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3 unusual facts about Gene Weltfish


Gene Weltfish

On April 1, 1953, she was questioned by the United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security staffed by Roy Cohn and consisting of Senators Joseph McCarthy, Karl Mundt, John McClellan and Stuart Symington.

The FBI investigated Weltfish's activities noting her political engagement in the Congress of American Women, her signatures on civil rights petitions, and her appearance on the radio station WNBC.

Pawnee people

Writing in the 1960s, the historian Gene Weltfish drew from earlier work of Wissler and Spinden to suggest that the sacrificial practice might have been transferred in the early 16th century from the Aztec of present-day Mexico.



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