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National Congress of American Indians. Practically all tribes are friendly to this suggestion but it will be some time before we get any action.

The Clallams have joined the NCAI. The Colvilles joined today. We also have a number of new individual memberships in the northwest.

In between inter-tribal meetings, I have visited the Calispell reservation in eastern Washington, the Coeur d'Alene reservation in Idaho, the Nez Perce also in Idaho; the Yakima reservation in Washington, the Umatilla, and the Warm Springs in Oregon, meeting with tribal leaders at these reservations. Two trips were made to Montana.

Last summer, several weeks were spent at Carson City, Nevada, during the summer school session, and while there the regional secretary served as chairman of the Indian delegates to the Northwest Superintendents' Council meeting held there August 3-5. The course in tribal government as conducted by D'Arcy McNickle and Erma O. Hicks and the classes conducted by Ted Haas on "The Indian and the Law" were attended.

A number of the Indian colonies in Nevada were visited. Also the Pyramid Lake reservation where the regional secretary went over the land in dispute which is referred to in S. 17.

While in Nevada, we managed to get some favorable publicity on the Pyramid Lake case when interviewed by one of the editors of the Nevada State Journal of Reno. A long article appeared in one of the Sunday issues and they pointed out that the regional secretary of the NCAI had gone over the matter with the Pyramid Lake people and it was definite that the NCAI was going to offer strong support to the Paiutes. The article also mentioned that the Northwest Indians were very much concerned on the possible outcome in this controversy.

From Carson City, the regional secretary continued to Anadarko, Oklahoma with Royal Hassrick who has served this organization as corresponding secretary and is now the curator of the Southern Plains Museum at Anadarko. We stopped briefly at Gallup, New Mexico. The Inter-tribal Ceremonial was on and we were able to speak to the Indians of our acquaintance. At Albuquerque, We were fortunate to see Mr. Faris. Mr. Hassrick and I had breakfast and a pleasant visit with him.

At Anadarko, the American Indian Exposition was attended and got acquainted with many of the tribal leaders of western Oklahoma. Meeting all of these fine people was made possible by former Colville superintendent Wm. Wade Head who is now general superintendent of the Consolidated Western Oklahoma Agency. The people down there are very conscious of the National Congress of American Indians, and it is thought that these people will come into the organization.