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currently. I guess as long as it doesn't get hot out there, see, it's like the way it is right now with us. With the water situation, we don't have enough water to flush our toilets. We have to haul seawater to do this. We don't have enough

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water to keep the island as clean as we want to because we've got to ration it because we are hauling it and we have to ration the water because because anything could happen and it's like, What if they come in and try to take us off?

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We want to barricade ourselves in a building. We've got to have water to hold out. But we're not going to and besides that, everybody should have water. I mean, God gave it to the land. We have a right to it. He didn't give it to the

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United States government by not keeping it as clean as you want. Do you think there's a health hazard out there? Oh, there could be. It's if it gets hot, there would be if we have like last week we had a few hot days and if that

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would if that warm spell would have stretched out into any period of time we would have had to help about how long of a woman who is the assistant to Spiro Agnew on the Indian Opportunity Council said, You proved your point with Alcatraz. The problems were

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on the mainland at the time was to come back and face the problems on the mainland. Do you agree with that, Mr Robertson? We're glad that Mr Robertson, from the vice president's office, thinks that we have proved our point. Ah, to us when we know we

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proved our point. Well, we've proved the point that Mr Robertson would like to have proved, but about the things that are going on about Indian peoples socially and economically, being below par compared to the rest of the population. But we've got a bigger point than that.

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We're saying we're talking about law. We're talking about respect as a people respecting a people as a people were talking about, about more than poverty. We're talking about honor, were saying you've never dealt with us honorably United States ever, and it's time that you start doing

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we're not going to. We're not going to allow it to continue. We can. Mr Robinson's point was that all the problems for the Indian people, such as you just mentioned, are in the cities on the mainland, and therefore you're not helping these problems by staying out

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on the island. Do you agree with that? No problems for the Indian people are within the United States. Government problems are problems that we're having is is in a squalid fishing battle in Frank's landing in Washington, where the treaty is being broken. The federal government is

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allowing the state government to break a treaty that was signed between the Indians and the Indian people and the federal government. And the treaty is a law. We're talking about things like this we're talking about about that. We if we're free, we want the right to

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make our own decisions. We don't want the great white father image anymore looking down on us, making the decision for us And this Mr Robertson. President Nixon came out with his proposal that he gave to Congress the Ninth Step Plan, and he talks about ending paternalism.

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He created that he didn't end any paternalism with that bill. Well, Mr Trudeau, President Nixon says that he feels particularly close to Indians because his football coach, who was also his first campaign manager, is an Indian. Do you think he is particularly close to the Indians?

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Thank Mr Nixon's probably particularly close to Mr Nixon. And another thing to bring your water. How long can you go calling it over and, um, spell? Could you take entire week? Yeah, we can take, but it's It's like we can take a week. Uh, we can

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probably take two or three weeks, but we'd be hauling water every day. Would have to. To use most of our containers. Would have to use most of our water. Our water would be used much faster. And why should we? After all the water? Is there enough

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water out there now for bathing and things like that? We come over to mainland, take showers. We don't play there. Come over here. We have a lot of every day. Our people, we kind of staggering on the boats and stuff. But people come over and take

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showers and get clean up over here. Back to the idea. Has Mr Hannan answered your request at all for more water? Mr. Hannan has said no concessions. Yeah, that the government isn't going to cooperate with us. That he himself hasn't missed. The attitude that we're getting

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that Mr Hannan presents to us is that he wants to get us out of there and he doesn't care what. Well, let's go down to do it. He just He's trying to convey the message that he's the boss and we're not talking about things like Boss,

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who is the Boston? Who is it? Robert Roberts, his football coach, was Indian. There are a lot of Indians in this country, and there are just because you have Indian blood if you live white and that doesn't really make you an Indian, and we're concerned about

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people, the reservation people, people on reservations that that are being forced to assimilate or die out. We're worried about things like our language and our culture, and we want this on our own terms. We don't want it. I don't want to be able to hang on

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to it because the federal government says we can keep this much and we can keep that much. It's part of us. We want it all