Consolidating Alaska Natives Governing Bodies: Hearings Before the United States Senate, Select Committee on Indian Affairs, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, on S. 1920 ... S. 2046. ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 - 425 pages |
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Page 163 - Stat. 688), which is recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians.
Page 19 - An Act To conserve and develop Indian lands and resources; to extend to Indians the right to form business and other organizations; to establish a credit system for Indians; to grant certain rights of home rule to Indians; to provide for vocational education for Indians; and for other purposes...
Page 161 - ... democratically elected by the adult members of the Indian community to be served by such organization and which includes the maximum participation of Indians in all phases of its activities: Provided, That in any case where a contract is let or grant made to an organization to perform services benefitting more than one Indian tribe, the approval of each such Indian tribe shall be a prerequisite to the letting or making of such contract or grant; (d) "Secretary', unless otherwise designated, means...
Page 86 - to provide maximum Indian participation in the Government and education of the Indian people ; to provide for the full participation of Indian tribes in programs and services conducted by the Federal Government for Indiana and to encourage the development of human resources of the Indian people...
Page 197 - The Congress hereby recognizes the obligation of the United States to respond to the strong expression of the Indian people for self-determination by assuring maximum Indian participation in the direction of educational as well as other Federal services to Indian communities so as to render such services more responsive to the needs and desires of those communities.
Page 197 - The Congress declares its commitment to the maintenance of the Federal Government's unique and continuing relationship with and responsibility to the Indian people through the establishment of a meaningful Indian self-determination policy which will permit an orderly transition from Federal domination of programs for and services to Indians to effective and meaningful participation by the Indian people in the planning, conduct, and administration of these programs and services . . . (Sec.
Page 360 - We too often find ourselves preoccupied with attempting to divine what will be our state ten, twenty-five, even fifty years hence. But what we often fail to realize is that every decision made, every voice heard and not heard, and every success and failure drastically affect that future. Instead of speculating on what the world might be like in the year 2000, we would do well to consider what mechanisms, what people, and what decisions must be attended to today in order to shape all the years to...
Page 87 - Congress further finds that— (1) true self-determination in any society of people is dependent upon an educational process which will insure the development of qualified people to fulfill meaningful leadership roles...
Page 197 - Congress declares its] . . . commitment to the maintenance of the Federal Government's unique and continuing relationship with and responsibility to the Indian people through the establishment of a meaningful transition from Federal domination of programs for and services to Indians to effective and meaningful participation by the Indian people in the planning, conduct, and administration of those programs and...
Page 15 - Alaska, and authorizing them to bring suit in the United States Court of Claims, and conferring jurisdiction upon said court to hear, examine, adjudicate, and enter judgment upon any and all such aborigine rights which said Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts and other Alaskan aborigines, or any of them, may have or claim to have against the United States, and for other purposes Be it enacted 'by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.