Menominee County Aid: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Employment and Manpower of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Eighty-ninth Congress, First and Second Sessions, on S. 1934, a Bill Authorizing the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to Make Certain Grants to Menominee County, Wisconsin, and for Other Purposes, November 10 and 11, 1965, and February 17, 1966, Volumes 11-12

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Considers S. 1934, to authorize HEW grants to Menominee County, Wis., to fund programs benefiting the Menominee Indian Tribe, including education, welfare, health (particularly tuberculosis eradication), sanitation facilities, and studies of the county's lumber and recreational resources.

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Page 178 - Whereas it is the policy of Congress, as rapidly as possible, to make the Indians within the territoral limits of the United States subject to the same laws and entitled to the same privileges and responsibilities as are applicable to other citizens of the United States, to end their status as wards of the United States, and to grant them all of the rights and prerogatives pertaining to American citizenship...
Page 23 - In carrying on such works; but whenever grants of land or other property shall hav« been made to the state, especially dedicated by the grant to particular works of Internal Improvement, the state may carry on such particular works, and shall devote thereto the avails of such grants, and may pledge or appropriate the revenues derived from such works in aid of their completion.
Page 24 - The state or any of its cities may acquire by gift, purchase, or condemnation lands for establishing, laying out...
Page 79 - In one of the attempts, the bill passed both houses of the legislature but was vetoed by the governor. The...
Page 236 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in this state, otherwise than for the punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.
Page 234 - ... under the protection of the United States, and shall agree that they will not hold any treaty with any foreign power, individual state, or with the individuals of any state or power...
Page 24 - ... reservations in and about and along and leading to any or all of the same; and after the establishment, layout, and completion of such improvements, may convey any such real estate thus acquired and not necessary for such Improvements, with reservations concerning the future use and occupation of such real estate, so as to protect such public works and Improvements, and their environs, and to preserve the view, appearance, light, air, and usefulness of such public works.
Page 62 - Indians shall no longer be applicable to the members of the tribe, and the laws of the several States shall apply to the tribe and its members in the same manner as they apply to other citizens or persons within their jurisdiction.
Page 7 - ... and industrial water supply and of interest on the unamortized balance thereof at a rate (which rate shall be certified by the Secretary of the Treasury) equal to the average rate paid by the United States on its long-term loans outstanding at the time the repayment contract is negotiated minus the amount of such net revenues as may be derived from temporary water supply contracts or from other sources prior to the close of the repayment...
Page 62 - Indians, all statutes of the United States which affect Indians because of their status as Indians shall be inapplicable to them, and the laws of the several States shall apply to them in the same manner as they apply to other citizens or persons within their jurisdiction.

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