Indian Education Oversight: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, on Oversight of Indian Education (Public Laws 95-561--95-608), July 24, 1980, Washington, D.C.

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Page 346 - The Congress declares that a major national goal of the United States is to provide the quantity and quality of educational services and opportunities which will permit Indian children to compete and excel in the life areas of their choice, and to achieve the measure of self-determination essential to their social and economic well-being.
Page 346 - The Congress hereby recognizes the obligation of the United States to respond to the strong expression of the Indian people for self-determination by assuring maximum Indian participation in the direction of educational programs as well as other Federal services to Indian communities so as to render such services more responsive to the needs and desires of those communities".
Page 106 - The principal objectives of the Bureau are to actively encourage and train Indian and Alaska Native people to manage their own affairs under the trust relationship to the Federal Government; to facilitate, with maximum involvement of Indian and Alaska Native people, full development of their human and natural resource potentials; to...
Page 168 - ... to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate...
Page 211 - It shall be the policy of the Secretary and the Bureau, in carrying out the functions of the Bureau, to facilitate Indian control of Indian affairs in all matters relating to education.
Page 106 - Interior at the time of its establishment in 1849. The Snyder Act of 1921 (42 Stat. 208; 25 USC 13) provided substantive law for appropriations covering the conduct of activities by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The scope and character of the authorizations contained in this act were broadened by the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 (48 Stat. 984; 25 USC 461 et seq.), the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (88 Stat.
Page 106 - Federal resources the educational systems needed; actively promotes the improvement of their social welfare by working with them to obtain and provide needed social and community development programs and services; works with them in the development and implementation of programs for their economic advancement and for...
Page 168 - Representatives and the Senate shall study on a continuing basis those provisions of law which exempt agencies of the Federal Government, or any of their activities or outlays, from inclusion in the Budget of the United States Government transmitted by the President under section 201 of the Budget and Accounting Act,* 1921. Each committee shall, from time to time, report to its House its recommendations for terminating or modifying such provisions.
Page 106 - ... in the development and implementation of programs for their economic advancement and for full utilization of their natural resources consistent with the principles of resource conservation. The Bureau...
Page 345 - To provide maximum Indian participation in the Government and education of the Indian people...

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