Dick Price

When his wife Harriet went to the Navajo Reservation after the blizzard in 1968, Dick Price assumed she'd be gone for only a few days. Instead, she returned some five weeks later, and brought back a new sense of commitment to the Indian people. The Prices have since become increasingly involved with Indian activities, more specifically with the Indian Center - during the last year, for example, Dick spearheaded the $300,000 museum fund-raising effort. While Harriet's "helping out" experience affected them both significantly, it also helped them understand a major Indian frustration. "We came to the realization," he says, "that keeping the Indian on the reservation was no way to help them share in America's standard of living. They've been completely isolated."

He hopes the Center will provide the setting where the Indians can better understand the urban world - and even more to the point - "where the urban world can better understand the Indian."