American Decades

Magazine article

By: Alden Stevens

Date: March 1, 1940

Source: Stevens, Alden. "Whither the American Indian?" Survey Graphic 29, no. 3, March 1, 1940, 168. Available online at http://newdeal.feri.org/survey/40b09.htm; website home page: http://newdeal.feri.org (accessed February 27, 2003).

About the Author: Alden Stevens (1907–1968) was born and raised in Chicago and later graduated from the University of Chicago. He was a well-traveled writer and museum exhibition designer whose assignments took him to numerous American Indian reservations. Stevens also wrote for several television shows, and in 1957, served as the field director of the Mobil Travel Guide. In 1941, he joined the American Association on Indian Affairs, an organization dedicated to promoting the welfare of...