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Drama Tinges Meeting On Claims Between0*9 % • » • *Agnew, Native LeadersFour Alaskan Native leaders met with Vice PresidentSpiro T. Agnew, Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton and other administration officials on Friday (March 12) in a meeting which may alter administration policy on Alaska native land claims.The two hour meeting took place Friday afternoon in the White House offices of Vice President Agnew. The vice president arranged the meeting at the request of Laura Bergt, member of the National Council on Indian Opportunity, which he chairs.He agreed to the meeting while attending the NT 10 conference in Kansas City last week. Laura Bergt described (liemeeting to the Tundra Timesas representing a “dramatic shit tin administration policy. Her account of the meeting follows: Besides the Vice President and the Secretary .of the Interior.«rMrs. Bergt said, administration officials included Assistant Interior Secretary Harrison Loesch;•Fred Bracken, the Interior Department Legal Counsel. Boyd Rasmussen of the BLM and others. 'The Alaskan Natives were represented by A1 ket/ler of the Tanana Chiefs, State Senator Ray Christianson, AFN Presidentr lt;• • , •Don Wright and Laura Bergt.‘The prime purpose of this meeting was to allow the Alaskan Natives, for the first time, to present their side to the highest level of the federal government and to allow a full dialogue with the federal officials on the merits of our demands, said Mrs. Bergt“The Vice President openedthe meeting by stating that in his conversation with President Nixon, the President wished to emphasize the* spirit of Ins Indian message to Congress of July lt;S. 1970 which stressed Indian self-determination and that the settlement of the Alaska native land claims was very important. He also stated that for too long a terrible injustice has been done-(Contacted cm page 6) ;
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Fairbanks Tundra Times
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Wed, Mar 17, 1971
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