SELECT COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS WILLIAM S. COHEN, Maine, Chairman JOHN MELCHER, Montana DANIEL K. INOUYE, Hawaii SLADE GORTON, Washington DENNIS DECONCINI, Arizona TIMOTHY C. WOODCOCK, Staj Director BR (II) o' ANG H1/23 CONTENTS Page 37 Abourezk, James G., former U.S. Senator from the State of South Dakota and counsel to the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe--- Ayers, Foxx, member, Catawba Tribe executive board.. Blue, Gilbert, chief, Catawba Tribe of South Carolina. Bonamie, Frank, member, Cayuga Indian Nation--- Byrd, Mitchell K., counsel, Tri-County (South Carolina) Landowners Carpenter, Clint, executive vice president, Rock Hill Area Chamber of Coldiron, William H., Solicitor, Department of the Interior.- Coulter, Robert T., counsel, Indian Law Resources Center, Six Nation D'Amato, Alfonse, U.S. Senator from the State of New York----- sources Division, Department of Justice----- Ewen, Alexander, member, Rights for American Indians Now, New York Feldman, Glen M., counsel, Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma- Freeman, Palmer, Jr., member, South Carolina Indian Claims Com. Gajarsa, Arthur J., counsel, Cayuga Indian Nation.- Garrow, Leonard, chief, St. Regis Mohawk Tribe.. Griffin, Phillip, vice president, New York Farm Bureau--- Harris, David A., chairman, Catawba Pro-Cash Committee, prepared Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) prepared statement submitted by Oren Lyons, Onondaga Nation --- Hayes, John C., III, representative of the South Carolina State Legis- Jensen, Catherine, resident, Fayette, N.Y. Kinne, Wisner P., resident, Ovid, N.Y... Lee, Gary A., a Representative in Congress from the State of New York--- Lee, William F., counsel, Seneca County, N.Y.- Locklear, Arlinda, attorney, Native American Rights Fund.--- Lyons, Oren, on behalf of Chief Corbett Sundown, spokesman, Grand Council of Chiefs, Six Nation Iroquois Confederacy - McLeod, Daniel R., attorney general of South Carolina, prepared state- McLester, Gordon, tribal secretary, Wisconsin Oneida Tribe.. Miller, Don, counsel, Native American Rights Fund. 75 Page 99 101 216 217 21 74 54 30 154 244 244 Pinsky, Roy, counsel, Aurelius Gas Co---- Prepared statement.- Prepared statement.- Prepared statement.- N.Y the American Indian, prepared statement-- statement Prepared statement-- Prepared statement.-- 81 144 143 170 172 84 86 MATERIAL SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD 32 36 58 68 Letter and resolution from D. Lindsay Pettus, councilman, Lancaster County Council, State of South Carolina ; submitted by Senator Strom Thurmond tor Alfonse D'Amato.-. paper, submitted by Oren Lyons, Onondaga Nation.-- Coulter, executive director--- claims of the Cayuga Indian Nation; submitted by Raymond Zajac, Seneca County Board of Supervisors.- McLester M. Feldman, legal counsel.-- Claims Settlement Act of 1982". mitted by Clint Carpenter, executive vice president.- Rhea, mayor pro tem.- 95 108 114 159 183 217 252 264 272 273 APPENDIX Letters and statements : Questions submitted to Secretary Watt, Department of the Interior, by Senator Cohen.--Questions submitted to Attorney General William French Smith, De partment of Justice, by Senator Cohen... Letter from John C. Datt, secretary and director, Washington office, American Farm Bureau Federation ; to Senator Cohen---Prepared statement of Steven Unger, executive director, Association on American Indian Affairs, Inc.--- Lazarus, Jr., re H.R. 5494 and S. 2084. to Senator Cohen. necticut Legal Services, Inc., with attached statement of the Con- tor, Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs---- Senator Thurmond.- 277 287 288 294 Letters and statements-Continued Letter from William A. O'Neill, Governor, State of Connecticut; to Page Senator D'Amato.com 295 Letter from Steve Linscheid, Friends Committee on National Legis lation, with enclosed statement and letter; to Senator Cohen.-- 296 Prepared statement of the General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church; submitted by Joyce V. Hamlin, secretary for 305 Letter from John C. Hayes III, representative, State of South Caro lina, with excerpt from the Catawba Indians' Litigation Request; 313 Letter from the Grand Council of the Haudenosaunee, The Six Na tions Iroquois Confederacy, Onondaga Nation, with enclosed letter 330 Letter from John H. Love, attorney at law, to Members of Congress. 335 Letter from Harold A. Penner, Mennonite Central Committee U.S.; to Senator Cohen. 343 Prepared statement of Darrell “Chip” Wadena, president, Minnesota Chippewa Tribe---- 344 Prepared statement of the National Congress of American Indians.-- 347 Letter from Joseph B. De La Cruz, chairman, Quinault Indian Nation; to Senator Cohen. 