Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections
Cage 69
Dreamer, Marion Billbrough
Marion Billbrough Dreamer Papers
1904-1984
4 Linear feet of shelf space
7 Boxes
This collection contains correspondence, illustrated
reminiscences, policewoman's journal, scrapbooks, photographs, and printed material
concerning the teaching activities of Marion Billbrough Dreamer.
Collection materials are inEnglish
Marion Billbrough Dreamer was born on September 12, 1896 in Michigan. Little is known about
her childhood, but education was a hallmark in much of her adult life. In 1924 Dreamer was
accepted into Washington State College; in the same year she accepted her first teaching
position at Saint Xavier’s School in Montana. She taught in Montana until 1928 when her
career path was temporarily diverted to law enforcement. Dreamer relocated to Detroit,
Michigan in 1929 and became a patrol officer. Her primary responsibilities were to
investigate cases and allegations regarding girls and young women. According to her diary,
much of her time was devoted to investigating reports of "immoral living arrangements,"
prostitution, sexual assaults, incest, burlesque shows, and dance halls. Dreamer’s career as
a police officer lasted less than a year, and she returned to her former profession as an
educator.
Over the next thirteen years, between 1929 and 1942, Dreamer worked in Nebraska and South
Dakota. In 1932, after being placed on a wait list for a civil service position, she
accepted a teaching post as a day school teacher for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). She
taught at a number of different day schools on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
There she met George (Geo) Dreamer, her future husband. She struggled with lingering health
problems, and in 1942 she resigned her post on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Shortly
thereafter, in 1947, George Dreamer died after an attack of appendicitis.
At the age of 70, Dreamer enlisted with a national volunteer program, Volunteers in Service
to America Project (VISTA). She served at various Job Corps sites in several states,
including Montana, Idaho, Illinois, South Dakota, and Hawaii. As a VISTA volunteer, she
worked as a librarian, mentor, and reading instructor. She was deeply connected to her VISTA
work and created lifelong bonds with some of her Job Corps students. Her papers show that it
was with deep personal regret that she retired as a VISTA volunteer in 1977. Marion B.
Dreamer passed away October 2, 1992 in Dewitt, Michigan.
This collection contains correspondence, illustrated reminiscences, policewoman's journal,
scrapbooks, photographs, and printed material concerning the teaching activities of Marion
Billbrough Dreamer. The collection covers a period from 1905 to 1984. The bulk of the
material covers Dreamer’s work as a VISTA volunteer involved in the Job Corps during the
1960s and 1970s. Materials in this collection include photographs, scrapbooks, diaries,
artwork, poetry, correspondence, and miscellaneous printed items. One item, the Dakota
Territory newspaper Iapi Oaye, was transferred to the Historical Newspaper Collection.
A name and subject index has been created for portions of this collection, and is included below.
The collection is organized into four series: Series 1: Correspondence and Diaries; Series
2: Printed Material; Series 3: Miscellaneous Items; Series 4: Photographic Materials,
Scrapbooks, and Oversize.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions may apply.
[Item description]
Marion Billbrough Dreamer Papers, 1904-1984 (Cage 69)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Marion Dreamer donated her personal papers to the Washington State University Libraries between 1973 and 1984.
