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A memorandum from Lyman to the Fort Peck Agency staff; reports of police misconduct and its investigation; a memorandum about land and the realty office; narratives of the weeks beginning January 15 and 22; and newspaper articles.

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Remarks about daily events and an autobiographical sketch; two death investigation reports; newspaper and magazine articles; and special criminal case reports presented to the United States attorney general's office.

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Criminal case reports; narratives about daily events; a program of the dedication of the tribal office and community building; correspondence about education; and News clippings.

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Mimeographed letters from Eric and Jimmi Freedman; narratives of daily events; notes on law enforcement problems; crime reports; and a report on a county planning and improvement meeting.

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Narratives of daily events; comments on the Wolf Point education program; a letter from Lyman's mother; criminal case reports; News clippings, including articles about Bear Butte State Park; a memorandum about road plans and the reservation irrigation project; and speech notes on the poverty cycle.

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Narratives, newspaper articles, correspondence, and other materials about embezzlement charges against Melvin Buckles, tribal executive board member; News clippings regarding other Indian issues; narratives of daily events; a misconduct report about the tribal jailer; and personal letters and notes.

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A family history sketch by Lyman's mother, narratives of daily events, personal letters, and newspaper articles.

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Lyman's speech about tribal program development to the Billings area superintendents conference; narratives of daily events; list of available positions within the Bureau of Indian Affairs; a background report on the Fort Peck delegation to Washington, D.C.; a letter from Lyman to Associate Commissioner James E. Officer; crime reports; and newspaper articles.

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Criminal case reports, narratives of daily events, personal letters, newspaper articles, and biographical sketches of tribal executive board members.

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Criminal case reports; excerpts from a speech by Robert L. Bennett, commissioner of Indian affairs; a speech by Lyman about long-term reservation plan conflicts; News clippings, including a graduation issue of the Poplar Standard; memorandums about the embezzlement of tribal funds; and the monthly law and order report.

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A land report for the 1964 fiscal year; criminal case reports; a personal letter to Lyman from his wife, June; a letter to Jack Shoemaker, agency realty officer, about unleased oil subsurface acreage; narratives of daily events; a draft of a proposal to do a socioeconomic study of the Montana Hi-line area; a brief history of the land and people of the area once known as the "Vale Empire"; and a Lyman family history by Lena Lyman.

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A list of graduating high school seniors; narratives of daily events; a list of tribal government chairmen and members since 1941; a personal letter to June Lyman; a roster of Fort Peck tribes and the tribal executive board; farewell letters from Lyman upon his transfer to Utah; personality sketches of some tribal council members between 1961 and 1964; and notes on land problems.

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World War II ration books and stamps; News clippings; and The Cross and the Calumet, a newsletter of the Chicago St. Augustine Center's Committee on American Indian Work.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Boxes 3 through 20 contain Lyman's daily personal and office notes and working papers, compiled into chronological notebooks. This section starts with general Indian literature and materials from his assignments at Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota (1952-1978), in box 3 through box 14, folder 17. These are followed by documents from his other Bureau of Indian Affairs assignments: Denver, Colorado (1954-1958), box 14, folders 18 through 19; Chicago, Illinois (1958-1962), box 14, folders 20...