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For Immediate Release: March 21, 1958

Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton today called attention to the proposed roll of the Ottawa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma which was published in the Federal Register March 21, 1958.

The roll, comprising 549 names, was compiled under the Ottawa Termination Act of 1956 by the Indian Bureau's area office at Muskogee, Okla. Appeals contesting the inclusion or omission of any name on or from the roll may be filed with the Secretary within 60 days of the date of publication. Only those people on the final roll after disposition of all appeals are entitled under the Termination Act to share in the benefits of tribal property.