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Title New Deal For Cherokees Is Aim Of Foght (Page 1 of 2)
Date September 9, 1934
Description Article on the efforts of Cherokee reservation superintendent Harold Foght to "bring the New Deal" to the Cherokee. Plans include an influx of new funding for projects such as hospital construction, sanitation improvement, and a broad expansion and reorganization of the reservation education system.

Continued on page 2 of 2
Creator Organization Asheville Citizen Times
Tags Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina
Foght, Harold W.
New Deal, 1933-1939
Credit North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill