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6727 Academy Road NE, Suite C Albuquerque, NM 87109 505-797-9800 Fax 797-9888 TILLER RESEARCH INCORPORATED October 15, 1998 Raynell Morris, Assistant Director of Inter-Governmental Affairs The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue The Old Executive Building Room 110 Washington, D.C. 20502 Dear Raynell, Congratulations on your appointment to the White House! They couldn't have selected a more qualified and worthy person than you. I first heard about your appointment from Debora Juarez. We are both planning to visit you at the White House (if you invite us). My reason for this letter is to provide you with a chance to give some thought to a request from me to you for getting your assistance with obtaining funding to revise and update the tribal economic profiles as found in Tiller's Guide to Indian Country: Economic Profiles of American Indian Reservations (1996 edition). I also understand that you will be at NCAI's Annual Conference in Myrtle Beach next week. If your busy schedule permits, I (and several hundred other people) would like the opportunity to visit with you, during a break or for dinner to further discuss my request. It is probably not unusual for you to get letters from the "Indian folks" requesting your help with various and sundry projects. But, I suspect you have not received any direct requests from people from the private sector. In any case, the reason that I thought of you was because you are in a key position to "make things happen" throughout Indian Country. In the last several years, I have had numerous conversations with various federal agencies, including the Domestic Indian Policy Council, the Bureau of Reclamation, the BIA Forestry Department, and the BIA's Office of Trust Responsibility, who have expressed an active interest in assisting Tiller Research, Inc. in someway with updating the 1996 edition. Their seems to be a general consensus that there is a real need on an annual basis throughout the federal agencies to have access to reliable and updated E-mail: [email protected]