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Letter From Pocahontas Hagy To Editor Of Bismarck Tribune, Submitted To The Congressional Record By Representative Burdick, May 7, 1956, Pocahontas Hagy

Usher Burdick Papers

This letter to the editor published in the Bismarck (North Dakota) Tribune was written by Pocahontas Hagy of Abingdon, Virginia, and submitted by United States (US) Representative Usher Burdick into the Congressional Record on May 7, 1956. The letter asks: if segregation is unconstitutional, why are Indigenous people segregated onto reservations with few resources? The letter admonishes the way white men have treated Indigenous people in the United States. The letter calls for a righting of wrongs perpetrated.