TALKS BY INDIANS
Relaxation of ’sit-in' f.V.Z. Press Assn—CcpyrlJhtt WASHINGTON. Nov. 8. Several hundred American Indians yesterday relaxed I their five-day grip on the Bureau of Indian Affairs | building when high Administration officials met I Indian leaders for the first | time. 1 Mr Vernon Bellecourt, a spokesman for the American (Indian Movement said that (“some progress" was made in the negotiations with officials. Afterwards, some of the Indians left the building they have held for the last five days.“However, we haven’t made any firm commitments.” said Mr Bellecourt. “We’re in direct contact with (President) Nixon.” The Indians came to Washington to lobby for 20 proposals for improvement of Indian life. Their main demands included the dismissal of an Indian Afiiairs official. Mr Harrison Loesch and the restoration of ssom in the 8.1. A. budget. “Our civilisation has been all but destroyed by this bureaucracy,” Mr Bellecourt said. The average life expectancy of the American Indian is 42 years, the infant mortality rate is three times higher than the national average and per capita income is $l5OO a year.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33069, 9 November 1972, Page 15
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