Acquire Lands for the Mille Lacs Band of Minnesota Chippewa Indians: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, on S. 1464 ... December 10, 1979, Washington, D.C. |
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$1 million 25 acres 300 site campground 80-acre parcel 95th Congress acquire certain lands acquire Government lot additional 80 acres amended appraisal Arthur Gahbow attorney authority to acquire bill to direct Bureau of Indian burial ground Chairman Chronology COMMITTEE ON INDIAN condemnation condominium CONGRES LIBRARY CONGRES THE LIBRARY CONGRESS LIBRARY CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Congressman Nolan December Department direct the Secretary eminent domain enacted fair market value funds Holbert wishes Indian Reorganization Act Interior to acquire introduced John Melcher Jorgenson Lacs Indian Reservation Lacs Reservation Business legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Mille Lacs Band Mille Lacs Chippewa Mille Lacs County Mille Lacs Indians Mille Lacs Reservation Minnesota Chippewa Indians negotiations ONAMIA passed patent perpetually reserved Public Law purchase the land Reservation Business Committee RESS THE LIBRARY section 28 SELECT COMMITTEE Senator BOSCHWITZ Senator MELCHER session Sherman Holbert Stat subject property Supreme Court testimony Wayne Nordwall
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Page 13 - Claims be, and it is hereby, given jurisdiction to hear and determine a suit or suits to be brought by and on behalf of the Mille Lac band of Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota against the United States on account of losses sustained by them or the Chippewas of Minnesota...
Page 14 - That not to exceed $40,000 of Mine Lacs. this amount may be used in the purchase of lands for homeless nonremoval Mille Lacs Indians, to whom allotments have not heretofore been made, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, said lands to be held in trust and may be allotted to 24 stat., sss, vol.
Page 15 - Indians, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, subject to the provisions of the Act of February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven...
Page 15 - Large, page three hundred and eighty-eight, as amended): Provided further, That not to exceed $5,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended in the removal of Chippewa Indian bodies from the burial grounds in the vicinity of Wisconsin Point, Wisconsin, and their reinterment in an established cemetery in the city of Superior; said amount to cover markers for each grave or one monument, as may be found most suitable; and for the removal and suitable burial and marking of the graves of Indian...
Page 37 - The hearing is adjourned. [Whereupon, at 3:15 pm, the hearing was adjourned.] APPENDIX STATEMENT OF DAVID N.
Page 15 - ... title to these lands is now vested in the United States. Transactions involving 960 acres of additional land, at a cost of $9,340, are still uncompleted, pending the curing of objections to the title. The act of August 1, 1914, supra, contained also an item of $40,000 for the purchase of lands for homeless, nonremoval Mille Lacs Indians to whom allotments have not heretofore been made, with which 769.41 acres have been purchased, at a cost of $17,714.30.
Page 30 - S. 1464, a bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain lands for the benefit of the Mille Lacs Band, if he finds legal title to such lands to be in private ownership. The bill was introduced by Senator Boschwitz on July 9, 1979. S. 1464 is proposed as an amendment to Public Law 95-571. Public...
Page 13 - Lac band, and that controversy resulted in a suspension of disposals. The controversy continued up to the cession under the Act of 1889 and was adjusted and composed in that cession. United States v. Mille Lac Band, 229 US 498, 57 L.
Page 14 - Chippewa fund before mentioned. [September 8, 1916] chap. 464, 39 Stat. at L. 823. Of course, the United States is without right to any recovery here in respect of the lands as to which it was adjudged there to be free from any obligation or responsibility to the Indians. So the lands in the patent of May 13, 1871, need not be considered further. The other reservations were surveyed after the cession under the Act of 1889. The field notes of the survey...
Page 13 - ... fund of which the Chippewas were to be the beneficiaries. The Mille Lac reservation, although included in the cession of 1863, was again included in the cession under the Act of 1889. It was surveyed and opened to settlement and disposal under the public land laws after the cession of 1863; but this led to a controversy with the Indians over the meaning and effect of the clause in the twelfth article of the treaty of 1863, relating to the removal of the Mille Lac band, and that controversy resulted...