Emancipated Citizenship for American Indians: Hearings Before the Committee on Indian Affairs, House of Representatives, Seventy-first Congress, Third Session, on H. R. 12576, February 27, 1931

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Halaman 18 - In order to bring this about it will be necessary to revise our educational program into one of a practical and vocational character and to mature plans for the absorption of the Indian into the industrial and agricultural life of the Nation.
Halaman 1 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress...
Halaman 5 - STATEMENT OF HON. CLYDE KELLY, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA Mr. KELLY. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee...
Halaman 18 - The fundamental aim of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, shall be to make of the Indian a self-sustaining, self-respecting American citizen just as rapidly as this can be brought about. The Indian shall no longer be viewed as a ward of the Nation, but shall be considered a potential citizen. As rapidly as possible he is to have the full responsibility for himself. Leadership should be given the Indians rather than custodianship. The Indian stock is of excellent quality.
Halaman 2 - ... and shall make all necessary rules and regulations for carrying out the purposes of this act, and...
Halaman 18 - The survey staff finds itself obliged to say frankly and unequivocally that the provisions for the care of the Indian children in boarding schools are grossly inadequate.
Halaman 4 - Water Resources Planning. — The Water Resources Council, which is composed of the Secretary of Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and the Chairman of the Federal Power Commission, is empowered under certain circumstances to approve state programs for water resources planning and to cede authority for the enforcement thereof to the respective states. (42 USC § 1962 (Supp.
Halaman 2 - ... efficiency, perseverance, ambition, economy, business administration, neatness, sobriety, truthfulness, integrity, self-preservation and protection, law observance, self-reliance, self and family support, participation in governmental activities, mental growth and development, and love of country. SEC. 7. That fifty years from and after the approval of this act the United States shall cease to be the guardian of the Indians, and all Indians shall then and thereafter be regarded as independent,...
Halaman 15 - Indians of their lands and they are disposing of the lands themselves and getting rid of them. I do not know what is going to happen to the...
Halaman 3 - Slavery," exclaimed Mr. Mercer, " is as much a part of the constitution as the great right of representation ; for though the word ' slave ' is not used in that instrument, the condition is admitted. It is clothed with rights, and protected ; and the laws of Congress, and the decisions of the supreme court, are practical and living illustrations of its being an integral part of our system of government.

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