PART II-POTAWATOMI (KANSAS) 1. How much acreage and how many tracts have been sold that the tribe, individual Indian owners, or the Bureau have alleged were key tracts? None. 2. How much acreage and how many of the tracts alleged by the tribes or individual Indian owners to be key tracts were determined by Bureau officials not to be kept tracts? None. 3. How much acreage and how many tracts alleged by the tribe to be key tracts were sold to the tribe or individual Indian owners? None. 4. How much acreage and how many tracts alleged by the tribe to be key tracts were sold to non-Indians? None. 5. If there were sales of key tracts to non-Indians, discuss the effect that such sales have had on the use of Indian land remaining in Indian ownership. Not applicable. 6. Discuss the extent to which key tracts which were in fee status have been acquired in trust or restricted status by individual Indians, or in trust or fee status by tribes. Not applicable. PART III-POTAWATOMI (KANSAS) 1. Give the position of each tribal real-estate employee, his annual salary, and the nature of his work. No tribal real-estate employees. 2. Give the position of each agency real-estate employee whose salary, in part or in full, is paid by the tribe, the salary of such employee, the amount of such salary paid by the tribe, the nature of his work. No agency real-estate employees paid from tribal funds. 3. Does the tribe have a regularly employed real-estate adviser or consultant to advise the council with regard to tribal real-estate activities? Explain fully. No. 4. Does the tribal organization have a real-estate committee with authority to approve tribal real-estate activities? Explain fully. No. 5. Does the tribal organization have a real-estate committee which advises the tribal council with regard to tribal real-estate activities! Explain fully. No. 6. To what extent has the tribe employed private consultants to study particular phases of its real-estate activities? Explain fully. If the Bureau has disapproved such employment, explain why. No need indicated by the tribe for employment of real-estate consultants. 7. Does the tribe have, or has it had, a tribal land enterprise or similar organization? If so, discuss the history and effectiveness of such organization. No. 8. Has the tribe or the area office been instructed to turn real estate operations over to the Bureau? Please comment on the differences in effectiveness of Bureau and tribal operations. (2) There is no basis for comparison of the effectiveness between 8 Bureau and tribal operation as the tribe is not involved in a land program of its own. DISPOSALS-REMOVAL FROM INDIAN BUREAU JURISDICTION BY PLACING OF UNRESTRICTED FEE-SIMPLE TITLE IN OWNERS D. IOWA TRIBE (KANSAS AND NEBRASKA) QUESTIONNAIRE ON THE DISPOSITION AND ACQUISITION OF INDIAN LANDS IN THE PAST 10 YEARS PART I 1. How many acres were in tribal ownership on July 1, 1947? How many acres in trust? How many acres which the tribe had acquired in fee? 8 (a) 714.49 acres. b) 714.49 acres. (c) None. 2. How many acres of trust or restricted land were there in individual Indian ownership as of July 1, 1947? There were 967.71 acres. 3. How many transactions, by which tribal or individually owned lands were disposed of (including the placing of unrestricted fee title in the hands of the owners by issuance of patents in fee, certificates of competency, etc.), were consummated during each fiscal year since July 1, 1947? 4. How many acres were so disposed of or removed from Bureau jurisdiction during each fiscal year since July 1, 1947? 5. Give the numbers of transactions for each year which will be shown in answer to No. 3 above, broken down by the type of transaction. 6. Give the acreages for each year which will be shown in answer to No. 4, above, broken down by the type of transaction. 7. How many transactions, by which tribal or individual Indian lands were acquired, were consummated during each fiscal year since July 1, 1947? None. |