| Show J Navajos Get Full Rights Official Says Recent Utah state attorney generals general's opinions have indicated ed that the Navajo and all Indians living on reservations located the borders of ot j the state slate of Utah are arc citizens of the United States and as such are citizens of or Utah and entitled to all the benefits of ot citizenship This Is to Include rights to fi financial TI- TI assistance from the welfare welfare wel wel- fare department 8 as we well as education education education edu edu- cation to be provided by the school district Since 1951 the San Juan County Welfare Department has provided assistance to reservation reservation reservation reserva reserva- tion Indians meeting the eligibility eligibility eligi eligi- bully requirements for federally financed programs of Old Age Assistance All AU to the Blind mind Aid to the Disabled and Aid to Dependent Dependent De Do pendent Children Other types of aid such as aid to the unemployed unemployed has hM been the responsibility ity of the US U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs This federal federal bureau bureau has never met this need as determined determined ined by Utah standards therefore therefore there there- fore Utah citizen Indians living on the reservation have not received received re reo re- re benefits when their need was caused by unemployment as have Indians and others living in Utah off oft the reservation The Grand and San Juan Welfare Welfare Wel Wel- fare Department Is prepared to undertake this new program on the reservation by expanding Its facilities facUlties It Is estimated that there are arc about families on the reservation not now receIving receiving receiving ing assistance who would be el eligible eligible el el- for this pew program The new program will require re work projects and sponsors for Tor them hem such as are now carried out in Blanding Monticello and Moab A survey Is now being planned by the Navajo Tribe In cooperation with the county welfare department to determine determine deter deter- mine more accurately the number num num- ber of persons to be he effected and suitable work projects At the invitation of Harold E. E 3 Blanck Blanch county director Ward C. C Holbrook chairman and Lamont Lament B. B Gunderson member of the Utah State Welfare Welfare Wel- Wel fare are Commission are touring the he reservation on a weeks week's campIng trip to Navajo Mountain Moun- Moun tain ain They are being accompanied ed led on the trip by Alma Jones case cafe aM aid M ai ami at d George Ceorge Laneman c Sf f l the 1 cour county ly welfare wel fare orf a on a routine visit It to the area The purpose of the trip I Is to provide the commissioners commissioners commis commis- with information regarding regarding re reo re- re garding the problems and costs cost of administering welfare programs programs pro pro- grams on the reservation as aswell aswell aswell well as to do the routine case case- work The new program Is known as th the EA Aid to Dependent Dependent dent Children Employable As program and was enacted en enacted en acted t b by the national n nation ll nal c ef congress n nan as an experiment tot for one ne y year at It is to ta provide for tor children dependent de de- pendent because of their fathers father's or mothers mother's Unemployment 8 as the program has provided for children dependent because of their fathers father's or mothers mother's disablement disablement dis dis- or des desertion since Its enactment In 1337 1931 and If j to the reservation in M 1951 Nation legislation reg lallon wll wil requited required to continue the gram beyond this year tl U program is continued Utah have ha to provide its the reservation or discon It statewide Utah Is pres Ares the only state In the Intern tain tamn west to have made this gram available to Its |
