Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Schedule of Meetings, 1971-1974

The text describes seven bills relating to Native Americans, six of which involve the transfer of land into trust status for Tribes. The seventh bill would remove restrictive language on a 1956 Act relating to the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina. The Interior Department endorses all of the bills with amendments, and there was no opposition to any of the bills at hearings.

The text contains a list of bills being considered by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, along with a brief description of each bill.

The Subcommittee on Indian Affairs will hold hearings on May 29 on H.R. 8029, an omnibus judgment bill; on May 31 on H.R. 6104 and H.R. 6375, trader-trespass bills; and also on that day, the Subcommittee will hold hearings on H.R. 620, H.R. 6105, and H.R. 6373, bills to establish the position of Assistant Secretary of Interior for Indian Affairs. On June 1, the Subcommittee will consider four land bills: H.R. 2440, a bill to declare that certain federally owned land is held by the United States in trust for the Hualapai Indian Tribe of Arizona; H.R. 5089, a bill to determine the rights and interests of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Cherokee Nation in the Arkansas River bed; H.R. 3458, and H.R. 3579, bills to declare that the

The Subcommittee on Indian Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives will hold hearings on May 14 and 15 on H.R. 5647, a bill to authorize the partition of the surface rights in the joint use area of the 1882 Executive Order Hopi Reservation and the surface and subsurface rights in the 1934 Navajo Reservation between the Hopi and Navajo Tribes. The hearings will begin at 9:45 a.m. in Room 1324 each day, with hearings also being held Monday afternoon. The purpose of the hearings is to take testimony from the Navajo and Hopi tribes and from government officials.

Manuel Lujan Jr. is inviting minority members of the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs to an informal meeting to discuss the direction of future hearings and legislation. Lujan suggests that the meeting is important in order to provide input on what the subcommittee wants to accomplish this year.

The Indian Affairs Subcommittee of the US House of Representatives will be holding hearings on April 8th and 9th in order to discuss several bills relating to Native American Tribes. The bills up for discussion include HR 6070 (related to the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community), HR 8229 and 8230 (both related to the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe of the Lake Traverse Indian Reservation), HR 8824 (related to Mrs. Harriett La Pointe Vanderventer), HR 9105 (related to the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho), and HR 12216 (related to the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina).

The text contains information on the meeting of the Indian Affairs Subcommittee on March 21st to discuss the H.R. 12356, the Indian Claims Commission Authorization bill. The meeting is expected to last less than an hour.

The Indian Affairs Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives has cancelled its hearings for March 11-12 and March 21-22, and will reschedule them for a later date.

The text describes bills that were being considered by the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs in September 1973. One of the bills, H.R. 7421, was for the Menominee Restoration Bill, which would repeal the Act terminating federal supervision over the property and members of the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin as a federally recognized sovereign tribe, and restore the tribe to federal recognition and their right to federal services. Another bill being considered, H.R. 3458, was for transferring 40 acres of unused BLM land to trust status for the Bridgeport Indian Colony in Mono County, California. The last bill mentioned, H.R. 6375, was for providing for impounding of livestock in trespass on Indian land and assess fines on owners of trespassing livestock.

The text contains a memo from the chairman of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs to all members of the committee, detailing the meeting schedule for the week of March 10-17. The schedule includes a full committee meeting to consider the budget and a meeting with Secretary Morton, as well as hearings by the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs on several pieces of legislation.

The text contains information on a conference meeting regarding six bills related to the interior and insular affairs of the United States. The meeting was to take place on September 24th in Room S 207 at 3:00 PM. The bills in question are: 8. 3230, ii. R. 7742, M. R. 6797, H. It. 10858, 2. R. 3337, and i. H. 3694.

The Subcommittee on Indian Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives will be marking up several bills on July 31 and August 1, including H.R. 6318 (to declare that certain federally owned lands shall be held by the United States in trust for the Burns Indian Colony, Oregon), H.R. 796 (to provide for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay judgments in favor of the Mississippi Sioux Indians in Indian Claims Commission dockets), and H.R. 8063 (to finance the economic development of Indians and Indian organizations). The Subcommittee will also hold hearings on August 14 and 15 on H.R. 2327 (to authorize the sale and exchange of certain lands on the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation) and H.R. 10489 (to provide for the disposition of funds to pay a judgment in favor of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of Indians of the Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho).

The Subcommittee on Indian Affairs held hearings on March 18, 19, and 22, 1971 to discuss three bills relating to the disposition of funds appropriated to pay judgments in favor of various Native American Tribes. The first bill, H.R. 1100, would provide for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay a judgment in favor of the Grand River Band of Ottawa Indians. The second bill, H.R. 1444, would provide for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay judgments in favor of the Snohomish Tribe, the Upper Skagit Tribe, and the Snoqualmie and Skykomish Tribes. The third bill, H.R. 3830, would provide for the disposition of judgments recovered by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation.

The Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs has scheduled several meetings for the upcoming week, including a briefing from the National Park Service and hearings on several bills. The full committee and all subcommittee members are invited to attend the meetings on irrigation and reclamation, national parks and recreation, and territorial and insular affairs.

The Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs will not be meeting on Monday or Tuesday, but will have a hearing on Wednesday for H.R. 1100, H.R. 1444, H.R. 3148, H.R. 3830, H.R. 3333, H.R. 4353, and H.R. Haley. On Thursday, Friday, and Monday, the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs will be meeting. Finally, on Tuesday, the Subcommittee on Irrigation & Reclamation will have an orientation meeting with Assistant Secretary of the Interior James R. Smith.

The text contains information on three bills that were approved by the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs. The first bill, H.R. 5199, deals with the Miami Judgment. The second bill, H.R. 7093, deals with the Osage Judgment. The third bill, H.R. 12404, deals with amending the Act of September 21, 1968, which provided for the preparation of a roll of persons of California Indian descent.

The Subcommittee on Indian Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives will meet to mark-up H.R. 10390, a bill to extend the life of the Indian Claims Commission. The bill is sponsored by Congressman Wayne N. Aspinall and has 26 co-sponsors.

The Subcommittee on Indian Affairs is attempting to schedule field hearings for September 8-14, 1971, at the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, South Dakota, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, and Crow Reservation, Montana. This information is being shared with minority members for planning purposes only, and they will be notified when a definite schedule is confirmed.

The Indian Affairs Subcommittee will meet on September 24 and 25 to markup S. 1017. Title I of S. 1017 deals with contracting, while Title II addresses federal Indian education reform. All members are urged to attend this markup.

The bill would repeal the Act Terminating Federal Supervision over the Property and Members of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin as a Federally Recognized, Sovereign Indian Tribe. The bill would also restore Federal services to the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin.