Indian Unemployment Survey: Pt.1 Questionnaire Returns, Memorandum and Accompanying Information from Chairman of Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House, to Members of Committee. Committee Print...88-1...July 1963 |
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adult vocational training ages of 18 agricultural and/or Federal agencies annual earned cash applicable apprenticeship apprenticeship programs approximate number aptitude testing AREA FIELD Area Redevelopment Administration ascertain Indian occupational Bureau of Indian Cheyenne River committee County covered by unemployment earned cash income economic Employment Security employment service farm Federal Government female fiscal year 1962 full employment grade education heads of households Hoopa Indian Affairs Indian occupational preference Indian population Indian reservations indicated jurisdiction labor Male ment Navajo Nez Percé number of Indians number of resident number of unemployed operation opportunities Paiute part-time or sporadic past 5 fiscal percent ployment Prefer part-time received general assistance Regard full-time employment relating to unemployment relocated to urban seasonal employment skills South Dakota sporadic employment Standard Industrial Classification Temporarily temporary tion Total training courses typical work background unearned cash unem unemployable unemployed Indian unemployment compensation unemployment insurance unemployment picture unemployment situation workers
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Page vi - I wish to thank the chairman of the full committee and the chairman of the subcommittee for honoring that pledge.
Page 764 - The count of Indians in the 1960 Decennial Census was the most accurate since 1930, when all persons were asked if they were Indian and additional questions were asked of those who said they were Indian. In 1940 and 1950 enumerators did not ask questions about race and used their own judgment. This resulted in many undercounts, especially in large cities, and in counties and states without Federal reservations, where the scattered Indian population was not generally recognized...
Page 566 - Director of the Institute for Research in Social Science of the University of North Carolina.
Page vii - Indian affairs. Indirect services and expenditures by the federal government for the American Indian: committee documents and information relating to a questionnaire circulated to various federal agencies on the subjec' of Indirect expenditures In the field of Indian affairs.
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Page 764 - It is a necessity." REPORTS SUBMITTED BY JOHN BELINDO, WASHINGTON OFFICE DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAN INDIANS (US Indian Population (1962) and Land (1963). Bureau of Indian Affairs, US Department of the Interior) 1. Description of population and land listing. — The listing (11) which follows this foreword shows the estimated Indian population within and adjacent to each separate unit of trust land or native community for which the Bureau is responsible. The estimates were made...
Page 765 - Indian" up to the time of the 1960 Census — about 540,000. The 30,000 difference may be a measure of the Indians assimilated in the general population since 1930 (people previously recorded as Indian who no longer considered themselves as Indian), or it may be due to failure to record all Indian deaths or to failure of enumerators to ask the race question. The 1960 Census tallied 14,444 Indians in Alaska, raising the United States Indian total to 523,591. The total of other Alaskan natives was...
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Page 765 - States live on reservations. These reservations include not only a few solid blocks of tribally-owned land (the original meaning of the term "reservation"), but also extensive areas of land which have been allotted to individual tribal members and interspersed land belonging to non-Indians. The term also includes (1) trust or restricted lands belonging to Indians within the boundaries of former reservations in Oklahoma, (2) small ranches in California and colonies in Nevada and other states which...
Page 765 - adjacent" residents. A large portion of them get direct services in education, welfare, credit and other personal community services. There is very little restricted land or resources for indirect services. Most of the "adjacent" residents in other areas get some form of Bureau service. There are also many off-reservation Indians (not living adjacent to the reservation) who may derive benefits from tribal membership such as per capita payments from claims or from tribal income.