<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Urgent Appeal to Congress: Protecting Native American Lands</dc:title><dc:date>1947-03-15</dc:date><dc:creator>Albert, Carl Bert, 1908-2000</dc:creator><dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/</dc:rights><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:identifier>http://congressarchives.org/record/CAC_CC_001_4_2_3_0031</dc:identifier><dc:description>The document is requesting that congressmen stop leasing Native American lands for coal and asphalt extraction, and instead make outright payments to the tribe. The authors feel that their needs are being forgotten and are asking for fair treatment in resolving their affairs.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>