This collection was processed in 2005 by Katrina Paxton.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
Dreamer, Marion Billbrough -- Archives
Policewomen -- Diaries
Siouan Indians -- Education
Indians of North America -- Education -- History -- Sources
Teachers -- South Dakota -- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation -- Correspondence
Women
Native Americans
Series 1: Correspondence and Diaries
1
1
Civil Service employment correspondence
1932-1942
1
2
George Dreamer and Dreamer family, correspondence and miscellaneous items
1905-1938, undated
1
3
Correspondence with Ralph "Doc" Hubbard
1973-1977, undated
1
4
Correspondence with Job Corps coworkers and students
1967-1971, undated
1
5
Correspondence with Job Corps coworkers and students
1967-1970, undated
1
6
Land allotment and land management
1908-1952, undated
1
7
Treaties and land allotments
1955-1962, undated
1
8
Diaries
1929-1930
1
9
Diary, Job Corps (McCoy, Illinois)
circa 1966
1
10
Diary, Number Five Day School
1936-1937
Series 2: Printed Material
1
11
Daily News Sheet, Pine Ridge
1954-1956
Job Corps
1
12
Miscellaneous publications, Boxelder, South Dakota
1965-1976, undated
1
13
Education Instruction Manuals
1967-1975, undated
1
14
Handbooks, memoranda, miscellaneous publications, Marsing, Idaho
1968-1969
2
15
Handbook, McCoy, Illinois
undated
2
16
Miscellaneous publications
1966-1967, undated
2
17
Newsletters
1972-1976, undated
2
18
Minutes from Oglala Sioux Tribal Council
1955
2
19
The Pine Ridge: A Monthly News Bulletin
1965
2
20
Plains Tribes
1940, 1958
2
21
Presbyterian Church publications
1954-1959, undated
2
22
Miscellaneous publications (Sioux)
1936-1962, undated
2
23
Ten Year Development Program: Fort Peck, Montana
1964
2
24
VISTA Training
1966
Series 3: Miscellaneous Items
2
25
Clippings, American Indian Movement (AIM)
1973, undated
2
26
Job Corps, Kokee, Hawaii
1970-1972, undated
2
27
Miscellaneous materials
1961-1969, undated
Series 4: Photographic Materials, Scrapbooks, and Oversize
3
28-29
Photographs, Job Corps, McCoy, Illinois
1966-1967, undated
3
30
Multimedia art
1930, undated
3
31-32
Job Corps, Boxelder, South Dakota, Scrapbook
1969-1972, undated
3
33
VISTA Job Corps, Cottonwood, Idaho, Scrapbook
1966-1967, undated
Scrapbooks, Job Corps
3
34-35
Cottonwood, Idaho
1966-1967, undated
3
36
Kokee, Hawaii (1 of 3)
1970-1972, undated
4
37
Kokee, Hawaii (2 of 3)
1970-1972, undated
4
38
Kokee, Hawaii (3 of 3)
1970-1972, undated
4
39.1-39.2
Marsing, Idaho
1967-1969
4
39.3
Processing file
5
40
Scrapbook, Saint Xavier Public School, Crow Reservation
1924-1926, undated
5
41
Scrapbook, Number Twelve, Five, and Twenty Six Day Schools
1936-1959, undated
5
42
Scrapbook, Grass Creek Day School
1940-1941, undated
6
43
Miscellaneous items related to Sioux life ways and traditions
undated
6
44
Photographs and postcards of Native people
1904, undated
6
45
Scrapbook, Day School Number Five
1933-1937, undated
6
46
Scrapbook, Parent-Teacher correspondence
1935-1940, undated
6
47
Scrapbook, miscellaneous
1909-1947, undated
7
48
Clippings, Sioux, Pine Ridge, Black Hills
1981-1984, undated
7
49
Job Corps student drawing by Philip Smith
undated
7
50
Pamphlets and newsletters about Korczak Ziolkowski
1981-1984, undated
7
51
Newspaper clippings about Crazy Horse Monument, Korczak Ziolkowski
1975-1984, undated
7
52
Newsletters, Crazy Horse Progress
1980-1982
7
53
Newsletters, Crazy Horse Progress
1983
INDEX
NAME/SUBJECT
[
BOX/FOLDER
]
Adams, Douglas
[
5/40
]
Afraid of Hawk, Old Man
[
5/41
]
Afraid of His Horse
[
6/44, 5/41
]
Afraid of His Horse, Amos
[
1/10, 5/41
]
Afraid of His Horse Community
[
1/10
]
Anderson, Tommy
[
5/40
]
Asbury, Mary
[
5/40
]
Bear Saves Life, Alvina
[
6/45
]
Bear Saves Life, May
[
1/10
]
Bear Saves Life, Paul
[
5/42, 6/45
]
Beards, Bertha
[
5/40
]
Bell Rocks, Buster
[
3/30
]
Belt, Jerry
[
5/42
]
Bend, Cynthia
[
5/40
]
Benn[s], Tom (Thomas)
[
5/40
]
Benzel, Fred
[
5/40
]
Big Man, Edgar
[
5/40
]
Big Man, Max
[
3/30, 5/40
]
Big Man, Max Jr.
