National Indian Policy Research Institute: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session ... July 21, 1992, Washington, DC. |
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Page 6 - The first Americans — the Indians — are the most deprived and most isolated minority group in our nation. On virtually every scale of measurement — employment, income, education, health — the condition of the Indian people ranks at the bottom. This condition is the heritage of centuries of injustice. From the time of their first contact with European settlers, the American Indians have been oppressed and brutalized, deprived of their ancestral lands and denied the opportunity to control their...
Page 107 - Indian" and has authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this year. Now, therefore, I George Bush, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim 1992 as the Year of the American Indian.
Page 6 - But the story of the Indian in America is something more than the record of the white man's frequent aggression, broken agreements, intermittent remorse and prolonged failure. It is a record also of endurance, of survival, of adaptation and creativity in the face of overwhelming obstacles. It is a record of enormous contributions to this country — to its art and culture, to its strength and spirit, to its sense of history and its sense of purpose.
Page 107 - Year of the American Indian. I encourage Federal, State, and local government officials, interested groups and organizations, and the people of the United States to observe this year with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this...
Page 67 - Report prepared for the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services.
Page 64 - Like the miner's canary, the Indian marks the shift from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians, even more than our treatment of other minorities, reflects the rise and fall in our democratic faith.
Page 105 - Province to Embrace all opportunities of pursuing, captivating, killing and Destroying all and every of the aforesaid Indians. And whereas the General Court of this Province have Voted that a bounty or...
Page 27 - Heffelfinger appears in appendix.] The CHAIRMAN. I thank you very much. May I now recognize Mr.
Page 6 - ... record of the white man's frequent aggression, broken agreements, intermittent remorse and prolonged failure. It is a record also of endurance, of survival, of adaptation and creativity in the face of overwhelming obstacles. It is a record of enormous contributions to this country — to its art and culture, to its strength and spirit, to its sense of history and its sense of purpose.
Page 24 - EDT July 23 ,1997 Statement by Alice M. Rivlin Vice Chair Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services US House of Representatives July 23, 1997 Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee, I would like to begin by expressing my appreciation to the Committee for holding this hearing to solicit a wide range of views on appropriate monetary policy at this extremely favorable moment in our economic history. All too often congressional hearings...