Hearings of the Committee on Indian Affairs for the 103rd Congress
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1st Session, Legislative Hearings
April 20, 1993 -- Legislative Hearing:
Indian Tribal Justice Act.
S. 521, to assist in the development of tribal judicial systems.
June 22, 1993 -- Legislative Hearing:
Native American Trust Fund Accounting and Management Reform Act of 1993.
S. 925, to require the Secretary of the Interior to pay interest on Indian funds
invested; to authorize demonstrations of new approaches for the management of Indian trust funds; to clarify the trust responsibility of the United States with respect to Indians; to establish a program for the training and recruitment of Indians in the management of trust funds; to account for daily and annual balances on and to require periodic statements for Indian trust funds.
July 22, 1993 -- Legislative Hearing:
Catawba Indian Tribe of South Carolina Land Claims Settlement Act of 1993.
S. 1156, to provide for the settlement of land claims of the Catawba Tribe of Indians in the State of South Carolina and restoration of the federal trust relationship with the tribe.
September 10, 1993 -- Legislative Hearing:
Native American Free Exercise of Religion Act.
S. 1021, to assure religious freedom to Native Americans.
November 3, 1993 -- Legislative Hearing:
Indian Lands Open Dumps Clean Up Act of 1993.
S. 720, to clean up open dumps on Indian lands.
November 16, 1993 -- Legislative Hearing:
Yavapai-Prescott Water Rights Settlement Act of 1993.
S. 1146, to provide for the settlement of the water rights claims of the Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe in Yavapai County, Arizona.
November 18, 1993 -- Legislative Hearing:
Equity in Educational Land Grant Status Act of 1993.
S. 1345, to provide land-grant status for tribally controlled community colleges, tribally controlled postsecondary vocational institutions, the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute, and Haskell Indian Junior College.
November 19, 1993 -- Legislative Hearing:
Indian Fish and Wildlife Resources Management Act of 1993.
S. 1526, to improve the management of Indian fish and wildlife and gathering resources.
December 15, 1993 -- Legislative Hearing:
Crow Boundary Settlement Act.
S. 1216, to resolve the 107th Meridian Boundary dispute between the Crow Indian Tribe, the Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe and the United States and various other issues pertaining to the Crow Indian Reservation.
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1st Session, Oversight Hearings
January 12, 1993 -- Oversight Hearing:
Indian Housing and Related Facilities.
January 25, 1993 -- Oversight Hearing:
Views of the Secretary of the Department of the Interior on Matters of Indian Affairs.
February 8, 1993 -- Oversight Field Hearing (Scottsdale, AZ):
Proposed Amendments to the American Indian Religious Freedom Act.
February 9, 1993 -- Oversight Field Hearing (Albuquerque, NM):
Proposed Amendments to the American Indian Religious Freedom Act.
February 10, 1993 -- Oversight Field Hearing (Flagstaff, AZ):
Navajo-Hopi Dispute Settlement Agreement-In-Principle.
March 8, 1993 -- Oversight Field Hearing (Minneapolis, MN):
Proposed Amendments to the American Indian Religious Freedom Act.
May 5, 1993 -- Oversight Hearing:
Water and Sanitation Problems in Alaska.
May 8, 1993 -- Oversight Field Hearing (Honolulu, HI):
Proposed Amendments to the American Indian Religious Freedom Act.
May 14, 1993 -- Oversight Hearing:
Proposed Regulations to Implement the 1988 Amendments to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act..
May 20, 1993 -- Oversight Hearing:
National Indian Policy Center.
May 25, 1993 -- Oversight Hearing:
Barriers to Participation in Food Stamp and other Nutritional Programs of the Department of Agriculture by People Residing on Indian Lands.
May 27, 1993 -- Oversight Hearing:
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
May 27, 1993 -- Oversight Hearing:
June 11, 1993 -- Oversight Hearing:
June 15, 1993 -- Oversight Hearing:
Draft Bill of the Indian Fish and Wildlife Resource Management Act of 1993.
June 16, 1993 -- Oversight Hearing:
Draft Bill of the Indian Fish and Wildlife Resource Management Act of 1993.
July 15, 1993 -- Confirmation Hearing:
July 29, 1993 -- Oversight Hearing:
Facility and Telecommunications Needs of Tribally Controlled Community Colleges.
September 15, 1993 -- Oversight Hearing:
Implementing of Public Law 102-477, the Indian Employment, Training and Related Services Demonstration Act of 1992.
October 20, 1993 -- Oversight Hearing:
Implementation on the Tribal Self-Governance Demonstration Project.
October 28, 1993 -- Oversight Hearing:
Indian Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention Act.
December 10, 1993 -- Oversight Field Hearing (Honolulu, HI):
Draft Bill Entitled "The Native Hawaiian Housing Assistance Act of 1994."
