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Form 3547 Requested BULK RATE U. S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 2 CHILOQUIN, OREGON v VOL. 4 NO. 8 KLAMATH INFORMATION AND EDUCATION PROGRAM DIANE DuFAULT ATTENDS OSC, INTENDS fro BECOME SOCIAL - PSYCHOLOGIST August 1959 ... y. 0 " 1 V V;'iktY ' "Oregon State is a compara tively small and friendly school. It offers many cultural advant ages such as concerts, plays, and well-known speakers. The caliber of professor is, for the most part, cellent." 't'So evaluates OSC Diane Du Fault, who will be starting her sophomore year there this fall under the Klamath ' Education Program. Diane, who intends to become a social psychologist, says that she particularly likes the school's foreign exchange pro gram : "There are many foreign students at Oregon State which helps creates good will among the exchanging nations." OSC's main disadvantage, she feels, is that it does not yet offer a liberal arts major, although one is in the offing. Diane was born in Klamath Falls and raised in Albuquerque, Xew Mexico, and Compton, Calif. She graduated from Compton High School where she was ac tive in Honor Society, Girls' League, Future Teachers' Asso ciation, and Girls' Athletic As sociation. Added honors included winning first prize in writing in .a foreign language festival and having one of her essays printed in a national anthology. Diane says her particular in terest in the field of social-psychology lies in the area of racial discrimination. "I enjoy meeting and working with people and from this a curi osity as to what motivates them, why the- can or cannot live to gether, etc. arose." To qualify as a social-psychologist Diane will be required to take a number of psychology and so ciology courses. Two which she has already had are personality and development and introduct ory sociology. The former, she .states, is a self-analysis course, (Continued Page 2, Col. 3) EXEC. COMMITTEE MEETS, OPPOSES MARSH TRANSFER, CONSIDERS WATER PROBLEMS By a vote of 8 to 0, the Klamath Tribal Executive Committee pas sed a resolution on August 5, 1959, protesting the passage of bills presently in Congress that would hasten the sale of the Klamath Marsh to the Federal Government. The Resolution states that the bill (S 2421) "as introduced has been done with out request nor consent of the withdrawing members," and rec ommends that "Hill 2121 and House Companion bill be not en acted." The Committee also discussed problems involving water rights, and the members were agreed that these problems needed to be clarified. A motion was passed instructing Jess L. Kirk, Joe Hall, and Irwin Crume to assist Dibbon Cook to prepare and ar range for a meeting of "interested Dept. Reports On Termination Progress The Tribune it providing the following, for the information of tribal members and other inter ested persons, an August 6 news release of the Department of In terior pertaining to the progress of the Klamath termination pro gram, and its current status. A Portland official of the De partment of the Interior today reported on the status of term ination of the Federal Govern ment's trusteship over the Klam ath Indian Reservation. Don C. Foster, Portland area director for Hut can of Indian Af fairs, said the principal remain ing job the Interior Department has in collection with the Klamath termination process concerns the sale of 11 sustained-yield units of the Klamath forest wind the dis tribution of the proceds to the withdrawing members of the Klamath tribe. Under the Klamath Termina tion Act of 1915, as amended, if the units do not sell to private purchasers who agree to manage (Continued Page 3, Col. 1) ' persons, water users, a represent ative of the Bureau of Indian Af fairs, or who may be able to give us some answers to the most perplexing problems." It was reported that Boyd Jackson, Dibbon Cook, Jess Kirk and Joe Ball attended the Federal Power Commission hearing in Klamath Falls. The hearing in volved the California Oregon Power Company's application for a license on the Klamath River. A prepared statement was read at the Irl'aring by Boyd Jackson and put into the executive Com mittee minutes of August 5. The statement which was signed by all ten members- of the executive committee urged "that no right or license be extended to the California Oregon Power. Com pany or amended or enlarged, ex cept upon the express reservation that such license or amendment or enlargement is made subject to any and all rights of the said Indians of the Klamath Indian , Reservation and their successors in interest, both individually and as a body." "One of the reasons for this urgent recommendation," the statement went on to explain "is that the rights of the said Indians have been and are now protected by Federal and State law, and we have been dependant for protection of our rights upon said officials of said govern mental bodies that are now acting in granting rights to others that may or could be in conflict with our rights. Some of our rights go so far as to be based upon time prior to our treaty of 1.S6I." An invitation to the tribal council to attend the "l'J.V) Scout ing Among American Indian Hoys meeting" to be held at Philniout, Xew Mexico, from Sept. J I to Sept. Jo was referred to the res ervation recreation association. The executive committee secre tary was authorized to contact the recreation organization with the recommendation that it spon sor someone to attend the meet ing in Xew Mexico as a repre sentative of the Klamath reservation. HA l)7fi nnjJMjy .iy