rosholt, 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 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 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 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 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 and his employee in Ipswich, 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 people in a men's clothing store 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 man in front of a store during his campaign for Congress

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

Ben Reifel and an elderly man looking at grain samples

Ben Reifel is watching a man work in a blacksmith shop during his 1960 campaign for Congress, there is an anvil in the foreground

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

Ben Reifel holding a plaque, there are four people with him

Ben Reifel in Plankinton, South Dakota during the final days of his 1960 campaign for Congress

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

Alice Reifel with several other women during a birthday party for Representative Ben Reifel

Alice Reifel on stage with several other women during a birthday party for Representative Ben Reifel

Alice Reifel on stage with several other women during a birthday party for Representative Ben Reifel

Alice Reifel with several other women during a birthday party for Representative Ben Reifel

Ben Reifel is at a luau, Hawaiian dancers dressed in grass skirts are providing entertainment

Bureau of Indian Affairs area director at the dedication of the Twin Buttes School 12 miles north-northwest of Halliday, North Dakota, with him are Ernest Magnuson, principal of the Sac and Fox Day School in Tama, Iowa, Owen Morken, superintendent at Ft. Berthold Agency, John Star and Knute Lee, directors of schools

South Dakota Tuberculosis and Health Association annual meeting in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Standing left to right: Ben Reifel, Ray Jonz, and two unidentified men; Front row left to right: Dr. Mary Walton, Phoebe Downing, Marian Paints, Mrs. Alfred Janis

Ben Reifel at the Red Scaffold Day School on the Cheyenne River Reservation in Red Scaffold, South Dakota in the Fall of 1959

Ben Reifel at a Nixon for President campaign rally, two women are pinning something on to the lapel of his suit

Ben Reifel, former representative from South Dakota, speaks with North Dakota Representative Tom Kleppe and another man, the photograph is signed to Ben Reifel from Tom Kleppe

Ben Reifel and Les Kennedy in Haily, Idaho

Ben Reifel and his wife Alice Reifel speaking with Representative Don Short of North 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

Ben Reifel in his U.S. Army Reserve uniform

Portrait of Ben Reifel

Ben Reifel standing between his wife, Frances, and Virginia Smith after Reifel gave a talk to the Clearwater Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution meeting

Ben and Frances stand in front of a pine tree with two other people

Representative Ben Reifel and his wife, Alice Reifel, are with Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Schuelke of Groton, South Dakota

Barbara Peet and Robert Orben talking in a living room

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

Mrs. Robert Orben and Ambassador Edward Peale of Liberia chatting in a home setting

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

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