[
5/40
]
Big Man, Myrtle
[
5/40
]
Big Shoulder, Geneive
[
5/40
]
Bill, Howard Wheeler
[
5/41
]
Bird Horse
[
5/40
]
Bird Woman
[
5/40
]
Black Cat, David
[
5/42
]
Black Deer, William
[
1/10
]
Black Fox
[
6/45
]
Black Fox, Mrs.
[
6/45
]
Blummer, Paul
[
5/40
]
Brings Him Back (Unnamed Infant)
[
5/42
]
Brings Yellow, John (Johnnie)
[
1/10, 5/41
]
Brings Yellow, Theodore (Theo)
[
5/41, 6/45
]
Caplet, Rosie
[
5/40
]
Carrick (see also Carwick), Emerson
[
1/10
]
Carter, Adrian
[
5/40
]
Carwick (see also Carrick), Emerson
[
1/10
]
Chase, William (Willie)
[
1/10
]
Chase Alone, Agnes
[
5/42
]
Chase Alone, Margaret
[
5/42
]
Chase Alone, Martin
[
5/42
]
Chase Alone, Roland
[
5/42
]
Chase Along, Roland
[
5/42
]
Chase Along, Vina
[
5/42
]
Chase In Winter, Willie
[
5/42
]
Cheyenne, Jona
[
1/10
]
Cheyenne, Mrs.
[
1/10
]
Cheyenne, Zona
[
6/45
]
Clark, Minnie
[
5/40
]
Clifford, Louise
[
5/40
]
Connor, Dorothy
[
5/40
]
Connor, Jennie
[
5/40
]
Costalla, Ivadale
[
6/45
]
Crazy Horse Band
[
5/42
]
Crow, Issac
[
1/10
]
Crow, Nelson
[
6/45
]
Crow, Russell
[
1/10
]
Cummings, Pete
[
1/10
]
Cuplit, Rosie
[
5/40
]
Curly, George
[
6/44
]
Cyrenius
[
3/30
]
Daymond, Henry
[
5/40
]
Deer Nose (see also Goes to Gather), Amis
[
5/40
]
Deer Nose (see also Goes to Gather), Jack
[
5/40
]
Deer Nose (see also Goes to Gather), Jackie
[
5/40
]
Deer Nose (see also Goes to Gather), Kitty
[
5/40
]
Deer Nose (see also Goes to Gather), Ruby
[
5/40
]
Deer Nose (see also Goes to Gather), Stella
[
5/40
]
Deer Nose (see also Goes to Gather), Winfield
[
5/40
]
Door, Mary
[
5/40
]
Drake, Ira
[
5/40
]
Dreamer, Aaron
[
1/10, 1/2, 5/41
]
Dreamer, Geraldine (Jarline)
[
1/10, 5/42, 5/41, 6/45
]
Dreamer, George (Geo)
[
1/10, 1/2
]
Dreamer, Margery Gelliespie
[
5/41
]
Dreamer, Verbina
[
6/45
]
Eagle, Belinda
[
5/40
]
Eagle, Ina
[
5/40
]
Eagle Hawk
[
5/41, 6/45
]
Eagle Hawk, Joseph
[
1/10, 5/41
]
Eagle Hawk, Lester
[
5/41, 6/45
]
Eagle Hawk, Sam
[
1/10, 1/2
]
Eagle Hawk, Tibbett
[
6/45
]
Fire Thunder, Alice
[
5/42
]
Flat Lip, Ethel
[
5/40
]
Flood, Etta
[
5/41
]
Fly, Felix
[
5/42
]
Fly, Lucy
[
5/42
]
Fog In Morning, May
[
5/40
]
Fog In Morning, Paul
[
5/40
]
Friday Scares, Eddie
[
1/10
]
Friday Scares, Mrs.
