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Resolution No. 4

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Whereas one of the conditions on which the Indians of the Fort Berthold Reservation agreed to give up their lands for Garrison Reservoir was a clear commitment that the federal government would [[strikethrough]] replace [[/strikethrough]] restore the public facilities that were being inundated, or comparable ones suitable to the new situation; and

whereas the Commissioner of Indian Affairs is opposing the [[strikethrough]] establs [[/strikethrough]] reestablishment of the reservation schools; and

whereas the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the corps of engineers are engages in a dispute as to which shall replace essential roads, neither of them being willing to comply with the government's obligations;

whereas the tribal business council of the [[strikethrough]] fort bert [[/strikethrough]] three affiliated tribes of the fort berthold reservation have demanded that [[strikethrough]] the  [[/strikethrough]] a road be constructed immediately to permit people ot escape the coming floods;

whereas the same tribal business council [[strikethrough]] of the [[/strikethrough]] has urged the reconstruction of the reservation schools; and

whereas the [[strikethrough]] india [[/strikethrough]] indians are used to broken promises but are unaccusto ed [unaccustomed] to haveing [having] the repudiated within twenty months after they are made; [[/strikethrough]]

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[[strikethrough]] therefore be it [[/strikethrough]] Resolved that the National Congress of American Indians demands the reestablishment of the Fort Berthold Reservation of all the public facilities now existing there that will be imundated by Garrison Reservoir.

W.C
Carl Whitman

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