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Show Delegates Urge Indian Be Accepted IntD Vihite Society Delegates to the organization- al meeting of the Interstate In- . dian Council meeting Friday in . Salt Lake City, stressed that the only solution to the overall Indian problem is to eventually accept him into society. They then formed a permanent council coun-cil to achieve that aim. v The objective of the Interstate Inter-state Indian council is ultimate assimilation of the Indian population popu-lation into white society. It proposes pro-poses to achieve this aim by re- .. ducing a program of study to state and even reservation lev- els, realizing that many tribes have progressed farther than others. The council will meet in Den- ' ver in November to hear reports ' from these committees and forward for-ward recommendations, with endorsement en-dorsement of governors of the states, to congress. The 32 official delegates and . 47 visitors many of them from Indian reservations heard Gov. Dan E. Garvey, of Arizona, as- . sert that the U. S. Bureau of Indian Affairs had failed to assume as-sume its responsibilities toward the Indians. He also objected to the practice of educating Indians In-dians and then dumping them back on reservations. 1 1 i Gov. George T. Mickelson, of South Dakota, told delegates, ' "The Indian will never become a self-supporting American until he is made ready to leave the reservation." William K. Moors, of the Washington Dept. of Public Welfare Wel-fare stated the need for education educa-tion and work among the Indians In-dians on their own ground. Perhaps the most outstanding report of the conference came from Frank G. Smart, full-blooded Chippewa Indian, who represented rep-resented Wisconsin. He said the Indians of his state named their own representatives to the council, coun-cil, that the Indian problem is both Indian and white, and that the Indian problem started when tribes were taken over by the government and has steadily worsened with unwise legislar, tion and crippling regulation?. , He said he believed the ultimate ' solution lies in the education of the Indians. . -; Smart stressed the fact that the Indian Reorganization Act ; ' V-(Wheeler-Howard) had compli- cated conditions wherever tribes '' had voted to incorporate under it. Business committees are elected to office and then begin to exercise a virtual dictatorship, dictator-ship, he said. Carl J. Harris, of Utah, explained ex-plained that a division of opinion opin-ion exists on the Uintah . and Ouray reservation regarding the Wheeler-Howard act and . the present tribal set-up. "This is a healthy sign," he said. Present at the conference were the six members of the Ute Tribal Business committee and 16 members of the Uintah . and White River bands. - |