Indian Education and the Proposed Transfer of Bureau of Indian Affairs Schools to Tribes Or Local Governments: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Education and Health of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, September 4, 1987, Volume 7 |
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Page 5 - ... to compel their children, male and female, between the ages of six and sixteen years, to attend school; and it is hereby made the duty of the agent for said Indians to see that this stipulation is strictly complied with; and the United States agrees that for every thirty children between said ages, who can be induced or compelled to attend school, a house shall be provided, and a teacher, competent to teach the elementary branches of an English education, shall be furnished, who will reside among...
Page 5 - ... pledge themselves to compel their children, male and female, between the ages of six and sixteen years, to attend school; and it is hereby made the duty of the agent for said Indians to see that this stipulation is strictly complied with; and the United States agrees that, for every thirty children between said ages who can be induced or compelled to attend school, a house shall be provided, and a teacher competent to teach the elementary branches...
Page 55 - Senate or the Committee on Education and Labor of the United States House of Representatives, or both.
Page 117 - Please do not hesitate to call upon us if we may be of additional assistance. The Office of Management and Budget has advised us that from the perspective of the Administration's program, there is no objection to submission of this letter.
Page 32 - Indians are anxious for school facilities and have been peaceable and contented, I think steps should be taken at once to establish the school. The greatest drawback to the schools of this agency is that the Indians refuse to send their children. Now that they are in the right frame of mind they should be assisted. The Indians...
Page 101 - CERTIFICATION I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly considered and moved for adoption...
Page 5 - Daniel K. Inouye, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs...
Page 5 - ... and demographics of our reservation and the problems facing our people. The Navajo Nation is our largest Indian tribe with a population approaching 200,000. Our people are young. The average Navajo age is approximately 18 and their number is growing rapidly at about 3 percent per year. Three times the national average. According to the 1980 census, our per capita income is approximately $2,400, or about one-third of that of the surrounding States. Additionally, out of 100,000 employable Navajos,...
Page 5 - Territories in providing more effective programs of public education" ; be it further Resolved, That copies of this memorial be sent to the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States, and to the respective Senators and Representatives of New Mexico in Congress.
Page 85 - He has served as professor of education, and for over a decade he was dean of the College of Education at the University of New Mexico.