H.R. 946, H.R. 2671, and H.R. 4148 (Young, R-AK)--to Make Technical Amendments to the Provisions of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act Relating to Contract Support Costs, and for Other Purposes: "Tribal Contract Support Cost Technical Amendments of 2000" : Oversight Hearing Before the Committee on Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session, May 16, 2000, Washington, DC.

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Page 83 - S. 1 148 is a continuation of the United States' honorable efforts to correct inequities resulting from a regional Federal project which severely affected Indian tribal homelands along the Missouri River. In the early...
Page 92 - Sioux Uprising of 1862." Our reservation was established by Executive Order signed by President Andrew Johnson on February 27, 1866. In 1944, the Congress enacted the Flood Control Act (58 Stat. 887), which authorized implementation of the Pick-Sloan Plan for water development in the Missouri River Basin. This plan included the construction of five main-stem dams along the Missouri River. Project purposes included flood control downstream, navigation, irrigation, the generation of hydropower, the...
Page 101 - Fund not required for current disbursements may be invested and reinvested by the Secretary of the Treasury in interestbearing obligations of the United States or in obligations guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the United States.
Page 83 - HR 2671 is a continuation of the United States' honorable efforts to correct inequities resulting from a regional Federal project which severely affected Indian tribal homelands along the Missouri River. In the early 1990's the United States forthrightly addressed impacts to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation.
Page 45 - Committee to provide for the hearing record the Community's views on the issue of federal funding for Contract Support Costs. The Gila River Indian Community (the "Community") is located on 372,000 acres in south central Arizona. Our Community is composed of approximately 23,000 tribal members, 1 3,000 of whom live within the boundaries of the Reservation.
Page 88 - ... reservations whose land was taken by acts of congress was approximately $16,680 per family according to research documents, while the Yankton Sioux Tribe received $5,605 per family as a settlement for the land taken by the United States. THE IMPORTANCE OF S. 1 148 TO THE YANKTON SIOUX TRIBE S. 1 148 provides that the Yankton Sioux Tribe, as compensation for past inequities, will receive annual interest payments from a $34.3 million trust fund account in the US Treasury.
Page 105 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee. It's a pleasure to be here to speak today to House Resolution 5491, and that is what I'm going to be talking about.
Page 88 - Tribe, as compensation for past inequities, will receive annual interest payments from a $34 3 million trurt fund account in the US Treasury. These funds will be used by the tribe for programs outlined in a tribal plan that will be developed by the tribal council with approval from the tribal membership The funds will be used to promote greatly needed economic development on our Indian lands The funds will be utilized to build and improve our infrastructure And the funds will be used to further education,...
Page 38 - III of that act. Since 1994 all of our self-determination programs have been administered under Self-Governance compacts with the Department of the Interior and the Department of Health and Human Services.

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