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1974" of the Bradley H. Patterson Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box 1 of the Bradley H. Patterson Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
January 3, 1974
Dear Chief Twohy:
The President has asked me to thank you for your letter of December 28
about the concerns of the Traditional Ute Indians. What your letter speaks
of is evidently a difference of opinion within the Ute people.
Honest differences of opinion about public issues arise in all societies,
but as you recognize, the only proper last resort to settle such differences
is the voting booth. It is the policy of this Administration to respect Indian
self-determination and to work closely with whoever are the officers chosen
by Indian tribes in free elections. If you and your associates have a problem
with the policies adopted by the majority of the Ute peoples, this must be
resolved through the electoral process among Indian people themselves; It
would be wrong for any of us to try to intervene in that process or to under-
cut the proper decisions of Tribal Governments.
I hope and trust you can work out your differences within the whole group
of Ute Indian people, and will send a copy of your letter to the Bureau of
Indian Affairs Area Director at Phoenix so that he is aware specifically of
your own concerns. He may wish to supplement this letter with a more
detailed discussion of the specific matters you raise.
Sincerely yours,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Chief Twohy, Spokesman
Ute Indian Tribe
General Delivery
Whiterocks, Utah 84085
bcc: John Artichoker
GERALD R. LIBRARY FORD
January 3, 1974
Dear Miss Davis:
Thank you for your recent note and my apologies for a delayed
answer.
There is no danger that the BIA will be "disempowered"; just a month
ago Secretary Morton swore in the new Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Morris Thompson, himself an Athabaskan Indian.
The Bureau's current budget is in the neighborhood of $600 million;
it has over 16,000 employees, of which 67% are themselves Indians.
Morris and his colleagues in the Bureau will indeed have a direct
input into the President's FY 1975 budget planning; overall that budget
has increased, since FY 1969, by 224%.
We appreciate having your views.
Cordially,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Miss Mabel Davis
5243 Hamilton Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45224
GERALD R. LIBRARY FORD
nov10, 1973
mr. Bradley Patterson
c/o The white House
mashington, DC.
Denr Sir:-
In am opinion there are three
rather critical items me would call to
your attention
1. me faror a reorganization of the BIA.
2. me advise against disimponering
the BIA.
3. me ful the commission should have
policy making powers and should
he inrolved in planning the budget,
(mm) mabel Davis
your very tauly
FORD LIBRARY is 078830
5243 Hamilton Are
Cincennati O. 45224
February 26, 1974
Dear Laura:
Thank you for your letter endorsing James Bluestone
for appointment to the Civil Rights Division.
I will pass your recommendation on promptly to those
here on the staff who are handling this matter for the
President.
Cordially,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mrs. Laura Waterman Wittstock
Director, Project Media
National Indian Education Association
3036 University Avenue, S.E.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414
File to Laurelle Sheedy
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
March 11, 1974
Dear George:
I appreciate receiving your letter of the 1st and realize your concern
about the future of OEO programs.
The President notified the nation as far back as the Budget Message of
January, 1973 that he intended to phase out OEO, but on the other hand
he transferred Indian community action programs to HEW, along with
an increased budget (now totalling $32. 9 million).
I assume you have been in touch with Bob Howard, who heads up HEW's
Office of Native American Programs, but in case not, I am sending your
letter over to him so that he may know of your concerns. Through ONAP,
Indian Community Action programs can continue (subject to the availability
of funds) if they are desired by the elected tribal councils.
Sincerely yours, Patton
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. George W. Kenote
Sun Dog Hill
Keshena, Wisconsin 54135
bcc: Bol Howard
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GEORGE W. KENOTE
SUN DOG HILL
KESHENA, WISCONSIN 54135
March 1, 1974
Mr. Bradley Patterson,
Assistant to the President
Executive Office Building
1600-16th St.
Washington, D.C. 20500
RE: Community Action Programs, Menominee County Wisconsin
Dear Mr. Patterson:
This is to alert your office to the very severe situation that will occur
in Menominee County if Community Action programs are discontinued as now
appears indicated as of June 30, 1974.
The Outreach, Recreational, Counseling, Mainstream, Headstart and Economic
Development assistance offered by the Community Action Program services
provide a basis of concerted community life and opportunity that would
otherwise be non-existent for the poor, the youth and elderly, in our
present situation.
In addition to this important influence in the community, these programs
provide a large and absolutely necessary direct economic resource otherwise
sorely lacking. It is well established that Menominee Enterprises provides
only about 50 percent of the needed employment base in the County. The
Community Action Programs provide employment for another 25 percent, without
which families of the less employable must go without. Specifically, the
programs provide employment opportunity for approximately 300 and a payroll
of close to $400,000 annually.
The programs provide encouragement, opportunity, and a focus on community
interest and development otherwise left devoid.
My interest in this matter is almost as a bystander. I have seen the many
benefits of the programs over the past seven or eight years and know the
depth of community dependence upon them.
I hope that your office will do everything possible to seek either a con-
tinuance or replacement of these services during the transition period of
restoration, which we understand will spread across 18 to 24 months.
The tribal unity which We have in recent months been urged, and struggle,
to attain would be completely disrupted should these programs be denied
our Menominee community.
Sincerely,
Mony considerations. thanks for enclin
George Kenote
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
March 11, 1974
Dear Mr. Johnson and Mr. James:
Thank you for your letter to the President of February 25 and for
sending us the copy of your proposal to the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Since you sent that in, we now have a new Commissioner of Indian
Affairs and I know that he is considering your proposal. I am sure
you will hear from him soon about it; Morrie Thompson is an out-
standing government officer and we all have great trust in his
judgment.
Dasley Sincerely yours, 36 U. Pattiral
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Vernon T. Johnson
Mr. Albert E. James
Inter-Tribal Council of California, Inc.
2969 Fulton Avenue
Sacramento, California 95821
bcc: Morrie Thompson
GERALD
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March 11, 1974
Dear Howard:
Thank you for your letter of March 1 about Intermountain School.
I checked with Morrie Thompson's office and find that he has been
meeting with Indian groups this very week about just the question you
raise. I know he is giving the matter very personal and direct attention,
and on an operational matter like this, Howard, we here do look to
Morrie to call the shots and take the responsibility for the decisions.
Nonetheless, I will send your letter to him right away so that if he
hasn't been exposed to your views yet, he will have that opportunity
now.
Cordially,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Howard E. Tommie
President
United Southeastern Tribes, Inc.
1970 Main St. Wood Bldg.
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Sarasota, Florida 33577
bcc: Morrie Thompson
March 11, 1974
Dear Mrs. Mason:
The President has asked me to thank you for your note of the let
about the Wounded Knee trials.
Mrs. Mason, in no way is the Oglala Sloux Tribe Itself on trial.
Those who have been indicted and who are standing trial in St. Paul
are those particular members of AIM who the government alleges
committed felonies during the occupation of Wounded Knee a year ago.
The Oglala Tribe itself, under its newly re-elected Chairman, Dick
Wilson, is very much on top of things and is planning new projects and
activities to bring economic development and new progress to Pine
Ridge. I met with the Tribal Council just this week and am very pleased
at their initiative and sense of progress.
Neither the President nor the Vice President have any plans to be present
at the trials themselves.
Sincerely yours,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mrs. Nancy S. Mason
City of Buena Park
6650 Beach Boulevard
Buena Park, California
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March 12, 1974
Dear Mr. Cloquet:
The President has asked me to thank you for your letter
of March 3 concerning the Cowlits Tribe.
I am bringing your communication promptly to the attention
of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Mr. Morris
Thompson.
Sincerely yours,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Donald J. Cloquet, Chairman
Council of Chief's Sovereign
Cowlits Tribe
10712 Westwood Dr. S.W.
Tacoma, Washington 98499
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bee: Morris Thompson
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
March 15, 1974
Dear Phil:
I appreciate having your letter of the 7th about the EDA Indian program.
The EDA program money is in the FY 1975 BIA budget.
What is needed as we see it is the legislation giving BIA grant authority -- - -
and that legislation was submitted to the Congress last June and has been
there ever since. I am sure you will bring whatever views you have about
that legislation to the attention of the appropriate Committees of the Con-
gress; the President very much hopes to have that Tribal Development
Grant Act on his desk for signature before June 30.
There is no plan I know of to extend the EDA Indian Program itself within
EDA for FY 1975; we really do believe that it should be unified with the
BIA framework and that BIA should be given the authority the President
asked for nine months ago.
Cordially,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Phillip Martin
Tribal Chairman
Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
Route 7, Box 21
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Chuck Trimble
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March 7, 1974
The Honorable Brad Patterson
Executive Assistant to Leonard Garment
Executive Office Building, Room 182
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Sir:
It has just come to my attention that there is no provision in the
FY 1975 federal budget for continuation of the EDA public works grants and
loans programs (nor the Public Works Impact Program) for Indians. It is
my understanding that the decision to terminate Indian participation in
these programs has been made on the assumption that at some as yet undeter-
mined date the Bureau of Indian Affairs would be funded to assume responsi-
bility for provision of such support to Indian tribes.
While I do not disagree with the transfer of these highly successful
EDA programs to the BIA in principle, I am most concerned that plans to
terminate these programs at EDA have preceded a decision to provide funds
for their continuation through BIA.
These EDA programs have had a tremendous impact on reservation devel-
opment nationally via provision of seed money for the stimulation of reser-
vation-based industry and jobs and through the construction of community
facilities in high unemployment areas. These EDA programs have had a par-
ticularly significant impact on the Choctaw reservation through construction
of an industrial park and community-based service delivery facilities.
It is imperative that such support for economic development on reserva-
tions be continued because it is only now that most tribes have achieved
the capacity to attract industry and negotiate for the operation of revenue
and employment generating business enterprises on their reservations.
In view of the above, I request that the BIA budget for FY 1975 be
increased by an amount sufficient to continue provision of EDA services
under these programs to tribes for FY 1975. An alternative suggestion
would be to have EDA continue support for these programs during FY 1975
until adequate funding provisions have been made for their continuance under
BIA auspices. Either alternative would require funds not less than 25%
above the FY 1974 level.
"ChOCTAW SELF-DETERMINATION"
The Honorable Brad Patterson
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March 7, 1974
Your serious consideration of this request will be appreciated.
Sincerely,
Phillip marting
Phillip Martin
Tribal Chairman
PM/rjt
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March 25, 1974
Dear Mr. Genia:
Thank you very much for your note of the 19th.
We haven't actually set up any of these mechanisms yet, waiting
as we are for comments from NCAI and NTCA and some interested
people on the Hill. But we believe that these would be good alter-
natives to the NCIO, which the Vice President has said he is not
going to have the time to handle.
I sincerely appreciate your own interest and support and hope you
will let me know about the program you have for Native American
studies at Dartmouth.
Cordially,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Anthony L. Genia
Coordinator of Native American Programs
Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire 03755
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Dartmouth College HANOVER . NEW HAMPSHIRE . 03755
Native American Programs
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March 19, 1974
Mr. Bradley Patterson, Jr.
Minority Affairs Assistant
Executive Office Building
Washington, DC
Dear Mr. Patterson:
I read with great interest the Ford proposal for the
transformation of NCIO and am glad to hear that you have
accepted the position as Staff Director for the Committee
on Indian Affairs.
As I understand the proposed reorganization, urban,
rural, and non-recognized American Indians, such as those
in the Northeast, would have enhanced input into the
determination of federal Indian policy. I feel that the
proposed new structure would help to minimize much of the
inter-tribal friction that has characterized Indian affairs
in the past.
In my past work as a consultant for Americans for
Indian Opportunity, Inc., I have had occasion to use the
services of your office under Mr. Garment. At that time
and during the negotiations with the Indian forces occupy-
ing the BIA building, I was impressed with your apparent
sincerity and integrity in your relationships with American
Indians.
