John Dawson
- acoustic guitar, vocals
Jerry Garcia
- pedal steel guitar
Mickey Hart
- drums
David Torbert
- electric bass
David Nelson
- electric guitar
Title
American Indian Benefit
Also Appearing
Osceola, The Hog Farm, Sandy Bull, Indian Pudding & Pipe Band, and Fananang
preview: "Indian Rock," Berkeley Barb, June 19-25, 1970. Gig to benefit the Legal Defense Fund for the Pit River Indians, "who are fighting to regain their lands in the Shasta area and have been arrested trying to reclaim camp grounds now being trespassed upon by PG&E."
expost: "Jerry Garcia," Hard Road 1, 1 (July 20, 1970), p. 6. On June 22, an interviewer asks Jerry bout the old psychedelic days, and he replies "You know how last night was? ... Well, that was a pretty good example of how it was three or four years ago".
preview: John L. Wasserman, "On the Town: The Who Is--Just Staggering," San Francisco Chronicle, June 17, 1970, p. 47