Emancipation of Indians: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs of the Committee on Public Lands, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 2958 [and Others]. House Bills to Emancipate the Indians of the United States and to Establish Certain Rights for Indians and Indian Tribes. April 8,9,10,11, May 15, 1947

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947 - 169 pages

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Page 32 - DECLARE that since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed; that ignorance of each other's ways and lives has been a common cause, throughout the history of mankind, of that suspicion and mistrust between the peoples of the world through which their differences have all too often broken into war...
Page 123 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House oj Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all of the lands in the State of Nebraska...
Page 3 - SOUTH DAKOTA STATEMENT OF HON. FRANCIS CASE, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA Mr.
Page 32 - ... the great and terrible war which has now ended was a war made possible by the denial of the democratic principles of the dignity, equality and mutual respect of men and by the propagation in their place through ignorance and prejudice of the doctrine of the inequality of men and races...
Page 108 - Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. First of all, I would like to commend the committee for getting into this subject of skyjacking.
Page 123 - ... extended, as provided by law, shall be, and the same are hereby, made subject to appraisement and assessment for the purposes of taxation and subject to taxation for local, school district, road district, county, and State purposes, as provided by the laws of the State of Not sale Nebraska now in force or to be hereafter enacted: Provided, That any etc.
Page 125 - Indians, as above provided, shall be certified by the county treasurer of the county in which such lands are situated to the Secretary of the Interior, who shall be authorized to pay the same from any funds belonging to the Indian allottees owning such lands so taxed and arising from the rentals thereof or under his control...
Page 95 - Affairs, insofar as such powers and duties relate to action in individual cases arising under general regulations promulgated by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to law. Subject to the supervision and direction of the Secretary, the Commissioner is...
Page 3 - That the Secretary of the Interior shall permit the agents and employees of any State to enter upon Indian tribal lands, reservations, or allotments therein for the purpose of making inspection of health and educational conditions and enforcing sanitation and quarantine regulations or to enforce compulsory school attendance of Indian pupils, as provided by the law of the State...

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