I wish you luck in your new position and will be
eagerly watching the progress of the Committee on Indian
Affairs and the two new Advisory Councils.
Anthony Futhory L. Genia
Sincerely G. Senia
Coordinator of Native American Programs
GERALD R. LIBRARY FORD
Original sent to
Central Files
April 29, 1974
Dear Henry,
Thank you for your letter of the 23rd about the proposed new
arrangements for consultation and coordination of Indian policy. I
would like to answer your specific questions.
1. Because the Domestic Council is a Cabinet-level group,
membership on all of its subcommittees is de jure from among members
of the Cabinet. In practice, of course, the pre-Cabinet-level work of
all such sommittees is done at the Assistant Secretary level and in this
case it will mean the attention and leadership of Commissioner (soon,
hopefully, to become Assistant Secretary) Morris Thompson and of his
counterpart in HEW and of their similarly situated colleagues in the
other Cabinet Departments who are Committee members. These officers
normally give a significant amount of their time to Indian policy questions
and are the logical Executive Branch leaders in such policy discussions.
Issues they examine which need further resolution or review will be taken
before the Cabinet-level group and, if necessary, to the full Domestic
Council of which the President is Chairman and the Vice President is
Vice-Chairman.
2. The Domestic Council and all its ten present committees are
internal groups for coordination and resolution of policy issues, problems
or conflicts, in-house. All ten deal with issues of major public interest
(e.g. the new Domestic Council Committee on Privacy) but as is true of
every Cabinet Committee I have ever known, they are advisory to the
President, fall under the privilege of that category of advice, and none
of them include representatives of the public, precisely as is true with
Committees of the Senate, which often meet in executive session and
whose membership is composed only of those holding the constitutional
responsibility of Members of the Senate.
President Johnson's original Executive Order tried to givethe NCIO
the constitutionally impossible task of producing open advice from the
public in the same forum with privileged advice to the President from
his Cabinet members. NCIO never could do that (its only full meeting
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was a series of speeches) and in fact that combination cannot be made.
It is as if we asked the NCAI or the NTCA to include officials of the
Administration as full participating members of their respective Executive
Boards. That would violate the Indian organizations' internal privilege,
and we would no more wish to do that than vice-versa.
Of course Indian input into the policy making process is vital, and
this is precisely why the Vice President has proposed two new channels
for this input: one from the federally recognized tribal leadership, and
one from the leaders of non-federally recognized Indian groups.
A typical meeting of either one of the Indian Leadership Advisory
Councils, as we see it, for instance, would include face-to-face sessions
with one or more Cabinet officers--whichever the Indians wish to talk to-
and we in the White House will request that Cabinet officers be present
at those sessions. But the Indian Advisory Councils will want to have
executive sessions of their own, and Cabinet Members should also have
that privilege--which the Domestic Council Committee arrangement
affords them.
3. You mention staff travel and meeting expenses for "the Council."
The Domestic Council Subcommittee members, being Cabinet Officers or
their Assistant Secretaries, re fully equipped to perform whatever travel
is necessary, and officers like Commissioner Thompson, as you know,
visit Indian areas and groups very frequently. A Domestic Council staff
member will be supplied to the Committee by Mr. Cole and if he needs to
do some travelling, the Domestic Council budget will anable him to do this.
Perhaps what you had in mind in your question 3 is the travel and
meeting expenses for the two Indian Leadership Advisory Councils. We
assure you that there will be funds for this purpose (subject to Congressional
appropriation). The President has recently submitted a budget amendment
switching the $300, 000 NCIO funding request to a line item in the BIA
budget--expressly for the purpose of supporting the travel of the Indian
Leadership Advisory Council of the federally recognized tribes and
supporting the special staff officers whom BIA will assign to the Advisory
Council. Under Secretary Carlucci assures us that similar funding
arrangements will be provided by HEW for the Indian Leadership Advisory
Council of non-federally recognized Indian groups.
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As for the Vice President's decision about his personal role
in NCIO, I think we should commend his candor and honesty when he
said he will not have enough time for this, and should encourage the
Indian leadership community, as the Vice President already has, to get
together, hopefully with some agreed comments on the alternative
which the President has proposed, and which I am trying to explain
further here.
4. As to the need for two Indian leadership advisory councils,
rather than one, I am sure you, as an expert on Indian legislation,
realize that laws, treaties, appropriation acts, the trust relationship and
the Ruiz decision in the Supreme Court, all point in the direction of a
clearly definable difference in the federal government's treatment of
federally recognized as compared with non-federally recognized groups.
That difference comes not from us or from any "polarization" which the
existence of these two advisory councils would create, but from the afore-
mentioned treaties and other acts of Congress. While I realize that some
of the currently non-federally recognized Indian groups would like to see
those differences erased, that could only come about from some major
actions by the Congress--over which I imagine your Committee would have
principal jurisdiction. I agree with you that we should help Indiansto draw
together, and specifically to that constructive suggestion I would foresee
that the two Advisory Councils ought to have joint meetings from time to
time. Non-federally reoggnized Indian groups should be, I would hope,
pleased with the proposal for a new Advisory Council from their membership;
up to now they have had practically no organized forum at all in which to
express their views to us.
Another major advantage of the Vice President's proposal over the
existing structure is that the two Indian leadership advisory councils would
be selected from grass roots by Indians themselves, rather than hand-picked
from Washington. Each of the two groups will elect its own Chairman,
also a more desirable arrangement than to have an Administration official,
however high, play that role.
I urge you, Henry, to support the Vice President in his decision, and to
encourage the Indian community to get togther and either endorse the Vice
President's proposed alternative to NCIO or suggest a better alternative.
We are open to any suggestions.
Sincerely,
GERALD LIBRARY ? FORD
Leonard Garment
The Honorable Henry Bellmon
Assistant to the President
United States Senate
Washington, D. C.
bcc: Carlucci, HEW; Whitaker, Interior; Thompson, Interior; Casselman, VP;
Ross; D.C. Zarb, OMB; Robertson, OMB; Gov. Robt. Lewis, Zuni; M. Tonasket,
NCAI; LaDonna Harris, AIO; C. Trimble, NCAI; W. Youpee, NTCA; Course ADP
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April 30, 1974
Dear Bruce:
Thank you for your letter of the 24th and for sending
us your comments on the Manpower Act regulations.
I can assure you on one specific point: the Act
mandated "national level" administration and that
is what we are going to do.
On the other points you make, I am sending your
letter promptly to Mr. Pierce Quinlan so that he
can be back in touch with you directly with comments
or answers on the matters you have raised.
Cordially,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Bruce A. Williams
Executive Director
The Seneca Nation of Indians
Native American Program
Box 212
Irving, New York 14801
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bcc: Pierce Quinlan (with incoming for further direct response).
Acting Associate Manpower Administrator
Manpower Development Programs
Department of Labor
Room 6000
601 "D" Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20213
THE SENECA NATION OF INDIANS
NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAM
Haley Building
BRUCE A. WILLIAMS
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
P.O. Box 212
P.O. Box 231
Salamanca, N.Y. 14779
Irving, N.Y. 14081
Tel. 716-532-2322
Tel. 716-945-9980
April 24, 1974
Bradley Patterson
Special Assistant to the President
Executive office of the President
The White House
Washington, D. C. 20500
Dear Mr. Patterson:
On April 1st to the 3rd, a meeting was held among the United Southeastern Tribes in
Sarasota, Florida. Those in attendance were the:
Seminole tribe of Florida
Miccosukee of Florida
Eastern band of Cherokees
Mississippi band of Choctaw
Seneca Nation of Indians
GERALD, FORD LIBRARY
Chitimacha of Louisiana
Cousatta of Louisiana
After a thorough review of the proposed regulations and guidelines of Title III of
the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973, it is the consensus of the
Seneca Nation that they are not in the best interest of the tribe and many are con-
tradictory to the intent of Congress as expressed and implied in the legislation.
The more general recommendations are the following:
1.
Continuous funding for on-going tribal manpower programs be provided at current
funding levels until such time as acceptable regulations are promulgated and
Title III can be implemented.
2.
The Senecas feel that a national review committee be structered representing a
broader spectrum of the Indian population than was represented by the original
task force that drafted the regulations. The national review committee should
review the regulations as they appear in the Federal Register, and draft changes
to the regulations. To assure maximum input, the national review committee
should include representatives of all major national Indian organizations.
April 24, 1974
Seneca Nation of Indians
Native American Program
Bruce A. Williams
Executive Director
P. O. Box 212
Irving, New York 14081
Bradley Patterson
Special Assistant to the President
Executive Office of the President
The White House
Washington, D. C. 20500
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Specific recommendations on the more important areas covered by the regulations are
listed below.
1.
Regionalization
The act clearly states that Section 302 to be administered on the "national level"
(302 (b) (1)). The regulations contradict the intent of Congress by placing policy
making and review authority at the regional level.
2.
Allocation Formula
The regulation on funding allocations falls under the authority of Section 302
(g) should be in relation to need as well as population. Allocation of Title III
funds could be based, as in Title I, on the "no more than 150%, and no less than
90% formulae" contained in 103 ((a)(4)).
3.
Prime Sponsor Eligibility
The act makes no mention of minimum tribal enrollment as a qualification for
prime sponsorship. As tribes are sovereign entities, administration of the
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act programming should be maintained by
all tribes with the ability to administer funds regardless of tribal size.
4.
Review of Plans
Review and comment outline in Section 108, should not be applicable to Indian
tribes. Any review or comment process should be between the Federal government
and the tribe itself, in line with program administration on the national level
(Section 302 (b)).
5.
066 Reservation Indians
The regulations should spell out who will administer programs for non-reservation
Indians including urban Indians, and the application formulae for these programs
(cf. Section 302 (c) (2)).
April 24, 1974
Seneca Nation of Indians
Native American Program
Bruce A. Williams
Executive Director
P. O. Box 212
Irving, New York 14081
Bradley Patterson
Special Assistant to the President
Executive Office of the President
The White House
Washington, D. C. 20500
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6.
Technical Assistance
Type and extent of technical assistance to Indian tribes from the Department
of Labor provided for under Section 302 (2e), 207 (c) should be fully outlined
in the regulations.
7.
Prime Sponsor Planning Council
The membership requirements provided for planning councils in the regulations
could easily result in a non-Indian majority on the councils. The implied
flexibility cited in Section 104 of the law in the phrase "to the extent
practical" should be registered in the regulations.
Information an objections to the various regulations were taken from the third draft
dated February 3, 1974, put out by the Department of Labor. We feel at this time,
that the Departmert of Labor has not drawn upon the Indian input and have not had
sufficient Indian participation. The act itself, we feel, is sound, but the inter-
pretations by the Department of Labor represent an entirely different picture.
A task force was assembled by the Department of Labor to write these rules and regula-
tions, meetings were held that tribes were not aware of, and decisions were made with-
out recommendations from the tribes. Deadlines were established without proper review
by the tribes, therefore, objection time was limited by these imposed deadlines. We
are, therefore, requesting support in our efforts to correct the present drafted rules
and regulations.
On behalf of the Seneca Nation of Indians, contact with these people by your office
will represent you support of our efforts to rectify the existing rules and regulations.
Sincerely yours,
Bruce Williams a. Williams
Executive Director
BAW: bc
May 1, 1974
Dear Mr. Begay:
At the Indian Conference last week you asked Mr. Garment a
question about the alternative the Vice President has proposed
to the NCIO and about the suggested new Domestic Council
Committee on Indian Affairs.
I wanted to follow up on the answer Mr. Garment gave in order
to assure that you have a complete response.
The suggestion for alternatives to the NCIO and the suggestion for a
Committee on Indian Affairs in the Domestic Council are both
proposals, and we are still anxious to have the views of Indian
leadership about them. The only thing that is firm is that the
Vice President, with candor and honesty, has told Messrs.
