North American Indian Days Celebration, Browning, Montana Part 2

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF NEWS SERVICES THE PENTAGON, WASHINGTON 25, D.C. - LIBERTY 5-6700 AUDIO-VISUAL DIVISION RADI0-TV-NEWSFILM BRANCH LR3342 ROOM 2E791 - EXTENSION 75111 (A) DUPE NEGATIVE TO: Release No. 152-63 FINE GRAIN TO; Footage: 500 15 July 1963 NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN DAYS CELEBRATION (Official Air Force footage .released by Department of Defense) Major General Winston P. Wilson, U. S. Air Force opens the 12th Annual North American Days in Browing, Montana, 11 July 1963. The celebration will continue through the 14th. General Wilson was invited as an honorary member of the Blackfeet Tribe, an honor which was given him this spring in the Pentagon. The General's Indian name is Chief Eagle Boy. General Wilson was recently nominated by President Kennedy and approved by the U. S. Senate to be the Chief of the National Guard. He will assume his new duties August 31. General Wilson is the firstAir Force officer in the 43-year history of the Guard to be Chief of the General Bureau. He will have 400,000 Army National Guardamen and 75,000 Air Guardsmen in the 50 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, under his Command. Accompanying the General on his trip was Major James Elliott, Public Relations Director for the National Guard. Major Elliott is an honorary member of the tribe. He is known as Chief Medicine Warrior. During the celebration, an authentic look into the past is lived and enacted by the Blackfeet and the many visiting tribemen from throughout the entire northwest. General Wilson also receives his formal adoption papers into the Blackfeet Indian tribe. NOTE TO EDITORS: 500' 35mm unprocessed film handed out to CBS, New York, for servicing both TV and theatrical pool members. Original film to be forwarded to Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York, within 72 hours. 12/19/63 KIN NOTE TO EDITORS: PLEASE CREDIT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN TITLE OR COMMENTARY The fine grain master positive, released to the company designated above, is for duplication and distribution to interested TV and Newsreel pool members. It is then to be returned within 72 hours to the Film Library, Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York. The master positive must not be cut in any manner. A dupe negative is also for release to the company designated above for distribution to pool tim members so desiring for duplication purposes. within 24 hours it will be delivered to DeLuxe Laboratories, 850 Tenth Avenue, New York, N. Y., telephone Circle 7-3220 where it will be avail- able to non-pool members and other authorized organizations which make satisfactory financial arrangements with DeLuxe Laboratories. The dupe negative must not be cut in any manner.

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Filmed News Releases