| Show CHURCH LEADER The Vine V. Indian leader in the Episcopal will visit Ulc Reservation May Indian Leader To Visit Uintah- Ouray Reservation The Vine V. Assistant Secretary in charge of Indian work in the Division of Domestic Missions of the National Council will visit the Uintah-Ouray Reservation May 8 to Deloria is himself a Dakota the son of the Philip one of the first Indians to be ordained in the Episcopal He holds the highest executive position of any Indian in any church in the United He was born at South Dakota on an Indian Reservation from where he went to Kearney Academy in later graduating from St. Stephen's College at New After working in a Colorado coal mine for a year and spending a year as coach at an Indian school in Deloria entered the General Theological New in graduating in 1931 and entering the Priesthood the same Missionary For twenty years he served as a missionary to his own people in South before being elected to the National Council in In the autumn of Deloria received the Indian Achievement given annually by the Indian Council a national organization dedicated to the interests of the American Indian and to the preservation of Indian is the third clergyman and the fifth Sioux to receive the In June Bard College conferred on an honorary Doctor of Divinity Will Visit Utes While on the Uintah-Ouray Reservation Deloria will visit with as many individuals and groups of Utes as time permits in order to learn directly from them on Back INDIAN CHURCH LEADER From Page the about their social and spiritual He will be ar guest at St. Elizabeth's Mission in Whiterocks during his The Episcopal Church has been in the lead in the now well-informed and responsible opposition to the Bureau of Indian Affairs Relocation According to the Indian problem is basically of past the Indian today is down and out mentally and spiritually- This has been government policies aimed at knocking the Indian's social system out from under The relocation program is the latest trend in pursuing i i t this If continued it will result m a dissolving the Indian I am one who objects to getting rid of which is what would happen if relocation and integration were carried he Dr Deloria will arrive in Roosevelt following visits to m New Mexico and Arizona and after leaving here will visit in Nevada and in Wyoming before returning to New |
