Kinzua Dam (Seneca Indian Relocation): Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, Second Session, on S. 1836 and H. R. 1794 : Bills to Authorize the Acquisition of and the Payment for a Flowage Easement and Rights-of-way Over Lands Within the Allegany Indian Reservation in New York, Required by the United States for the Allegheny River (Kinzua Dam) Project, to Provide for the Relocation, Rehabilitation, Social and Economic DevelopmentConsiders legislation to arrange for relocation and economic reimbursement of the Seneca Indians forced to leave the Allegany Indian Reservation to allow completion of the Kinzua Dam Project. |
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acres Allegany Indian Reservation Allegany Reservation Allegheny Reservoir project Allegheny River amendments amount appropriation approved Army Attorneys authorized BARSE bill Brill Bureau of Indian Cattaraugus Cattaraugus Reservation Chairman Colonel DE MELKER committee compensation condemnation proceedings Congress construction Corps of Engineers cost Department Devonian easement easement and rights-of-way ELFVIN facilities flood control FRANK CHURCH funds Handsome Lake HART Heron House HURLEY Indian Affairs indirect damages individual Seneca Indians interests in land Kinzua Dam LAZARUS leases legislation ment NASH Nation of Indians oil and gas payment Pennsylvania President proposed purposes pursuant question recreational rehabilitation relocation Salamanca sand and gravel Secretary section 2(d Senator CHURCH Senator DOMINICK Senator GRUENING Senator JAVITS Senator MECHEM Seneca lands Seneca language Seneca Nation statement Subcommittee on Indian taking area tion treaty tribal tribe U.S. Army U.S. Senate United York
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Page 85 - Seneka nation ; and the United States will never claim the same, nor disturb the Seneka nation, nor any of the Six Nations, or of their Indian friends residing thereon and united with them, in the free use and enjoyment thereof: but it shall remain theirs, until they choose to sell the same to the people of the United States, who have the right to purchase.
Page 95 - In other words, the treaty was not a grant of rights to the Indians, but a grant of rights from them - a reservation of those not granted.
Page 125 - Love was the first motion, and thence a concern arose to spend some time with the Indians, that I might feel and understand their life and the spirit they live in, if haply I might receive some instruction from them, or they might be in any degree helped forward by my following the leadings of truth among them...
Page 72 - Mr. Chairman, it Is a privilege for me to appear before this committee today to...
Page 56 - Floodway substantially in accordance with the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers in House Document No.
Page 53 - ... subject, however, to existing easements for public roads and highways, public utilities, railroads, and pipelines; reserving, however, to the...
Page 77 - ... unless the same shall be made and duly executed at some public treaty, held under the authority of the United States.
Page 50 - The water areas of all such reservoirs shall be open to public use generally, without charge, for boating, swimming, bathing, fishing, and other recreational purposes, and ready access to and exit from such water areas along the shores of such reservoirs shall be maintained for general public use...
Page 47 - Department; a representative of the Bureau of Indian Affairs of the Department of the Interior ; and a representative of the National Science Foundation.
Page 73 - Hear well, and let it be heard by every person in your nation, that the President of the United States declares, that the general government considers itself bound to protect you in all the lands secured to you by the treaty of Fort Stanwix, the 22d of October, 1784, excepting such parts as you may since have fairly sold to persons properly authorized to purchase of you.