Society of American Indians
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The Society of American Indians was the first national American Indian rights organization run by and for American Indians. The Society pioneered twentieth century Pan-Indianism, the movement promotin
Dr. Arthur Caswell Parker
Angel De Cora
Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt
Sherman Coolidge
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Sherman Coolidge, an Episcopal Church priest and educator, helped found and lead the Society of American Indians. That first national American Indian rights organization run by and for Native American
Society of American Indians
…and communicated frequently. In the early 1900s, three prominent American Indians, Dr. Charles Eastman, his brother Reverend John Eastman and Rev. Sherman Coolidge first discussed organizing a Pan-Indian or intertribal Indian rights organization. However, they concluded the time was not yet right to broadly advance…
Lieutenant Charles A. Coolidge, 1875
Coolidge served as a canon at the Cathedral of St. John in the Wilderness in Denver, Colorado.