President Coolidge Meets with Committee of One Hundred

In this photograph, President Calvin Coolidge meets with the Committee of One Hundred on the South Grounds of the White House. The Committee of One Hundred consisted of scholars, activists, and policy specialists who advised the federal government on critical issues facing the Native American population. Here, Ruth Muskrat, a Mount Holyoke college student of Irish and Cherokee descent, presents President Coolidge with a copy of "The Red Man in the United States," a book describing the adverse economic, educational, religious, and cultural challenges facing Native Americans.