NATIVE LAND CLAIMS HEARINGWashington, D.C.—Some of the prominent Alaskans who travelled to the nation’s capital recently to attend the Native Land Claims hearings held before the House and Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committees: Left to right George Cardner, Washington, D.C.; Roger COnnor, Anchorage; Emile Notti, Anchorage; Flore Lekanof, Anchorage; Cliff Groh, Anchorage; Barry Jackson, Fairbanks: Thoda Forslund, Kotzebue and Fairbanks and a secretary in Pollock’s Washington office; MorrisThompson, Juneau. Front row seated, Rep. Willie Hensley, Kotzebue; Congressman Pollock, and Laura Bergt, Anchorage. The two day hearings were the very first land claims hearings held in Washington, D.C. before congressional committees. Also attending the hearings but not shown in photo here were: Governor Hickel, Attorney William Paul Don Wright and John Borbridge, Anchorage, Charles Edwardson, Barrow.