Prepared under the direction of the Subcommittee on Indian Education by the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress, this compilation constitutes an historical summary of the major enactments dealing with American Indian education. In general, this document includes: the Elementary Secondary Education Act; the federally impacted areas program; the national defense student loan program; the Headstart program; legislation dealing with the authority of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the field of Indian education. Specifically, this document covers the following: (1) appropriations for sectarian schools (1897, 1917, and 1969); (2) limitation of support for children of less than one-fourth Indian blood (1918); (3) basis for Federal Indian education (1921); (4) citizenship (1924); (5) contracts with public schools: the Johnson O'Malley Act (1934, 1936, and 1960); (6) Navajo-Hopi rehabilitation program (1950); (7) federally impacted areas (1950, 1953, 1968, 1958); (8) transfer of Federal property (1953 and 1962); (9) vocational education (1956); (10) Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; (11) student loan cancellation (1958); (12) teacher corps (1967); (13) Headstart (1964); (14) VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America, 1964). (JC)