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2nd Session, Legislative Hearings
January 27, 1994 -- Legislative Hearing:
Pascua Yaqui Tribe Extension of Benefits.
H.R. 734, to amend the Act entitled "An act to provide for the extension of certain federal benefits, services, and assistance to the Pascua Yaqui Indians of Arizona."
January 31, 1994 -- Legislative Hearing:
Health Care Reform in Indian Country, and the American Indian Health Care Security Act.
S. 1757, to ensure individual and family security through health care coverage for all Americans in a manner that contains the rate of growth in health care costs and promotes responsible health insurance practices, to promote choice in health care, and to ensure and protect the health care of all Americans.
February 10, 1994 -- Legislative Hearing:
Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians Act and the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians Act.
S. 1066, to restore federal services to the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians.
S. 1357, to reaffirm and clarify the federal relationships of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians as distinct federally recognized Indian tribes.
March 23, 1994 -- Legislative Hearing:
Native American Free Exercise of Religious Freedom Act.
S. 1021, to assure religious freedom to Native Americans.
May 4, 1994 -- Legislative Hearing:
Reauthorization of the Elementary & Secondary Education Act of 1965.
S. 1513/H.R. 6, to improve America's Schools Act (Indian Education Amendments).
May 24, 1994 -- Legislative Hearing:
Indian Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention Act.
S. 2075, to amend the Indian Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention Act to reauthorize and improve programs under the Act.
June 8, 1994 -- Legislative Hearing:
Integrated Resources Management Planning.
S. 1936, to provide for the integrated management of Indian resources.
June 8, 1994 -- Legislative Hearing:
Establish an Assistant Secretary for Indian Health.
S. 2067, to elevate the position of Director of the Indian Health Service to organizational independence of the Indian Health Service within the Department of Health & Human Services.
June 15, 1994 -- Legislative Hearing:
Self-Determination Contract Reform Act of 1994.
S. 2036, to specify the terms of the contracts entered into by the United States and Indian tribal organizations under the Indian Self-Determination & Educational Assistance Act.
July 14, 1994 -- Legislative Hearing:
Native American Cultural & Free Exercise of Religion Act of 1994.
S. 2269, to protect Native American cultures and to guarantee the free exercise of religion by Native Americans.
July 19, 1994 -- Legislative Hearing:
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act Amendments.
S. 2230, to amend the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.
July 25, 1994 -- Legislative Hearing:
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act Amendments.
S. 2230, to amend the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.
August 1, 1994 -- Legislative Hearing:
Mohegan Nation Connecticut Land Claims.
S. 2329, to settle certain land claims within the State of Connecticut.
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2nd Session, Oversight Hearings
January 27, 1994 -- Confirmation Hearing:
Nomination of Dr. Michael Trujillo.
March 3, 1994 -- Oversight Hearing:
Fiscal Year 1995 Budget for the Indian Health Service.
March 9, 1994 -- Oversight Hearing:
Fiscal Year 1995 Budget for Indian Programs within the Departments of HUD, Education, Labor, and the Administration for Native Americans.
March 25, 1994 -- Oversight Joint Hearing:
Indian Issues Regarding Headstart Reauthorization.
March 30, 1994 -- Oversight Field Hearing (Phoenix, AZ):
Health Care Reform in Indian Country.
March 30, 1994 -- Oversight Field Hearing (Honolulu, HI):
Reauthorization of the Native Hawaiian Education Act.
April 6, 1994 -- Oversight Field Hearing (Ft. Yates, ND):
Health Care Reform in Indian Country and the Indian Health Service.
April 8, 1994 -- Oversight Field Hearing (Shiprock, NM):
Issues of Indian Health and Health Care Reform.
April 13, 1994 -- Oversight Hearing:
Fiscal Year 1995 Budget for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
April 20, 1994 -- Oversight Hearing:
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.
April 26, 1994 -- Oversight Hearing:
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.
May 9, 1994 -- Oversight Field Hearing (Bemidji, MN):
National Health Care Reform and Its Implications for Indian Health Care.
May 17, 1994 -- Oversight Hearing:
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.
June 3, 1994 -- Oversight Field Hearing (Bismarck, ND):
Child Abuse on North Dakota Reservations & Implementation of Indian Child Protection & Family Violence Prevention Act.
June 10, 1994 -- Oversight Hearing:
Performance of BIA Off-Reservation Boarding Schools.
August 10, 1994 -- Confirmation Hearing:
Nomination of Harold Monteau to serve as Chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission, and Gary Kimble, to serve as Commissioner of the Administration for Native Americans.
October 13, 1994 -- Oversight Field Hearing (Anchorage, AK):
Water & Sanitation Issues in Rural Alaska.
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