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(1) Whereas the Federal Government through the Army Engineers and the Reclamation Service is planning a series of dams along the Missouri River Basin for the purpose of irrigation, flood control and electrical power, and 
     WHEREAS the construction of this dam will inundate all of the most valuable land of the Fort Berthold Reservation, rendering useless all of that part of land not inundated, disrupting the social and economic life of the Three Affiliated Tribes, and 
     WHEREAS in the construction of such a dam, the property interests and the rights of the white man are more safe-guarded than those of the Indian, which have been solemnized by treaties of long standing, and 
     WHEREAS, the dam at said site would cause the removal of 349 families, compromising 1,544 of the 2,000 enrolled Indian people, covering ancestrial [[ancestral]] burial grounds, which are sacred to them,
     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: That the National Congress of American Indians urge the Government of the United States to respect and uphold the Treaties and vested rights and interests of the Indians and to cause further investigation and study to the relocation of the dam site where the interests of said Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold Reservation will be safe-guarded and not so drastically involved. 

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