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Mr. McNickle suggested that a resolution be presented recommending that our Convention send greetings to the Alaska Native Brotherhood which convened at Kake, Alaska on November 15 and that we offer our aid and support to the Alaska Native Brotherhood in any program they might adopt for the protection of their rights and the development of their welfare. The motion was seconded and the resolution was adopted unanimously by the felegates present. 
MR. DWIGHT: Mr. Short, I shall be glad to entertain you motion at this time if you wish to state it. 
MR. SHORT: This motion or the idea, I had in mind, presenting this motion along the lines of what Mr. Attocknie just talked about. My people I represent, like myself, we want to get out from under this blanket. I find that since coming here we are all Indians, and one of the shortcomings is that they do not know value, or do not realize the value of our lands. In Oklahoma, we have our allottments, and we want to help our full-bloods. We want to work to their advantage and work for the things that will come to help them. For the reason that they do know the value of land, they want these restrictions to be continued on their land and I think they are smart in that effect. This motion is to bring, in other words to get the dead wood out of this administration of Indian Affairs, and bring it down to the current and present needs. I want to say in this connection, I am not a ward of the Government but our tribal property is under the jurisdiction of the Department and the government and therefore our interest as members of our tribes and our tribal property is under the jurisdiction of the Government, and we come under that much of the jurisdiction of the Government, and we come under that much much of the jurisdiction of the Department. 
MR. DWIGHT: Do you want to put that to a motion for the Executive Council to consider?
MR. SHORT: I move that the Executive Committee be requested to examine into the possibilities of the administration of the Indian Affairs so as to make it more effective in keeping with the current Indian needs to help the bringing about of this readjustment. Mr. Cross seconded the motion. The motion was presented to a vote and carried unanimously. 
Mr. Phinney had presented three resolutions to the Resolutions Committee. Mr. DeMers asked Mr. Phinney if he had any objection to referring these resolutions to the Executive Council for consideration. Mr. Phinney replied that he did not object. 
Mr. DeMers made the motion that the resolutions be presented to the Executive Council for consideration. The motion was seconded and carried by unanimous vote of the delegates present. 
Meeting adjourned at 5:00 P.M