Grace working on behalf of the National Congress of American Indians.

ID: 944 ~ Source: National Congress of American Indians (NCAI): Industry and Indians Conference Binder; 1968; Grace F. Thorpe Collection, Box 1 Folder 15; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution. ~ Creator: National Museum of the American Indian. ~ Date: Ca. 1968

This file appears in: Economic Development Conference Coordinator for the National Congress of American Indians

Grace is pictured conversating with an industrialist at a NCAI conference.

This file appears in: Economic Development Conference Coordinator for the National Congress of American Indians

Economic Development Conference Coordinator for the National Congress of American Indians

By Grace Thorpe

“I was with them, oh about 8 months. But I quit the job and they wanted to, you know, retain me. But when I quit we got a, oh my gosh, a half a million dollars. See, so I was leaving them in good shape. When I was hired they had no money.” The…