Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1948

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Página 338 - The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent ; and in their property, rights, and liberty they never shall be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Congress...
Página 338 - And whereas it is just and reasonable, and essential to our interest, and the security of our colonies, that the several nations or tribes of Indians with whom we are connected, and •who live under our protection, should not be molested or disturbed in the possession of such parts of our dominions and territories as, not having been ceded to, or purchased by us, are reserved to them, or any of them, as their hunting grounds...
Página 346 - These are the conclusions from an investigation made jointly by the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture and the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the Treasury Department, a report of which has just been issued.
Página 341 - ... lands has ended, thus permitting their taxation, and surplus Indian families have established themselves off the reservations, special Federal aid to State and local governments for Indian programs should end. The Indians will have been integrated, economically and politically, as well as culturally. The length of time before expenditures can be reduced, without building up future costs, will depend largely on the vigor with which the program outlined here is pushed A clear and consistent policy,...
Página 344 - ... 1933 by the Secretary of the Interior, the situation was somewhat eased. Later, the Indian Reorganization Act declared that no land remaining in tribal ownership should be individually allotted, but the prohibition applied only to those tribes that voted to accept the application of the act. . . . MINERALS DEVELOPMENT The coordinated efforts of the Indians, the Federal Government and industry have resulted in maintaining the accelerated development of Indian mineral resources. There is close...
Página 341 - problem" is one that calls for men, money, and imaginative and patient management. There are no panaceas, no "overnight" solutions. But it is along some such lines that we must move to discharge our ancient obligation to the American Indian. As the Hoover Committee on Indian Affairs reported: An ultimate substantial reduction in Federal expenditures in the field of Indian affairs is possible . . . No immediate reduction can be made without delaying progress and postponing the time when expenditures...
Página 338 - ... property shall never be taken from them without their consent. The protective role was dictated as a matter of public policy ; moreover, it was most often the direct result of a treaty provision between an Indian tribe and the United States, in which the tribe requested protection for its members and its property. It is realized, however, that protective guardianship, if pursued without regard to the welfare of the person protected, can defeat its purpose. Development of the property to full...
Página 340 - Rather, the record indicates that these expenditures and the physical effort released by them have been sporadic, discontinuous and generally insufficient. This record explains why today many Indian children of school age have no schoolrooms and no teachers to provide for their education; why many Indians are still without any kind of health care; why thousands of Indians are without any means of livelihood, either in the form of productive resources or marketable skills; why irrigable lands owned...
Página 342 - ... acres. In addition orders removing restrictions were issued covering an additional 35,000 acres, and this latter total is exclusive of the lands on which restrictions were removed by operation of present laws in the Five Tribes area of Oklahoma. THE AMERICAN INDIAN The rate at which patents are being issued is evidently accelerating.
Página 342 - ... years, and a total area of 395,500 acres was purchased. reservations but not homesteaded, and through special legislation, an aggregate area of 3,689,000 acres has been added to the Indian land base. Having in mind the recent Indian record of increasing use of the land, it is disheartening to report that the demand for fee patents and for the removal of restrictions against alienation has resulted in a 1948 rate of disposition which is higher than the rate of acquisition in the same year. , Land...

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