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[[Two Columned Table]]
| Arrangements | Name and Headquarters |
|--------------|-----------------------|
|1. A. A. Exendine | 1. Charles Heacock
|2. Frank Beaver | 2. Richard Cryer |
|3. W. W. Short | 3. Ben Chosa
| James Dougomah | 4. Jesse James |
|             | 5. John Max

Ben Dwight: You are to meet and organize yourselves and select your own chairman

Archie Phinney: The Constitutional Committee, I think has quite a lot of work to perform before the next meeting which will be scheduled for tomorrow morning if we are going to follow the schedule. I suggest that the constitutional committee get together this evening if there is no general meeting.

Peru Farver: I make a motion that all committees meet this evening and a chance to organize before we have any further business.

Mr. Farver's motion was seconded, put to a vote and carried unanimously.

Ben Dwight: Room C and C will be available this evening. The first person whose name was called on the committee should get a list of his committee and act as chairman until the committee is organized.

Meeting adjourned at 5:30 p.m.
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November 16, 1944
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Morning Session

Meeting was called to order at 10:00 a.m. by the Convention Chairman Ben Dwight. The Rev. Simon Kirk gave the invocation in the Sioux language.

Ben Dwight: I want to thank you people for your patience and the work that you did yesterday. The officers you elected yesterday are just for the convention. You have not elected me to serve permanently under the constitution that we hope to adopt at this meeting. Neither are any of the other officers permanently elected. We are just the officers for this convention. On behalf of them, I want to thank you for the honor you have bestowed upon them. If this movement develops as most of us hope it will, we will see in the week to come, in the months to come, in the years to come, that at this gathering we have laid the foundation for and organization that, if we do the right thing here in the right way, will have far-reaching effects for the benefit of the Indianhood in the United States. So if there happens to be anyone that has the feeling that the present officers are to continue with this organization I want to impress upon you that that is not the case. You people are here are individual Indians and insofar as you are Indians and member of this convention you are all powerful. Whatever is done
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