COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MORRIS K. UDALL, Arizona, Chairman PHILLIP BURTON, California JERRY M. PATTERSON, California RAY KOGOVSEK, Colorado PAT WILLIAMS, Montana DALE E. KILDEE, Michigan TONY COELHO, California MANUEL LUJAN, JR., New Mexico DON H. CLAUSEN, California ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO, California RON MARLENEE, Montana RICHARD B. CHENEY, Wyoming CHARLES PASHAYAN, JR., California WILLIAM M. HENDON, North Carolina DAVID MICHAEL STATON, West Virginia JAMES V. HANSEN, Utah CHARLES CONKLIN, Staff Director STANLEY SCOVILLE, Associate Staff Director and Counsel FRANKLIN DUCHENEAUX, Counsel on Indian Affairs (II) Deloria, P. Sam, director, American Indian Law Center, University of Goodwin, George V., executive director, Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. Hodel, Hon. Donald P., Under Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior.. Lovato, Delfin, chairman, All Indian Pueblo Council; and president, Na- 15, 53 3, 48 Overacker, Robert, Phoenix, Ariz...... 20, 59 33, 73 29, 64 APPENDIX Additional material submitted for the hearing record from: Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: 1. Memorandum from Franklin Ducheneaux, counsel on Indian Affairs to Hon. Morris K. Udall, chairman, dated March 16, 1981, enclosing let- ters to the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of the Budget requesting that witnesses be provided for the committee's hearing on 2. Letter from Chairman Udall to Hon. James G. Watt, Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior, dated March 16, 1981, requesting that the Department provide a witness for the hearing of March 31, 1981 3. Letter from Chairman Udall to Hon. David Stockman, Director, Office of Management and Budget, dated March 16, 1981, requesting that a 4. Letter from Hon. David Stockman to Chairman Udall, dated March 26, 1981, stating that Mr. Stockman would be unable to attend the commit- 5. Paper entitled "Staff Briefing on the Administration Proposal for U.S. Department of the Interior: Prepared statement of Hon. Paul Hodel, Minnesota Chippewa Tribe: Prepared statement of George V. Goodwin, execu- National Congress of American Indians; and the All Indian Pueblo Council: The Navajo Nation: Prepared statement of Ernest L. Stevens, executive direc- Robert Overacker, Phoenix, Ariz.: Prepared statement. Hon. Dale E. Kildee, a U.S. Representative from the State of Michigan; and Page Statements for the hearing record were also received from: The Papago Tribe of Arizona; Max H. Norris, chairman man Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; Elmer Blackbird, tribal chairman Skokomish Indian Tribe, Washington; Diane Gouley, chairperson, John- 80 92 98 102 104 Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Oklahoma; Claude A. Cox, principal chief. White Mountain Apache Tribe, Arizona; Wesley Bonito, director, tribal education department.... 107 112 Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians; Edwin J. Henry, tribal chairman... 115 Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians; Phillip Martin, chief.. 116 Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma; Edward P. Wilson, chairman. 129 Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico; Mike Avila, governor. 152 156 157 National Congress of American Indians, Washington, D.C.; Ronald P. 164 National American Indian Housing Council, Nevada; Johnnye Chopper, chairman 188 National Tribal Chairmen's Association, Washington, D.C.; Kenneth E. 189 National Tribal Chairmen's Fund, Inc., Washington, D.C.; Kenneth E. 196 Jesuit, Office of Social Ministries, Washington, D.C.; Ted Zuern, S.J., legislative advocate 197 The Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah; Elvis F. Wall, vice chairperson 199 CONSOLIDATED TRIBAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1981 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS, Washington, D.C. The committee met at 10:10 a.m., pursuant to call, in room 1324, Longworth House Office Building, Hon. Morris K. Udall (chairman of the committee) presiding. [Prepared statement submitted for the hearing record by Chairman Udall follows:] (1) |