CONTENTS Allen, Wallace, Provisional Education Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs__ Bellecourt, Clyde, president, Federation of Native Controlled Survival Schools, and chairman, Heart of the Earth Survival School.. Benish, D. Jean, Acting Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary 400 52 364 Blue Dog, Kurt, counsel, National Indian School Board Association___ 52 268 Clements, Warren R., chairman, Standing Committee on Education Issues, 2 278 364 Duus, Verner, facilitator, National Indian School Board Association_____ Geboe, Charles, superintendent, Intermountain Indian School, Brigham Geringer, Trish, superintendent, Puyallup School System.. Gishey, Lawrence, executive director, Navajo Division of Education....... Graham, Darlene, chairperson, Duckwater Shoshone School Board and Hargrove, Roleen, vice chairperson of the Tribal Council, Puyallup Tribe__ Harrison, Monika Edwards, Director, Policy, Planning, and Executive Operations/Executive Assistant to the Acting Assistant Secretary, De- Holman, Larry, Provisional Education Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs_ Jackson, Zane, council vice chairman, Confederated Tribes of the Warm 183 400 276 277 2 LaCounte, Larry, superintendent, Lodge Grass Public Schools, Lodge 160 Prepared statement__ 164 LaRose. Louis, community representative, Winnebago Tribe_‒‒‒ Leap, William, education director, National Congress of American Indians_ 278 51 60 Martin, Marlene, director, Native American Resource Program, Public 295 Pablo, Clifford, chairperson, Board of Trustees, Indian Oasis Elementary School District and Baboquivari High School District--- Patterson, Tom, superintendent, Sequoyah Indian School, Okla...---. 364 Paxton, Gabe, Director, Office of Indian Education Programs, Bureau of 406 Peters, Van, Provisional Education Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs____ Phipps, Ray S., superintendent, Busby School of the Northern Cheyenne Ramirez, Ray, director, Department of Education, Papago Tribe.. Rouillard, John, first vice chairperson, National Advisory Council on Smith, Pauline, project manager, Cleveland Indian Education_ Soto, Peter, Provisional Education Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs_ Stormer, William, Director, Division of Impact Aid, Department of Teenerio, Frank, secretary-treasurer, All Indian Pueblo Council---- Walker, Betty, Provisional Education Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs-- 400 Webster, Gerald, associate director, United South and Eastern Tribes___ Winfree, Rosa, coordinator, Title IV, Part A, Indian Education Project, Busby School of the Northern Cheyenne-Tribe, information packet__ Navajo Area School Board Association, prepared statement_-_. Puyallup Nation response to Inspector General's draft report recommend- Letter from Anthony Drennan, Sr., chairman, Colorado River Indian Tribes Tribal Council; to Senator Cohen, with enclosed testimonies__. Position paper and position statement excerpted from brochure submitted 435 INDIAN EDUCATION OVERSIGHT MAY 18, 1982 U.S. SENATE, SELECT COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS, Washington, D.C. The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:17 a.m., in room 6226, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Senator William S. Cohen (chairman of the committee) presiding. Present: Senators Cohen and Melcher. Staff present: Timothy C. Woodcock, staff director; Max I. Richtman, minority staff director; Jo Jo Hunt, staff attorney; Mary Jane Wrenn, staff attorney; John Chaves, staff attorney; Michael Mahsetky, staff attorney; Alan Lovesee, attorney, House Committee on Education and Labor; and Jefferson McFarland, research assistant, House Committee on Education and Labor. Senator COHEN. The committee will come to order. Today, the Select Committee on Indian Affairs is beginning a 2-day oversight hearing on Indian education. The hearing will focus on two principal topics: Federal responsibility for the education of Indians, and second, the Bureau of Indian Affairs Education Services including the BIA Elementary and Secondary Schools and Contract Schools as well as the reorganization of the Office of the Indian Education programs. Included will be the proposed transfer of the Indian Education Act, title IV program, to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the cumulative effect of budget reductions in impact aid, title IV, and BIA education programs on the quality of Indian education. We have a number of tribal witnesses, and witnesses representing Indian organizations, who have come in to provide the committee with their views on these topics. We will hear from witnesses from the Department of the Interior and Education tomorrow. I might say that Indian education issues are of great importance to the members of this committee. In the report on the Indian education programs are portions of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981. The committee raised and insisted on unique language which provided that the caps on the authorizations for appropriations for Indian education programs for fiscal years 1983 and 1984 should be closely scrutinized and appropriately adjusted in subsequent legislation if it found such authorizations will not adequately meet the educational needs of the Indian people. This committee does not take lightly the Federal responsibility for Indian education. We certainly look forward to hearing the views of the scheduled witnesses on these important issues. I might say, by way of caution at least, that I would hope you would try and summarize your statements and submit your full printed statements for the record. We have many witnesses this morning. If we have any hope of finishing before noon, certainly we are going to have to have some shortened oral presentations. The first panel will include Mr. Rudy Clements, chairman of the Education Committee, and Zane Jackson. We will also have Ray Ramirez, who is director of the department of education, Papago Tribe; and Lawrence Gishey, director of the Navajo Division of Education; and Rosemary Zion, assistant director of the Navajo Division of Education, Window Rock, Ariz. Gentlemen, you may proceed. STATEMENT OF WARREN R. CLEMENTS, CHAIRMAN, STANDING Mr. CLEMENTS. I am Rudy Clements, chairman of the Standing Before I proceed, I would like to formally introduce the chief of our Wasco Tribe on the Warm Springs Reservation, Mr. Nelson Wallulatum. On my left is the vice-chairman of our tribal council, Mr. Zane Jackson. We would like to make our full statement a matter of record, and we have relayed this information to your staff. Senator COHEN. It would be appreciated if you would not read the full report or the full statement or package. Mr. CLEMENTS. We have a short statement, and hopefully, it will be within 10 minutes. It is a great honor for me to be here this morning as a spokesman for our tribal government and to present our concerns about the direction Indian education is taking. The standing committee which I chair and our tribal council worked long hours to prepare our positions on these issues. These are not matters that we treat lightly. I appreciate your willingness to listen to us and to help us furnish the educational services our tribal students deserve. When I talked with a member of your staff last week to learn your specific legislative concerns at this hearing, I was told that you intended to focus on four issues: No. 1, the Federal responsibility for Indian education; No. 2, the nature of Bureau of Indian Affairs education services and the effects of the proposed reorganization; No. 3, the transfer of title IV Indian Education Act programs into the Department of the Interior; and No. 4, the cumulative effects of the reductions in Federal support on the quality of education for Indian students. These concerns directly parallel our tribal concerns. Before we knew specifically your hearing agenda, we had prepared four position papers addressing these same issues. I have furnished the committee with copies of these materials which discuss at length the positions of the tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation. F от |