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ERIC ED136970: Distribution of Funds to Cowlitz and Grand River Band of Ottawa Indians. Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-Fourth Congress, First

Testimony is presented in these congressional hearings by the nonfederally recognized Cowlitz and Grand River Band of Ottawa American Indian tribal and administrative representatives re: legislation introduced at the request of the two Indian groups following the Secretary of the Interior's withdrawal from Congress of distribution plans prepared pursuant to the Indian Judgment Funds Use or Distribution Act (Public Law 93-134). Senate Bills S. 1334 and S. 1659 are described as limiting the payment of per capita shares to individuals who possess one-sixteenth and one-fourth degree or more Cowlitz and Grand River Band of Ottawa Indian blood, respectively. Included in these hearings are: reports by the Department of the Interior re: S. 1334 and S. 1659; testimony by a South Dakota Senator, the Chairman of the Cowlitz Tribal Council, the Vice Chairman of the Yakima tribe, the Chairman of the Grand River Band of Ottawa Descendants Committee an attorney for the Grand River Band of Ottawa Descendants Committee, a Michigan Senator, the Secretary of the Grand River Band of Ottawa Descendants Committee, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Chairman of the Cowlitz tribe, and a

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