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A BILL TO GRANT TO INDIANS LIVING UNDER FEDERAL
TUTELAGE THE FREEDOM TO ORGANIZE FOR PUR-
POSES OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT AND ECONOMIC
ENTERPRISE; TO PROVIDE FOR THE NECESSARY
TRAINING OF INDIANS IN ADMINISTRATIVE AND
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS; TO CONSERVE AND DEVELOP
INDIAN LANDS; AND TO PROMOTE THE MORE EFFEC-
TIVE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN MATTERS
AFFECTING INDIAN TRIBES AND COMMUNITIES BY
ESTABLISHING A FEDERAL COURT OF INDIAN AFFAIRS

WITH INDEX

Printed for the use of the Committee on Indian Affairs

UNITED STATES

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1934

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[H. R. 7902, 73d Cong., 2d sess.]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled,

TITLE I-INDIAN SELF-GOVERNMENT

SECTION 1. That it is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to grant

to those Indians living under Federal tutelage and control the freedom to organ-

ize for the purposes of local self-government and economic enterprise, to the

end that civil liberty, political responsibility, and economic independence shall

be achieved among the Indian peoples of the United States, and to provide

for cooperation between the Federal Government, the States, and organized

Indian communities for Indian welfare. It is further declared to be the policy

of Congress that those functions of government now_exercised over Indian reser-

vations by the Federal Government through the Department of the Interior

and the Office of Indian Affairs shall be gradually relinquished and transferred

to the Indians of such reservations, duly organized for municipal and other

purposes, as the ability of such Indians to administer the institutions and func-

tions of representative government shall be demonstrated, and that those powers

of control over Indian funds and assets now vested in officials of the Federal

Government shall be terminated or transferred to the duly constituted govern-

ments of local Indians communities as the capacity of the Indians concerned, to

manage their own economic affairs prudently and effectively, shall be demon-

strated. It is further declared to be the policy of Congress to assist in the

development of Indian capacities for self-government and economic competence

by providing for the necessary training of Indians, and by rendering financial

assistance and cooperation in establishing Indian communities.

SEC. 2. In accordance with the foregoing purposes, the Secretary of the

Interior is hereby authorized to issue to the Indians residing upon any Indian
reservation or reservations or subdivision thereof a charter granting to the said
community group any or all of such powers of government and such privileges
of corporate organization and economic activity, hereinafter enumerated, as
may seem fitting in the light of the experience, capacities, and desires of the

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