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as the Indian Service has no appropriation from which payment could be made for the proposed education and training. 

7. In a letter dated August 7, 1947 from the Veterans Administration to the Indian Service the request of the Indian Service was disapproved on the ground that the Veterans Administration was without legal authority to grant the request.
8. It appears, therefore, that the only matter in which to accomplish the joint objective of the Indian Service and the Veterans Administration is through legislator. authorizing the Indian Service to establish the Training Carter at Poston, with adequate compensation to the Colorado River Tribes, and an appropriation of funds to the Indian service sufficient to accomplish the purpose.
9. Not only will the proposed training center satisfy this demanding need; but, in addition, it will provide the veterans with training which will enable them to take advantage of an opportunity to settle themselves and their families on the Colorado River Reservation. This opportunity is available to them under a project sponsored by the Indian Service, by and with the Consent of the Colorado River Tribes, and described below. 

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Poston Colonization Project.

There are 80,000 acres of irrigable lands on the Colorado River reservation. The Indians of the reservation have a priority water right from the waters of the Colorado River to irrigate said lands.

By approved Ordinance of the governing body of the Colorado River Tribe, Indians of other Tribes have been authorized to locate on these irrigable lands on the Colorado Reservation and receive 40-acre assignments of irrigated lands under crop.

The difficulty faced by the Indian Service in carrying out the terms of the foregoing resolution is the lack of funds to complete subjugation of the lands in question. Estimates of the cost are before Congress. These estimates are based on a cost of $250.00 per acre for subjugation of these lands, which includes delivery to the Indian colonists of a 46-acre tract of land seeded to a growing crop of alfalfa. This per acre cost is less than any other project on the Colorado River. 

It is the conclusion of must people connected with this program and with the veterans' training program that veterans should not be encouraged to come to Poston for training in agriculture unless it can be assured that the veteran will have lands on which to ply his knowledge upon completion of the course.

It is paramount, therefore, that in consideration of the training center for Indian veterans at Poston, efforts should be made to obtain authorization for the expenditure of sufficient funds to subjugate the irrigable lands on the Colorado River Reservation.

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