[
1/10
]
Frost, John
[
5/40
]
Gardner, Nevla
[
5/40
]
Garnier, Buck
[
1/10
]
Garnier, Gladys
[
1/10
]
Garnier, Effie
[
6/45
]
Gillispie (see also Gilliespie), Bell
[
6/45
]
Gilliespie, Bell (see also Gillispie)
[
1/10
]
Gilliespie, Billy (Billie)
[
6/45
]
Gilliespie, Bob
[
6/45
]
Gilliespie, Dan
[
5/41
]
Gilliespie, Dickie (Dick)
[
5/41, 6/45
]
Gilliespie, George
[
1/10, 5/41
]
Gilliespie, Marion
[
1/10
]
Gilliespie, Tom
[
1/10
]
Gitchell, Alva Gene
[
5/41
]
Goes To Gather (see also Deer Nose), Amis
[
5/40
]
Goes To Gather (see also Deer Nose), Jack
[
5/40
]
Goes To Gather (see also Deer Nose), Jackie
[
5/40
]
Goes To Gather (see also Deer Nose), Kitty
[
5/40
]
Goes To Gather (see also Deer Nose), Ruby
[
5/40
]
Goes To Gather (see also Deer Nose), Stella
[
5/40
]
Goes To Gather (see also Deer Nose), Winfield
[
5/40
]
Good Weasel, David
[
5/42
]
Gray Grass, Charlie
[
5/42
]
Gray Grass, Martha
[
5/42
]
Gray Grass, Martin
[
5/42
]
Habner, Leslie
[
5/40
]
Haines, Betty
[
5/40
]
Harris, Erle
[
5/40
]
Harris, Kenny
[
5/40
]
Hawk, Sarah
[
5/40
]
He Does It, Frank
[
5/40
]
He Dog
[
1/10
]
He Dog Community
[
1/10
]
He Dog, Mrs.
[
1/10
]
Herman, Eveline
[
5/40
]
High White Man
[
5/41, 6/45
]
High White Man, Edgar
[
6/45
]
High White Man, Grant
[
6/45
]
High White Man, Oscar
[
6/45
]
Hogan, Mamie
[
5/40
]
Holds the Enemy
[
5/40
]
Holy Pipe, Charles (Charlie)
[
6/45
]
Holy Rock, Alma
[
5/42
]
Holy Rock, Cecil
[
5/42
]
Holy Rock, Morris
[
5/42
]
Holy Rocks Family
[
5/42
]
Iron Cloud, Mrs.
[
5/42
]
Iron Hawk, Frank
[
5/42
]
Iron Hawk, Mrs.
[
5/42
]
Iron Plume, Micky
[
5/42
]
Jacques, Freddie
[
5/40
]
Jefferson, David
[
5/40
]
Johnson, Houston
[
5/40
]
Johnson, Jessie
[
5/40
]
Kayama, Tausa
[
5/40
]
Kayama, Tom
[
5/40
]
Kendal, (Benny) Ben
[
1/10, 5/41
]
Kendal, Ben Mrs.
[
1/10
]
Kills Enemy, Geo (George)
[
5/42
]
Kills In Water, Elaine
[
5/42
]
Kimbal, Glen
[
5/40
]
Kindel, Bennie
[
1/10
]
Kindel, Bessie
[
1/10
]
Kindel, Catherine
[
1/10
]
Kindel, Mark
[
1/10
]
Kindel, Patrick
[
1/10
]
Layton, Adrian
[
5/40
]
Layton, Frank
[
5/40
]
Layton, Jack (Jackie)
[
5/40
]
Layton, Wade
[
5/40
]
Left Hand Bear
[
1/10
]
Lewis, George
[
5/40
]
Lewis, Pauline
[
5/40
]
Lincoln, Rose
[
5/40
]
Little, Tommy
[
6/45
]
Little Light, Jenette
[
5/40
]
Little Spotted Horse
[
1/10, 5/41
]
Little Wound
[
6/44
]
Loafer, Joe
[
1/10
]
Loafer Joe, Anna
[
1/10, 6/45
]
Loafer Joe, Mrs.
