A BILL TO AMEND PUBLIC LAW 587, 83D CONGRESS, BY AUTHOR- IZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO DEFRAY THE COST OF A BILL TO AMEND PUBLIC LAW 587, 83D CONGRESS, BY DEFERRING A BILL TO AUTHORIZE THE UNITED STATES TO DEFRAY THE COST OF ASSISTING THE KLAMATH TRIBE OF INDIANS TO PREPARE FOR Serial No. 2 Printed for the use of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs CONTENTS Hatfield Chilson, Assistant Secretary of the Interior; accompanied by H. Rex Lee, Associate Commissioner, Bureau of Indian Affairs; and Lewis A. Sigler, Legislative Division, Office of Solicitor, Department Mrs. Wade Crawford, member, Klamath Tribe, Chiloquin, Oreg.... Hon. Edith Green, a Representative in Congress from the State of Boyd J. Jackson, member, Klamath executive committee Jesse L. Kirk, vice chairman, Klamath executive commit ............. Hon. Richard L. Neuberger, United States Senator from the Jealo Kenneth B. Pomeroy, chief forester, American Forestry Association Hon. Al Ullman, a Representative in Congress from the State of T. B. Watters, Earle Wilcox, and Eugene G. Favell, management specialists, Klamath Indian Tribe, Oregon.. Glen A. Wilkinson, member of Wilkinson, Cragun, Barker & Hawkins, AMENDING THE KLAMATH TERMINATION ACT MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1957 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS OF THE Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to other business, in the committee room, New House Office Building, Hon. James A. Haley, chairman of the subcommittee, presiding. Mr. HALEY. Members of the subcommittee, the next four pieces of legislation before the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs this morning concern the Klamath Indian Reservation in Oregon. Each bill seeks to amend Public Law 587, 83d Congress. The bills are as follows: H. R. 650 and H. R. 663, introduced by Congresswoman Green of Oregon, a member of this subcommittee during the 84th Congress; H. R. 2518, introduced by our colleague, Mr. Ullman of Oregon; and H. R. 2471, introduced by Dr. Miller, ranking minority member, on behalf of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Copies of each of the bills and their departmental reports are before you, and I ask unanimous consent that they be made a part of the record at this time. In the way of background information, we have had Dr. William H. Gilbert, Jr., from the Library of Congress, prepare a statement giving a chronology of events which have transpired since the enactment of Public Law 587 on August 13, 1954. I ask unanimous consent to have this statement made a part of the record at this time. (See p. 12.) I also call your attention to the extensive hearings held both in Oregon and in Washington during the 83d Congress prior to the enactment of Public Law 587. Public Law 587, 83d Congress, has for its purpose the provision for the termination of Federal supervision and control over the property of the Klamath Tribe of Indians located in the State of Oregon, and removing from the members of the tribe all Federal disabilities and limitations specially applicable to them by reason of their being Indians. Subcommittee members who were serving in Congress during the 83d Congress will recall that Public Law 587 was directly responsive to, and in accord with, the policy of Congress as expressed in House Concurrent Resolution 108. This resolution stated that it is the sense of Congress to terminate trust relationships with tribes, groups, and individual Indians as rapidly as the circumstances of each tribe, group, or individual will permit, and as rapidly as possible to make the Indians within the territorial limits of the United States subject to the same laws and entitled to the same privi 1 |