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Indian Reservations, Indian Wards and Branches, 1955 (revised)

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I’ve split the map as requested, hoping to make it large enough to read.

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Here’s an enlargement of the parts probably of interest to most readers — if you want me to zoom in on any part of the map, let me know which and I’ll try to oblige. It’s a low-resolution scan, though, so don’t hope for too much.

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8 thoughts on “Indian Reservations, Indian Wards and Branches, 1955 (revised)”

  3. The Catawba ward in SC was first started and then moved in 1884-87, from Rock Hill, SC to up around Spartanburg. My grandfathers were the first branch presidents, John Alozno Canty and James Goodwin Patterson.

  4. It’s great to see that star representing a congregation so far from the perhaps more expected places in the West, Judy.

  5. This is a great image! Do you know any more about the map? Why it was created? My great grandparents’ ranch was purchased in the 1940s to become part of the Duckwater Shoshone Reservation where the Duck Water branch was located. I also recall attending a branch at Lee on the South Fork Indian Reservation. I’m trying to figure out if one of those dots near Elko could be that branch.

  6. My grandparents lived on the Kiabab Reservation. He was called as a missionary to that tribe, and lived and served there until he was released 68 years later.

    I spent every summer there as a child.

  7. East verses West. full court press against the Navajos; at least 7 wards/branches. Even though the LDS Indian Student Placement Program started in 1947, it’s not until 1954 when things start to expand for the ISPP, a year before this map was put out in 1955. Where did you find this?

  8. blueagleranch, it appeared as an illustration in a Church publication that focused on “the Lamanite.” It seems a little elaborate to have been prepared solely for that publication, so I wonder if it had been borrowed from something prepared for, say, Elder SWKimball or some office or agency within the Church that was concerned with Native Americans.

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