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Photograph caption dated March 8, 1958 reads "Jimmy Hood, 13, accepts $500 check from Mrs. Tsianina Blackstone of Burbank, retired Creek Indian concert singer. With them are Mrs. Ruth Hutchison and her husband Cotus, who will supervise a private school for Navajo Indian children, and Mrs. Alice Moriorty, right, Los Angeles attorney who was born on an Oklahoma Indian reservation."
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