In the national convention of 1964 of Costa Rica members of the Talamanca and Terraba were among the delegates. The first native American Baháʼí of Paraguay, Rosendo Segundo, joined the religion in 1964. Segundo was a member of the Guarani of the Chaco tribe. A national plan of the Baháʼís of the United States in 1964 included officially translating basic literature of the religion "for an increasing number of American Indian believers" and later added a goal to raise the number of assemblies, local organizational and administrative units of the religion, on reservations. In 1965 actual contact with the Chaco tribe began. Grandchildren of Sitting Bull and Bull Head were noted as friends in meetings in 1966. A Pennacook Indian, Gerard Morin aka Little Bishop, presented on local Indian culture in Green Acre Baháʼí School in 1966. A multi-national group including an Indian toured North Bay, Ontario, Canada, in 1967. In 1969 members of the Chulupi speaking and Lengua tribes had converted to the religion and first all-Indian institute in northern Gran Chaco area, in Paraguay with members of the Guarani, Guasurango, (a Tapieté speaking) and Chulupi attending. In 1970 the first Yanaigua (another Tapieté speaking) tribe member joined the religion and that year was first time an indigenous Baháʼí was elected to the national assembly, (in 1982 there were three indigenous members of the national assembly.) In February 1970 pioneer family of Samuel and Teresa Garcia and their four children, native Costa Ricans, in February 1970 to the area of Guanacaste seeking to identify members of lapsed communities. Come April 1970 eight Local Assemblies were re-established following which a number of programs were initiated to solidify the understanding of some of these new Baháʼís.
