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Opening Statements on Legislation, continued

Jason Cuch, Ute
Walter McDonald, Flathead
General Discussion

3:00 p.m.
 
GENERAL MEETING, Lounge Room
"American Indian Development Project"
Chairman: Mrs. Elizabeth B. Roe Cloud, Chippewa
Impressions and Reports of Workshops  
To Be Announced
Summary and Interpretation of AID Project
D'Arcy McNicklo, Flathead, Director 
Questions from the Floor

Recess for Dinner

8:00 p.m. OPEN MEETING 
Place and Chairman to be announced

Wednesday, December 9

9:30 a.m. GENERAL MEETING, Lounge Room
Presentation, Discussion and Adoption of the 
Resolutions of the Tenth Annual Convention
Chairman: Francis McKinley, Ute

1:30 p.m. GENERAL MEETING, Lounge Room
"How to Build a Better National Congress of American Indians"
Chairman: Joseph R. Garry, Coeur d'Alone Opening

There has been progress, yes, but there are still too many Indian people living in isolated communities, and too many who -- because of poor lands, lack of capital, adequate education, medical care, and jobs -- are prevented from becoming contributing members of the social, economic, and political life of their communities. Too many are living in want and hardship. The opportunities for this group lie in the development of their resources, human and natural, and the responsibility for protecting these resources lies largely with us.

There is able Indian leadership and intelligence within our ranks that need only to be welded together. We need only to learn more confidence in one another and to work together. Therefore, we earnestly invite the thinking, the services, the contributions, and the membership of Indian groups and people. Out of a deep sense of impending danger the National Congress of American Indians calls upon Indians everywhere to put aside their differences and to join more strongly together with the help of friends of Indians to protect Indian rights, properties, and values.

W. W. SHORT, President