BIA Management of Indian Trust Funds: Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Native American Affairs of the Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, on Bureau of Indian Affairs' Management of Trust Funds, and H.R. 1846, Native American Trust Fund Accounting and Management Reform Act of 1993, Hearing Held in Washington, DC.

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Page 19 - bonds or notes of the United States" shall be deemed, for the purposes of this section, to mean any public-debt obligations of the United States...
Page 24 - account" for "the daily and annual balance of all funds held in trust by the United States for the benefit of an Indian Tribe or an individual Indian which are deposited or invested pursuant to the Act of June 24, 1938.
Page 28 - Report 102-499, demonstrated that the BIA's disgracefully indifferent supervision and control of the Indian trust funds has consistently failed to exercise its responsibility and has failed all reasonable expectations of the tribal and individual account holders. Congress and taxpayers. The Indian Trust Fund is more than balance sheets and accounting procedures. These monies are crucial to the daily operations of Native American tribes and a source of income to tens of thousands of Native Americans....
Page 29 - Fund that can only be cured by radical changes in leadership, organization, accountability and communication at the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Department of the Interior. The real losers in the mismanagement of the Indian Trust Fund are the Tribes and the individual Indian account holders.
Page 4 - Indian trust funds, and for other purposes. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 1 SECTION 1.
Page 156 - Provided further, That none of the funds in this Act shall be used by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to transfer funds under a contract with any third party for the management of tribal or individual Indian trust funds until the funds held in trust for...
Page 91 - November 1949; that the foregoing resolution was duly adopted at such meeting by the affirmative vote of 4 members ; and that said resolution has not been rescinded or amended in any way.
Page 166 - If we can be of further assistance in this matter, please do not hesitate to call on us, Very truly yours, GERALD FRANKL, Vice President, Feeding Research.
Page 91 - I, the undersigned, certify that the foregoing is a true extract from the minutes of the...
Page 58 - Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee: He are pleased to be here today to discuss the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) chemical testing program for toxic substances.

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