Tonasket and Lewis that he will not have the time to give to the
NCIO personally, 80 we are suggesting an alternative and, we
believe, much more effective arrangement.
Senator Bellmon the other day wrote Mr. Garment with some
questions about the functioning of the proposed new Leadership
Advisory Councils and the Domestic Council, and Mr. Garment
responded with a very full letter in reply. Knowing of your own
interest in this subject, from your question last week, I thought
you might like tohave copies of this exchange.
If you still have questions about the proposed new Advisory Councils
and the Domestic Council Committee, please call me (202) 456-2657
and I will try to respond further to any question you may have.
Cordially,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
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Mr. Eugene A. Begay
Executive Director
United South Eastern Tribes, Inc.
1970 Main Street
Sarasota, Florida 33577
Enclosure
Savilla
May 1, 1974
Dear Elmer:
At the Indian Conference here last week, you asked
Mr. Garment two questions, and while he did not have the
answers right at hand, we wanted to write you and give you
the responses, having checked up on them in the meantime.
First about EDA. Last June we sent to the Hill a proposed
Tribal Development Grant Act, and we put $25 million for
that Act in the FY 1975 budget in the hope that it would
be enacted by this coming July. (I trust you have made your
own views and those of NTCA known to the appropriate Com-
mittees of the Congress concerning that bill.) Now if it happens
that the Act is not law by next July, the Administration intends
to submit to the Congress an amendment to its FY 1975 budget
to request that additional funds be appropriated to EDA to
cover Indian projects through BY 1975 and at about current
levels.
Your second question to Len, as I remember it, was about ONAP.
Legislation to make ONAP a statutory part of HEW was transmitted
to the Congress on April 3, 1974 by a letter from Under
Secretary Carlucci to the Speaker of the House; a draft bill
was attached. NTCA should, I would think, want to communicate
its views on that matter also to the Congress.
As you know, Elmer, the FY 1975 budget request for ONAP was
$32 million -- which roughly compares with a figure of $23.7
million when this program was over in OEO in FY 1970.
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I hope this has answered your questions, Elmer. Mr. Garment
and I will always be available to you and Governor Lewis to
provide responses to any queries you have about Indian affairs,
in which we share so much common interest.
Cordially,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Elmer Savilla
President
Quechan Tribe
Fort Yuma, Arizona
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Education
May 1, 1974
Dear Mr. Jemison:
During the Indian Conference here in Washington last week, you
asked Mr. Garment a question about the Education Act and
while we did not have the answer right with us, we have checked
and want to give you the response to your question.
As you know there are several statutes authorising programs
in Indian education: the ESEA Act, the Johnson-O'Malley Act,
the new Title IV, and of course the direct BIA education programs.
The President's commitment to Indian education and to control
over Indian education by responsible, elected Indian authorities,
is absolutely unchanged from his Message of July 8, 1970; the only
real question in our minds is whether the various authorities in
those several statutes are coordinated or are overlapping and
whether the programs going on under those different authorities
are such as to strengthen each other and deliver effective services
to Indian children or whether they represent a hodge-podge of
program direction which saps overall effectiveness and wastes
money in overhead and administration which should rather be
going to teachers and schools.
In order to examine just this question, we have recommended to
the Congress that FY 1975 appropriations for Part A of the
Indian Education Act be held off and we have begun a 6-month
study of all these different statutes.
Indian contractors are doing the study; here in Washington there
is a joint BIA-HEW team putting their heads together on it, and
there will be a careful field evaluation on the spot of specific
projects and programs, 80 the study will be grounded in facts
and not just speculation.
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The staff officers directing the study are Mr. Lawrence
LaMoure of the Office of Education and Mr. George Scott
of BIA. You should feel free to get in touch with them if you
have any more specific questions about the study which
we expect to have finished by the end of September -- in time
for the FY 1976 budget preparations. I understand that you
have in fact had a lengthy conversation with Mr. LaMoure.
Just to set things in perspective, however, we should remember
where the President's commitment has taken Indian education
since he took office. The FY 1969 BIA education appropriation
was $99. 5 million; the FY 1975 appropriations request was
$219 million. Of course the HEW funds for Indian education
have to be added on top of that -- and for FY 1975 the funds
requested are $150 million for elementary and secondary school
assistance plus another $187 million for help to Indian higher
education, or a total HEW FY 1975 commitment of $337 million.
I hope these points answer the question you raised and Mr. Garment
and I were glad to have the opportunity to meet you directly and
hear your concerns.
I am sending a copy of this letter to Congressman Kemp's office
since I know he and Mr. Clark of his staff were interested in
making sure your visit here was fruitful.
Cordially,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Gerald Jemison
Education Director
Seneca Nation of Indians
Education Program
Box 201
Irving, New York 14081
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CC: Congressman Jack Kemp
bcc: La Donna Harris
Trip
May 3, 1974
Tony:
By this copy of an internal memo here, (Gulley is a
military aide) I am indicating our plans for coming to
Navajo on the 14th.
Val McBroom has been most helpful and is checking some
of the options, i.e. the possibilities of the Park Service
taking Garment and me via jeep into the Canyon de Chelly
between the time the formal dedication exercises are
over (3:00 p.m. ?) and sunset. I have been on that jeep
trip twice but Len Garment has never seen it, and I
would like to see this laid on as a probable contingency.
We would have to go around to Chinle I guess; could have
supper there somewhere after the jeep-ride, then rejoin
the pow-wow festivities at Tsaile. Driving back to Window
Rock after that. At least this is my current thinking.
Would you or Val also make some plans for taking care
of pilot and crew overnight at Window Rock? Mr. Atcitty
says he already has rooms reserved for Garment and me.
If an HEW dignitary comes also, I will let you know.
You might also confirm if Mr. Atcitty has located his
original copy of the Message from the President. It
was sent to him by a Garment letter of last October 29,
and is itself dated October 26. (I think the date could be
left off If it is printed in the Dedication Program, as we
have suggested.)
Sincerely,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Anthony B. Lincoln
Area Director
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Navajo Area Office
Window Rock, Arizona 86515
May 3, 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR:
JIM FALK
FROM:
LEN GARMENT
SUBJECT:
New York "Task Force"
We have just received this memorandum from Bill Green.
I forward it to you for action and recommend you get in
touch directly with Bill to answer his final question.
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OUR Files
May 3, 1974
Dear Mrs. Platt:
Mr. Garment has asked me to thank you for your letter of April 19
and for telling us of your interest in the problem of the Treaty
of 1868.
I don't know whether the Akwesasane Notes piece, which you saw,
discussed the letter which Mr. Garment sent to the Sioux traditionalist
chiefs last January, but if it didn't it should have.
I enclose a copy of that letter -- it is a long, carefully prepared and
candid response to a series of 15 questions which the Sloux traditional
chiefs (and Vine DeLoria) put to us about the Treaty. It was prepared
with the help of the Department of Justice and is our very best and
honest answer to all the problems which the traditionalist Indian
leaders have been raising.
As the letter says, if there are still more problems and questions,
we will welcome them and prepare a further response -- and in
this way perhaps get closer to what it really is that is troubling
some of the Sioux leaders.
I assume you are also familiar with the latest Indian Claims Com-
mission finding, favorable to the Sloux case, in the claims proceeding
itself. That process is going slowly, but definitely is moving.
Let me know if you still have further questions; if you are in
Washington I'd be happy to sit down with you for a discussion.
Sincerely,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mrs. J. R. Platt
163 Vinton Road
Irondequoit, New lork 14622
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Enclosure
Orig etc r programs
sent to meeker
May 3, 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR:
DAVE MEEKER HUD
FROM:
LEONARD GARMENT
SUBJECT:
D.C. Bicentennial Proposals
from the Urban League
Dana Mead advises me that in your capacity as interagency
coordinator for D.C. Bicentennial planning, you would
be the person to examine these proposals which Sterling
Tucker has given me and to help get a decision from the
respective proper agencies as to feasibility, funding etc.
I would appreciate it if you would undertake this, and
let me know the results of the interagency review.
Sterling Tucker is an officer of the Urban League with
whom we have worked closely in the past, and is a reliable
and very constructive citizen.
CCI Dana Mead
Administrator Warner, ARBA
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Pete Fannon, OMB
Secretary Lynn
Anne Armstrong
(all CC were sent a copy of the April 30 letter
from Sterling Tucker)
May 6, 1974
Dear Chairman Paya:
My pleasure at sending you this official copy of
the President's statement of May 3 is hardly
less than I am sure is yours in having this news.
As Joe Sparks has undoubtedly told you, many of
us here, especially Dean Burch, worked quietly
and informally to change that position we took a
year ago.
We join with many Indian and non-Indian friends
in admiring your own perseverance and determination
and in looking forward to favorable Congressional
action.
Cordially,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Oscar Paya
Chairman
Havasupai Tribal Council
Supai, Arizona 86435
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Pam. no Copy
Kept.
May 6, 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR:
PAM POWELL
FROM:
LEN GARMENT
SUBJECT:
Keith Taylor
Mudge Rose looks like a rather good reference to
me, and I suggest you give Mr. Taylor some
consideration as a summer intern here at the
White House, to begin with.
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May 6, 1974
Dear Bill,
Thank you for sending me the draft of the interim
report on federal architecture.
Since the Task Force is composed of public members,
they, of course, have independent credibility and an independence of
view--and that is their value. I realize money is a problem, but
would the report be enhanced by some illustrations of plusses and
minuses?
I have no other comments on the report other than to observe
that it will indeed be a very useful contribution to the public
discussion.
Best,
Leonard Garment
Assistant to the President
Mr. Bill N. Lacy
Director
Architecture and Environmental Arts
National Endowlnent for the Arts
Washington, D. C. 20506
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To Bill Anider
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
May 6, 1974
Bill -
The POST having done a
fine editorial on this on April 18,
Len and I thought you and the
editorial and news staffs would
like to see how some of us,
especially Dean Burch, put our heads
together and did something about it
(a reversal of the Administration's
position of a year ago -- which only
favored a "study".)
With continued high regard
for you personally and with warm
memories of a place in South Dakota
a year ago
Brad
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May 6, 1974
Dear Chairman Cloquet:
I am responding on behalf of the President to your
letter of April 28 and to the plan which it encloses
concerning judgement funds.
I am sending your proposal for review promptly to
the Secretary of the Interior's principal officer
for such matters, the Commissioner of Indian
Affairs, Honorable Morris Thompson.
Sincerely yours,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Chief Donald J. Cloquet
Chhirman
Council of Chiefs
Sovereign Cowlitz Tribe
10712 Westwood Drive S. W.
Tacoma, Washington 98499
CC: Honorable Thompson
Entire file sent to Morris Thompson with a copy of this letter.
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HARRIS
May 7, 1974
Dear LaDonna:
Your April 15, 1974, letter to the President has been referred
to me for a response. In your letter you have discussed two
issues which you feel are of paramount importance to Indian
manpower programs to be funded pursuant to section 302 of
the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973
(CETA); namely,
1. that Indian manpower programs will be regionalized,
and
2. that Indian proposals will be subjected to the jurisdiction
of a State Governor without Congressional authorization.
With respect to your first point, regionalization of Indian
manpower programs, I am sure that you are now aware that the
Department of Labor (DOL) has decided to establish a self-
sufficient Indian manpower office at the national level. This
office will have responsibility for all matters pertaining to
Indian manpower programs under CETA, just as the Congress
intended.
As for the suggestion that we want to "assimilate" Indians into
the White man's world, the President's July 8, 1970 Message
should make it clear that that is not our intent whatsoever; it
is, rather, to work with Indian leaders and create a real choice
for each Indian person; to live and work wherever he or she wants.
You are right that this does mean "companion economic development
on the reservations" and that is not only one of the principal
objectives of our own policies for the past four years but also, at
last, of the newly enacted Indian Financing Act.
