The calendar summarizes all action taken by the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs during the first session of the 96th Congress, Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1979. All Senate Bills and Resolutions and House Acts and Resolutions referred to the Committee are listed numerically as are committee reports and public laws resulting from committee action.…

Many coastal First Nations communities, particularly in British Columbia, see consultation as a positive way of getting around the firmly entrenched position of both provincial and federal governments on fish farming. Even those Native groups such as the Musgamagw Tsawataineuk Tribal Council (MTTC) and the Homalco First Nation, who are adamantly…

The Indian fair is that rare example of a government program for Indians gone terribly right. Implemented by the Office of Indian Affairs on reservations in the early 1900s, Indian fairs allowed Native people to exhibit their crops, livestock, and domestic handiwork in competition for prizes much the same way whites did at their numerous county…

This directory provides general information on American Indian and Alaska Native tribes and lands. The information was compiled from several resources including the "Federal Register," the Bureau of Indian Affairs, "The Native American Almanac" (A. Hirschfelder, M. K. de Montano), the "Atlas of North American Indian Tribes" (Carl Waldman), the…

Responding to GAO's report to Congress entitled "Water Rights Reserved for Federal and Indian Reservations: A Growing Controversy in Need of Resolution", this article asserts GAO's discussion is incomplete and sometimes inaccurate, while placing the burden of compromise on the Indian. (Author/RTS)

Examines responses from the Federal government and anthropologists to the struggle of Native Americans to regain religious freedom. Describes Congressional findings on violations of Native American religions by Federal agencies, and discusses the impact of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act. Focuses particularly on three issues: reburial,…

Examines how the livestock reduction plan enforced by the Federal government in the 1930s resulted in drastically negative ecological, economic, and health consequences for the Navajo people. Describes manifestations of Navajo criticism and resistance. (GC)

Analyzes the Supreme Court's decision of the case Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe, concerned with the power to tax non-Indians doing business on the reservation. (ERB)

This is an essay about Indian claims for the return of historically stolen lands, written from the perspective of a "Western" academic moral philosopher. I want to try to outline points of agreement and disagreement between Indian and Western moral conceptions and to seek common ground on which land claims can be more clearly evaluated…

In this time of geopolitical uncertainty, one question that arises repeatedly is how will citizenship be affected by changes in sovereignty? This paper uses the concepts of spaces of dependence and spaces of engagement to understand both formal and substantive citizenship on American Indian reservations in the United States. By studying the…

"Maine appears out of the woods," the editor of the "Lewiston Evening Journal" opined, after President Jimmy Carter signed the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act in 1980. That sigh of relief was heartfelt. During the 1970s, two Native American tribes, the Passamaquoddies and Penobscots, had sparked a long, statewide nightmare…

The National Congress of American Indians staged a major panel discussion which focused around recent federal actions pressuring or threatening to pressure Indians to quantify their water rights. (RTS)

Indian-White interaction surrounding natural resource management and control in the Pacific Northwest represents a torturous economic, political, and legal story. (Author)

Peter MacDonald, Chairman of the Navajo Nation, the largest tribe in the United States speaks to such issues as energy development/management, oil companies, Navajo-Hopi relocation legislation, traditionalism, and the role of the Council of Energy Resource Tribes. (RTS)

Peter MacDonald questioned why the Administration had not consulted Indians in formulating a policy that would necessarily rely on Indian resources. (NQ)