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Show # 1044 Page 42 over a hundred times. I think in listening to ah, what has been happening this morning, I'd like to ah, ask Roger one other favor, and that is that we've been talking in terms of, you know, the different kinds of lawsuits all morning, and ah, one of my concerns, I guess, I mean, you know, most of the Indian people are concerned about the preventive aspect. Ah, I've heard a lot of speeches about, you know, how we can ah, sue and attack ah, outside towns or merchants, ah, dealers, car- dealers, and what have you. But. I think at some point we have to shoot. You know, the whole direction of Legal Services program in its mission, the idea of preventive law, so that rather than, let's say, ah, DNA defending an average of five- hundred ah, car- dealer repossession cases ah, on the Navajo reservation per month, we can bring in our own car- dealers into the reservation, owned by Indians and run by Indians. And I'd like for, you know, this assembly here to ah, allocate some time to discussing some of those problems, and ah, and I think I also would like would like to request that there be some time be given to economic development. And ah, I think it's dangerous on one side to, to satisfy, maybe, ah, someone's ego in cheating the law, but it really does not affect our poverty people. And I think ah, we have to work both, you know, with the Indians and communities and |