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FRANCIS CASE 2D Dist., South Dakota Home Address: Custer Member of subcommittees on Deficiencies Military Appropriations Civil Functions, War Dept. Office Staff, Arthur Juhnke, Kennesbec Maud C,Sparks, Rapid City Agnes C, Speckman, Winner Congress of the United States House of Representatives Washington, D.C Committee on Appropriations John Taber, N.Y., Chairman R.B. Wigglesworth, MASS. Charles A Plumley, VT. Everett M. Dirksen, ILL. ALbert J. Engel, MICH. Karl Stefan, NEBR. Francis Case, S.DAK. Frank B. Keefe, WIS. Noble J. Johnson, IND. Robert F. Jones, OHIO Ben F. Jensen, IOWA H. Carl Andersen, MINN. Walter C. Ploeser, MO. Harve Tibbott, PA. Walt Horan, WASH. Gordon Canfield, N.J. George B. Schwabe, OKLA. Ivor D. Fenton, PA. Ralph E, Church, ILL. P.W. Griffiths, OHIO Lowell Stockman, OREG. John Phillips, CALIF. Errett P. Scrivner, KANS. Charles R. Robertson, N.DAK. Frederic C. Coudert, Jr., N.Y. Clarence Cannon, MO. Louis Ludlow, IND. John H. Kerr N.C. George H. Mahon, TEX. Joe Hendricks, FLA. Michael J. Kirwan, OHIO W.F. Norrell, ARK. Albert Gore, TENN. Jamie L Whitten, MISS. Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr., MD. George W. Andrews, ALA. John J. Rooney, N.Y. J. Vaughan Gary, VA. Joe B. Bates, KY. Thomas O'Brien, ILL. John E. Fogarty, R I. April 1, 1948 Mrs. Eva J. Nichols Sioux Sanatarium Rapid City, South Dakota Dear Mrs. Nichols: Thank you for your letter of March 30 with which you enclosed a copy of the letter that has gone out to all the Sioux Reservations requesting that an immediate change be made in the Indian school system and demanding that the South Dakota course of study be followed in the schools. You also recommended the introduction of legislation to provide for the change. I am pleased to advise that I have already submitted legislation along the lines suggested. I enclose a copy of the bill, H.R. 5542. The Cheyenne River Sioux delegation has appeared before the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs in support of the proposed legislation. Mrs. Frank Ducheneaux of Cheyenne Agency also appeared before the Committee and was an exceptionally good witness. If you care to do so she would be a very good person to contact as I am sure she could give many helpful suggestions in getting the various reservations lined up in support of the legislation. I would also like to have a statement from you to be presented to the Committee in support of the bill, should you care to prepare such. Direct it to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Indian Affairs, Committee on Public Lands, House of Representatives. Your offer to keep me advised as to the reaction of the various Councils to your letter is appreciated. I will be glad to get them. With kindest regards, I am Sincerely yours Francis Case j