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the kind of basic education on a non- [[strikethrough]] segrated [[\strikethrough]] segregated basis [[strikethrough]] is [[/strikethrough]] that's essential in order to give the [[strikethrough]] American [[/strikethrough]] Indian kids the same chance as other American kids and I am [[strikethrough]] ag [[\strikethrough]] a great believer in the American public school system once it's had its chance to work. [[Paragraph symbol]] I strongly believe that we must have a good deal more resource development than we have had up to the present if we are going to jointly work [[strikethrough]] up [[\strikethrough]] out a program of providing [[strikethrough]] a [[\strikethrough]] the basic resources that are necessary for all Indian people who [[strikethrough]] care to do so [[/strikethrough]] want even a minimum of a decent living. When I talk of resources, I do not talk only of land resources and physical resources, because I think that it is very likely that all folks who are now living on the reservations will be able to make a living on the reservations. We have some reservations that are overpopulated at the present time to the point [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] where it will be simply impossible for everybody to make a living in that particular area, that provides [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] the kind of standard that [[strikethrough]] we would all like. On the other hand, [[/strikethrough]] we all believe should be provided. On the other hand, I don't believe that all of those people want to make [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] livings by farming, stockraising, fishing or doing some of the other things that are now being done. I believe that there are a good [[strikethrough]] dea number of [[/strikethrough]] many Indian youngsters who would like the opportunity to do other things as [[strikethrough]] are [[/strikethrough]] indicated by [[strikethrough]] those who are doing it. [[/strikethrough]] the fact that some of them are doing it, and I think they should have the same opportunities [[strikethrough]] of doing to do it the same [[/strikethrough]] as anyone else. So when I say that I don't think the resource problem [[strikethrough]] s [[\strikethrough]] is limited to land, [[strikethrough]] phy [[\strikethrough]] and cattle and physical resources, I don't want to minimize the necessity of developing that phase of the program for those people who are going to be interested in carrying on in that field. [[strikethrough]] at the same time I think [[/strikethrough]] At the same time, I think that those who are not going to carry on there should have the opportunity for a training base in which they can go out and make a good living in whatever kind of a job [[strikethrough]] that [/strikethrough]] they want to do. And I think [[strikethrough]] that [[\strikethrough]] that the training we talk about can be carried out not only in the public schools but it can be carried on in the reservations and off the reservations and in a number of [[strikethrough]] other [[/strikethrough]] places if we really get our thinking caps on and [[strikethrough]] work together [[/strikethrough]] and we go to work together in order to meet that need (and work on a program to meet that need). It will take some time of course. That involves the question of placement, 5 (left margin) p. 13 (left margin) p. 14
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