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Show # 1044 Page 18 X: March twelfth, what's that - ah - cor- ordinate yourself with the clearinghouse, too. All the pleadings be filed there | out of one of the existing centers. Y: Well, if the Amer - the Indian - the so- called American Indian Law Center had no full- time practicing lawyer in Indian law, it's ah - run by the librarian of the New Mexico University law school who runs it on a shoestring. He barely has enough money to get it out in any month, ah and that's mainly a scholarship program which is a - you know, really important program to get ah - Indian students into law school and, you know, that's - that's what they're all here. Ahm - but, that's you know, it just doesn't have the capacity or set- up to do what you're suggesting, and ah, the only thing that right now has the kind of machinery to get out the reports of the cases is the clearinghouse. I mean, that - there's just nothing else I know of that ••-• X: What was that suggestion made this morning by the native, you know, to the American - « •- Y: Well, that's a proposal for the future. Something like that gets off the ground, of course, we'll have something better. We'll have something that's exclusively Indian, rather than the clearinghouse which is everything. But ah - that's not started. That's in the. future. And we talked about a back- up center, and that's not started either. I - I don't know, I |
