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DEGANAWIDAH-QUETZALCOATL NIBWAKA-WIKAMIK UNIVERSIDAD DEGANAWIDAH-QUETZALCOATL DEGANAWIDAH-QUETZALCOATL UNIVERSITY

(916) 752-3237

Rt. 1, Box 2170
Davis
California 95616

March, 1971
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DAVIS, CA - An interim board of directors and plans for a big powwow emerged from a meeting attended by several hundred Indians and Chicanos at the new D-Q (Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl) University. 
The celebration is set for April 2, according to the interim board chairman, David Risling, University of California at Davis coordinator of Native American Studies. The indicated the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare soon will formally announce the granting to DQU of the 640-acre former Army Communications Station 6 miles west of Davis, where the Indians and Chicanos plan to establish their own university.

TEMPORARY CUSTODY
DQU currently has temporary custody of the site. Robert Coop, regional director of HEW in San Francisco, has said he was forwarding DQU's application for the property to Washington with a recommendation for approval.
"Many dignitaries and congressmen will attend to the celebration", Risling predicted.
Of yesterday's day-long meeting, Risling stated, "This is history - for our people and the Chicanos to learn how to get land legally through federal channels. It's only the beginning; there will be more changes, in housing and welfare."
"Since education is the key to all these things" that is why the DQU is so necessary, he said.
More than half a dozen western states and the District of Columbia were represented.
The philosophy of which Rosling speaks, pertains to the creation of a university to meet what he terms the special needs of Indians and Chicanos - "a task not being achieved in the present school structure as pointed out by many educational committees."

Transcription Notes:
"The indicated" should be "He indicated" otherwise okay