INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS EIGHTY-FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON PROBLEMS RELATIVE TO LAND USE AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ON THE FORT HALL INDIAN RESERVATION, IDAHO FORT HALL, IDAHO OCTOBER 15 AND 16, 1957 Printed for the use of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs CONTENTS Vidal Ballard, vice chairman, tribal business council, Fort Hall, Mrs. Florence Bartlett, Fort Hall, Idaho Kenneth B. Reynolds, Pocatello, Idaho, president, Southeast Idaho Teola Truchot and Eva Phippeny, Fort Hall, Idaho.. Frank Wahtomy, Fort Hall, Idaho, as interpreted by Mrs. Bessie Daniel Warjack, sanitarian aid, Fort Hall Indian Reservation__ Henry Woonsook, Bannock Creek, Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho....... III FORT HALL RESERVATION, IDAHO TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1957 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SPECIAL INDIAN SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS, Fort Hall, Idaho. The subcommittee met at 3 p. m., pursuant to notice, in the council room, Hon. James A. Haley (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Mr. HALEY. The subcommittee will be in order. I want to say to you good folks here that we are very happy to be in your State, particularly happy to be in the great congressional district represented so ably by my friend, Congressman Budge. In order that you may be familiar with the members of the committee and the members traveling with this subcommittee, first I would like to introduce, on my immediate left, Congressman George Shuford, of North Carolina. Over here we have a distinguished Member of the Congress, from one of your great Western States, Mr. Keith Thomson. To my immediate right here is the real fellow of the committee; I suppose you would say he keeps us working and moving, Dr. Jack Taylor, who is the consultant of the committee. We also have with us Dr. William H. Gilbert, who, probably, is one of the real authorities of America on the history of Indian tribes generally throughout the United States. The gentleman over here, punching on this little keyboard, is our reporter, Karl Veley, who keeps a record of these hearings. We also have with us, traveling with the committee, Mr. Rex Lee, of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs. Would you stand up so the people can see you, and, if you have any_of_your_people you would like to introduce, do so at this time? Mr. LEE. I would like to introduce Mr. Don Foster, area director from Portland. I think they all know Frell Owl, superintendent of the agency here. Mr. HALEY. The gentleman from North Carolina was calling to the chairman's attention that he missed one of the members of the congressional delegation. He is your own Congressman, and I might say in the Congress he is doing a marvelous job. I think he is probably one of the outstanding Members of that great deliberative body. While he happens to be on the other side of the fence, so to speak, not being of my own party, I want to assure you that we hold him in very, very high esteem in the Congress of the United States. I said I consider him one of the real leaders of the Congress. I think, more than anything else and I am sure that more than any other one man in the Congress at this time, and I am sure you taxpayers will appre 1 |