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RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Department of the Interior are committed to the policy of transferring the Extension work of the Indian Bureau to the Department of Agriculture and the States either by legislation or by contract under the Johnson - O'Malley Act; and

WHEREAS, the San Carlos Apache Tribe and the other tribes are not prepared by training, experience or tribal cultures and practices to operate under State Extension programs, which are organized and operated to meet the needs of the highly competitive structure of commercial agriculture; and

WHEREAS, these Indian tribes have been accustomed to the special type of Extension service and programs developed by the Indian Bureau based upon and taking into account the cultures and the traditions of the Indian people themselves; and

WHEREAS, this Extension service as developed by the Indian Bureau must be continued, if not by the Bureau, then by the Indian Tribes who are affected;

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the National Congress of American Indians in convention assembled that it is sincerely recommended that the Extension service of the Indian Bureau be transferred to those Indian Tribes who request it and that the funds appropriated for such service be included in the transfer by contract under the Johnson - O'Malley Act.

Duly passed and adopted, November 18 - 21, 1954, by the National Congress of American Indians in convention assembled at Omaha, Nebraska.

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