Background
Collier, John was born on May 4, 1884 in Atlanta. Son of Charles A. and Susie (Rawson) Collier.
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John Collier
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Educated Columbia and Woods Hole, 1902-1905, College de France, 1906-1907.
Career
Began as social worker with immigrants, 1905. Civic secretary People’s Institute, New York, 1909-1919. Director community organization state of California, 1919-1920.
Director social science training, State Teachers College, San Francisco, 1921-1922. Executive secretary American Indian Defense Association, Inc., 1923-1933. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1933-1945.
Member Indian Arts and Crafts Board, 1934-1945. Director National Indian Institute, United States of America, 1945-1950, United States delegate governing board Inter-American Institute the Indian, Mexico City, 1942-1951. Adviser to the United States delegate 1st session General Assembly, London, 1946.
Professor sociological and anthropology College of City of New York, 1947-1954, professor emeritus, 1954-1968. Visiting professor anthropology Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, 1955-1956. President Institute Ethnic Affairs, Washington, District of Columbia Founder and secretary National Board Review for Motion Pictures, 1910-1914.
Director Training School for Community Workers, 1915-1919. Edited American Indian Life (magazine), 1926-1933. Author: The City Where Crime Is Play, 1931.
The Indians of the Americas, 1947. America’s Colonial Record, 1947. Patterns and Ceremonials of the Indians of the Southwest, 1949.
On the Gleaming Way, 1962. From Every Zenith, 1963. also verse. Address: Ranchos de Taos New Mexico.
Membership
Member Indian Arts and Crafts Board, 1934-1945.
Connections
Married Lucy Wood, October 20, 1906.; married second, Laura Thompson, August 25, 1943. Children: Charles Wood, Donald, John.
