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Education; the Black Hills Broadcasting (KOTA); the Rapid City Daily Journal; and the management of the Alex Johnson Hotel for the hospitality and excellent services extended to this convention and its delegates.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this resolution be made a part of the minutes of this convention and that a copy thereof be mailed to each individual and/or organization named herein.

Mr. Farver moved to adopt the resolution. Motion was seconded by George Adams. The motion was agreed to.

Ruth Bronson urged all delegates to register if they were to receive copies of the minutes. She thanked the assembly for the vote of thanks. Mrs. Bronson stated she would continue to work and she would also have time to cook meals for her husband.

Mrs. Bronson read the report on the fund-raising subsidiary of the National Congress of American Indians, and submitted by N.B. Johnson, Ruth M. Bronson, and D'Arcy McNickle, directors of the National Congress of American Indians Fund. The report follows:

"The NCAI desperately needs money to conduct its business. In the convention at Denver, last year, it was proposed to set up a fund-raising tax-exempt subsidiary to help out on our financial crises. Accordingly, last April a corporation was created in Washington, D.C. known as the National Congress of American Indians Fund.

Meanwhile, in additional attempts to raise money for the NCAI, President Johnson and six other prominent NCAI members helped start a committee known as ARROW (American Restitution and Righting of Old Wrongs) with offices in New York and Los Angeles. A group of America's most distinguished citizens, including Eddie Cantor, Patrick J. Hurley, Senator Paul Douglas, Philip Murray, head of CIO, William Green, head of AFL; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Gregory Peck, Paul Muni, Senator Hubert Humphrey, and many others joined to help out on ARROW.

Subject to your approval, your committee intends to make NCAI control over ARROW complete, by making all of ARROW's Board of Directors appointed by, responsible to, and removable by the President and the Business Committee of NCAI. Thus ARROW would become the fund-raising subsidiary which the NCAI has so long helped to have.

The purpose of ARROW shall be; to raise funds for information, educational, and patriotic purposes connected with the American Indian problem. It is not a political organization. All political, policy, and legislative problems are to be handled by the NCAI.

ARROW is-- Totally controlled by the NCAI. The money-raising subsidiary of the NCAI. Tax-exempt (which NCAI cannot be). Not separate, but a part of NCAI. Not political."