Y 4. In 2/11: S. nrg. 100-568 REAUTHORIZE HOUSING RELOCATION UNDER THE NAVAJO-HOPI RELOCATION PROGRAM CIS RECORD ONLY: HEARING BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS UNITED STATES SENATE FIRST SESSION ON S. 1236 RELOCATION PROGRAM For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402 SELECT COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS DANIEL K. INOUYE, Hawaii, Chairman DANIEL J. EVANS, Washington, Vice Chairman JOHN MELCHER, Montana FRANK H. MURKOWSKI, Alaska DENNIS Deconcini, Arizona JOHN McCAIN, Arizona QUENTIN N. BURDICK, North Dakota Alan R. Parker, Staff Director Patricia M. Zell, Chief Counsel Joe Mentor, Jr., Minority Counsel (II) CONTENTS DeConcini, Hon. Dennis, U.S. Senator from Arizona 6 Inouye, Hon. Daniel K., U.S. Senator from Hawaii, chairman, Select McCain, Hon. John, U.S. Senator from Arizona 5 McDonald, Peter, chairman, Navajo Tribe, Window Rock, AZ 22 Sidney, Ivan, chairman, Hopi Tribe, Kykotsmovi, AZ 27 Swimmer, Ross, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, DC 35 DeConcini, Hon. Dennis, U.S. Senator from Arizona 40 Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation Commission 43 Navajo Nation (with attachments) 146 Sanders Unified School District No. 18, Sanders, AZ 94 Sidney, Ivan (with attachments) 63 Swimmer, Ross (with attachments) 83 Additional material submitted for the record: Department of the Interior news release 220 Distribution of Radionuclide and Trace-Elements in Ground Water, proposed study of the Rio Puerco River 268 Letter from the U.S.G.S. to the Relocation Commission responding to the proposed study project 269 Morris, Richard C, memorandum to William P. Clark, concerning Navajo and Hopi Land Settlement Act 207 New Mexico House of Representatives, resolution 221 Preliminary Assessment of Water Quality in the Alluvial Aquifer of the further studies of the Rio Puerco River 240 Summary of studies of the water quality of the Rio Puerco, prepared by Mr. David Shaw-Serdar, Research Officer, for the Navajo-Hopi Indian 'Copies of this report can be purchased from: U.S. Geological Survey Books and Open-File 2 Copies of this report can be purchased from: U.S. Geological Survey Books and Open-File din REAUTHORIZE HOUSING RELOCATION UNDER THE NAVAJO-HOPI RELOCATION PROGRAM WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 9. 1987 U.S. Senate. Washington. DC The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 3:43 p.m.. in room 4S5. Russell Senate Office Building, Hon. Daniel K. Inouye (chairman of the committee) presiding. Present: Senators Inouye, DeConcini, Daschle, Murkowski. and McCain. Also present: Representative John J. Rhodes, HI. STATEMENT OF HON. DANIEL K. INOUYE. U.S. SENATOR FROM HAWAD, CHADXMAN, SELECT COMMnTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS The Chairman. The committee will please come to order. S. 1236 is a bill to increase the annual housing authorization for the Navajo-Hopi Relocation Commission and to increase the Commission's authorization level for payment of bonuses to individuals who voluntarily apply for benefits under Public Law 93-531, the Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act. Perhaps no other current issue in Indian affairs is as important or as urgent or as sensitive as the resettlement of Navajo people from lands partitioned to the Hopi Tribe under the 1974 act. The uprooting of any people for any purpose can only be painful and distressing to them and to those responsible for carrying out resettlement. Every Member of the Congress has some awareness of the relocation process and the disruption of the many lives the relocation has necessitated. No other Indian condition has so captured the attention of the American people and their representatives in Congress for such an extended period of time. As originally envisioned by the Congress, the entire process of moving Navajo people from lands partitioned to the Hopi Tribe and Hopi people from lands partitioned to the Navajo was to take five years. The Navajo-Hopi Relocation Commission was established and funded as an agency responsible for the movement of these people. It has now been 6 years, and the job is far from done. The myriad of problems associated with moving 10,000 traditional Navajo people from lands they have occupied for about 100 years has proven far more difficult than anticipated. (l) |