DescriptionWallet card promoting Leo "Lee" Pocha's campaign for city commissioner in 1977. On one side it talks about his qualifications and on the other it has licesnse plate numbers of Montana counties so that people would keep it in their wallets. Has union bug in lower lefthand corner. According to his son, Dan, "Leo Pocha (Little Shell) was one of the first American Indian city commissioners, an urban leader, and executive director of the Helena Indian Alliance, and influential with the Rocky Mountain Development Council. The Leo Pocha medical clinic was named after him. He was instrumental in getting first Native American hired in fire department. Two years later, they hired the first Indian police officer. Before that they thought it was okay for Indians to ride on the back of garbage trucks but not in front. He was a real advocate. He was also a businessman. He owned a bar on Main Street and Miller Street, where the Lewis and Clark County Library now stands. It was destroyed as part of Urban Renewal/Model Cities."TypeTextGenredocumentsLanguageengDate1977SubjectElection campaignsContributing InstitutionHelena Indian AllianceGeographic CoverageHelena, MontanaDigital CollectionMontana Urban Indian CollectionDigital Formatapplication/pdfDigitization SpecificationsScanned with Epson Perfection V800 Photo scanner at 600 dpi.Date Digitized2024
