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Others may be ready to turn over certain functions, and others may have to wait several years. Consideration must be given to the advancement of the tribe. The Indians must receive assurance that the State will not drop them as soon as funds are gone. It should be emphasized that the Indians pay certain taxes.

On the Ute, the State handles welfare. We would like to get rid of roads.

Health is a subject that is rather touchy. The practice is to go to private physicians and hospitals. We could turn it over to the Public Health Service.

Education, we could just as well turn that over. We have one boarding school for orphans and children from broken homes, and the rest go to public schools. We have adopted the compulsory education law. That gives state authorities the right to come on the Reservation and enforce the education law.

On law and order, we work with the local officers on a compromise basis.

Extension could be turned over to Agriculture Department in conjunction with the State Extension Service.

ALFRED JACKSON, (Pima) Sacaton, Arizona: Health, welfare, law and order and education, these four subjects have been discussed in our meetings on the Reservation. The Indians have been going at a very slow pace. They are feeling their way, not knowing what to do. Arizona is one of the states that has not paid any social security benefits to our Indian people. They have been discriminated against and up to three years ago, our Indian people had not received any benefits from the State. It was very fortunate that at that time a social worker was appointed to the Pima Reservation. Today we have over 300 Pimas on social security rolls.


THURSDAY, August 31, 1951.

MORNING SESSION: Report of the Resolutions Committee.

The following Resolutions were presented and adopted: (The text of these Resolutions appeared in the October-November Washington Bulletin)

RESOLUTION NO. 1
BE IT RESOLVED that the NCAI opposes any legislation calculated to take from Indians any part of the remnant of their ancestral holdings that still remains, excepting upon the basis of the advance consent by said Indians to said taking and to the consideration to be paid.

RESOLUTION NO. 2
BE IT RESOLVED that the NCAI endorses the various bills now pending for the addition of new lands to Indian reservations, including H.R.2432, to restore the Colvillo Reservation lands previously opened; and S.1718 for the Summit Lake Reservation; H.R.3843 for Stockbridge Community; H.R.6999 for Pine Ridge Reservation; S.3273 for Blackfeet Reservation; H.R.4321 for Goshute Reservation; and H.R.8887 for the Seminole Reservation;

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