About the role of Governors: speaking personally and as a non-
lawyer it seems to me that there is a certain indirection in the
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way the law speaks of this requirement as applied to Indian
programs. But Section 108(a) clearly instructs the Secretary
that he "shall not approve a comprehensive manpower plan..
until he determines that the plan was submitted to and an
opportunity to comment thereon provided, the Governor... H
Those words "comprehensive manpower plan" are arguably
the same as the words "comprehensive plan" in Section 302(c)1.
However the House Report, as you point out, intends that there
be no Governor's review.
I think there may be a defensible and legitimate difference
between the words "comment" and "review"; with "comments"
being in fact a helpful input in Reservation country, and likely
an indispensable input in the non-Reservation areas which are
also mentioned in Section 302. I can assure you that the House
Committee's intent is our intent also, and that while comments
may be welcome, neither the Act nor our regulation nor our
practice will confer on Governors a right to interrupt the
Secretary's processing of Indian tribes' applications. To refer
to a phrase you use in your penultimate paragraph, for tribes
there will be no "submission to state jurisdiction". Mr. Quinlan
tells me that the regulations in their entirety are going to be
given a final legal review by the Solicitor's office in the Department,
and if there are any additional legal refinement on this question
in the Act as a result of that review, we will inform you promptly.
I can also assure you that every one of us in the Administration
and who will be involved in the implementation of this program
will act in the spirit of the Congressional language of Section 302(b)3.
Cordially,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Ms. LaDonna Harris
Americans for Indian Opportunity
1816 Jefferson Place, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
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Barry White
THOMPSON
May 8, 1974
Dear Morrie:
Supplementing Frank Zarb's letter of May 1, especially in
view of the June 5-6-7 meeting and of the outline of anticipated
questions which I drew up, (as you remember, at Frank's
suggestion) I would appreciate your help in getting material
prepared on the following additional questions:
1. Tribal Water Ordinance
As was mentioned in some detail at the NCAI National
Convention last year in Tulsa, the Northwest Tribes
are developing a model ordinance requiring tribal
council permission for water use on any lands within
the exterior boundaries of a Reservation. Will Interior
as a Department support this kind of ordinance; as to
propriety and legality?
2. US V Washington
What special plans if any does Interior have to help
prepare the Northwest tribes to assume the responsibilities
indicated under that Court decision?
3. BIA Field Organization
What views does Interior have now about the respective
roles of BIA headquarters staff, Area Directors and
Superintendents in the policy and budget-making process
and in operational responsibilities?
In addition to the above questions which I anticipate are likely to
come up at the June meetings, President Tonasket has directly asked
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me the question of whether you as the new Commissioner will
request a review of the Administration's policy position on
the Senate's Indian amendment to the land-use planning bill.
I said he would have to address that question to you, and I
think you can anticipate a letter from him on that score. He
will certainly bring up the question at the June conference.
I would add a final prediction: neither of us should be surprised
if Indian leaders ask us about the lands study which the Department
undertook at our request in the fall of 1972. While I regard that
study as one of the first items likely to go onto the agenda of
the new Domestic Council Subcommittee when it is formed, you
should be thinking about what consultation process to engage
in when the study is far enough along to permit that. Whether
by June is of course a question.
Cordially,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Commissioner Morris Thompson
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Room 6315
Department of the Interior
Washington, D.C.
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CC: Frank Zarb
May 8, 1974
Dear Mr. Secretary:
Supplementing Frank Zarb's letter to you of May 2 concerning
certain questions of Indian policy which we need to get clarified,
the conference which will be held is apparently going to be
June 5-6-7, instead of May 20-21.
There are two questions additional to those Frank raised which
the Indian leaders are going to ask us, and on which we would
appreciate materials for answers:
1. Entitlement vs Project Basis for Grants
Some of the smaller tribes which nonetheless have
major untapped economic resources (Northern Cheyenne
for example) are asking what assurances they can have
that in effect a per capita entitlement, under our new
Tribal Development Grant Act, will not leave them
substantially disadvantaged as compared with larger
tribes.
2. Tribal Development vs Leasing
Indian leaders have also asked whether our policies under
this new act will be to encourage and facilitate the
development of tribal enterprise itself, as compared to
leasing, and how we will help assure this.
I thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
Sincerely,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Honorable Frederick Dent
Secretary of Commerce
14th & Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20230
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AIM
WONDED Follow KNEG ? only
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May 8, 1974
MEMORANDUM TOL STAN EBNER
OMB
SUBJECT:
Hank Adams March 19 Letters
In March I received only the xerox copy of two letters which
Mr. Adams has sent to a number of addressees, including Mr. Ash.
I do not know where the signed original is, and so am somewhat
unsure as to who "has action" so to speak. The matter was brought
to my attention again by noting the April 3 news clip (attached)
with remarks attributed to Mr. Banks. This sounds like the same
(Adams) letter, and none other has come in here from Mr. Banks.
I would appreciate if it OMB (with the help of the Department of
Justice if necessary) would advise whether Mr. Adams' assertions
in his opening paragraphs are correct, and if so, what are our
responsibilities with respect to the requests he makes.
(The GAO Meport, of which I have one copy, is under the personal
control of Senator Abourezk.)
Adams is a persistent individual and we need to get a resolution of
this or else, I suspect, be will be preparing a lawsuit and he and his
AIM supporters will make much of a non-response.
Leonard Garment
Attachments
cc: Mr. Kent Frizzell w/attachments
Mr. Bob Robertson 11 II
Mr. Sol Lindenbaum 11 If
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May 13, 1974
Dear Mr. Silberman:
The National Congress of American Indians and Americans
for Indian Opportunity will be sponsoring a conference of
Indian leaders here in Washington June 5-6-7 at which a
number of questions will be asked and examined by both
Indian and government participants.
Assistant OMB Director Zarb and I have been collecting
these questions from the Indian sponsors of the conference
and have been directing them to the appropriate agencies with
the request for written materials on the basis of which we
can supply answers for discussion.
One question which we have been informed will be asked of
us is the following:
"Pending the establishment of an Indian Trust Council
authority, if it ever comes about, what is the position
of the Justice Department on the creation of an Indian
Trust Division within the Department, thereby taking
Indians out of the lands division and facilitating
decissions in conflict of interest situations?"
Could you supply me with materials which I could use for
responding to this question?
Sincerely,
Bradley H. Patterson
Mr. Larry Silberman
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Deputy Attorney General
Department of Justice
Washington, D.C.
CC: Frank Zarb
Wally Johnson
Stan Pottinger
May 13, 1974
Dear Mr. Mahone:
Thank you for your letter of May 6, to which
I am responding on the President's behalf.
The text of your letter is a little unclear as
to precisely what language you would have
inserted in the bill to effect the protection
you desire; perhaps you could send me the
exact language so that we can ask Interior
to examine it and see what their recommendation
would be.
Sincerely yours,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Sterling Mahone, Chairman
Hualapai Tribal Council
Box 168
Peach Springs, Arizona 86434
bcc: Morrie Thompson (with incoming letter)
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between Chiefs)
May 13, 1974
Dear Mr. King:
Mr. Patterson has told me of your call the other day
and of your renewed invitation to have a White House
group come to South Dakota and meet with the traditional
chiefs of the Sioux nations. I understand you again wish to
discuss treaty questions.
I have reviewed the correspondence we have recently
exchanged, particularly your letter of last November 19,
and my lengthy and detailed response of January 8. As
I said in that January 8 communication,
"If your understandings on any of these questions
are different from ours, we will welcome that
further word from you.
I think these exchanges are more useful than further
large meetings at this time, since they may help
to define with greater precision what it is about
the 1868 Treaty and its implementation that is
troubling you and your colleagues."
Mr. King, I believe this is still the case. Rather than another
general session, I repeat my invitation to you and your
colleagues to examine our correspondence up to this point,
particularly to review my long respOnse about the Sioux
treaties which I sent you January 8, and then to come back
to us with a further communication stating exactly what
the issues still are, as you see them, concerning the treaty
or treaties of concern to you.
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I will promise you, as I did in January, that if there are
still some unanswered questions about the 1868 or any
other Sioux treaties, we will get written answers to them
and be responsive, in detail to any specific queries you
may ask.
Sincerely,
Leonard Garment
Assistant to the President
Mr. Mathew King
Chairman
Oglala Sioux Treaty Council
Oglala, South Dakota
bcc: Morris Thompson
Carl Sloiber
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Kent Frizzell
Wallace Johnson
Vine Deloria
May 13, 1974
Dear Senator Jackson:
Thank you for your note of April 29 and for
sending me a copy of the Samish Tribe's
telegram concerning the exploration we are
making of alternatives to the National Council
on Indian Opportunity.
Your distinguished colleague from Oklahoma,
Senator Henry Bellmon, recently wrote
Mr. Garment a letter on this same subject,
and Mr. Garment replied with a lengthy and
detailed explanation. I think that the best
response to you and to your constituents would
be to forward a copy of that exchange of letters,
which is attached here.
Sincerely yours,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Honorable Henry M. Jackson
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
Enclosure
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May 13, 1974
Dear Carter:
In response to your note of the 17th about the pavilion near the
Gallery, I have talked with OMB and Park Service people about
the prospects for completing the structure there.
As you correctly observed, it seemed to have been the hope, all
around, that the Mellon Foundation funds would have covered the
costs of finishing the pavilion, but now this is apparently not
possible.
The pavilion is, of course, a part of the National Capital Parks'
planning and responsibility, and while the pool is there, and
the freezing equipment is about to be installed, there is no
money in the FY 1975 budget to complete the pavilion itself.
It is hard to me to sit here in judgment and say that the Park
Service's priorities should be altered in such and such a way;
the President and we, for instance, are still very much interested
in the Constitution Gardens development.
One thought, Carter, is that if the slab as is seems to be a
jarring piece, you and Jack Fish get together and see if jointly
you couldn't work up some kind of temporary food-service and
tables-with-umbrellas arrangement so the place by the pool is
gay and attractive and meets some of the need for what you
well describe as a place to eat among all the monuments. I know
Jack would be happy to work with you on this.
Cordially,
Leonard Garment
Assistant to the President
Mr. J. Carter Brown, Director
National Gallery of Art
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CC: Jack Fish
bcc: Alan Powers - OMB
Wounded Knee Clippings
May 16, 1974
Dear Mr. Kreifel:
I enjoyed reading your thoughtful and well-written piece
of April 18 about the Sloux treaties.
Perhaps you didn't have at the time, though, a copy of
Mr. Garment's letter of January 8, 1974 to the Sloux
traditionalists and Vine DeLoria about just these "treaty
issues", and I enclose a copy. It may be helpful to
you in future stories -- since we shall probably be
hearing a good deal more about the "treaty issues". I
have underscored one sentence in Mr. Garment's letter
and that offer, not yet taken up, still stands. If real
questions remain, we would genuinely like to have
another letter and/or questions from any responsible
Sloux spokesmen, and would give it the same kind of
careful attention.
Sincerely yours,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Bill Kreifel
Lincoln Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska
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Thompson
May 16, 1974
Dear Morrie:
Deputy Assistant Secretary Sinnott is correct in his letter of
May 13; I should have addressed to you those questions marked
here and originally sent to Commerce.
Since they are among Mr. Crossland's specific points in his
paper on economic development, I know we should anticipate
their being asked of us during the forthcoming conference,
and herewith ask that you supply materials for answers.
On another matter: Frank Zarb agrees with me that you and
he and I and perhaps Reid Chambers, none of us involved
with that decision a year ago, should review the Administration's
position on the Indian portion (i.e. the Senate amendment) of
the Land-Use Planning Bill, especially since this bill has now
been cleared for the House floor.
Cordially,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Commissioner Morris Thompson
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Room 6315
Department of the Interior
Washington, D.C.
