COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR CARL D. PERKINS, Kentucky, Chairman FRANK THOMPSON, JR., New Jersey TED RISENHOOVER, Oklahoma EDWARD BEARD, Rhode Island LEO ZEFERETTI, New York GEORGE MILLER, California RONALD MOTTL, Ohio TIM HALL, Illinois ALBERT H. QUIE, Minnesota CONTENTS Bower, Dr. Dick H., director, Program Services Alaska State Operated Cole, Nat, deputy commissioner of education, Department of Educa- tion, Juneau, Alaska, accompanied by Sylvia Carlson Demmert, William, G., Jr., Deputy Commissioner, Office of Indian Education, U.S. Office of Education, Department of Health, Edu- cation, and Welfare, accompanied by Richard A. Hastings, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislation (Education); Herbert Jacobsen, planning officer, Office of Indian Education, and Albert L. Alford, Assistant Commissioner for Legislation, Office of Educa- Edmo, Maxine, member, advocates for Indian education, and parent Ellis, Loretta, assistant director, Project ILSTAC. 151 216 Tok, Alaska, accompanied by Nettie Peratrovich, Alaska Un- Kito, Sam, president, Alaska Federation of Natives, accompanied by 269 Lamebull, Edna, acting director, Indian Education Act program, accompanied by Roy Fay, director special services, Anchorage, Le May, Frances D., Menominee parent, Keshena, Wis. McKeag, Jana, education director, National Congress of American Platero, Dillon, director, Navajo Division of Education Ross, Kenneth, president, National Indian Education Association__ 215 Straight, Birgil Kills, president, board of directors of the Coalition of Thompson, Morris, Commissioner, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of Interior, accompanied by William Behnam, Acting Director of Indian Education, BIA, and Ralph Reeser, Director, Congressional and Legislative Affairs Staff, BIA Torklep, Karma, legislative chairperson, National Advisory Council on Indian Education, accompanied by Dave Risling, Daniel Peaches, Prepared statements, letters, supplemental material, etc.: Advocates for Indian Education: The Northwest Tribes, prepared Page statement of... 209 Allen, Noah, executive director, National Indian Education Association, prepared statement of 195 Bower, Dr. Dick H., director, Program Services, Alaska State Operated School System, Anchorage, Alaska: Letter to Chairman Perkins, dated August 4, 1975.. 249 252 250 Prepared statement of ___ "The ultimate challenge facing those charged with establishing Demmert, William G., Jr., Deputy Commissioner, Office of Indian Prepared statement of Part A, Non-LEA, Title IV, Indian Education Act (a table). Ellis, Loretta, assistant director, Project ILSTAC: Prepared statement of..... Identification of information needs of the American Indian Letter to Chairman Perkins, dated September 30, 1975... Hawley, Granville, Sr., team manager, urban/rural school devel- LeMay, Frances D., Menominee parent, Keshena, Wis., prepared Scheirbeck, Helen M., Office of American Affairs, prepared statement Ross, Kenneth, president, National Indian Education Assn., prepared Platero, Dillon, director, Navajo Division of Education, the Navajo Peratrovich, Nettie, Alaska Unorganized Borough School District, McKeag, Jana, education director, National Congress of American Lind, Dr. Marshall J., commissioner of education, Juneau, Alaska, 285 185 271 207 148 211 201 Straight, Birgil Kills, president, board of directors of the Coalition of Tiger, John B., acting executive director, Institute for the Devel- 28 232 232 2 241 121 APPENDIX A Demmert, Dr. William G., Deputy Commissioner of Indian Education, Letter from Chairman Perkins, Mr. Quie, Mr. Meeds, requesting Page information, dated July 31, 1975. Letter to Chairman Perkins, enclosing information requested, dated APPENDIX B Thompson, Morris, Commissioner, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior: Letter from Chairman Perkins, Mr. Quie, Mr. Meeds, requesting information, dated July 31, 1975_ 69 69 69 77 Letter from Chairman Perkins, Mr. Quie, Mr. Meeds, requesting 109 Letter from Commissioner Thompson enclosing response for fur- 110 Response to questions requesting information. 78 |