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Yeah. Yeah we found that there are no native americans within a one within the the top 1000 positions in hrd. We found that there are only three native americans within the 1st 5000 positions within hrd And they employ the sum total of 36 Indians out of

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140,000 Indians in state of California. They've only employed 36 Indians out of a total of 12,169 state employees. So we find that they're using us. They're exploiting native Americans to draw federal funds into the state. And we've only employed 36 out of over 12,000. This is

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not only exploitation it's discrimination. And what we've done. We've given approximately 30 days to bring about some sort of plan to rectify this. And we've been given assurance I understand as of yesterday that they will comply in some way form or fashion. We've also asked them

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to appoint a special committee composed of native americans from nominees presented by native americans to act as an independent watchdog over the commission. To ensure that HRD does not do away with any more federal funds earmarked for indian people. They damn sure do when they accept

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federal funds. You accept the qualifications that go with them in the qualifications when you accept a federal funds state that you will not discriminate against any minority group are disadvantaged groups. The competition for minority employees and all levels of government is so fierce that you wouldn't

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believe it. No department like H. R. D. Is trying so hard to hire minority people in its staff at all levels. The basic problem is that when you reach out and we are to find minority people of whatever race asian or chicano or black or what

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have you? American indian. You have to you have to find the positions to put them into. And this generally requires some kind of a skill level. Say you're talking about a pre professional professional level, You have a heck of a time getting people for that and

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then you have to compete with other governmental agencies. Since Hrd is 82% federally funded. Don't you think that Hrd has an obligation to hire unqualified Indians and then train them in every possible way. Yes and in such programs as the new careers program in which we

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have some 600 disadvantaged persons of all racial backgrounds. Uh I think this is true, I can't give you a breakdown on that but it's a it's a uh it's a heartening prospect in a meeting earlier. Um There are late last year um Stig Hansen. Uh the

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director of the department meeting with one particular minority group pledged to do his utmost by the middle of this year of 1972 to increase minority staffing of all kinds. I know that the department is working hard on that. I've seen the directives. I've seen our own

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people at every level um striving to hire and to recruit help us. Mhm