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Mr. DeMers then presented Resolution No. (2) requesting that the President of the United States, the Congress of the United States, the Interior Department and its several agencies to give thought to the serious problems as well as the stalemated social and economic program confronting the American Indians.

MR. DEMERS:  The purpose of that resolution is to ask the Indian Bureau, the Congress, also calling to the attention of the President of the United States to recognize, more specifically, some of the rights that have already been accorded the Indians of the United States.  Those rights of treaties between the Government and the Indians, or rights given them as part of the Constitution of the United States, rights that have been upheld by the various courts of the land but those same rights that are day after day ignored by the Department, the Bureau, and the Congress, or the legislators themselves.  It is simply a memorial that more attention be drawn to those rights.  The rights that belong to Indians.

MR. CATA:  Mr. Chairman, would it be a proper thing to have that resolution include the State governments as well as the National?

MR. DWIGHT:  I don't believe there would be any objection on the part of the committee to have that resolution go to the various State governments as well as the National.

It was moved and seconded that the resolution be amended to include the various State governments as well as the National.  The motion was carried by unanimous vote.  A vote was then taken on the motion to adopt the resolution.   The resolution as amended was adopted unanimously.

Resolution No. (3) was presented.  This resolution requests the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to proceed at once with the classification provided for in Section 12 of the Indian Reorganization Act, that henceforth Indians be given real and meaningful preference in filling all positions in the Indian Service up to and including the commissionership.

MR. ROWLODGE:  Since the resolution is restricted to the Indian Reoganization Act, I would like to amend the resolution to include the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act.

MR. DWIGHT:  Section 12 of the Indian Reorganization Act applies to the Oklahoma Indians anyway.  It would not be necessary to insert that specific wording; it apples to Oklahoma as it is.

MR. DOUGOMAH:  Since my tribe is not under the Oklahoma Welfare Act, what position does that put them in?

MR. DWIGHT:  Your tribe is under the Oklahoma Welfare Act.  It applies to all Indians in Oklahoma except the Osages.  You just have not seen fit to organize under the provisions of that Act.  Section 12 of the Indian Reorganization Act applies to all Oklahoma Indians whether they have organized under the Act or not.
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