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Indian Heads i Ask Guarantee'ft %Of Tribal Land •cKANSAS CITY TAP)—Indian j’ leaders asked a U.S. Cabinet member Friday to guarantee fu-\]turo existence of tribal lands. ^ The request was made at the jconclusion of a three-day con-ference on manpower problems' of Indians. (cJohn W. Gardner, secretary of c Health, Education and Welfare, ; said a proposed transfer of the v Bureau of Indian Affairs from t the Department of Interior to1 c HEW would not mean dissolu- t tion of tribal lands. \The question was asked by Roger Jourdain. chairman of the ( Red Lake, Minn., Chippewa t i tribe. i*‘I have a message I want you 1 i to carry back to the Great tWhite Father in Washington.” j Jourdain said The Red Lake lt;Indians strongly suspect this * transfer is the gradual begin- i ning of termination of govern-: ment responsibilities to the In-'(dians.” 5Gardner said he would carry the message 1He also said the bureau would be moved intact and would , function as before except that ‘ , it would have available the re- ( [ sources of hi® department in health and education, areas of Indian concern.“The transfer does not implyanv move toward termination.* %Gardner said. The President is opposed to termination. 1 am opposed to it.Gardner said it is the govern-■ menfs intent to give Indians the i fullest opportunity to developthemselves.Some Indian leader® said the i are dissatisfied with the U.S. Public Health Service. 1Gardner said: 1“Since the Public Health Serv- lt;ice took over, the health budget lt;r for Indians has gone up 500 per lt;! cent. The incidence of diseases ‘ among Indians has gone down ' dramatically.” lt; t. A Washington tribal repre-1 sentative expressed a fear that Indian needs would be forgotten in a welter of demands from the ’ general population.! “The treaties are not abrogat-■ ed.” Gardner replied “You 5 will always have a unique sta-' tus. That will not and could notbe changed.”| Clyde Warrior, president of! the National Indian Youth Coun-: oil. asked whether the transfer to HEW might make possible a -. change in the congressional com- 1■ mittees which handle Indian » legislaion.i An Idaho tribal leader said if i the personnel of the subcommit-• tee handling Indian legislation is t not changed no progress is possible.
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Great Bend Western Kansas Press
Great Bend, Kansas, US
Sat, Feb 18, 1967
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