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Show Rep. McKay In Favor Of Navajo College Funding WASHINGTON, D. C. Utah Congressman Gunn McKay Mc-Kay today submitted testimony testi-mony to the Senate Interior Committee in support of the Navajo Community College Bill, a bill to provide support to the Navajo Community College at Chinle, Arizona. The legislation pending before be-fore Congress would provide special Federal aid for construction con-struction of various college buildings, classrooms, library gymnasium, dormitories, dining din-ing rooms, offices, auditorium, auditor-ium, shops and utilities as well as provide Federal aid for yearly operating expenses expens-es for the Navajo Community College. The school has been operating since January of 1969, when classwork, began and is the first college to be located on an Indian reservation reserva-tion and controlled by Indian people. In offering his support to a bill to provide Federal assistance as-sistance to the school, Congressman Con-gressman McKay said the bill presents a constructive and responsible proposal in meeting one of the most dif-icult dif-icult and urgent problems we face, that of providing justice to those Americans whose interests have long been of minimal interest to our government. "It is important not only that funds be provided for this institution," Rep." McKay stated, "but that they be pro- vided in a manner which will not jeopardize the essential nature of this college as an Indian institution. It would be counter productive if this college should become simply simp-ly another BIA school." Congressman McKay added add-ed that the appeal of the bill to him was in taking a step toward providing to Navajo peoples control of their destinies, des-tinies, both individually and as a nation. The Navajo Community College is now complex, first phase of a i65 ' dollar construction ' at the permanent Tsa 7" ehntswrr -d phase? c)f H i through Federal asPs fr3f would provide facilUi additional 1,000 1 |