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

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

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

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, 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

Ben Reifel sitting on an elephant in front of the Republican headquarters at the South Dakota State Fair in Huron

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

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

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

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

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 about sugar beets 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, a photographer is in the foreground

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

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 near Ipswich, South Dakota, they are standing in a field by a plow

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 farmers while standing in a cattle feed lot, there are heifer cows in the background

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

Ben Reifel stands with four other men in front of a painting of a man

Ben Reifel with Richard Spriggs, 1971 Junior Man of the Year, Glascow Agency, and another man

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 with two other men at an event

Ben Reifel with two other men at an event. The photograph is signed: Ben, Best Wishes, I look forward to working with you, Ron

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

Boy Scouts at the Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico

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

Clarence Dillard of Appalachia reads a message at the Mackinac demonstration from executive members of his union. Senior representatives of management, labor, and the professions are taking part in the demonstration with youth

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

Congressman Ben Reifel shakes hands with a South Dakota homemaker

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

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

Indian youth from across America applaud opening day celebrations at the demonstration for modernizing America

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

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

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

Large group of people gathered in a room and seated on chairs at an event in Washington, D.C.

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

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

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

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

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

Ceremony honoring two American Indian code talkers

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Group of five people looking at maps

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

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

Portrait of Ben Reifel during his 1960 campaign for Congress

United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower with a group of people

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

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

Representative Ben Reifel with a traveling classroom group from Nova Scotia on the steps of the US Capitol in 1964

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

Portrait of Representative Ben Reifel, a Republican from the First District of South Dakota

Representative Ben Reifel pointing with his right hand

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

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

Representative Ben Reifel talking with two men