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CC: Frank Zarb
NGIIC
May 16, 1974
Dear Mr. Loudner:
Bill Jeffries has written me about the structure and general
work of the National Governors' Interstate Indian Council,
and has mentioned that the NGIIC would like to know what
contact points there are to ensure the Council's "involvement
and participation in the planning, evaluation and developing
of policies and programs that affect the lives of Indian people."
He mentioned your Reno meeting in late May.
I suppose I am a general contact point for this area as far as
the White House is concerned, but my experience is that
specific matters are best discussed with the specific senior
agency people who are handling them.
Indian civil rights questions, for instance, are the province
of Carl Stoiber in Justice; lands and natural resources
rights questions of Assistant Attorney General Johnson plus
ReeddChambers in Interior and Martin Seneca in BIA; economic
development matters with Ray Tanner in Commerce; general
questions affecting federally recognized tribes are of course
the basic responsibility of Commissioner Thompson in Interior.
Housing, Manpower (the CETA Act), Indian Health, minority
enterprise, law enforcement, community relations questions,
etc. have corresponding senior specialists in the respective
agencies.
I have three specific suggestions:
1. That Dale Wing of the NCIO staff might usefully join
you for part of your meeting in Reno; if you agree you might
phone him an invitation which I think his schedule would
permit on May 22. His number is (202) 395-3412.
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2. The next time you are in Washington, let's get
together and go around the horizon of Indian questions.
My telephone number is (202) 456-2657.
3. It is possible that the NGIIC might like to join
with NCAI in participating in some fashion with NCAI and
Americans for Indian Opportunity in a forum which they
are sponsoring here in Washington on Indian policy questions
generally, on June 6. Federal officials are preparing now
to answer a number of policy questions about various agency programs
which will be aired during that forum. The best thing to do would
be to contact NCAI Executive Director Charles Trimble about
your interest; his number is (202) 223-4155.
We do look forward to working with you, consulting with you
about questions on your minds, exploring the roles Governors'
officers are playing and can play in the future in Indian affairs,
both for federally recognized tribes and those groups not federally
recognized, and I particularly look forward to meeting you
personally.
Cordially,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Don Loudner
Commission of Indian Affairs
State of South Dakota
Capitol Building
Pierre, South Dakota 57504
CC: Mr. William R. Jeffries
Mr. Dale Wing (with CC of incoming letter from Mr. Jeffries)
bcc: Jim Falk (with CC of incoming letter from Mr. Jeffries)
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May 17, 1974
Dear Mr. Saunders:
I would appreciate your advising me on what
response I should make to Mr. Treatman concerning
ESAA Advisory Committees. He is both a City
Education official and an old friend.
Sincerely,
Leonard Garment
Assistant to the President
Mr. Charles Saunders
Health, Education and Welfare
Office of Education Room 3165
400 Maryland Avenue, S. W.
Washington, D.C. 20202
Enclosure: Letter of May 14 and attachments (copy not kept in our office)
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May 17, 1974
MEMORANDUM TO:
Bill Gulley
FROM:
Len Garment
Assistant to the President
SUBJECT:
Commendation
Please express my thanks and those of Brad and
Acting Assistant Secretary Saunders to Lt. Col.
Kosnick and his associates at Kirtland AFB for
the courteous and efficient services on May 14-15.
The occasion was a success and in large measure
due to their help and yours.
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May 20, 1974
Dear Jim:
In response to your note of May 10 to Leonard, the Department
of Justice has sent the attached letters to Hank Adams.
We have made an inquiry here as to whether from a legal
point of view, the opinion stated in Hank's opening
paragraph of his March 19 letter is correct. If it is, we
shall of course do our best to respond.
Since all this office received was a xerox of Hank's multiple-
addressed letter, we were not sure who had primary action
on it, but as soon as the legal opinion is received we will
help to see to it that the responses are appropriate under
the law.
With cordial personal regards,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Honorable James Abourezk
United States Senate
Washington, D. C. 20510
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May 21, 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR:
COMMISSIONER MORRIS THOMPSON
ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL
WALLY JOHNSON
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FRANK ZARB
FROM:
BRADLEY H. PATTERSON, Jr.
SUBJECT:
Sioux Claims Amendment to the
Indian Claims Commission Act
Art Lazarus sent me the attached -- he has been successful
in getting the Senate Interior Committee to adopt this
amendment unanimously.
We should get a position on this matter -- which has both
budgetary and moral implications. May I have a response
from BIA and Justice so that Frank Zarb and I can co-host
a discussion session about it?
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Taken up to
Norm Ross
May 22, 1974
Draft Telegram
Alex Sherwood
Chairman, Spokane Tribal Council
Deaconess Hospital
Spokane, Washington
Word has reached me that you are ill and I wanted to let
you know how sorry Mrs. Nixon and I are that you are
temporarily out of action.
We here, and your many colleagues in the Indian world,
need your advice and counsel. With the many budget, court
and legislative decisions now trending so much on behalf
of Indian rights and interests, we know how mixch of that
credit is yours yet also how much still needs to be done
with your leadership and help. Mrs. Nixon and I hope you
will soon be in good health again.
RMN
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May 22, 1974
Dear Bob:
Brad was asking my permission the other day to take two
flying trips to the Civil Service Commission's Executive
Seminar Centers at King's Point and then to Berkeley. I
asked him about these trips, since it seemed to me that
he has been doing this rather frequently in the past 5 years.
I find that Brad has given lectures on the Presidency to
King's Point classes on twenty-six separate occasions, and
a similar lecture at Berkeley to sixteen different classes.
He has also spoken several times at Charlottesville, once
at Oak Ridge and has met on even more occasions with FSI
students coming here to Washington, not to mention lectures
to additional trainee groups over at your Commission
headquarters.
This seems like some sort of a record, and I wonder if you
might not consider it appropriate to recognize that kind of
contribution. Does the Commission have some kind of
Award which would be appropriate for these circumstances?
Sincerely,
Leonard Garment
Assistant to the President
The Honorable Robert E. Hampton
Chairman
Civil Service Commission
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Washington, D.C. 20415
May 23, 1974
Dear Mr. Buffam:
Rabbi Seymour Siegel, who officiated at the President's
Second Inaugural, has expressed an interest in becoming
a member of the U.S. Delegation to the 1974 World Population
Conference.
Rabbi Siegel is active in the field of bio-medical problems, is
on the faculty of the Kennedy Center for Bio-Ethics at Georgetown
University and teaches the bubject at the Jewish Theological
Seminary.
If you agree with him that it would be helpful to have the
Jewish ethical tradition represented im the U.S. Delegation,
I would recommend you give his name serious consideration.
His address is 3080 Broadway, New York, New York 10027.
Sincerely,
Leonard Garment
Assistant to the President
Honorable William B. Buffam
Assistant Secretary of State for
International Organization Affairs
Department of State
Washington, DC
bcc: Dave Wimer
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May 24, 1974
Dear Mr. Bushyhead:
The President has asked me to thank you for
your letter of May 16.
We have had several inquiries 09 the matter you
raise and we find that the Solicitor of the Depart-
ment of the Interior has taken a direct interest
in this case. He will be able to comment on the
questions you raise in your next to last paragraph
and I am sending him your letter so that he may
do so,
Sincerely yours,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Jerome Bushyhead
Box 717
El Reno, Oklahoma 73036
bcc: Kent Frizzell (only his letter is filed in Eagle Feathers file
the rest of his letter or rather the enclosures
were sent over to Mr. Frizzell)
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May 24, 1974
MEMORANDUM TO:
KATHY JENSEN
SUBJECT:
LOG NO. 343
Concur on behalf of Garment.
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
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May 24, 1974
McKissick
Dear Floyd:
In response to your letter of April 17, Mr. Garment and I
have done some checking around and have gotten a little
bit more familiar with your proposal for a $2.5 million
grant for a Community Development Corporation.
Insofar as this proposal is aimed at paying the operating and
mortgage costs of Soultech I, already the beneficiary of an
earlier grant, we find a good deal of uncertainty about the
advisability of this double-granting, so to speak.
Insofar as the proposed Corporation would use the new grant
to build Soultech II, the advice we get (which seems reasonable
to us) is that we ought to make sure that the economic viability
of Soultech I is fully demonstrated, i.e. by firm commitments
in hand for rental of space therein, before we actually set a
federal obligation to build another one. When that happens,
let us know and we we'll see if there is some flexibility for
some help with # II.
In any case, it is the judgment of those here who know this
area best that if there is to be funding of this sort, it would
come from the community economic development program
resources of OEO (239.3 million FY 1975 program with no
impoundments, and which included $9.8 million in community
economic development R and D) rather than from the funds
reserved under PL 93-192. These latter reservations are
for the community action and amergency food programs, two
OEO programs which the Administration has proposed be
terminated.
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As I understand it, we and OMB are still awaiting a full
OEO review of your proposals on the merits, so this is
an interim response, but indicates the framework of where
we might be of help and where we probably cannot.
Please keep us up to date, Floyd, on how you are coming
with Soul City industrial tenants.
Cordially,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Floyd B. McKissick
The Soul City Company
Box 188
Soul City, North Carolina 27553
CC: Al Arnett
bcc: Secretary Lynn (with letter of 4/17 and Reid Memo)
Paul O'Neill
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CF
May 24, 1974
Dear Ms. Greenstein:
Thank you for your letter of May 10 and for giving me an
opportunity to support the nomination of Mr. Raymond E Tanner
for a Rockefeller Public Service Award.
What makes Ray's service so significant in government is the
role he and his program have played in our wholly new policy
for American Indian affairs. Beginning in July of 1970, the
President set an entirely new direction for American Indians,
principally based on the thesis that tribes should take over from
the federal government many of the governmental functions we
had so long monopolized on their reservations and that they
should develop their own political and economic capabilities
under their own leadership and guided by their own priorities.
For the President to enunciate a principle of government policy
is one thing: to have it happen is quite another. That latter
condition is dependent on the vision and commitment and brains
and skill of dozens of program leaders throughout many federal
agencies.
Obviously, Indian economic development is a central part of this
new thrust which is a policy mandated not only by the President
and Congress, but by the conscience of the American people
generally, looking back as we do on two centuries of exploitation.
Ray Tanner is one of those program managers -- and one of the
best. His was not the task of merely continuing an existing
activity, but of mounting a new effort, of doing it so that the very
considerable funds involved were used effectively rather than
just "thrown at the problem" and of doing it in such a way that
the Tribal councils and governments with whom he dealth were
richer for this enterprise not only in government dollars, but
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in the even more precious skills of self-government, economic
analysis, accountability and responsibility. Just handing out
the project grants would have done little or nothing to help the
country's new policy toward Indian people really get off the
ground.
Ray has not only organized a successful economic development
program among many Reservations and handling many millions
of dollars; he has done it while preserving the very highest
degree of programatic and personal integrity.
The nation and particularly Indian people, owe much to Ray
because of his dedication and accomplishments; I am proud to
have this opportunity to support his nomination for a Rockefeller
Public Service Award.
Sincerely yours,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Executive Assistant to
Leonard Garment
Ms. Ruth Greenstein
Faculty Secretary
Rockefeller Public Service Awards
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Princeton University
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton, New Jersey
May 29, 1974
MEMORANDUM TO:
Kathy Jensen
FROM:
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
SUBJECT:
Logs 347-8-9
On behalf of this office, I can report that we concur
with Log 347.
Logs 348 and 349 do not concern this office and we
have no comment on them.
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May 29, 1974
Dear Morrie:
It was so good hearing from you again, but was sorry to
hear that I missed seeing you when you visited our office
recently.
Concerning the article you sent, I have found two sources
from which you may obtain a copy of the 5-year survey
conducted by the University of Michigan's Institute for
Social Research. One of which is from the University
itself. They sell the two volume report for $9.50 plus
$1.50 if C. O.D. for paper bound and $15.00 for the
hard bound copies. For further information on this
source, Mrs. Beasley (at the University) is most helpful.
