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taking" Bartlett pointed out. He went on to point out that what ever expenses are incurred with re- spect to resettlement will necessari- ly be included in the Rampant Bill or subsidiary legislation"
 Bartlett said he felt that the vil- lages in thn Rampant Dam area would be better off as result of the project than they are now. He particularly stressed the employ ment opportunities that would arise by the dams construction.
 The need is for determination of I Alaska native land claims at the earliest moment, Bartlett pointed out, adding "and that won't be early"
 "We need to arrive at the mecha. nics that will be employed in dis posing of these claims"
 On other matters: Bartlett said he had testified en- | Enthusiastically for both the Area Development Bill and a bill to es- | tablish a doraeatie peace eerp.- tl,.t he hoped both oiiAs passed this ses- sion of Congress
 q am convinced that training and jobs in that order instead of the other way around, are the instru- ments of improving the lives of na. tives," Bartlett said.
 
 programs of the BIA and RIGA Go. in training young natives for elec- tronic positions on the DEW line and the White Alice network and said they proved that training na- tives would pay off in the long run.
 "The so-called native community has bridged a terrific gap - has almost literally leaped from an economy which existed for thou sands of years based on hunting and fishing into the white mans econ. omy."
 Good or bad, natives by and large are now becoming as depen- dent as anyone else on regular pay checks"
 Bartlett said more should be done ''to prepare native people to inte- grate more fully into the indus trial and business life of the state and make them fitted to hold tech. | nical as well as other jobs" More natives should go into the professions. become lawyers, doc. tors, ministers, he stressed.
 q realize when this is done many will not return to Alaska. That is all right Even so, a sufficient num- Der will inevitably return to their homeland to provide that which is so urgently needed, the leadership which comes from a broad base.
 T think leadership is one of the common lacks of the Indians, Eski- mo and Aleut people, he said. "They have been too exclusively de- pendent upon white people for counsel and advice
 Asked his opinion on how the state will finance its operations af- ter tTdIlSltlO1ldI lulldS run oil. Doi - lett said the Alaska has the free- dom of choice granted it under statehood - it can either tax more if more services are desired or can reduce the services and tighten the tax load if this is desired.
 He said he would not necessari. ly predict a rise in taxes in Alas ka since the tax base is continually broadened as the population in- creases.
 Bartlett said he did not feel that the romance of statehood would bring people to Alaska in hordes - that it was obvious that the grant of statehood would not provide cir- cumstances whereby a large addi- tional number of people could live with the comforts of life.
 One of the aspects of statehood, he said, would be that the state government would be able to pass more liberal laws for distribution of land"
 "History has shown people own land if the community