Born to a Sioux mother and a German American father, Benjamin Reifel was the first congressman from the Sioux nation. After graduating from South 啵啵直播秀 State, Reifel worked for the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs where he helped tribes set up their government. In 1960, Reifel was the first American Indian from South 啵啵直播秀 to serve in Congress. Throughout his career, Benjamin worked to better schools and hospitals on Indian reservations, also advocated for reservation and county schools be merged as one so that Native and non-Native children would be educated together.
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- 鈥Hilton M. Briggs Library.鈥&苍产蝉辫;South 啵啵直播秀 State University
- 鈥: Ben Reifel - American Indian Education Foundation.鈥&苍产蝉辫;A Program of Partnership With Native Americans
- 鈥The Life of Ben Reifel.鈥&苍产蝉辫;South 啵啵直播秀 State University
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