Department of the Interior and related agencies appropriations for fiscal year 1983: hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, Part 1

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Page 424 - Congress declares its commitment to the maintenance of the Federal Government's unique and continuing relationship with and responsibility to the Indian people through the establishment of a meaningful Indian self-determination policy which will permit an orderly transition from Federal domination of programs for and services to Indians to effective and meaningful participation by the Indian people in the planning, conduct, and administration of those programs and services.
Page 717 - Its mission is to conserve, protect, and enhance fish and wildlife and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.
Page 422 - In extent, which tract when so selected, certified, and recorded in the "land book," as herein directed, shall cease to be held in common, but the same may be occupied and held in the exclusive possession of the person selecting It, and of his family, so long as he or they may continue to cultivate it.
Page 147 - County, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of the original Resolution No.
Page 341 - Take up the White Man's burden — Ye dare not stoop to less — Nor call too loud on Freedom To cloak your weariness ; By all ye cry or whisper, By all ye leave or do, The silent, sullen peoples Shall weigh your Gods and you. Take up the White Man's burden — Have done with childish days — The lightly proffered laurel, The easy, ungrudged praise. Comes now, to search your manhood Through all the thankless years, Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom, The judgment of your peers...
Page 422 - Any person over eighteen years of age, not being the head of a family, may in like manner select and cause to be certified to him, or her, for purposes of cultivation, a quantity of...
Page 811 - Government; (2) that a high civilization must not limit its efforts to science and technology alone but must give full value and support to the other great branches of man's scholarly and cultural activity...
Page 504 - Funds for weatherization will still be available through the Departments of Health and Human Services and Housing and Urban Development.
Page 215 - A major national goal of the United States is to provide the quantity and quality of health services which will permit the health status of Indians to be raised to the highest possible level and to encourage the maximum participation of Indians in the planning and management of those services.
Page 215 - I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done. Good words do not last long unless they amount to something. Words do not pay for my dead people. They do not pay for my country, now overrun by white men. They do not protect my father's grave.

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