Secretary Hickel tours Kansas
By ALAN SIMONS
Special to the Kansan
WICHITA — Walter J. Hickel, secretary of the interior, began a 4-day tour of his native Kansas Thursday by appearing at a fund raising luncheon at the Broadview Hotel.
Hickel stressed the need to give Indians greater influence in decision-making and he promised improvements in the education of Indians.
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"Without a doubt the American Indians have been somewhat overlooked the past 100 years," he said. "They have not been brought into the society of self-dignity and self-help.
"Possibly there's been too much government intervention," Hickel said. "I think that's a matter of fact."
"What we have to do, what we can do, is to retain their culture, retain what they want to retain. Get industry to move onto reservations wherever it's possible, allow the American Indian to work in a productive society, get him involved in our educational processes, allow him to make mistakes so that he can learn," he said.
Secretary Hickel
"I hate the approach to the American Indian's problems which tries to solve them in a
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white man's way."
Hickel has been a target of Indian criticism since he said July 30 that Indians had been too dependent on the federal government and would have to "cut the cord."
Many Indians thought that he was reviving the 1950's policy of ending federal trusteeship over Indian reservation land—a policy that led many times to a loss of the land through taxation and other financial burdens.
"It's going to change economics. It's going to change geographical thinking in the way of transportation—to the east and west coast and to Europe.
"It's also going to change our political strength. We won't have to depend as much on foreign countries supplying us with oil. Independence of energy is very important to us," he said.
Hickel was born in Clafin where a "Walter Hickel Day" reception is planned this evening.
dinner and an overnight stav.
Hickel is scheduled Saturday for stops in Lawrence, Lindsborg, McPherson and Topeka. In Lawrence he will speak at Haskell Institute and attend the KU-K-State football game.
Later Hickel and his party flew to Salina for a reception and
After spending Saturday night in Topeka, he is to return to Washington, D.C., Sunday morning.
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