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RESOLUTION NO. 51 - continued


WHEREAS, the Territory of Alaska is confronted with problems of such complexity and witht that it definitely requires the assistance of the United States because they are directly due (1) to the unprecedented increase in the Alaskan phase of national defence the whole of which is admittedly a proper charge against the national government, and (2) to the attendant increase in school attendance the cost of which should be shared by the federal government, and

WHEREAS, Congress has also taken measures to increase the population of Alaska with good results so that the growth of Alaska is more than normal in consequence thereof so that the expenses of current operation exceeds the resources of this Territory even though the problem of building new schools and repairing old ones has been deferred, and

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WHEREAS, it appears that it would be better for the Native children of Alaska if their admission were accomplished as facilities are prepared and thus to avoid the confusion which the abrupt termination of federal support occasioned within the last three years whereby 1050 more natives were unschooled, the Territorial Board of Education has recommended that accredited agents of the United States be invited to join like agents of this Territory to study how this problem might best be solved.

NOW THEREFORE, your Memorialist, the National Congress of American Indians, respectfully prays that the Congress of the United States and the Secretary of the Interior, join with the Territorial School Board in making a survey to the end that the two school systems shall be [[strikethrough]] untied [[/strikethrough]] united without delay on some practual plan whereby at some future date to be agreed upon, the federal appropriation shall be diminished yearly at a stipulated rate until the whole burden of education for all the