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...camp as counselors through the Harvard-Radcliffe American Indian Project, a Phillips Brooks House venture which last summer completed its third year. Camp Unitah, where the seven Harvard and Radcliffe students worked, was in Fort Duchesne, Utah, only 12 miles from the sun dance ground. Twenty-four other PBH volunteers worked with other tribes throughout the West...
Taking the campers to the sun dance promoted one goal of the PBH volunteers. It encouraged the Ute children to have respect for themselves as Indians. "We wanted them not to think of Indian as a dirty word," said Stephen L. Bayne '64, director of the project last summer. "We wanted them to consider old Indian culture as something to be proud...
...PBH program generally seems to be meeting with more success than the Peace Corps," Miss Leibhafsky commented. "Our people are making a more conscious effort to overcome the Negro's natural sense of inferiority to the white man," she said. "Peace Corps members live far above the subsistence level--usually in white parts of town. Except in the capital our people live in the Negro sections of towns...
...added that the youth of PBH workers and their freedom from any governmental ties had contributed greatly to the Project's success...
Alison Leibhafsky '64, Director of Project Tanganyika for 1963, said that the Harvard-Radcliffe program has received little criticism since its inception in the summer of 1961. She added that although the bulk of PBH's work was in the teaching field, no radical changes were planned for the future...