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Collection: 11517 - Marilyn Cross Hudson Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 01377
Title: Martin Cross, Delegate Fort Berthold Reservation seated portrait, N.C.A.I. Convention, Phoenix, Arizona
Date: 12/8/1954
Red ID: MS_I_459457 Image ID: 464084 Image Notes: 11517-01377

Collection: 11517 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Marilyn Cross Hudson Collection
Date: 1887-2021

Summary: Research, writings, working and subject files, and other materials created or collected by Hudson. Major subjects include the written, recorded or photographed tribal and oral histories of the MHA Nation, Elbowoods, the bottom lands of the Missouri River prior to development of the Garrison Dam, Native American veterans, Native American ranching, and the Cross family. Included are records of tribal, state and federal government proceedings leading up to construction of the Garrison Dam and the subsequent impacts on the tribe and its communities. The collection includes: writings and correspondence of Martin Cross, father of Marilyn Cross Hudson, who served 6 terms on the MHA Nation Tribal Council, 4 of those terms as Chairman; photographs, records and documents of Chief Old Dog, grandfather of Marilyn Cross Hudson; cemetery records, both on and off the Fort Berthold Reservation; and boarding school records. The collection also includes histories, records and photos of the City of Parshall, North Dakota, the home of Marilyn Cross Hudson from 1953 until her death in 2020.

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