Disposal of Excess Property Located Within Indian Reservations: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 8958 ... July 16, 1974U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974 - 29 pages |
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Page 22 - I am proposing legislation which would empower a tribe or a group of tribes or any other Indian community to take over the control or operation of Federally-funded and administered programs in the Department of the Interior and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare whenever the tribal council or comparable community governing group voted to do so.
Page 22 - Self-determination among the Indian people can and must be encouraged without the threat of eventual termination. In my view, in fact, that is the only way that self-determination can effectively 1* fostered.
Page 22 - Indian control is significant, for we are talking about programs which annually spend over $400 million in Federal funds. A policy which encourages Indian administration of these programs will help build greater pride and resourcefulness within the Indian community. At the same time, programs which are managed and operated by Indians are likely to be more effective in meeting Indian needs. I speak with added confidence about these anticipated results because of the favorable experience of programs...
Page 14 - and" should be inserted after the word "property" on line 3 of the bill in order to state the correct title of the act referred to. Mr. Chairman, this concludes my formal statement. If you or the members of the subcommittee have any questions, I will be pleased to respond to them. Mrs. COLLINS. Thank you again. [Whereupon, at 11:45 am, the hearing was adjourned.] o H125 7r r? ..• . C 0' " '/ .v;;''- V V'V'.'.-.'\ ' ^ .'.:' v v'1"' ry *• *••- v . • V , ... 'r'.
Page 22 - This, then, must be the goal of any new national policy toward the Indian people: to strengthen the Indian's sense of autonomy without threatening his sense of community. We must assure the Indian that he can assume control of his own life without being separated involuntarily from the tribal group. And we must make it clear that Indians can become independent of federal control without being cut off from federal concern and federal support.
Page 22 - But most importantly, we have turned from the question of whether the Federal government has a responsibility to Indians to the question of how that responsibility can best be fulfilled. We have concluded that the Indians will get better programs and that public monies will be more effectively expended if the people who are most affected by these programs are responsible for operating them.
Page 25 - ... general government (determined on the basis of the same principles as are used by the Bureau of the Census for general statistical purposes).
Page 4 - An act to amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to provide for the disposal of certain excess and surplus Federal property to the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of any group, band, or tribe of Indians.
Page 5 - Section 102 is amended by adding at the end 2 thereof the following new paragraphs: 3 "(14) 'schoolbus...
Page 9 - ... keeping with what we at the Federal level and hopefully at the State levels and other areas of our society have come to look at as a new thrust in Indian matters following very much the admonition and [entreaty] of the President of the United States who in 1 970 declared the policy of this Govemment to be self-determination by Indians. We have gone from assimilation to determination to self-determination, and I think this is certainly in keeping with that to allow Indians to take this property...