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VOL. CXXXVIII, NO. 181 Entered as Second Class Matter at Seattle, Wash. {image} SEATTLE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1950 30

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U. S. INDIANS DISCUSS THEIR FUTURE AIMS

Representatives Holding
B e l l i n g h a m Meet

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By Robert Browning
By Post-Intelligencer Staff Correspondent
Bellingham Aug. 28 --- The men and women representing most of America's 400,000 Indians convened in Bellingham today --- their eyes on the future, not on the past.

In session at the Bellingham Hotel are 200-odd delegates to the 7th annual convention of the National Congress of American Indians largest of the nation's Indian groups.

N. B. Johnson, a justice of the Oklahoma supreme court and N. C. A. I. president, pithily expressed his people's view of past and present. He said:
"The anthropologists want to know where we came from.
"We want to know where we are going!"

GROUP'S AIM----

Johnson, a half-blood Cherokee, added:
"The N. C. A. I. wants to make the Indian the citizen he should be---the citizen he has every right to be."

Delegates from nearly 30 tribes ---- representing every major tribal group in the country, checked in today. The delegates represent a true cross-section of American Indian life.

They range from aged men with braided hair who remember when life was freer and easier than it is now to those like Johnson, highly educated men whose view encompasses the national scene, as well as that of the Indian.

CHIEF'S SON---

An honored personage at the convention is Cleveland Kamiakin, 90-odd, sole surviving son of the great Kamiakin, most daring of Yakima war chiefs who led the last struggles against the white man in Washington in the 1850s.

Today's convention business was confined mainly to registration greetings to old friends and new o n e s , and appointment of working committees for the remaining three days of the convention.

Chief speakers today were Justice Johnson; Frank George, N. C. A. I. second vice president and tribal relations officer on Washington's C o l v i l l e Reservation; John C. Rainer, N. C. A. I. executive secretary, Washington, D. C., and William K. Mooris, representing Gov. Arthur B. Langlie.