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Date of Work
September 13, 1940
Description
This resolution, dated September 13 1940, signed by John Beartail, president, and Floyd Montclair, secretary, of Unit 4 of the American Indian Federation, resolves to propose to the United States (US) Committee of Congress that the entire membership of Unit 4 be exempted from the Wheeler-Howard act, that the Wheeler-Howard Act be repealed, that the early passage of US Senate Bills 2206 and 3750 be urged, that "Law and Order or the Indian Court of The Fort Berthold Reservation under John Collier Law" be repealed, and that a complete investigation of all the hardships and living conditions on the Forth Berthold Reservation be made.
See also:
Letter from Representative Burdick to Floyd Montclair Regarding the Wheeler-Howard Act, September 23, 1940.
Date of Work
9-13-1940
Keywords
Elbowoods, Three Affliliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation (North Dakota), Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, MHA Nation, US Bureau of Indian Affairs, US Indian Bureau, US Secretary of the Interior, Three Affiliated Tribes Tribal Council, Three Affiliated Tribes Tribal Business Council, Tribal Council, Tribal Business Council, Elbowoods, Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, Mandan, Nueta, Hidatsa, Arikara, Sahnish
Organizations Referenced
Three Affliliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation (North Dakota), Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, MHA Nation, US Bureau of Indian Affairs, US Indian Bureau, Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, Mandan, Nueta, Hidatsa, Arikara, Sahnish
People Referenced
Floyd Montlcair, Usher L. Burdick
Recommended Citation
Montclair, Floyd, "Resolution by Unit 4 of the American Indian Federation Proposing Exemption from the Wheeler-Howard Act and Other Matters, September 13, 1940" (1940). Usher Burdick Papers. 507.
https://commons.und.edu/burdick-papers/507