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1953 Ann. Rep. Comm'r Off. Indian Aff. Sec'y Interior 23 (1953)

handle is hein.doi/annrepcom0116 and id is 1 raw text is: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS W. Barton Greenwood, Acting Commissioner' Federal responsibility for administering the affairs of individual Indian tribes, the Assistant Secretary for Public Land Management wrote to the chairman of the Indian Affairs Subcommittee of the Senate on March 13, 1953, should be terminated as rapidly as the circumstances of each tribe will permit. This should be accomplished by arrangements with the proper public bodies of the political subdi- visions to assume responsibility for the services customarily enjoyed by the non-Indian residents of such political subdivisions and by dis- tribution of tribal assets to the tribes as a unit or by division of the tribal assets among the individual members, whichever may appear to be the better plan in each case. In addition, responsibility for trust properties should be transferred to the Indians themselves, either as groups or individuals as soon as feasible. Although this statement was made comparatively late in the fiscal year, it reflected the policy which was followed earlier and thus serves as an effective keynote for Indian Bureau activities throughout the entire period. In the field of programing for termination of Federal responsi- bilities significant progress was made during the year with a large number of widely scattered Indian groups. Proposed legislation to facilitate Indian Bureau withdrawal from California and from the Grand Ronde-Siletz area of western Oregon, introduced in Congress but not enacted the previous year, was reviewed and prepared for resubmission. Similar legislation was also being prepared for four additional groups of Indians expressing an interest in being relieved of Federal supervision. These were the Klamaths of Oregon, the Alabama-Coushattas of Texas, the Chitamachas of Louisiana, and the Prairie Island Band of Minnesota. Programing of a more prelimi- nary nature was carried forward with the Osages of Oklahoma, the I Mr. Dillon S. Myer was Commissioner of Indian Affairs until March 20, 1953. Mr. Greenwood was Acting Commissioner throughout the remainder of the fiscal year. 274030-54-----5 23

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