Her phone number is (313) 764-6136.
The other alternative of getting a copy is through a local
library. Today I looked at the two volume set from the
Library of Congress and it is quite extensive. I am
enclosing a copy of the title page for each volume. The
library's card catalogue numbers may help you in getting
a loan copy -- HC110 I5 M63 VI and HC110 I5 M63 V2.
If I can be of any further help, please don't hesitate to
call. Hope to be in the office the next time you drop by.
Sincerely,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Morris I. Leibman
Sidley & Austin
One First National Plaza
Chicago, Illinois 60670
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Enclosures
Bicentennial
May 29, 1974
Dear Mr. Little Axe:
The President has asked me to thank you for your letter
of May 20, 1974 informing us of the postponement of the
dedication and groundbreaking ceremonies of "LI-SI-Wi-Nwi"
Bicentennial Community slated for May 24, 1974.
The Planning and Development Proposal is most informative
as to what the "Li-Si-Wi-Nwi" recreational community is
and how meaningful it is to the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of
Oklahoma.
I look forward to hearing from you, in more detail, on your
new dedication ceremony in September.
Sincerely,
Bradley H. Patterson
Executive Assistant to
Leonard Garment
Mr. Danny Little Axe
Chairman, Tirbal Business Committee
Absentee Shawnee
Box 1747
Shawnee, Oklahoma 74801
bcc: Pam Powell (withthe Planning and Development Proposal)
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May 29, 1974
Dear Mr. Buggs:
Mr. Garment has asked toe to thank you for being
so kind to send a copy of your very informative
report Counting the Forgotten.
You may be assured that your letter and report will
not go unnoticed and will be very beneficial to many
of us working in this area.
Sincerely,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. John A. Buggs
Staff Director
United States Commission on
Civil Rights
Washington, D.C. 20425
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Creek
May 29, 1974
Dear Mr. Davis:
The President has asked me to thank you for your "Resolution"
from the Executive Board of Directors of the Creek Indian
National Council and the Muskogee (Creek) Nation of Indians
concerning the many bills before Congress.
I have taken the liberty of forwarding your "Resolution" to
the Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and have
asked him to investigate these bills mentioned in your
correspondence and reply to you directly and that he send
me a copy of the reply.
Please feel assured that every effort will be made to protect
the interest of the Creek Indian Nation.
Sincerely,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Jack Davis, President
Creek Indian National Council
120 East 2nd Street
Holdenville, Oklahoma 74848
bcc: Morrie Thompson
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May 30, 1974
Dear Mr. Wright:
Please excuse the delay in responding to your
letter of April 15 to Mr. Garment; he is attending
some international conferences abroad.
We want you to know that we are looking at the
points raised in your letter and its attachments and
will have a further response to you shortly.
Sincerely yours,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Frank C. Wright, President
Council of American Artist Societies, Inc.
112 East 19th Street
New York, New York 10003
bcc: Mike Straight (entire file for draft of a further response for
Leonard Garment's signature)
LIDRARY GERALD R. FORD
[June 74]
Mr. Melford Tonasket
President
National Congress of American Indians
Box 150
Nespelem, Washington 99155
Mr. Chuck Trimble
National Congress of American Indians
1346 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D. C.
Mrs. La Donna Harris
President, AIO Action Council
1820 Jefferson Place
Washington, D. C.
Governor Robert E. Lewis
Pueblo of Zuni
Zuni, New Mexico 87327
Bob Robertson, OMB
Mr. Bill Casselman
Office of the Vice President
Room 273, EOB
Morris Thompson
Commissioner
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Room 6315
Department of the Interior
Washington, D.C.
Honorable Frank Carlucci
Under Secretary
Department of Health Education and Welfare
Washington, D. C.
Honorable John Whitaker
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Under Secretary
Department of the Interior
Washington, D. C.
Mr. Richard LaCourse
American Indian Press Association
Suite 206
1346 Connecticut Avenue
Washington, D.C.
Mr. William Youpee
National Tribal Chairmens Association
1701 Pennsylvania Ave., N. W.
Washington, D.C.
Suite 406
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ESTIMATE OF LIKELY ISSUES FOR THE JUNE 5-6-7 MEETING
A. The White House - Vice President's Office
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Alternatives to NCIO
Must NCIO be phared out?
-- Why doesn t the Domestic Council have Indians on it?
-- Why have any at-large (and Presidentially picked)
members on the Indian Leadership Advisory Council
for federally-recognized tribes?
Should ettherIndian Leadership Advisory Council have
the power to remove or veto the staff members
who BIA (or HEW) assign to it?
Why not have one Advisory Council rather than two?
Doesn!t two polarize the Indian community?
Why not use the NTCA Executive Board as the vehicle
for advice fromM Indian tribes?
B. OMB
Budget process
2 SUS C 476 reads in part: "The Secretary of the Interior
shall advise such tribe or its tribal council of all
appropriations estimates or Federal projects for the
benefit of the tribe prior to the submission of such
ezstimates to the Bureau of the Budget and the Congress."
Just how do Interior and OMB plan to implement that
mandate fr the FY 1976 budget?
Regionalization
What are the arguments, pro and con, for regio elization
VS centralizati in (in Washington) of Indian programs
such as ONAP and Manpower? What is the Administration
objection to contralizatiom, knowing that that is the
Indian preference? Does it make that much ifference?
Budget consultation
What plans can be made now to implement Frank Zarb's
promise to have a series of meetings with Indian
representatives next Septemberat the beginning of the
Washington budget process? Which representatives? How?
(Use the new Indian Leadership Advisory Councils
?)
FIDAP and FAR studies/reports
What's next on these? What implementation plans?
Multi-Agency Services to Indians
What are the pros and cons of keeping many agencies in
the business of serving federally reco nized tribes
(ONAP, EDA, NCIO etc) as compared to trying tofocus
these service centers in the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
A-95 Procedure
How to resolve objections entered to Indian projects?
C. Interior
BIA appointments
When 12X2KXXZ will the senior spots be all filled --
Deputy, the rest of the top directors, the vacant
Area Directorships?
Land-Study
Status -- possible preliminary discussi of intions
and choices
Land-Use Planning
Why did Interior take the position it did on the
Jackson Amendment to the land-use planning bill? Are
the Commissi ner and the Uner Secretary prepared to
re-examine that position?
Zoning and Water Ordinances
Will Interior clearly support these draft ordinances
now being prepared?
US V Washington
What plans does Interior have to help prepare the
NW Indian tribes to assume the responsibilties indicated
under that Court decision?
BIA field organization
What is the Commissioner's views on the respective.
roles of Area Directors, 500 Superintendents and C ntral
Headquarters staff?
Johnson-0'Malley Regulations
What is the Commissioner's response to the comments
which were submitted? Alternatively, what will be the
Department S position on S 1017 in the House hearings?
Indian Einanding Act
What will be your FY 1974 and FY 1975 funds to implement
this act? How can you demonstrate that they will be
sufficient?
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D.
EDA
Tribal Development Grant Act
hat happes to the Indian Reservation development program
of EDA in the interim between July 1, 1974 and the enactment
of the Act?
that are the reasons for merging that program into BIA?
Why not continue with two-agency funding?
Why does the new bill provide for per capita allocation
rather than on a project basis, for tribes?
If or as long as EDA continues, why should not its
Indian program be centralized i Washington?
that is to guarantee that if the zzzz Tribal Development
Grant Act is passed, BIA will adopt a new policy of
tribal Mevelopment of, rather than leasing of, tribal
resources?
If the Act is passed, whose budget will take care of the
adminitrative/salary costs of the At -- the $25,000,000
program funds or BIA's regular salary funds?
Will $25,000,000 be enough anyway?
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E. Labor
Precisely what will be the administrative arrangements
for the Indians under Title III of CETA? That in Headbuarters,
what in the field?
Who willx run the new program? (6an the new appointment
be announced by June 5?)
WIIIZAS push 755
ZIs or is not an amendment needed to CETA's Title II to
ensure authorization of services to Oklahoma Indians? If so,
will the Administration get it introduced and back it promotly?
F. Justice
What are the groundrules for enforcing the Indian Civil
Ri hts Act -- i.e. what isthe balance between enforcement of
that act and the proper respedt for tribal sovereignty and
internal goverhmental reform at a tribe's own pace and at its
own initiative?
Lands Division iscues?
HEW
Indian Health
Do we have a defensible and expamble position (to Indians)
on the new Indian health bill?
Indian Education
When will the new Associate Commissi ner be announced?
When will the new study of Indian Education be comilete
and will it be sent for comment to Indian leadership?
What do we know SO far of the effectiveness of the
grants which have been made under Title IV?
Why have a Governors' notification for Indian Head-Start?
ONAP
(Clarify that its permanent authorizing legislation
was sent to the Hill April 3.)
Other ONAP issues? Level of funding for FY 1976?
Does not our Administration draft of the )NAP legislation
handle mot if not all of the points raised in ONAP's
March 1, 1974 summary of Indian reconmendations? If not,
which are likely to be major issues at the June 5-6-7-
meeting?
Regionalization of the non-reservatiom programs: pro and
con.
HUD
What are the needs for Indian Housing?
What is best means of meeting
these needs ?
Will we be meeting the entire HUD commitment to Indian
housing made in 1969?
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June 7, 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR:
MIKE FARRELL
FROM:
LEONARD GARMENT
SUBJECT:
State Place Parking Permit
At the end of June, Mrs. Jean Robinson, now working in my
office, is retiring. She is a holder of a State Place Parking
Permit and I would appreciate it if you would arrange for
a transfer of her permit to Miss Linda Hagge (who works
in my office). Miss Hagge now has an Ellipse Parking
Permit so it would therefore open up another place on the
Ellipse for someone else who is in need of a place to park.
Because of potential overtime in the evenings, a State Place
Parking Permit would be preferable to the Ellipse.
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June 10, 1974
Dear Julia:
I want to add my own congratulations on your
receiving the Tom Clark Award.
In doing so, I want to thank you for your own
effective help in working with the other agencies
and with us in resolving the Sacramento County
matter.
Brad joins me in saluting you and in sending you
our warm personal regards,
Sincerely,
Leonard Garment
Assistant to the President
Mrs. Julia P. Cooper
Deputy General Counsel Office
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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Washington, D.C.
June 10, 1974
Dear Steve:
I know you have been interested to know what may have been
the outcome of the review we had together on the NDEA
Title VI funds.
One of the most important objectives in higher education,
as we see it, is to help open up access to higher education
to disadvantaged students and at the same time broaden the
latitude of choice which each such aided student may be able
to exercise about what to study and where to study it. That
is why we have proposed putting $1. 3 Billion into the Basic
Educational Opportunity Grants, in FY 1975, distributed
according to need. After that, as we see it, the free market
in effect operates, with hundreds of thousands of subsidized
and unsubsidized students, and hundreds of institutions of
higher learning, amking their own free choices about what
curricula to offer and to pursue, rather than the federal
government telling them or pushing them ourselves.
We have made an exception to this policy in the language
and area studies program. Thus, the FY 1975 appropriation
request of $10 million, which will support some 50 "centers
of excellence" throughout the country, But that exception
doesn't change our fundamental belief that students and
universities ought to have minimum federal "shoving" about
curriculum development, especially at the expense of the
student aid program itself.
The Congress, of course, will work its will with respect to
this appropriations request and it may put in an add-on which,
because of the interests and commitment of such distinguished
people as yourself, Pat Moynihan and John Richardson and the
institutions you represent, will not be objected to here.
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I particularly appreciate the opportunity I had to go over this
matter with you and John Richardson in person and want to
compliment you and the American Council for your distinguished
endeavors.
