This document contains the report of the Committee on Education and Labor on bill H.R. 2908 to amend Title XI of the Education Amendments of 1978 relating to Indian education programs. The document contains a summary of the legislation, a description of the need for the legislation, its legislative history, a cost estimate, and a…

Primarily historical, the study examines the case of one absentee Native American band struggling to establish its identity and directions for a more prosperous future, and projects the implications of their situation for their intercultural relations. The central research question asks what are the intercultural communication problems which…

The paper is about White control of Indian education; how Euro-Canadian missionaries and government agents worked hand-in-hand in their relentless attempts to transform Indian people into their own image. The shrill and persistent theme of Euro-Canadians was how best to civilize and Christianize the Indians. Controlled situations in school and in…

Detailing the conference held June 14, 1978 in Washington, D. C. on the tribal judicial systems, this article focuses on two panel discussions--"Administration of Justice on Indian Reservations: Current Status and New Approaches" and "Administration of Justice from a Tribal Perspective: The Future of Tribal Courts." (RTS)

The Washington Report summarizes and classifies published documents of special interest to Indian people. It currently identifies, analyzes and tracks legislation, administrative agencies' regulations and supreme court decisions relating to Indian affairs. (Author/RTS)

Discusses the enrichment of understanding about American Indians due to the development of new materials and approaches to the history of Indians in American society. Cites specific examples of books that characterize different stages in the development of literature on North American Indians. (AEM)

Chronicles the feud between Ezekial Proctor and White Sut Beck, two members of the Cherokee nation in the nineteenth century. Shows how the tragic culmination of this disagreement was the result of jurisdictional disputes between the Cherokee Nation and the U.S. government. (AEM)

Self-determination and community control of education as envisioned in the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 have been severely compromised, the author maintains. Flaws in the law and its administration are discussed. (MT)

Describes the activities of the Indian Rights Association between 1923 and 1936, with particular attention to the adverse effect of the allotment policy (division of tribal lands into individually owned plots) on the Five Civilized Tribes. (MH)

A review of "Special Case 188" of the Bureau of Indian Affairs records and other ancillary archival sources suggests inferences into what prompted persons in the Bureau to respond as they did to Jack Wilson, the Ghost Dance prophet, and the Sioux rebellion in the Dakotas. (NEC)

Interview with Ed Driving Hawk, the new president of NCAI, discusses goals for the organization, including the need to reach out to other minority groups to create a consolidated voting block for the 1980 elections. Also describes problems on his home reservation, government harassment, and congressional attitudes toward Indian concerns. (DS)

While the criminal reform bill, S.1722m, has great potential for straightening out the jurisdictional morass on Indian reservations, it is evading the more controversial issues. After describing past difficulties in determining criminal jurisdiction on tribal lands, this article discusses needed reforms and what is missing in the new law.…

Asserting that the state of Indian (higher) education in the United States is in sad disarray, this article notes governmental policy intended to demolish Indian culture while usurping land and resources has resulted in native distrust of educators. Data on Indian higher education are provided. (RTS)

Discusses the nature of the trust responsibility of the federal government toward American Indians and what primacy it has in the pyramid of federal values and decision making. Examines the contested origins of the federal trust doctrine, negative and positive aspects of the relationship, three kinds of trust responsibility, and the enforceability…

Describes conflicts that arose when the Citizen Band Potawatomis--virtually all of whom were U.S. citizens--were granted reservation land claimed by Absentee Shawnees; government inconsistencies in treating the Citizen Band as citizens or Indians; and the shrewdness of the Band's acculturated leaders in exploiting such inconsistencies. Contains 34…