[
1/10
]
Lone Man
[
5/42
]
Masterson, Mary
[
5/40
]
McKay, Edith
[
5/40
]
McKinley Slow Bear Family
[
1/10
]
McLean, Margaret
[
5/40
]
Medicine Horse, Billy Boy
[
5/40
]
Medicine Horse, Jim
[
5/40
]
Medicine Horse, Marie
[
5/40
]
Mortz, Ileen
[
5/40
]
Naymatsu, Ken
[
5/40
]
Naymatsu, Yasuo
[
5/40
]
Nelson, Frank
[
5/40
]
Nelson, Homer
[
5/40
]
Nelson, Lena
[
5/40
]
Nishino, Harry
[
5/40
]
No Fat
[
6/44
]
No Fat, Emma
[
5/41
]
No Fat, Mrs.
[
1/10, 6/45
]
Old Bear, Guy
[
3/30, 5/40
]
Old Coyote, Barney
[
5/40
]
Old Coyote, Mary
[
5/40
]
One Feather
[
5/42
]
Other Medicine, Gus
[
5/40
]
Other Medicine, Smoky
[
5/40
]
Pantja, Candelerio
[
5/40
]
Pipe on Head Family
[
1/10
]
Plenty Coo, Chief
[
5/40
]
Plenty Holes, Annie
[
5/41
]
Plenty Holes, Mrs
[
5/41
]
Plimpton (see also Plympton), Delma
[
5/40
]
Plympton (see also Plimpton)
[
5/40
]
Plympton, Waren
[
5/40
]
Porcupine, Emma
[
6/45
]
Porcupine, Joe
[
1/10, 5/41
]
Pretty Bird, Ethel
[
5/42
]
Pretty Weasel
[
5/40
]
Pretty Weasel, Alfretta
[
5/40
]
Poor Thunder, Ollie
[
5/42
]
Ratteling Chase, Mrs.
[
6/45
]
Real Bird, Martha
[
3/30, 5/40
]
Real Bird, Ruby
[
5/42
]
Red Bear
[
1/10
]
Red Bear, Martin
[
5/41
]
Red Shirt
[
6/44
]
Red Shirt Table Community
[
1/10
]
Red Short (Shirt)
[
5/42
]
Respects Nothing, Alex
[
5/42
]
Respects Nothing, Doris
[
5/42
]
Respects Nothing, Florine
[
5/42
]
Respects Nothing, Woodrow
[
5/42
]
Rock, Bell
[
5/40
]
Rogers, Bill
[
5/40
]
Roulard, Edith
[
6/45
]
Roulard, Sam
[
5/41, 6/45
]
Running Eagle
[
5/41, 6/45
]
Running Eagle, Charlie
[
6/45
]
Running Eagle, Florine
[
6/45
]
Running Eagle, Hover (Hover)
[
1/10
]
Running Eagle, Mark
[
1/10
]
Running Hawk
[
5/42
]
Scares, Mary
[
5/41, 6/45
]
Schaffer, Agnes
[
5/40
]
Schaffer, Hilda
[
5/40
]
Shane, Caroline
[
5/40
]
Shane, Philip
[
5/40
]
Sharp Fish, Collins
[
6/45
]
Sharp Fish, Narsis
[
6/45
]
Sharp Fish, Talbert
[
6/45
]
Sharp Fish, Ulysses
[
6/45
]
Shoulder Hawk, Alice
[
6/45
]
Short Bull
[
5/41, 6/45
]
Short Bull, Chief
[
6/44
]
Short Bull, Eugene
[
5/41
]
Short Bull, Herman
[
6/45
]
Shot In The Hand
[
6/44
]
S[i]lvan, Jimmie
[
5/40
]
Sits Poor, Frank (Franklin)
[
5/42
]
Sloan, Jim (Jimmie)
[
5/40
]
Sleeps, Saul
[
1/10
]
Slow Bear
[
1/10
]
Slow Bear, Alfreda
[
6/45
]
Slow Bear, Bat
[
6/45
]
Slow Bear, Felix
[
1/10
]
Slow Bear, Irene
[
6/45
]
Slow Bear, Katherine
[
6/45
]
Slow Bear, Mary
[
6/45
]
Slow Bear, Mrs.
