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The original documents are located in Box 6, folder "United Tribes Council of Pacific
West" of the Bradley H. Patterson Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box 6 of the Bradley H. Patterson Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
Sacramento, Calif.95816
P.O. Boy 161144
September 1, 1976
Bradley Patterson, Jr.
The White House
Wash, D. C.
FORD j LIBRARY GERALD
Dear m. Patterson,
dn response to your letter of aug. 27, '76:
We have printed materials and papers, but
to answer your questions concerning the
United Trike Council of Pacific West it is
simple to say to you that our work is
to do all the things for which many other
groups (here) are well funded to do, but do
not: as their non-participation increased,
ours arganization grew, dating back to
1971 when the Sacramento Indian Center
was first funded under O.E.O.
Our half-hearted attempte to he
funded quere rejected, and while there
was some dissappointment, we have
been able to retain autonomy and
find power in our freedom from
fundings "guidelines."
The primary funded dudian groups
here use a preference system for
native California dndians, and that, of
course, excludes 80% of the Indian
community in this state from aids,
jobs, benefits, or (even) social rapport.
We are approv. 3000 Indian people
who are refugus in the mest, fung
pushed to this place since 1800 as aur
homelands were invaded and wars of
conquest were maged against our nationa.
Our members are from approp. 40 tribus,
each of which has suffered the well-
known appressions, brokm treaties,
confiscations, and colonialistic take -
over of this lands and lines. The
first group of note to arrive here was
lead by Creck and Isalagi mise people,
including Sequoyah, in 1809, when
the Triaty of Hopewell was flagrantly
violated and barbarity against the
Mushagean and eastern nations grew
to fearful proportions. athers came
when the white man, John Ross, was
subsidized to impose dectatorship on
the nation in Indian Territory. still
others came during the scandalous years
of the rape of dudian nations by the
politicians in the "Richapao Indian offair."
as land in the Plains is confircated, and
in the desert, desecrated-as Black misa-
more fled before the onslaught: they
continue to home as their lands and
their peace and rights are taken from
them.
Our 'program' is simply the natural
actions of a tribal erstended-family-
unit: we keep dndian alive, in
frequent gatherings, and advocacy
as well as performing the social
services which refugus require in
a strange, unfriendly land. We
are pushed to these western waters and can
go no further; together, we are the
bundle of sticks which cannot be broken.
Our primary drive is to help get our
prople educated, and we are responsible
for getting hundreds of am members
into college, aiding them, and encauraging
them to stay there, assisting each
other mith studies, papers, problems
of discrimination which are built
in any standard set of studie. Our
work is daudly hard this year due
to the gross insults which pourd us
in every quarter under the ruse of
"Bi- -Centennial."
We have scholars, medicine people, tribal
religious teachers, and all manner of
traditional aids who function for the
right reasons, old may reasons, and
not for "pay" (which we dont have).
Our elected Cauncil-prople are from
FORD is LIBRARY pawa
seven different Indian nations, and a
supplemental 'congriss' of 21 are from
other Indian nations. We have an
annual Spring Festival, and these
people are chosen at that time.
We have sent representatives Cat thur
aun expense) across america this
summer, to mut with many tribes,
nations, and groups. dt has hem
enlightening to us, and we feel we
are unique as we found no such
body with like goals and work.
Like the Jewa and the old-way Hope,
we keep our nuds simple and they are
met and we go on, observing each
day that the Great Spirit works
in the offairs of man and universe,
and that the time our ancients
spoke of, is here. We are therefore
probably the most contented group
of childing in this land today,
seeing that we have placed our
trust in the proper powers, and we
have saught knowledge rather than
gold, and we are prepared for the
upheavals, holacausts, ar any other
vast inisitations of geology, or
psychology that may some. We are
contented and unofraid, and, as
such, me are pretty good people, having
many friends in all races who now
turn to us for assurance in a
world going herserb mith fear. dt
is good, for there are good people in
every race and every avenue of life.
We publish a minsletter from time
to time to let people know what is
happening in the world, since the
large subsidized media is not
allowed to do so. dt is an ant-of-
packet paper, free to interested
persons, and is hittle more than
a headline report and bibliography
to assist readers where they can
still aftain true reporting of the
affairs we have mentioned. We have
great mail and reader response, and
these are also sources of clipping
and reports of events not widely
circulated. We have histonians and
scientists and well-trained brains
to aid us in enderstanding what
is going on from the bits and pieces
of information which come from a
wide field.
as our goal is knowledge, and our
work is by fair exchange, we avoid
high erime of fraud, stealing, and
other acts so Common in every full
and strata of society. We therefore
ful we are among the best citizins
of the land, abiding by the laws of
"Caesar" and the laws of am dudian
ethics of old. Time is on am side and
the Great Spirit is our frind.
V. Card; Spokesperson
UNITED TRIBES COUNCIL
Secramento, la.
95816
SACRA REMENTONCA I Pivi SEP 170.0A EA 918 8.8 a
1975
United States 13c
Bradley H. Pattereon, Jr.
The White Hose
WHITE HOUSE MAIL
RECEPTION & SECURITY
Washington D.C. 1976
SEP 3
20001
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