352 Prepared statement of the Seneca County Chamber of Commerce, submitted by Richard J. Compo, president--- 353 Prepared statement of Barry E. Snyder, president, Seneca Nation of Indians 356 Letter from Pat McLaughlin, chairman, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe; to Senator Cohen--- 360 Prepared statement of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North and South Dakota-- 361 Letter from Albert Vann, chairman, The New York State Black and Puerto Rican Legislative Caucus, Inc.; to Senator D'Amato----- 364 Court Decisions and Rulings: Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States. Certiorari to the United States Court of Claims. No. 43. Argued November 12, 1954.–Decided Feb- 366 The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana et al. v. Harry L. Laws Company, Inc., et al, Civ. A. No. 770772_. 390 United States v. Boylan et al. (Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. March 3, 1920) 397 United States v. Boylan et al. (District Court, N.D. New York. March 3, 1919). 409 United States District Court for the Northern District of New York. Oneida Indian Nation of New York, et al. v. State of New York, 438 United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Nos. 683, 815, 816–18. August Term 1981. Argued: April 28, 1982. Decided : Octo- 447 Oneida Indian Nation of New York et al. v. County of Oneida, New York, et al, certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the 504 In the United States Court of Claims, No. 596–77, Decided June 2, 1982. Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope v. The United States --- 528 Mitchell et al. v. The United States-- 544 Mohegan Tribe, plaintiff-appellee v. State of Connecticut, defendant appellant, No. 73, Docket 80_7348, United States Court of Appeals, 564 Joint Tribal Council of the Passamaquoddy Tribe et al., plaintiffs appellees, v. Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary, Department of the 580 684 Court Decisions and Rulings—Continued Catawba Indian Tribe of South Carolina, also known as the Catawba Nation of South Carolina, plaintiff v. State of South Carolina, et al, defendants Civil Action No. 80–2050 in the United States District Page Court for the District of South Carolina, Columbia Division- 591 Relevant Statutes : United States codified version of the Trade and Intercourse Act, Deri vation Act June 30, 1834, Codified in 1976. 25 U.S.C. Sec. 177 610 Ordinance of July 13, 1787, by the Confederation Government, more commonly known as the last of three Northwest Ordinances, 69th 612 Ordinance for the regulation and management of Indian Affairs, August 7, 1786... 621 Excerpt from The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, Vol. I, Chapter XXXIII.-An act to regulate trade and 625 Chapter XIX. 628 Chapter XXX. 631 Chapter XLVI.. 636 Excerpt from The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, Vol. II, Chapter XIII, An act to regulate trade and in- 643 Excerpt from The Public Statutes at Large of the United of America, Vol. IV, Chapter CLXI.-An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers--- 652 Relevant treaties : Cayuga Indian Nation - 660 St. Regis Mohawk Tribe 667 Shinnecock Indian Tribe. 670 Catawba Indian Tribe --The Treaty of Augusta signed between Great Britain and the Chiefs of the Creeks, the Choctaws, Cherokees, Chickasaws and Catawbas. 699 Proclamation bis King George III of Great Britain, regarding the need for royal approval in land transactions with the Indians, 704 Proclamation by the U.S. Congress stating that all land transactions lacking U.S. approval would be null and void, September 22, 1783-- 708 Act of December 15, 1808, passed by the South Carolina State Legis lature authorizing leasing of Catawba lands while securing Indians' 709 Act of December 18, 1812, passed by the South Carolina State Legislature 711 Act of December 15, 1815, passed by the South Carolina State Legislature 712 Treaty of Nation Ford of March 13, 1840, between the State of South Carolina and the Catawba Nation... 717 Memorandum to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs from Adminis trative Assistant D'Arcy McNickle, undated but apparently early 723 Report of the special committee appointed by the New York Assembly of 1888 to investigate the Indian problem of the State- 733 Treaties with the Iroquois of New York.--- 927 Legal Memoranda : Response to Indian counsel memorandum regarding the alleged con stitutional infirmities of the Ancient Indian Land Claims Settle- 955 The Ancient Indian Land Claims Act of 1982: Constitutional Infirmities 1032 Letter from Steven M. Tullberg, staff attorney, Indian Law Resource Center, with enclosures... 1088 Letter from Robert A. McConnell, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legislative Affairs, to David A. Stockman, Director, OMB - 1070 Report by Richard Ehlke, legislative attorney, Congressional Research Service: Retroactive Validation of Indian Land Conveyances Made 1087 |