MISSION INDIAN FEDERATION POSTER

The Mission Indian Federation (MIF) was Southern California's most popular and long-lived grass-roots political organization.

Between 1919 and 1965, its membership took on some of the most difficult political and legal questions of the 20th century.

The MIF asserted rights to internal sovereignty and rejected the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) paternalism. The MIF's clashes with the U.S. federal government's BIA employees in the Mission Indian Agency (MIA) frequently had its members in court, but occasionally confrontations turned violent...MORE.

FINE ART ARCHIVAL PRINTS (this is a beautiful detailed high-resolution scan from an original photograph):

Sizes available: 24x48 & 44x90 inches
1920 MIF group image only may be printed up to 12 feet wide
PRINT: 8-color archival Epson 7880 ink on Epson Premium Luster paper
MOUNTED: Black Gator board
Framed: Available
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Research, page, and poster design by photojournalist GARY G. BALLARD for www.californiaindianeducation.org.