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much money going to some tribes who really do not need that much money. There is a big school being furnished them and they are not able to fill that school with their children. So now the Indian Bureau is filling those schools up in Oregon, Califonia, Oklahoma, Santa Fe and Albuquerque, but that is not what we want, we want schools in our country. When we go back east wherever there is a highway close there might be four schools, and back ten miles there may be high schools, a university, and yet we have no schools. In our Treaty the Government promised to build a schoolhouse and provide a teacher for every 30 children, but the Government has not fulfilled that yet. Here is a program that the Indian Bureau will present to Congress. It is a 10-year program. It says here: Range improvement and Soil Conservation, $9,000,000.00 Expansion and completion of existing sawmill and irrigation projects, 9,350,000.00 Timber, coal and minerals 150,000.00 Agricultural resettlement on Colorado River reservation, Navajos share 6,750,000.00 Community enterprises and industries 1,500,000.00 Roads 20,000,000.00 Air transport facilities 500,000.00 Radio and telephone 650,000.00 Domestic and water supply 2,000,000.00 Loan finds 2,000,000.00 Health 3,935,000.00 Education 23,510,000.00 --------------- Total 10-year development $79,345,000.00 There is no provision for a social and welfare system here. There should be. I believe there is too much being asked for roads - $20,000,000.00 - because we have pretty much a flat country over the reservation. I don't think that it will take that much money for our roads. Some of that money should go to health and welfare, or to the social workers. We are on the hogback of the world where we live, near the Continental Divide, and naturally it is a very steep grade to the ocean, so when there's a big rain the water runs swiftly from the Continental Divide and causes much washing of soil. This has been going on since time began and is probably the reason why we have high mountains. Yet, we are blamed for so much soil washing away because we too many goats. The country is a desert. When there's no rain, there's no feed. Last summer there was a drouth and lots of the horses starved or died, but we had a heavy rain in August and it brought good grass. This grass dries up and when it gets wet it comes to bloom, so we have good feed this winter for our stock. That shows that all we need is the rain. I believe the Government should consider putting a dam across the San Juan. There's a high mountain there were a river runs through a narrow gorge of solid -13-