Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians
Memorandum
From: Bruce Wynn, President
Subject: REQUEST TRIBAL RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT - TRIBAL COLLEGE
LAND-GRANT BILL S-1345
Date: April 18, 1994
The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) met with Marion
Berry, President Clinton's Special Liason with the Dept. of Agriculture.
Mr. Berry suggest that AIHEC should seek support from Tribes via adopted
resolutions for bill S. 1345. Please find below a copy of a draft
resolution. Mail resolution to:
AIHEC
509 Capitol Court N.E. #100
Washington, D.C. 20002
202-544-9289 FAX 202-544-4084
DRAFT SAMPLE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, land-grant colleges have played the role of providing
crucial outreach, education, and extension services, to rural America, and
WHEREAS, 74 existing land-grant colleges currently provide these
services to the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Trust
territories, and
WHEREAS, American Indian reservations remain the last lands under
the American flag which do not have sufficient access to these programs, and
WHEREAS, equity dictates that these program be provided to Tribal
Colleges as they have been provided to other trust territory colleges and
special population colleges, and
WHEREAS, the 29 institutions of the American Indian Higher
Education Consortium have a successful history of providing outreach to
their respective communities, now
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the _______________ Tribal Council
urges the immediate enactment of S. 1345, "The Equity in Educational
Land-Grant Status Act of 1993.
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