[
6/45
]
Slow Bear, Roland
[
1/10, 5/41
]
Smells (see also Two Stinks), Katherine
[
5/40
]
Solace, Ceral
[
5/40
]
Soldier, Hawk, Mrs.
[
6/45
]
Spotted Crow, William
[
6/44
]
Spotted Horse, Lydia
[
1/6
]
Stands, Andrew
[
6/45
]
Stands, Anna
[
6/45
]
Stands, Corine
[
1/10, 6/45
]
Stands, Evelyn
[
6/45
]
Stands, Goldie
[
6/45
]
Stands, Grandma
[
6/45
]
Stands, He
[
1/10
]
Stands, Hannah
[
6/45
]
Stands, Isaac
[
6/45
]
Stands, Greta
[
6/45
]
Stands, Job (Jobie)
[
6/45
]
Stands, Jonas
[
6/45
]
Stands, Levi
[
6/45
]
Stands, Lucy
[
6/45
]
Stands, Netta
[
5/42
]
Stands, Paul
[
1/10
]
Stands, Peter
[
6/45
]
Stands, Peter Mrs.
[
6/45
]
Stands, Sam
[
1/10
]
Stands, Silas
[
5/41, 6/45
]
Stands, Stella
[
6/45
]
Stands, Vincent
[
5/41
]
Stewart, David
[
5/40
]
Stewart, Grove
[
5/40
]
Stewart, Johnnie
[
5/40
]
Stewart, Laura
[
5/40
]
Stein, Albert
[
5/40
]
Stinking Bear
[
6/44
]
Stops, Agnes
[
5/40
]
Swallow, Bernice
[
6/45
]
Swallow, Charlie
[
6/45
]
Swallow, Marie
[
6/45
]
Swallow, Woodrow
[
6/45
]
Takes a Gun, Frankie
[
5/40
]
Takes a Wrinkle, Jennie
[
5/40
]
Taul, Lyla Ann
[
5/40
]
Ten Fingers, Asa
[
6/45
]
Three Irons, Grace
[
5/40
]
Three Irons, Minnie
[
5/40
]
Three Irons, Victor
[
5/40
]
Thunder Arm, Francis
[
5/40
]
Thunder Iron, Francis
[
5/40
]
Thunder Trail, Alice
[
5/42
]
Thunder Trail, Dorene
[
5/42
]
Titus, Mrs.
[
1/10
]
Tobacco, Laura
[
5/40
]
Tolman, Father
[
5/40
]
Turns Back, Lucy
[
5/40
]
Two Leggings, Chief
[
5/40
]
Two Stinks (see also Smells), Katherine
[
5/40
]
Twists, Mrs.
[
5/41
]
Two Bull(s), Moses
[
5/41, 6/45
]
Verebosch, Father
[
5/40
]
White Clay Community
[
5/41
]
Wilbert, Alinda
[
5/40
]
Williams, Mary
[
5/40
]
Williamson, Junior
[
5/40
]
Williamson, Olive
[
5/40
]
Wilson, Alice
[
5/40
]
Wilson, Jessie
[
5/40
]
Wilson, Henry
[
5/40
]
Wilson, Phoebe
[
5/40
]
Yarlott, Eugene
[
5/40
]
Yellow Bear
[
1/10
]
Yellow Hawk, Bob
[
1/10
]
Yellow Hawk, Henry
[
5/41
]
Yellow Hawk, Old
[
1/10
]
Yellow Hawk, Old Mike
[
1/10
]
Young Man, Amos
[
1/10
]
Young Man, Pough
[
1/10, 5/41
]
Yellow Tail, Bob
[
5/40
]
Yellow Tail, Tommy
[
5/40
]