Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Health Service Reorganization: Hearing Before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session on S. 814 ... October 6, 1995, Anchorage, AK. |
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Page 21 - IS 23 1 shall submit to the Congress the recommended legislation 2 referred to in subsection (a). 3 SEC. 106. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 4 There are authorized to be appropriated such sums 5 as may be necessary to carry out this title. 6 SEC. 107. EFFECTIVE DATE. 7 This title shall take effect on the date of enactment 8 of this Act. 9 SEC. 108. SEPARABILITY. 10 If a provision of this title or its application to any...
Page 61 - Greetings from Alaska! My name is Edward K. Thomas. I am the elected president of the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, a federally recognized Indian tribe of more than 26,000 tribal citizens.
Page 29 - Indian 9 tribe served by the program area; 10 "(ii) the total amount of funding nec11 essary to cover all program areas with re12 spect to which the tribe receives services 13 (as determined by taking the aggregate of 14 the applicable amounts determined under 15 paragraph (3)); and 16 "(in) a breakdown, for each program 17 area with respect to which the Indian tribe 18 receives service, of the amount determined 19 under clause (ii). 20 "SEC. 504. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 21 "There are authorized...
Page 77 - The Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of this Nation, in fulfillment of its special responsibilities and legal obligation to the American Indian people, to meet the national goal of providing the highest possible health status to Indians and to provide existing Indian health services with all resources necessary to effect that policy.
Page 47 - This policy was so well settled that when the Missouri compromise bill was being discussed in Congress in 1854 Texas Senator Sam Houston used this picturesque language to describe the Government's promise to the Indians: "As long as water flows, or grass grows upon the earth, or the sun rises to show your pathway, or you kindle your camp fires, so long shall you be protected by this Government, and never again removed from your present habitations.
Page 77 - Federal health services to maintain and improve the health of the Indians are consonant with and required by the Federal government's historical and unique legal relationship with, and resulting responsibility to, the American Indian people.
Page 47 - Houston would later tell my ancestors, "you are now in a country where you can be happy; no white man shall ever again disturb you; the Arkansas will protect your southern boundary when you get there. You will be protected on either side; the white man shall never again encroach upon you and you will have a great outlet to the West. As long as water flows, or grass grows upon the earth, or the sun rises to show your pathway, or you kindle your camp fires, so long shall you be protected by this Government,...
Page 37 - President of the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (Central Council), a federally recognized Indian tribe from Southeast Alaska with over 23,000 members.
Page 77 - Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of the United States, in fulfillment of its special trust responsibilities and legal obligations to the American Indian people...
Page 25 - (C) provide for the collection and dissemi21 nation of information that is necessary for ef22 "fective planning, evaluation, and reporting by 23 the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of 24 Health and Human Services and Indian tribes 25 concerning the comparative social and public 27 1 health conditions of Indian communities (as de2 fined and determined by the Secretary of the 3 Interior and the Secretary of Health and 4 Human Services) at local, regional, and na5 tional levels. 6 "(2) DUTIES...