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We charged the Justice Department and 31 other federal agencies with employment discrimination against native americans. Now, this 12 page complaint is unprecedented in the fact that it's a first in the nation to be filed with the newly created Office of Indian Rights, which is within the

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Justice Department in case that we know of. It's been filed in this country because The Indians have been deprived of over 16,000 jobs, federal jobs and are virtually absent and that native americans are virtually absent from all federal agencies and that we have no influence on

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decision making. Even in the newly created Office of Indian Rights. Now, this is something we're seeking an investigation and we're asking the president to issue an executive order That at least 1% of all native of all federal agencies and departments be of Native American extraction by

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July 4, 1976. This will be the nation's 200 anniversary And it will also be the first 100-year anniversary of Custer's last stand, which I think was appropriate at this particular time. Mhm. There were reports Department of Justice has indicted or has sought to indict more american

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indians than it is employed in the last three years. That is, there are more than 100 native americans who have been indicted Or the Department of Justice is considering indicting. And yet over the last three years, the Department of Justice has hired only 30 for native

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Americans and it's had more than 16,000 openings during that time period. Second question of outright discrimination or simply a lack of indian applicants for these positions of applicants. But it is a lack of information regarding applicants because the United States Civil Service Commission specifically refuses to

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note the identity of applicants because it doesn't want to assume responsibility for underutilization of american indians or native americans. We think it's discrimination, but the Civil Service Commission may just say it's indifference, but the position taken by Southern states over the last 20 years that blacks

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never wanted to be firemen, Blacks never wanted to be police officers. Interestingly though, when courts ordered Southern states to hire blacks, lots of blacks applied for fire and police departments.