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CONTENTS
Statement of the chairman...
Senator Murray's request for moratorium on the sale of Indian lands_-
Our debt to the American Indian (extension of remarks of Hon. James
E. Murray, of Montana, in the Senate of the United States, Tuesday,
May 13, 1958)___
Indian agencies and tribal councils to whom the questionnaires were sent..
Newsletter, Indian Affairs, dated March 1958, published by the Associa-
tion on American Indian Affairs, commenting on the policy of the Interior
Department and presentation of the correspondence between various
tribes and the Department..
Policy statement of Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Glenn L. Emmons on
sale of individually owned Indian lands, dated May 15, 1958---
Bureau of Indian Affairs press release of May 28, 1958, agreeing to the
moratorium....
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ANALYSES
Introduction to the Legislative Reference Service memorandums relative
to various aspects of individual Indian trust land removed from that
status during the period 1948 through 1957--
Page
XVII
1
10
15
19
27
31
Acreage removed from individual Indian trust land status during the period July 1, 1947, to December 31, 1957...
Analysis of Committee data concerning designation and sale of "key tracts"
from individual Indian trust land status___.
Data on private laws granting fee patents to Indians..
Summary of private laws giving fee patents to Indians enacted during the
80th, 81st, 82d, and 83d Congresses.
Bureau of Indian Affairs definitions of types of transactions involved in
the disposal of individual Indian lands from trust status__
Analysis of volume of transactions involving disposal of individual Indian
trust lands...
Real-estate activities of the Indian tribes..
Government action on individual Indian trust lands and the heirship
problem.
Federal lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
acquired since 1930___.
Comparative statistics of Indian trust lands, 1947-57-
Map of areas and agencies of the Indian Bureau....
Area offices and their subdivisions..
Facing 113
113
TEXT OF REPORTS FROM INDIAN AGENCIES AND TRIBAL COUNCILS-Continued
Acreage of tribal land permitted, 1948-57, and in-
Part I. Acquisition and disposals__
155
158
Tribal Council Resolutions Nos. 458 and 57-28A__
Plan of operation of the Oglala Sioux Tribe Leasing
Service Enterprise (Ref. Res. No. 471), June 18,
1947.
159
Exhibit 3. History of tribal land employment during the
last 10 years.-
Table: Exhibit 2. Report of Federal lands on the Pine
Ridge Reservation from 1930_____
166
168
Exhibit 4. The effects of old-age-assistance liens on the
Indians' desire to sell trust lands....
Exhibit B. Tribal Council Resolutions 5802, 5805, 5755, 5756___
180
Exhibit C:
Bylaws, Tribal Land Enterprise, Rosebud Indian
Reservation, adopted by the Rosebud Sioux
Tribal Council, April 6, 1943. Organization,
authority, purpose and objectives, membership,
board of directors, compensation of the board of
directors, powers of the board of directors, certi-
fication of documents, management of tribal
lands, homes assignments, conveyances of re-
stricted land and interest in restricted land, con-
veyances of unrestricted land, assignment of land
INDIAN AGENCY RETURNS-continued
I. Aberdeen-Continued
5. Rosebud Agency-Continued
Exhibit C-Continued
for community use, use of surplus lands, ap-
praisals, assignment of land, issuance of certifi-
cates of interest, value of interests, probate of
interests, transferability of certificates, distribu-
tion of net earnings, purchase of interests, use of
certificates as collateral and security, audit, etc.
Letters from Acting Commissioner W. B. Greenwood
regarding interpretation of by laws..
6. Sisseton Agency:
Letter of transmittal..
182
189
191
Part I. Acquisitions and disposals...
Part II. Key tracts----
193
Part III. Tribal real-estate activities.
Tables...
194
Letter of transmittal containing list of land tracts
bought by Federal Government since 1930------
210
Winnebago Tribes of Nebraska, November 15, 1954.
226
II. Anadarko Area Office-Continued
2. Kiowa area field office:
Letter of transmittal_
Part I. Acquisitions and disposals.--
Tables
240
242
243
244
246
251
252
254
257
Tables..
5. Potawatomi area field office:
Letter of transmittal_.
A. Kickapoo:
258
261
Attachment No. 1. Tables-Acquisitions and disposal..
Attachment No. 2. Table-Acreage summary, 1948-57;
and Government-owned land summary (includes
administration sites and reclamation reserves).
Attachment No. 3. Table-Actions during period July
1, 1957 to Dec. 31, 1957...
295
297
299
300
Attachment No. 4. Part I. Acquisitions and disposals..
Attachment No. 5. Question 14 of Part I. Heirship lands.
Attachment No. 6. Report for Part II. Key tracts----
Attachment No. 7. Part III. Tribal real-estate activi-
ties____.
303
312
Attachment 2. Tables-Acquisitions and disposals___.
318
Attachment 3. Acreage summary, July 1, 1957, to
December 31, 1957.
320
Schedule I. Lands for restoration to tribal ownership..
Schedule II. Undisposed open lands to be offered for
337
sale....
338
Resolution No. 973-
339
Flathead tribal land-acquisition program, April 5, 1958--
Tables of allotted lands in 11 units of new purchase pro-
gram...
342
4. Fort Belknap Consolidated Agency:
Letter of transmittal____
349
Part I. Acquisitions and disposals, Fort Belknap--
Part II. Key tracts, Fort Belknap...
354
Part III. Tribal real estate activities, Fort Belknap..
355
Part I. Acquisitions and disposals, Rocky Boy...
358
Part III. Tribal real-estate activities, Rocky Boy..
Part II. Key tracts, Rocky Boy..
Attached public-domain allotments of Turtle Mountain:
360
Proposed general land policy of the Assiniboine and
Sioux Tribes of Fort Peck.
381
Resolution No. 47-57-6___
Resolution No. 293-58-6-Tribal land-use policy......
382