The First Meeting of the National Council on Indian Opportunity, 1963-01-01

Item — Box: 282, Folder: 19

Identifier: CAC_CC_026_3_282_19_0002

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The article discusses the meeting of the National Council on Indian Opportunity, a White House panel consisting of six Native American leaders, and the hope of these leaders that the Nixon administration will take concrete action to improve the lives of Native Americans. The leaders presented a list of 50 requests for assistance, ranging from more funding for education to the creation of a new position within the Department of the Interior specifically for Native American affairs. Agnew instructed the Secretaries of Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Housing and Urban Development, and Health, Education and Welfare to provide responses to these requests within 30 days. Mrs. LaDonna Harris, one of the Native American leaders on the panel, emphasized the importance of the next meeting of the panel, after the 30-day deadline, in determining whether the Nixon administration is sincere in its pledges to help improve the lives of Native Americans.

Dates

1963-01-01

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