Cordially,
Leonard Garment
Assistant to the President
Mr. Steven Bailey
American Council on Education
1 Dupont Circle N.W.
Washington, D.C.
bec: Pat Moynihan
John Richardson
Paul H. O'Neill
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June 10, 1974
Dear Dr. Gobetz:
The President has asked me to thank you for your mailgram
of April 26 and to express his appreciation for your suggestions
concerning the administration of the Ethnic Heritage Studies
Program within the U.S. Office of Education.
At the President's request, I have been in touch with officials
in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare about
the status of the Ethnic Heritage Studies Program. They have
reported that the decision to make grants averaging approximately
$60,000 was based on the fact that the legislation authorizing the
Program requires each grant to carry out four specific activities:
(1) development of curriculum materials for all levels of education;
(2) dissemination of such materials throughout the United States;
(3) training of persons to use the materials; and (4) cooperation
with groups or organizations which have a special interest in the
program. It was the belief of the Office of Education that grants
of smaller size would not enable institutions to carry out these
activities in an effective manner.
You can be assured that there will be no preferential treatment
in the awarding of grants under this or any other Federal grant
program. All proposals will be evaluated bn the basis of
criteria established by the Commissioner of Education and
approved by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Such criteria were published in the Federal Register on April 12,
1974.
The application form which you refer to is a standard application
form developed by the Office of Management and Budget and
modified to fit the needs of individual Federal grant programs.
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Such forms do place emphasis on the narrative aspect of the
proposal, and decisions by the Office of Education will be
based in the main on these narrative presentations.
With the President's best wishes,
Sincerely yours,
Leonard Garment
Assistant to the President
Dr. Giles Gobetz
Vice President
Delta Tau Kappa
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio 44242
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June 12, 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR:
BILL GULLEY
FROM:
BRADLEY H. PATTERSON, Jr.
SUBJECT:
Puget Sound Trip
Amending Mr. Garment's memorandum of earlier today,
in view of the absence of any available helicopter, what
would be the chances of using a small, fixed wing military
aircraft in the following ways:
1. Seattle airport to Aberdeen or Hoquiam airport
in the early evening of June 17.
2. Aberdeen or Hoquiam airport to Olympia airport
the early evening of the 18th.
3. Olympia airport to Bellingham airport the morning
of the 20th.
4. Bellingham airport to Spokane around noon on the
21st. (alternatively: Bellingham to Seattle)
Two White House and one other passengers.
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June 12, 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR:
GENERAL LAWSON
FROM:
LEONARD GARMENT
Assistant to the President
SUBJECT:
Puget Sound Trip
I am going on an official inspection trip of Indian fishery and economic
development in the Puget Sound area on June 17-21.
The three Indian Reservations I shall be visiting are located in such
places that it would be of great value to me and to the purposes for
which the trip is being undertaken if there were the possibility of
helicopter transportation during some of those days.
Specifically I wonder if such transportation might be available:
A. About 8:45 on June 17 in the p.m. from Seattle airport to
Moclips Washington, on the Pacific Coast just south of the Quinault
Reservation.
B. The early evening of the 18th from Moclips to Olympia.
C. In mid-morning of the 20th (after meeting with Governor
Evans), from Olympia to the Lummi Indian Reservation north of
Bellingham.
D. On the 21st at noon or 80 from the Lummi Reservation
to Seattle Airport.
Mr. Patterson of my staff will be going with me and there would be
one other gentleman (Mr. Dougles R. Nash) who is our local host
and will be accompanying us during the entire inspection.
I would appreciate your advice.
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June 13, 1974
Dear Mr. Bradley:
I want to thank you on behalf of the President
for your letter to him of June 7 concerning the
donated food center on the Cherokee Reservation.
We will bring this promptly to the attention of
Commissioner Thompson.
Sincerely yours,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Joe Bradley, Chairman
Tribal Council
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Box 455
Cherokee, North Carolina 28719
bcc: Commissioner Thompson (with original letter)
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June 13, 1974
Dear Bruce:
With respect to your letter of May 24, some good news: Bob
Howard tells me that ONAP is planning to fund the Seneca
Nation of Indians for $18,000 to assist your cultural enrichment
and visual arts program. It will be a one-time funding, however,
so of course you should take this into account.
Responding to your June 10 letter, the Administration proposal
for the future of Indian community action appears as Title VIII
of H.R. 14449. We originally suggested that that part get
enacted as separate legislation by itself and that title would be
the Indian community action program. Title I would not be
necessary at all and in fact I don't think the President favors it.
Specifically on the Section III-f question, I can only speculate
that it was put in to ensure that Indian Reservations would be
made equally eligible with other political subdivisions (counties,
cities, etc. ) for Title I community action funding, but, to
repeat, we believe that Title VIII specifically makes Indians
eligible, and Title I is not on our agenda.
Cordially,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Bruce A. Williams
Executive Director
The Seneca Nation of Indians
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Native American Program
Box 212
Irving, New York 14801
bcc: Julia Taft - - HEW P.S. In any case, I would and, none of us
favor anything which would make
elected Indian Tribal Governments
subordinate to State Governments.
June 14, 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR:
GEORGE TRUBOW
Domestic Council Committee
on Privacy
FROM:
BRADLEY H. PATTERSON, Jr.
SUBJECT:
Cunningham Act List --
Example of a Privacy Problem
I mentioned when we met the other day that I would like to call your
attention to an area in the field of privacy which just happens to
have touched my own family a bit but is a good illustration of the
kind of problem I think you are working on.
The Cunningham Act (39 USC 4008(a)) I believe was an amendment
to the Postal Service and Federal Employees Salary Act of 1962
(Section 305(a) thereof) which required the Post Office to detain
what was judged to be non-first-class propagandistic mail from
Communist bloc nations, send the intended U.S. addressee a card
and make him fill it out that he "wanted to receive communist
propaganda" and only then would they release the material to him.
The Post Office, and presumably the FBI, of course maintained a
list of those persons who made these declarations.
This provision of law was declared unconstitutional in 1965 (381 US 301)
and I attach one xerox page from the decision.
Now it happened that in those years, my son, Bruce, then a teenager,
was a radio "ham" and, like all such devotees, was eagerly trying
to make contact with as many other "hams" as possible throughout
the world. Radio Budapest evidently ran a "ham" station as part
of its equipment, and Bruce made contact with it. QSL cards were
exchanged (the indispensable postcard which certifies to each "ham"
that the contact was in fact made -- "hams" cover their walls with
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them) and Bruce's name got on Radio Budapest's mailing list.
It's still there, and stuff such as the attached comes in from
time to time.
It was either when the QSL card arrived, or the first piece of
the literature, when teenager Bruce got that postcard from the
Post Office: did he want to receive this literature? Yes, he
did; he had made a "ham" contact and wanted to see the follow-up.
His name went on the Post Office's list, and there my story ends
except for the following questions:
Where is that list now?
Even after the Act under which the list was maintained was declared
unconstitutional, was the list used by the security agencies?
Bruce is now receiving his Ph D in solid state physics from the
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories; I wouldn't be surprised if some
day his name comes up for a name-check. Will some federal
computer raise an objection - going back to what was, in effect,
an unconstitutional invasion of privacy to a teenager in 1964?
A bit of grist for your mill.
Good luck in your important work.
Sincerely,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. George Trubow
1800 "G" Street
Room 711
Washington, D.C.
CC: Geoffrey Shepard
June 17, 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR:
BOB LINDER
FROM:
BRADLEY H. PATTERSON, Jr.
SUBJECT:
Authorization to purchase
a book.
I would like to request authorization to purchase Law and the
American Indian by Monroe E. Price. The book is published
by The Bobbs-Merrill Law Book Company, Inc. and sells for
$16. 50.
Our office needs this book for use in conjunction with a study
on Indian tribal sovereignty which is being prepared in our office.
If you can approve this request, I would appreciate your ordering
the book through The Bobbs-Merrill office at the Maryland
National Bank Building, Silver Spring, Maryland (telephone
number 587-8800), or I can, with your permission.
Thank you for your assistance.
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June 17, 1974
Dear Chancellor Bishop:
Thank you for your letter of June 6 and for telling us of your
plans for a program for Indian student aid at the University
of Maryland.
We are delighted to hear of this program.
As you may know, the Bureau of Indian Affairs has a scholarship
program in higher education, a program which has dramatically
increased in recent years so that some 14, 000 Indian students
are now being aided, as compared to only a few thousand five
years ago.
I am asking Commissioner of Indian Affairs Morris Thompson
to review your letter and to be in touch with you directly about
what possibilities there may be for collaboration and for sources
of funds.
Of course his assistance would be limited to covering the expenses
of enrolled members of federally recognized tribes; for the
educational assistance of other Indian students, it may be that the
regular aid programs of the Office of Education should be referred to.
But you will be hearing from Commissioner Thompson and can
begin from there.
We sincerely appreciate the initiative taken by the University of
Maryland and especially your own personal interest and commitment.
Cordially,
Bradley H. Patterson, Mr.
Chancellor Charles E. Bishop
University of Maryland
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June 18, 1974
NASH
Dear Doug:
I want first of all to thank you for your very solid and helpful
letter of June 11 about Indian policy matters. It contains
many points and suggestions meriting close attention by all
of us.
Let me make some preliminary comments and in so doing
outline what kind of follow-up we would intend.
1. I am favorably inclined on point 1.
2. A letter covering the subject of point 2 has, I am told,
just been sent by BIA to Senator Jackson. I expect a copy of
it shortly and believe it may take us further down the road on
this tough question.
3. BIA still has the JOM regulations under consideration
and Commissioner Thompson has assured me that I will have
a chance to review them before they are again issued. As
usual, some middle ground will probably have to be found and
of course if S 1017 becomes law, the whole set of regulations
will have to be reviewed.
4. My own personal position here has been to advocate
signature of H.R. 7824, but this is a matter on which many
persons are pressing their views on the President and of course
he has not yet received the final bill from the Congress. It is
therefore difficult to make predictions.
5. I have asked BIA and OMB to give me further information
about the two colleges.
6. BIA tells me we should support the add-on for the Ojibwa
school but I am asking OMB if this is confirmable.
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7. I think Morris Thompson and Martin Seneca should take
a new look at the heirship problem: how large is it in terms of
acres and dollars? Do you think that any form of general enabling
legislation might be developable?
8. We do support Interior's proposed regulations on water,
as I indicated in my Albuquerque speech.
9. Perhaps you could be more specific as to your point 9.
BIA tells me informally that most schools do have pretty clear
assurance that their programs and budgets will be continued.
What examples do you have to the contrary (which are not special
cases deriving from unusual circumstances like those in point 6)?
You are probably aware of the new budget reform act, now in final
stages of consideration in Congress. I believe that re-sets the
government's fiscal year to October 1, and mandates the completion
of Congressional appropriations actions by that date. How would
that affect the picture as you see it?
10. In view of the time constraints, Bradhas already taken the
initiative on point 10 and is calling in the State Department's senior
Fisheries Officer for a session Tuesday morning with Martin Seneca.
First impressions are that both Indians and non-Indians in the
Pacific Northwest share a common interest in the U.S. positions to
be taken at Caracas concerning the protection of fisheries, but this
meeting (the first between BIA, the White House and this particular
office in State) will open up a useful dialogue in accordance with
your observations.
11. We would be delighted to have the kind of meeting you
describe, and as Tom Fredericks knows, have had several legal
affairs sessions with Indian law representatives and officials of
Interior and Justice. I await your further suggestions as to time
and as to subjects ( and therefore Agencies) to include.
I think I would at this point add a few items to your own list, such
as (a) the standards by which we use the tool of the Indian civil
rights act, and also (b) the whole question of tribal sovereignty.
We have taken steps here to begin reviews of both those questions.
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When I hear further from Morrie and OMB, I will be back in
touch with you again.
