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Improve the efficiency of the BIA within the Department of the Interior, but give it authority to present its views to the Congress, the courts, and Federal or state agency or anyone else as trustee, even in conflict with the views of the Secretary of the Interior or other Federal agencies. Remove the BIA from the Department of the Interior to a separate independent agency to provide all the functional services of the Federal domestic assistance programs necessary and desired by Indians and Indian tribes. To recommend the creation of a Secretary for Indian Affairs with Cabinet rank to be appointed by the Indian tribes. Policy initiatives of an intergovernmental nature, which shall be representative of the real, not perceived, needs of Indian people. Program recommendations which shall be responsive to previously Indian needs and coordinated with both the Indian users and the Federal agencies to facilitate effectiveness.