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The Glacier Reporter
Browning, Glacier County, Montana
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The Indian Inter-Tribal Policy Board, representing Montana's seven tribes and landless Indians, invites national and state political candidates to discuss policies affecting 28,000 Indians. Chaired by Walter S. Wetzel, the board works with Knute W. Bergan, Montana's coordinator of Indian affairs.
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Candidates for political offices at national and state level may have a chance later this month to address the group which makes policy for about 28,000 Indians of Montana.
Minutes of the September meeting say the meeting will be "primarily for the purpose of having various political candidates appear for discussion."
The board is comprised of two representatives from Montana's seven Indian tribes and the Montana Landless Indians, Inc.
Chairman of the Board is Walter S. Wetzel of the Blackfeet Tribal Council.
Working closely with the board is Knute W. Bergan, who retired at the close of September as director of Indian education for the Montana Public Instruction department.
Bergan now maintains an office in the senate attaches' room that for several years housed the legislative press corps in the capitol building in Helena. He retains his post as the state's co-ordinator of Indian affairs, to which he was appointed by Gov. Aronson.
The post originally paid $1 a year and now is $100 per month.
Bergan and his secretary, Mrs. Freda Beasley, are to receive financial help for their office from the various tribes.
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September, Later This Month
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The Indian Inter-Tribal Policy Board invites political candidates to address them on policies for 28,000 Montana Indians. The board, with representatives from seven tribes and landless Indians, is chaired by Walter S. Wetzel and collaborates with Knute W. Bergan, who coordinates Indian affairs and receives tribal funding.