In closing I want to express my sharp regret at having to defer
the Puget Sound trip, but unexpected changes are the price of
life in these precincts and I know you will understand. If you
are going to be away in July, let's aim at September.
Cordially,
Leonard Garment
Assistant to the President
Mr. Douglas R. Nash
Native American Rights Fund
1506 Broadway
Boulder, Colorado 80302
bcc: Paul O'Neill
June 18, 1974
Dear Bill:
Thank you for your note of the 14th about the Omaha Conference.
I think NTCA is doing a useful and constructive thing here in
getting that position statement together and in organizing the
new standing committee.
I have checked and find that the BIA will be sending Mitchell Bush
and the Solicitor's Office will be sending Larry Aschenbrenner
or Dave Jones to your Omaha meeting. I think, Bill, that that
representation should be sufficient at this point and I have asked
Ray Butler and Larry to keep me informed on how the conference
comes out.
If I could make a comment on the position statement, I would
express the hope that the paper could become as specific as
possible about the recommended sourses of federal or congres-
sional action. Larry tells me that new regulations are being
drafted for consultation with the new Committee; what other
specific federal regulations or Congressional statutes need to
be amended and precisely how?
Incidentally, I think that the statement on page 4 about government
funds aiding parochial schools is incorrect; the Supreme Court has
consistently ruled against such aid, the latest decision being only
yesterday.
Cordially,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. William Youpee
Executive Director
National Tribal Chairmen's Association
1891 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Suite 406
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Washington, D.C. 20006
bcc: Larry Aschenbrenner
Ray Butler
June 18, 1974
Dear Mr. Vlassis:
Brad and I appreciate having your letters and the
materials they enclosed about the Navajo-Hopi
problem.
We shall be in touch with Commissioner Thompson
and Secretary Morton to ascertain their recom-
mendations as this matter approaches consideration
in the Senate.
Sincerely yours,
Leonard Garment
Assistant to the President
Mr. George P. Vlassis
Brown, Vlassis & Bain
222 North Central Avenue
Phoenix, Arizona 85004
bcc: Morris Thompson
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June 18, 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR:
DAVE WIMER
FROM:
BRAD PATTERSON
SUBJECT:
William Carey and LEAA
Leonard and I would like to propose that you consider
William Carey for the LEAA vacancy. Bill is the
General Counsel of EEOC now, and is interested in
some new area of government responsibility where
he could make a contribution. He has mentioned to
us that he is specifically interested in LEAA. I
enclose some bio data.
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June 18, 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR:
KEN COLE
FROM:
LEONARD GARMENT
SUBJECT:
Formation of a Domestic Council
Committee on Indian Affairs
Norm Ross will be presenting you with a recommendation shortly,
I understand, that for now we drop our idea of forming a Domestic
Council Committee on Indian Affairs, principally because the
Indian community is lukewarm or negative about it.
My own views are that in structuring his own internal Executive
Office policy coordination machinery, the President should not
be constrained or bound by the views of outside interest groups.
The Domestic Council Committee is needed to examine quite a
number of long-range Indian policy questions (such as enumerated
in the draft establishment memorandum which is attached) and
with the NCIO disappearing June 30 we need some interagency
machinery to take the place of exclusively ad hoc communications.
Those lukewarm or negative Indian views are in large part the
result of much misinformation about the proposed Domestic Council
Committee (e.g. "Why aren't Indians members on it?")
Of course the proposal for external consultative machinery which
we advanced will have to be deferred until the Indian community
gives us some sign of concurrence, but internally I think that
the effective management of our business calls for the issuance,
soon, of something like the attached memorandum.
Perhaps you and I and the other interested people here should talk
about this.
ce: Norm Ross
Bill Casselman
Frank Zarb
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June 18, 1974
Dear Dr. Heyer:
Thank you for your note and for sending me the
copy of your letter to Mr. Mosler.
Your letter makes a great many charges about
the Lummi project so I am asking some of my
colleagues in the federal government to check
them out.
Sincerely,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Claude H. Heyer, Ph. D.
Box 272
Marietta, Washington 98268
bcc: Doug Nash (NARF) for possible comment.
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June 19, 1974
MEMORANDUM TO:
LEONARD GARMENT
FROM:
BRADLEY H. PATTERSON, Jr.
SUBJECT:
AIM Coming to Washington
As you know, the 7-day-long convention of the American Indian
Movement in South Dakota from the 9th to 16th went off without
incident, in part due to some careful planning by local and
national BIA, HEW and Justice officials.
Then a Caravan went to Aberdeen, Regional Headquarters of BIA.
They are meeting there now with local HEW (Indian Health) and
BIA officers but, using some threats of violence there, have
absolutely insisted that Commissioner Thompson meet with them.
Thompson has agreed to do so; to meet with a group of ten here
in Washington next Monday or Tuesday, under a policy he has
of meeting with Indian leadership for peaceful discussions.
Washington, unlike Mobridge, South Dakota, will give AIM a national
if not a world PR stage and although their spirit of confrontation is
reportedly lower now, it would be lacking in perspecacity if we
did not anticipate such possibilities as:
a) Many more than then Ten showing up;
b) Demands to meet with White House, State, UN and Senate
Foreign Relations officials on what they term "international" treaty
issues;
c) Refusal of the 150 adherents in Aberdeen to leave there
peacefully until they see "the results of" the Washington talks, not
just the fact of the meeting itself (a technique used on us a year ago).
Meetings are planned to discuss tactics; will keep you informed; this
is simply an alert for what will hopefully be not much more than a
minor headache.
CC: General Haig
Deputy Attorney General Silberman
General Scowcroft
Ken Cole
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Frank Zarb
Gerald Warren
John Carlson
Norman Ross
June 20, 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR:
MIKE DUVAL
FROM:
BRAD PATTERSON
SUBJECT:
INAGURAL MEDAL TRIAL
STRIKES
Answering on Leonard's behalf (he is totally preoccupied
right now with a Supreme Court Brief), the gent here
who is the expert on collecting material for the Nixon
Library is Jack Nesbit on 2545 (Room 487 EOB). Jack
advises that these strikes can be delivered to him for
storage for transmittal to the Nixon Library. He adds
that he assumes that if they were gifts to the President
from Siegel of the Franklin Mint, these have been
processed through the Gifts Unit and acknowledged.
You may want to call him directly.
bcc' Jack nesbit
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
June 18, 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR:
LEONARD GARMENT
FROM:
MIKE DUVAL
SUBJECT:
INAUGURAL MEDAL TRIAL STRIKES
Len, I was asked the other day by Darrell Crain (an historian who
worked with us during the Inaugural and who is one of the country's
leading experts on medals) about the trial strikes for the 1973
Inaugural Medal. As you know, Gilroy Roberts was selected and
did the medal showing President Nixon and Vice President Agnew
with the Presidential Seal on the reverse side. Roberts was selected
from a field of five sculptors, each one of which did a trial strike
which was then presented to us for the selection process.
I had forgotten about these but in reviewing the Franklin Mint Contract,
I saw reference to the fact that they had been delivered to us. In going
back through the boxes for Central Files, I have found the five, including
a sixth which was a refined version of Gilroy Roberts'.
Each trial strike has four medals on it: silver proof, traditional silver,
bronze proof and bronze traditional.
These trial strikes are of great historical significance and probably
of considerable intrinsic value (according to Crain). Dr. Crain is
writing a history of the Inaugural Medal and has asked to take a look
at them, and I can see absolutely no reason for not exceeding to his
wish. I will invite him down to my office to look at them and then I
think these should be turned over to the Richard Nixon Library.
Would you please advise me of how I get them to the Library?
Thanks very much.
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June 24, 1974
Dear John:
I wonder if you would help me on a small matter.
My family and I are planning a West-to-East, cross-Sierra
back-pack into King's Canyon Park this summer, beginning
at Florence Lake in Sierra National Forest. Wewrote ahead
last March and duly received our notice of reservation for
the permit. Although the last sentence of the instruction form
says that the permit can be mailed to me, the Rangers refuse
to do this, for reasons not stated.
We arrive (to park one car) at the Bishop end of our back-pack
after a long cross-country stip this on August 10, and without the
mailed permit, must tear up through Yosemite and down to
Florence Lake to arrive at the Forest Service's High Sierra
Ranger Station by noon on the 11th, or lose the permit entirely.
I don't think we can cover that distance in that time; I don't
think this is reasonable or fair, and wonder if you could assist
me in having the permit mailed, especially since we do have a
valid reservation for it, dated April 4, and since the official
instructions say that mailing is a permissible way to receive
the permit.
Incidentally, our party will be 6 instead of 7.
I shall certainly check in with the Ranger Station on the way
through, but can't guarantee a noon arrival from so far away.
If you are in touch with the Ranger at the High Sierra Station,
could you ask him what the schedule is, if any, for departures
for the boat-trip across Florence Lake?
I would appreciate any help you could give me.
Cordially,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
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Mr. John McGuire
Chief of the Forest Service
Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. C.
June 26, 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR:
TOD HULLIN
FROM:
BRADLEY H. PATTERSON, Jr.
SUBJECT:
Chitimacha School Construction
I checked on this, as you requested.
The planning phase for this project having been completed, the
design money was requested in the FY 1975 budget.
Interior usually gets its appropriations in October, after final
Congressional action, and BIA estimates that the sequence
then will be:
3 to 6 months to do the design work and produce all the
blueprints
2 months to put the designs out to bid and receive the bids
1 to 2 months to make the final analysis and decision and
get the contractor on the job
That brings the project to Aggust of 1975, i.e. into FY 1976. It
is BIA's intent to ask an estimated amount for the construction
money in their FY 1976 budget, but the actual amount requested
for construction (and thus defensible before Congress in
appropriations hearings) won't be known until the bids are
returned -- at the earliest, 5 months from next October.
The new Education top man at BIA Believes this is a reasonable
schedule, if Ken wants acceleration we can check with Commissioner
Thompson and see what can be done.
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June 27, 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR:
ASSISTANT SECRETARY WILLIAM BUFFAM
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL AFFAIRS
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
VIA:
GENERAL BRENT SCOWCROFT
FROM:
BRADLEY H. PATTERSON, Jr.
SUBJECT:
Formation of a so-called International
Indian Treaty Council
This will bring to the State Department's attention the formation of a
so-called International Indian Treaty Council by members of the
American Indian Movement (AIM) at a recent meeting in South Dakota.
Among the stated goals of this group are to "establish diplomatic
relations with the United States", apply for UN membership, to get other
aboriginal native peoples to do likewise, to seek additional recognition of
treaty rights, especially as interpreted by them and to ask other nations
to "charge and prosecute" the United States for its practices against
"sovereign Native Nations".
I would suggest that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Morris Thompson,
be advised if any contacts are made between this "Council" and the
Department of State or the UN. He will be able to furnish appropriate
background information on the membership and status of this group.
You and USIA should be aware that this "Council" is not regarded by
either Commissioner Thompson's Bureau or this office nor by the
majority of the elected Indian tribal leaders of America as a group
representative of the American Indian people.
CC: Wallace Johnson (Justice)
Frank Zarb (OMB)
Morris Thompson (BIA)
James Keogn (USIA)
Attachment
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June 28, 1974
Dear Mr. Black:
Thank you for your letter of June 20 inviting me to attend
the Quarterly Meeting of the United Indian Tribes of
Western Oklahoma and Kansas. It is with regret that I
must decline your invitation. Unfortunately, my schedule
is such that it will be impossible for me to attend.
It is my understanding that representatives of the Bureau
of Indian Affairs from Washington will be in attendance.
I am confident that they will be able representatives of
the Administration.
I wish you great success in your meeting and hope that
you will send me a summary or report of its outcome.
Sincerely,
Bradley H. Patterson, Jr.
Mr. Kenneth E. Black
Executive Director
United Indian Tribes of Western
Oklahoma and Kansas
Box 1382
Shawnee, Oklahoma 74801
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