The BIA’s responsibilities once included providing health care to American Indians and Alaska Natives. In 1954 that function was legislatively transferred to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, now known as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where it has remained to this day as the Indian Health Service
These were the buttons worn by the uniformed services of Indian Reservations such as Agents, Medical personnel, and Police
Forest Service Buttons, first 2 are vegetable Ivory others are brass
Starting in 1876, and undergoing a series of name
changes, the U.S. Forest Service grew to protect and utilize millions of acres
of forest on public land. Gifford Pinchot,
an early advocate of scientific forestry, along with President Theodore Roosevelt and conservation organizations, led the effort to manage
forest for the public good.
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Very interesting, and great buttons!
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