John Collier
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
John Collier 1884-1968, American social worker, anthropologist, and author, educated at Columbia and the Collège de France. After holding several positions in community organization and social work training, he became active in Native American affairs in 1922. Collier was editor of the magazine American Indian Life from 1926 until 1933, when he was appointed commissioner of Indian Affairs, a position he held for 12 years. In addition to works in verse, he wrote Indians of the Americas (1947) and On the Gleaming Way (1962, orig. pub. 1949 as Patterns and Ceremonials of the Indians of the Southwest ).
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David W. Daily. Battle for the BIA: G. E. E. Lindquist and the Missionary Crusade against John Collier.(Book review)
The American Indian Quarterly; 1/1/2007; Pinkoski, Marc; 787 words
; David W. Daily. Battle for the BIA: G. E. E. Lindquist and the Missionary Crusade against John Collier. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004. xii + 216 pp. Cloth, $39.95. The focus of this monograph is a biographical presentation of John Collier, the longest-serving commissioner of the Bureau
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San Diego Business Journal; 3/10/2008; Black, Kevin; 14 words
; Nadel Architects said it has added John Collier as senior staff member of its San Diego office.
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WHERE QUIET HORROR MEETS THE EVERYDAY
The Boston Globe; 2/22/2004; JAMES SALLIS; 787 words
; A man goes to the dentist and, settling into the chair, says: "Rip 'em all out." Not the first line of a joke, as well it might be, but the first paragraph of a story by John Collier. Here are some others: "Franklin Fletcher dreamed of luxury in the form of tiger-skins and beautiful women. He was
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Display revisits old photos of Navajos
Albuquerque Journal; 10/14/2002; Journal Staff Report; 240 words
; The late 1940s and early 1950s were a turbulent period for the Navajo people. John Collier, commissioner of Indian Affairs, enforced a livestock reduction program as a way to deal with land erosion on the Navajo reservation because of overgrazing. In the first year, nearly 400,000 animals sheep,
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COLLIER.(Obit)(Obituary)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 4/17/2006; 146 words
; John Collier April 13, 2006 John Collier, 74, of Rossville, IL, passed away on April 13, 2006, at Carle Hospital in Urbana, IL. Funeral services were held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at First Presbyterian Church in Rossville. Burial in Manns Chapel Cemetery. Military honors by Rossville American Legion.
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