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of that sort. That is something that should be decided and determined, as far as I am concerned, by the people who own those reservations and who live upon them-and that's the American Indian. [[strikethrough]] That is your own land and your people [[/strikethrough]]. That is their home, their land, your people's land, and I think you should have the same right as any other American to determine what is done with it, [[strikethrough]] Land [[/strikethrough]] providing you are willing to do a constructive job about it. I firmly believe that in order to do an effective and constructive job at arriving the kind of independence your people want and should have, both as individuals and groups, that there must be constructive programming both at the reservations and regard to the functions that have been carried by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the past and which ultimately can and should be provided by the regular agencies of the government. I just want to say that I don't believe that the Bureau of Indian Affairs can work out those programs by themselves and if they did work them out [[strikethrough]] themselves, it [[/strikethrough]] they would not be worth the powder that it would take to blow them up. Anybody that knows anything about the workings of a democratic government [[strikethrough]] knows that any recommendation [[/strikethrough]] will know that any recommendation that we made within the Bureau of Indian Affairs [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] which went to the Congress of the United States and which were not accepted by this group of people generally and by the individual tribes and groups would be turned down so quick there would be no discussion about it and that is as it should be. On the other hand, I believe very strongly that programs must be worked out in order to avoid having people get hurt and I think those programs have to be worked out jointly [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] between the tribes and between the Bureau of Indian Affairs and if we can agree upon [[strikethrough]] them, then [[/strikethrough]] a program then we are going to need to talk to some of the local government agencies and the state governments and probably certain other [[strikethrough]] government [[/strikethrough]] federal agencies and if we can reach agreement on principle I think we can get acceptance in the American Congress for almost any constructive program that is reasonable. But it has come to the time when we have to face facts and we have to determine what it is that [[strikethrough]] are [[/strikethrough]] is emotion and what it is that are facts and we must sit [[strikethrough]] down together to determine what those facts are and determine what part of it is emotion- [[/strikethrough]] 3
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