US Government Documents related to Indigenous Nations
Committee
US House Committee on Public Lands
Congress
81st Congress, 1st session
Files
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Description
This publication, dated April 29 and 30, May 2 and 3, 1949, printed for the use of the United States (US) House of Representatives Committee on Public Lands, contains the full text of US House of Representatives Joint Resolution 33, followed by a transcript of the hearings held on April 29 and 30, and May 2 and 3, 1949 before the US House Committee on Public Lands.
US House Joint Resolution 33, sponsored by North Dakota Senator William Lemke, was an attempt to add $9.5 million to the original $5,105,625 provided in United States Public Law 296 as compensation for the land taken from the members of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold in order to build the Garrison Dam and reservoir.
Publication Date
4-29-1949
Keywords
Taking, Taking Act, Garrison Dam, Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, Mandan, Nueta, Hidatsa, Arikara, Sahnish
Organizations Referenced
US Congress, US House of Representatives, US Department of the Interior, Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, Mandan, Nueta, Hidatsa, Arikara, Sahnish
People Referenced
William Lemke, Usher Burdick, Martin Cross, Ralph H. Case, Carl Whitman Jr., Jefferson B. Smith, Carl Sylvester, Harold W. Case, Mrs. Byron Wilde, R. J. Youngbird, Nathan Little Soldier, John B. Tennelly, Joseph Packineau Jr., Benedict Heart, Theodore Baker, Mark Mahto, John H. Provinse, Lewis A. Pick
Publisher
Government Printing Office
Disciplines
American Politics | Indigenous, Indian, and Aboriginal Law | Indigenous Studies | Law and Politics | Native American Studies | United States History
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American Politics Commons, Indigenous, Indian, and Aboriginal Law Commons, Indigenous Studies Commons, Law and Politics Commons, Native American Studies Commons, United States History Commons
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