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Navajo Times, The (Newspaper) - January 27, 1972, Window Rock, Arizona Published For Nova jo Trib Volume 13 Number 4 City Indians To Form New Organization A major and potentially sig development has occur ed among city ing to John President of the Bay Area Native Ameri can Council of northern Calif in a special phone call to the Navajo Times from a National Congress of Urban Indians Is being The decision to form this coal ition came In a meeting In Oak land on January 15 In which num erous Indian Center representa tives and persons from other In dian groups met and took the ac tion to form the organization of urban Folster told the Times that the decision to form this coun cil was based on the need to gain the strength for urban In dians In order to lobby for funds for urban Folster said there is no Inten tion on the part of the organiz ers to the BIA or the National Congress of American Indians or but through the strength of such an organiza tion strengthen the relation ship among tribal and urban In He added there Is not any In tention among the urban group to seek to be given funds allocated to the tribes reservations but to seek special funds of our own specifically for urban In At the January 15 meeting an Ad Hoc Committee was put to gether on a temporary basis to make plans for the formation of the Folster is Co ordinator for this Already firm plans have been made for a conference of urban Indians to be held in at the new Ho tel on March 3 and All details necessary to set up ence have been arranged Includ ing meals and meeting Folster said that any one interested can obtain further information through the Bay Area SEE PAGE 5 Arizona January 1972 Commissioner Here Bruce Predicts Future Progress COMMISSIONER OF Indian Affairs Louis Bruce at the Chairmans office shortly before appearing before the Navajo Tribal Council From left to Vice Chairman Wilson Commissioner and Chairman Peter Mac staff Commissioner of Indian Af fairs Louis Bruce appeared be fore the Navajo Tribal Council 21 and stated I have never been as optimistic as I am now In regard to getting for the Indians through the The major part of his formal address was concerned with new programs which he describ ed as one of the most compre programs ever develop assist Indian people Io wa rd The major portions of the new development plan Include rever Tribe Gets 160 of Pipe A Koe TA l A large amount of pipe has been secured by the Four Cor ners Regional Commission for system of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Pro The pipe was located as surplus government equipment in Army depots near Utah and California through the efforts of the Four Corners Regional It was frozen by the Comm and granted to the Navajo Stan is Federal Cochairman of the Funds for transportation were provided through the Off ice of the Secretary of the Interior and the Navajo It is estimated that the value of the which ex 160 miles in will be more The Navajo duJts Industry Board is com posed of and tribal leaders from throughout the Western United President of the Board is John of Other members of the board are John Nelson Donald Tyler Eldred Peter Pete Wilson Carl Jones Van Paul Engler and Robert The Board has recently ployed Archie as general manager to supervise farming operations which will commence Oh acres of tribal lands near The Four Corners Regional Commission has also Instituted a training program on this farm to prepare the Navajo people in the skills necessary the total acres when water becomes available to the area Bert Bureau of Project Engineer of the Navajo Indian Irrigation Pro says that it is possible for water to reach the first acres of project land in 1975 or depending on of Pipes look at PIPES sal of relocation plans for train ing for jobs on or near reserva tions resource protection espec in the field of water In creased road construction and tribal control of Following his formal talk a period of questions and answers Many of these Involv ed subjects under litigations such as the 1882 Executive Order area and the freeze on development In the disputed In these areas Bruce was in definite on what could be done terming these matters which in the he did assert In response to a question that BIA officials should not be Involved In impounding Navajo livestock by the Hopls and that he wanted BIA to stay out of these For the complete Information of our readers on Commissioner s statement to Tribal Council the text of his re marks follow I want to take this opportun ity to express my deep and sin cere gratitude for the Invitation to speak to the Navajo Tribal Council here in Window Rock today and also for the opportun ity to describe and explain to you how our new 1972 program thrusts in the Bureau of Indian Affairs will affect the Navajo Re The beginning of the year Is al ways This is a time of an assessment when we can pause and think about what we have done and what we must do Since my appointment in August of have had many ups and as some of you I have had a few disap and many During the last few months I have realized some of the most gratifying successes since com Af I Stanley Federal fairs as Its I have never been as optimistic as I am In his July 1970 message to on Indian Af President Nixon present ed a new Indian policy izing Indian His address is the strongest document in support of American Indians in the history of Indian We in the Bureau of Indian Affairs as well as other federal agencies are now taking steps to enter into a new relationship with Indian citizens a relationship of partnership rather than Words are now being put into and our new national policy recognizes the and ability of Indians to make their own decisions and manage their own affairs If they choose to do We have spent the past month preparing our new program di for the coming Last week in Washington Secretary of the Interior Department and I an 6

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