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PARTITION CERTAIN LANDS BETWEEN THE HOOPA
VALLEY TRIBE AND THE YUROK INDIANS

HEARING

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND
GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

ONE HUNDREDTH CONGRESS

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COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

PETER W. RODINO, JR., New Jersey, Chairman

CONTENTS

WITNESSES

Hon. Douglas H. Bosco, a Representative in Congress from the State of Mind ..

Prepared statement

James L. Byrnes, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Lands Division, Depart-

ment of Justice..

Richard Thierolf, representing a group of Yurok Indians.

Terry Supahan, Business Manager of Karuk Tribe, accompanied by Dennis

Whittlesey.

Prepared statement

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

Text of H.R. 4469-Hoopa Valley Tribe and Yurok Indians..

2

Statements for the record submitted by:

Ross O. Swimmer, Assistant Secretary, Indian Affairs, Department of the

Interior.....

39

Governors' Interstate Indian Council, Inc...

116

150

157

Weyman I. Lundquist, Counsel for the Majority of Indians of the Hoopa

Valley Reservation, in opposition to H.R. 4469/5340.

Peggy O'Neill of Eureka, Ĉalifornia......

197

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PARTITION CERTAIN LANDS BETWEEN THE HOOPA VALLEY TRIBE AND THE YUROK INDIANS, TO CLARIFY THE USE OF TRIBAL TIMBER PROCEEDS

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1988

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

SUBCOMMITTEE ON ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND

GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS,

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY,

Washington, DC.

The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10:20 a.m., in room 2226, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Barney Frank (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding.

Present: Representatives Frank, Brooks, Glickman, Morrison, Berman, Cardin, Swindall, Coble, and Smith.

Staff present: Janet S. Potts, counsel; Belle Cummins, assistant counsel; Roger T. Fleming, associate counsel; and Florence T. McGrady, legal assistant.

Mr. FRANK. Good morning.

This is a hearing on H.R. 4469. I apologize for being late, but I was in the wrong room. There is a somewhat complicated procedural history here. An original bill was filed where it appears that there was some piece of jurisdiction that was relative to the Judiciary Committee's jurisdictional role, though it was primarily in the Interior Committee.

(A copy of H.R. 4469 follows:)

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