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Show -5- policy directed toward all Indian groups in Commissioner Emmon's memorandum of April 12, 1956, entitled "Programming for Indian Social and Economic Improvement," a summary of which is provided in the appendix of this volume. However, as the history of the Navajo Tribe over the course of the past decade so poignantly demonstrates, problems and conditions are in constant flux. We can develop long range programs predicated on the attainment of broad objectives in health, education and economic development with the full expectation that the framework of those programs will remain intact for many years, but we cannot, at any given period, elaborate a set of timeless procedures for the implementation of those programs. Periodic modification to meet changed conditions in future years will remain a prime requirement of effective planning. The day is not likely to come in the immediate future when we can sit back and rest on our laurels, carrying out the final phases of a program that requires no further readjustment. The elaboration of immediate and projected program planning to fit one phase in the attainment of our objectives will only place us on the threshold of a new phase in which new requirements will emerge from evaluation of past accomplishments and new adjustments of short and long term planning, based on that evaluation, will be clearly indicated. Let us keep these self-evident facts in mind, equip ourselves with necessary information, continuously strive for the improvement of present techniques and plan effectively for the years that lie ahead. If we of the Navajo Agency, in collaboration with the Navajo Tribe, can maintain our momentum in the future as we have in the immediate past, |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits. |