 Henriette Lund (social work pioneer) Dr. Lund was known as the Grande Dame of U.S.
Lutheranism throughout the world during her 70 years of pioneer social service ministry.
In the late 1910s, she directed American Red Cross relief efforts in Montana where she was
adopted into the the Blackfeet Indian tribe. In the early 1920s, she helped
to establish and then directed the North Dakota State Children's Bureau.
There she lead the opposition to the practice of eastern welfare agencies
that sent trainloads of orphans to serve as indentured servants in the
Midwest. After directing the Staten Island Social Service for ten years, she
joined the National Lutheran Council (1943-55) to develop and monitor
standards of Lutheran social service institutions. For two of those years
she directed refugee work in Austria for the Lutheran World Federation and,
in 1958, following the ill-fated Hungarian revolution, directed refugee work
for the World Council of Churches. She became an authority on and wrote a
book about aging, made six visits to Native Alaskans, including one at age
78 by dogsled and another at age 91, a year before her death, which resulted
in two books. She received the 1975 United Nations peace medallion.
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