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Considers legislation to end Federal supervision over Colville Indian reservation and to authorize distribution of Colville Confederated Indian Tribe judgement funds. Oct. 24 hearing was held in Spokane, Wash.; Oct. 25 hearing was held in Nespelem, Wash.; Oct. 26 hearing was held in Seattle, Wash.
Committee Serial No. 15. Considers H.R. 6154 and identical H.R. 7190, to restore to tribal ownership undisposed-of lands on the Colville Indian Reservation, Wash.
Committee Serial No. 15. Considers H.R. 6154 and identical H.R. 7190, to restore to tribal ownership undisposed of lands on the Colville Indian Reservation, Wash.
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Considers S. 282, to provide for the termination of Federal control over the property of the Colville Indians in Washington State.
Considers (89) S. 1413 and related (89) H.R. 6331, to terminate Federal supervision of the Confederated Tribes of Colville Indians in Washington, to terminate all Indian-related services, and to settle associated land claims.
Bartering with the Bones of their Dead tells the unique story of a tribe whose members waged a painful and sometimes bitter twenty-year struggle among themselves about whether to give up their status as a sovereign nation. Over one hundred federally recognized Indian tribes and bands lost their sovereignty after the Eisenhower Administration enacted a policy known as termination, which was carefully designed to end the federal-Indian relationship and to dissolve Indian identity. Most tribes and bands fought this policy; the Colville Confederated Tribes of north-central Washington State offer a rare example of a tribe who pursued termination. Some Colville tribal members who favored terminati...