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acres Anadarko answer Total heirs answering the question area office asked the heirs assistance during 1958 Blackfeet Bureau of Indian Cheyenne River Colorado River controls removed cross tabulated Degree of Indian Farm or ranch fee land Five Civilized Tribes Fort Hall fullbloods Government handle heads of households heirs answering heirs live heirs reported heirs wanted heirship interests heirship land sold income from heirship Indian Bureau Indian land inherited interests in heirship interests sold lands in fee less Indian blood live on heirship Live on reservation live on trust majority of heirs Median blood quantum median income miles Northern Cheyenne one-quarter or less partition percent Potawatomie probate problem public domain allotments Quapaw Question 26b asked ranch or farm received welfare assistance restricted land Sell all Sell sell or exchange share three-quarter bloods tribe trust land trust or restricted Turtle Mountain undivided interest want to sell wanted Bureau
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Page 333 - The unexpended balances of any appropriations made pursuant to this section shall remain available until expended. Title to any lands or rights acquired pursuant to this Act shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Indian tribe or individual Indian for which the land is acquired, and such lands or rights shall be exempt from State and local taxation.
Page 550 - Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, room 1324, New House Office Building, Washington, DC A copy of your transmittal to Mr.
Page xvi - US House of Representatives, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Indirect Services and Expenditures by the Federal Government for the American Indian, 86th Cong., 1st Sess.
Page 4 - January of 1956, the Comptroller General of the United States submitted to Congress a report * on the administration of Indian lands by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Page xv - In response to House Resolution 89, 83d Congress, 2d session, the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs studied and reported on (1) the manner in which the Bureau of Indian Affairs has performed its functions of studying the readiness of Indian groups to manage their own affairs ; and (2) the adequacy of Federal laws and regulations to insure the faithful performance of trust responsibilities regarding Indian properties.
Page 17 - ... usually within the area of the so-called 10 major crimes and processed by the Federal Government through the Federal courts. All other crimes committed by Indians are handled by the tribal court. "The Blackfeet Tribe has its own law and order code; and pursuant to this code, three judges are appointed by the tribal council and approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Page xv - ... situation worsens each year while Confress and the Bureau of Indian Affairs wonders who should take the rst step to bring about a solution. Since Congress establishes policy for the Department of the Interior these hearings represent the first practical step in resolving an almost unbearable situation. With each passing generation the difficulties of solving this problem multiply and if some solution is not forthcoming it will be so acute by the turn of the century that the Federal Government...
Page 1 - ... alternatives, in place of it. Let me give you an example. The analysis showed that in 1960 the average yearly income from heirship land was between $51 and $100 for each heir — that was 6 years ago but that probate costs of the existing estates dropped that figure well below $50. Again, the analysis brought out that about 10 percent of the heirs could not be contacted 'and with increasing migration from the reservations there will be an amplification of the problem in the future. Interestingly...
Page 19 - ... with the permission of the Secretary take his case to the State courts. Why the Department thinks the State courts will consider partitionment of trust lands, I don't know. I might read to you this statement from an heir printed in the House study on the subject : "After his death [the White Father] the State court will not handle the probate because the land was in trust and the Government refused to probate it because a white man owned it. We cannot find the court that can handle this.
Page xvi - Some of the land is not being used because permission is needed from heirs who cannot be located. Income from leases and sales are, in many instances, being paid in pennies, and the administrative problems faced by the Federal Government are almost beyond imagination. In anticipating the formulation of legislation on the subject, we sought to determine the opinions of the Indian heirs who are directly concerned. What are their individual experiences with heirship land, what are their problems, what...