SALT RIVER RESERVATION

Individually owned land

[No. T.-Number of transactions. Ac. Acreage]

DISPOSALS-REMOVAL FROM INDIAN BUREAU JURISDICTION BY PLACING OF UNRESTRICTED FEE-SIMPLE TITLE IN OWNERS-None

7. SAN CARLOS AGENCY

Hon. JAMES E. MURRAY,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,

BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

San Carlos, Ariz., June 10, 1958.

Chairman, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs,
United States Senate, Washington, D. C.

DEAR SENATOR MURRAY: This is in answer to your letter of April 17, 1958, regarding the disposition and acquisition of Indian lands. There have been no dispositions or acquisitions of land within the jurisdiction of San Carlos Agency within the period July 1, 1947, to June 30, 1957. All land within the San Carlos Reservation is in tribal trust status. There are, however, public-domain trust allotments to members of the tribe in the vicinity of Winkelman, Ariz., some miles from San Carlos. No Federal land on this reservation has been acquired since 1930. The allotments are under lease, but there is no non-Indian use of the tribal lands except by traders, miners, and missionaries.

To answer the specific questions:

PART I SAN CARLOS

1. No land was in tribal ownership on July 1, 1947. Nine hundred and sixty acres were in trust. The tribe had acquired no land in fee. 2. There were 960 acres of trust land in individual Indian ownership on July 1, 1947.

3. There have been no transactions disposing of tribal or individually owned lands since July 1, 1947.

4. No acres have been removed from Bureau jurisdiction since July 1, 1947.

5. There were no transactions applying to answer No. 3.

6. There were no transactions applying to answer No. 4.

7. There have been no transactions by which tribal or individually owned land was acquired since July 1, 1947.

8. No land has been acquired since July 1, 1947.

9. There were no transactions applying to answer No. 7.

10. There was no acreage applying to answer No. 8.

11. No land was in tribal ownership on December 31, 1957. Nine hundred and sixty acres were in trust. The tribe had acquired no land in fee.

12. There were 960 acres of trust land in individual Indian ownership on December 31, 1957.

13. There have been no special acts of Congress which have affected the acquisition or disposal of San Carlos Apache lands. The tribal council has passed or considered no resolutions on this subject.

14. The heirship, or multiple-ownership problem has not affected the acquisition or disposal of San Carlos Apache lands, since no such action has been contemplated. In the eight allotments, there is no tribal interest, no non-Indian and no alien Indian interest. The interests of minors have been no problem. There has been no difficulty in reaching an agreement among the heirs to lease their lands. No use has been made of the Secretary's authority to sell heirship lands, and the purchase of such lands by the tribe has not been considered.

PART II-SAN CARLOS

No key tracts have been sold since July 1, 1953, and no key tracts have been acquired.

PART III-SAN CARLOS

The San Carlos Apache Tribe, by amending its constitution and corporate charter, has assumed full responsibility for the only type of real-estate activities that there has been: leasing for periods not exceeding 10 years. Leases for longer periods are still subject to Government approval. There are no tribal real-estate employees, agency real-estate employees, real-estate committees, or land enterprises. The tribal attorney draws up leases and advises the tribal council regarding them, as does the superintendent.

It is believed that the above information covers our local realestate situation completely; but if any clarification is desired, we will be happy to supply it.

Sincerely yours,

THOMAS H. DODGE, Superintendent.

8. UINTAH AND OURAY AGENCY

Hon. JAMES E. MURRAY,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,

BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Fort Duchesne, Utah, June 12, 1958.

Chairman, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs,
United States Senate, Washington, D. C.

DEAR SENATOR MURRAY: Pursuant to your request of April 17, 1958, I am pleased to submit, in duplicate, the following report. Data submitted is compiled in a manner interpreted from your questionnaire and entries reflected as shown from available existing records. For example, reply marked "Exhibit I" is a summary listing of land acquired by the tribe from private owners since 1930. Reference files preceding the transactions are available locally, but in most instances the conveyance documents for exact reference are in the central office, Washington, D. C. Likewise, information as to source of funds used, whether IRA or tribal, was handled by the central office. In many instances, land exchanged only was the consideration in acquisition.

Also, exhibits II, III, and IV are tabulations in response to your questionnaire in three parts, limited strictly to what we term individually allotted land.

It is gathered, nonetheless, that your primary concern is the disposition of trust-restricted lands, to what extent depleted, and approximate base held as of December 31, 1957, as compared to July 1, 1947. Allotments were made in 1897, 1902, and 1905 at this reservation. The records reveal as of December 31, 1957, that the status, limited again to individually owned, allotted land, is as follows:

Members of the tribe are given preference to leasing tribal land prior to advertising to the public generally, if not utilized themselves. The tribe operates an agricultural enterprise consisting of approximately 1,200 acres in the growing of feed for winter use for sale to