SELECT COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS

UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

S. 2061

TO DECLARE CERTAIN LANDS HELD BY THE SENECA NATION OF
INDIANS TO BE PART OF THE ALLEGANY RESERVATION IN THE
STATE OF NEW YORK

AND

S. 2177

TO PROVIDE FOR THE USE AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE LAKE SU-
PERIOR AND MISSISSIPPI BANDS OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS JUDG-
MENT FUNDS IN DOCKET 18-S AND THE LAKE SUPERIOR BAND OF
CHIPPEWA INDIANS JUDGMENT FUNDS IN DOCKET 18-U, BEFORE
THE INDIAN CLAIMS COMMISSION, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

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MARCH 8, 1984
WASHINGTON, D.C.

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S. 2177

CONTENTS

WITNESSES

Boschwitz, Hon. Rudy, a U.S. Senator from the State of Minnesota--.

Prepared statement..

Durenberger, Hon. David, a U.S. Senator from the State of Minnesota__.

Fritz, John, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs (Operations),

Department of the Interior:

S. 2177-

Prepared statement.

S. 2061---

Prepared statement-.

Hendrickson, Jim, chairman, Grand Portage Reservation, Minnesota Chip-

pewa Tribe__

John, Lionel, president, Seneca Nation of New York, Allegany, N.Y_.

Prepared statement____

Lazarus, Arthur, attorney-at-law, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Kampel-

man, Washington, D.C__

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Moynihan, Hon. Daniel Patrick, a U.S. Senator from the State of New

York, prepared statement--

Wadena, Darrell (Chip), president, Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Cass Lake,

Minn.

White, Hartley, chairman, Leech Lake Reservation, Minnesota Chippewa

Tribe

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APPENDIX

Deeds submitted by attorneys for the Seneca Tribe_

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The select committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:05 a.m., in room SD-562, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Senator Mark Andrews (chairman of the committee) presiding.

Present: Senators Andrews, Melcher, Boschwitz, and Durenberger. Staff present: Pete Taylor, general counsel; Max Richtman, minority staff director; Michael Mahsetky, staff attorney; Virginia Boylan, staff attorney; and Lynn Toledo, secretary.

Senator ANDREWS. Our hearing this morning involves two bills, S. 2061, a bill to declare that approximately 800 acres of land in the State of New York be added to the Seneca Nation Reservation, and S. 2177, to provide for the use and distribution of judgment funds awarded the Lake Superior and Mississippi Bands of Chippewa Indians by the Indian Claims Commission.

At this point, without objection, I will place a copy of each of the bills in the hearing record.

[The bills follow:]

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